DESPITE BEING SIGHTED AS FAR AWAY AS RUSSIA, THE CHUPACABRA'S ORIGINS STEM FROM THE ISLAND NATION OF PUERTO RICO. IN COMPARISION TO OTHER FAMOUS CRYPTIDS, THE CHUPACABRA IS A NEWCOMER WITH SIGHTINGS FIRST BEING REPORTED IN THE 1990'S (FROM WHAT I CAN TELL 1995 WAS TH FIRST REPORTED ATTACK). MOST KNOW BY NOW THAT THE LITERAL MEANING IS "GOAT SUCKER" AS THE CHUPACABRA SEEMS TO HAVE A PROPENSITY FOR ATTACKING LIVESTOCK AND ON PUERTO RICO THE GOAT RULES THE BARNYARD.
OVER TIME THE CREATURE SEEMED TO HAVE MADE IT TO MAINLAND AMERICAS, WITH SIGHTINGS RANGING FROM LATIN AMERICA AS FAR NORTH AS MAINE. WITH MIGRATION OF THE ANIMAL CAME CHANGES IN ITS REPORTED APPEARANCE (PROBABLY THE CRYPTID WITH THE MOST REGIONAL METAMORPHASIS). ORIGINALLY, THE CREATURE WAS DESCRIBED AS BEING BI-PEDAL WITH LARGE RED EYES, AND A ROW OF SPIKES THAT STRETCHED FROM ITS HEAD TO ITS TAIL. TRULY A MEANACING LOOKING CREATURE.WITH SUCH AN ODD APPEARANCE IT WAS HYPOTHISZED THAT SUCH A CREATURE COULD ONLY BE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL IN NATURE, OR THE RESULT OF SOME GENETICS EXPERIMENT GONE AWRY.
OVER TIME THE APPEARANCE HAS CHANGED, BUT THAT DOES NOT STOP FEAR BEING SPREAD WHENEVER THE NAME OF THE CHUPACABRA IS HEARD.