Puerto Rico and Latin America (cryptozoological legend)

The Chupacabra

Folklore — not a documented case

According to this tale, which spread widely from the mid-1990s onward, an unidentified creature that drains the blood of farm animals roams the region. Though it has become a major popular-culture phenomenon in Latin America, it has no scientific confirmation.

This tale, which emerged in Puerto Rico in the mid-1990s, spread across Latin America within a short time.

The stories in this section are folk tales and legends; they are not verified, real events and should not be confused with the rest of the archive.

From the same region