- Source Primera Hora (newspaper)
- 9-23-2
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- PONCE, Puerto Rico --The story of the so-called chupacabras,
the shadowy character that attacks and slays animals, emerged again in
Ponce when 19 fighting rooksters, rabbits, ducks and chickens turned
up dead at a residence in the La Calzada neighborhood.
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- "This is weird. I think it was the Chupacabras who
slew my animals. I'm scared and alarmed by what occurred,"
said the animals' owner, Ramon Luis Guzman Colon, to Associated Press (AP).
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- Some of the animals were found yesterday morning by Guzman
Colon outside their cages and others still within them. A rooster
was dragged 30 meters from its cage and was still agonizing on Sunday
afternoon. Four of the fighting roosters were dead, one beside the other,
and in a strange case, two roosters were changed from their respective
cages and were found dead facing each other.
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- "It's weird, they swapped the roosters from one
cage to another," said the affected party.
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- While surveying the backyard of the Guzman Colon home,
AP ascertained that all of the animals have wounds on their necks
or backs. Dozens of neighbors and curiosity seekers from other sections
of Ponce swarmed around the humble dwelling for a glimpse of the strange
event. It is necessary to traverse a long alleyway to reach the Guzman
Colon home.
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- "At two o'clock in the morning I heard the dog barking
in the alley and when i came downstairs the dog vanished. I heard
no noise whatsoever and went back to bed," noted Guzman Colon, 53, who is
unemployed since the shutdown of the Central Mercedita sugar refinery.
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- "I got up at 6:30 in the morning and found
the 19 animals, largely roosters, dead. This is very weird," he added.
"The way in which they were bitten, in the same area, [cannot be attributed]
to dogs."
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- A black and white dog was hiding in the hollow of a tree
on Sunday.
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- "Even the dog is scared. Something weird is going
on," said Guzman Colon, who showed some large tracks which he alleges
"belong to the animal that did this."
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- "Look at those claws--they're not those of a dog.
They belong to a strange animal."
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- Guzman Colon pointed out that the has some 12 chickens
and roosters left, and showed some of the broken cages. "The animal
responsible for this is short [in stature] because it breaks the cages
from below, " he theorized.
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- Guzman Colon maintains that some of the fighting
cocks had a value of about $500 each.
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- Carlos Soto, a neighbor of the affected party, believes
that a snake could have dragged itself from the adjacent lot and caused
the deaths, but Guzman Colon maintained that serpents cannot break into
cages.
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- The legend of the Chupacabras emerged several years ago,
when it allegedly killed cows, dogs and other animals. It is even believed
that it did the same thing in Venezuela, Mexico and the Dominican Republic.The
alleged incidents began in the municipality of Canovanas.
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- Translation (C)2002, Institute of Hispanic Ufology.
- Special thanks to Jose I. Gomez and Associated Press.
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