- La Estrella de Valpara'so
- July 12, 2003
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- A couple from Vi'a del Mar went through a horrifying
experience after becoming aware that a strange animal, allegedly the Chupacabras,
had entered into their back yard where it attacked the family's ducks.
One of the ducks suffered a perfect perforation in its spine; the remaining
three animals disappeared.
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- Most stunning for the protagonists of the event was that
they managed to see the animal, face it and even strike it repeatedly with
a metal cart. But the intruder managed to escape; it's escape path was
not ascertained.
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- This strange event was recorded early Wednesday morning
this week (07/09). The witnesses were Juan Siliva Torres and Veronica Vildosola,
residents of Las Maravillas street in the town of Santa Julia. Both were
hesitant about disclosing their experience, since they feared they would
not be believed. Curiously enough, this episode is similar to several other
similar ones recorded in different parts of the area and the country which
have been attributed to the legendary Chupacabras.
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- A Horrible Experience
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- Veronica Vildosola states that on the day in question,
around 5 a.m., she heard strange noises: "First I heard blows on neighboring
rooftops. It was like something jumping from one rooftop to another."
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- She added: "I suddenly heard something like a very
heavy bird that landed on our roof. It immediately started to scratch the
rooftop with its claws."
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- Faced with the fear that the animal or bird would attack
the ducks kept in the backyard or the hens in their coops, she woke up
her husband so he could go and take a look.
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- The Attack
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- Juan Silva says: "Upon going outside, I saw an animal
that wasn't a dog in spite of looking like a dog. It was in a corner, hunched
over the spine of one of the ducks it had caught."
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- "I got closer, hurling the wrench I held in my hand
against it. But since it didn't move, I began to strike it with the handle
of a metal hand cart that was in the yard. The animal made some strange
sounds, like moans of pain. Had it been a dog, it would have barked and
yelped. But that wasn't the case." Silva adds that the creature "had
very shiny eyes."
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- His wife continued the story. "I was holding a stick
with which to strike what I thought was a dog. That's when I saw the critter
trying to escape. It did so in a semi-erect position, as though walking
hunched over on two legs. It looked at me and I also saw its shiny eyes.
I don't know if I was paralyzed out of fear or for another reason."
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- The couple indicated that neighboring dogs began to bark
like never before.
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- Footprints
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- They stated that after realizing that the duck over which
the animal had crouched had a deep hole through which its blood had been
drained. Since the animal was caught in the act, the bird had traces of
blood over its feathers. Reporters from La Estrella saw that the attacked
bird had an orifice 2 centimeters across; it was a perfect incision, as
though created by a precision instrument. The family noted that three
ducks had disappeared. "We found a wing belonging to one of them,
but the other two we couldn't find, even after going out to the street
and looking for it.
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- But the mysterious creature's escape was also a subject
of high strangeness for the witnesses of this event. "Later on, we
tried to see which way the animal could have escaped, but we didn't find
any point through which it could've crossed. We think it could have only
flown away," said the woman.
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- They noted that the animal only left some claw marks
on the dirt. "These don't match dog paws either," stated Juan
Silva.
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- Valparaiso, Via del Mar and Quillota have been the scene
for similar episodes in recent years. No logical explanation has hitherto
been found for them. For this reason, those affected by poultry deaths
have ascribed the attack to the alleged Chupacabras.
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- Furthermore, the case recorded in Santa Julia coincides
in several aspects with the two latest ones known in Quillota. One of them
is that the creature appears during the early morning hours, jumping from
rooftop to rooftop. The other is that when faced with humans, these notice
strange eye-glow which has even left them paralyzed.
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- Translation (C) 2003 Scott Corrales, Institute of Hispanic
Ufology (IHU).
- Special thanks to Gloria Coluchi.
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