- By Héctor Cossio La Cuarta (Santiago de Chile)
January 30, 2004
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- At Cerro Cullipeumo, on the borders of the communities
of Las Vertientes in Buin and Angostura in Paine, some abandoned gold
mines from the 1950 could prove to be the lair of the "Viluco Monster",
a singular beast with a kangaroo-shaped body and a wolf's muzzle that terrorizes
local farmers and has a remarkable resemblance with the legendary Chupacabras,
according to researchers from the GEO Group.
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- "El Dinamita" and "El Fena", assistants
at the Buin-Maipo Bus Line, whose two drivers came across the creature
in the lonely Santa Filomena alley, told La Cuarta that they have been
hearing stories from the old-timers about a sinister beast lurking in the
forgotten gold mines.
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- "As soon as we're ready, we'll take a look. The
groundskeepers, some old men who've worked here all their lives, always
say that strange stuff goes on in that mountain...they even say that those
who poke their noses in too deep never come back," said "El Dinamita",
who was itching to venture into the abandoned mines.
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- Aníbal Montes, known as "El Viejo Choclero",
confirmed through stories told by Don Ramón, eldest of the group,
that mystery has always surrounded Cerro Cullipeumo. "Shadows can
be seen running uphill, vanishing into the mine and disappearing. But
this is nothing new. It's been going on for many years."
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- Cristián Opazo, a broadcaster with municipal radio
station El Nuevo Buinense, recalls that 3 yeas ago he had to look at a
heap of dead rabbits, slain by an unknown animal in the Isla de Maipo sector.
"They had been sucked out . There were no signs of violence except
for a hole, like that of a tooth [sic], on the right side of the neck,"
he noted.
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- As from that event, which occured in 2000--a year that
coincides with the first Chupacabras case reported in Calama--there was
a flurry of reports, all of them hinting at abnormal evidence.
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- "Last year [the victims] were the hens at the Felicitas
Berkhart smallhold and ducks over at Las Palomas," said residents
of Buin.
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- "El año pasado fueron las gallinas de la
parcela de Felicitas Berkhart y los patos en Las Palomas", contaron
en la muni de Buin.
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- Alberto Urquijo--parapsychologist, vampire-hunter, ufologist
and leader of the GEO Group, has pursued the traces of this mysterious
unclassified animal, known as Chupacabras, throughout Chile. He reports
that earliest literature regarding the creature dates back to the late
18th century and its manifestations ahve been most recurrent since 2000.
"Out of all of the cases we've looked into, 40% can be ascribed to
known animals, but the remaining 60 per cent cannot. We figure that in
three years at least 5500 animals have died in mysterious circumstances,"
said the researcher.
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- For GEO, the Chupacabras isn't an animal but a species
whose main characteristic is being photophobic and lacking predators.
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- Translation (C) 2004. Scott Corrales, Institute of Hispanic
Ufology (IHU). Special thanks to Liliana Núñez.
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