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BY BOB HOLT
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
The legend of the Chupacabra dates back to the 1990s, when a number of goats and chickens were found dead and drained of blood in Puerto Rico.
Has the odd looking animal landed in New Jersey? It’s doubtful, but stranger things have happened. It turns out that they’re seeing some weird things in Ridgewood.
Some Ridgewood residents claim to have seen a strange creature coming in and out of storm drains. CBS New York reported that Ridgewood resident Rob Lyons saw the animal in his front yard, and captured it on video. He said, “It was too small to be a coyote. Definitely not a dog. Prances like a cat. It was weird.”
Weird animal sightings are not new to New Jersey. Back in June, a photo of a strange looking, unrecognizable animal walking along a fence surfaced on Reddit.According to NJ.com, the picture was first believed to have come from New Jersey, but actually originated in Oklahoma.
June’s Chupacabra turned out to be a hairless squirrel.
Many of us may remember the legend of The Jersey Devil, who has been keeping a low profile these days. According to Paranormal About, The Jersey Devil has been roaming the pine barrens since 1735, and there have been more than 2,000 alleged sightings.
An eyewitness said The Jersey Devil was “about three-and-a-half feet high, with a head like a collie dog and a face like a horse. It had a long neck, wings about two feet long, and its back legs were like those of a crane, and it had horse's hooves. It walked on its back legs.”
One Ridgewood persontold CBS New York that their creature was the Loch Ness monster in the pond. But another had a better guess, a coyote with a bad case of mange.
According to Animal Planet, the legendary “El Chupacabra” was a gray, lizard-like creature that stood about 3 to 4 feet tall and walked upright on its hind legs. The legend says that it left its livestock victims with puncture wounds in their necks, yet remaining intact.
The legend has taken on its own life around the world.
Its another coyote with mange. just like every other picture of "a strange canine.
Mr. Lyons said its too small to be a coyote. What about a young coyote?
there are 2 main reasons for my skepticism.
1) Occam's Razor
2) The chupacabra (I'll play along) has been seen on Puerto Rico, all across Mexico and Latin America, as well as reports in the US. coyotes and wild dogs are very common in all these areas. So is mange. But, especially in the US very few people are exposed to an animal with mange. we're used to fluffy hair on our animals. so any hairless version from squirrel to bear, would look very odd.
However, the Animal Planet Channel would clearly be the experts to turn too when it comes to imaginary animals, so I will defer to their judgement.