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This section contains descriptions of unexplained facts provided by eyewitnesses or published in the media, as well as the results of their analysis by the group.

Chupacabra. Puerto Rico

ID #1617625970
Added Mon, 05/04/2021
Author July N.
Sources
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Initial data

Initial information from sources or from an eyewitness
Incident date: 
21.09.1998
Location: 
Хардинес-де-Капарра
Баямон
Puerto Rico

During Hurricane Georges, a man named Gerardo Becerra Mendez encountered what he thought was a "chupacabra". 

The witness went outside to secure his trash cans during the storm, when a strange creature appeared from behind a tree, "a small, hunchbacked, with something like a snout, which jumped along with great agility, on two legs, with a thick dark shadow. hair, round dark eyes, weak but powerful legs, long ears, and very sharp teeth." 

He briefly described it as "half fox, half bat, and half kangaroo". 

The creature came very close to him and stared at him as if in fear. Then, with a leap, he disappeared into the bushes.

Original news

Location. Jardines de Caparra, Bayamon, Puerto Rico
Date: September 21 1998
Time: night
During Hurricane Georges a man named Gerardo Becerra Mendez encountered what he thought was a “Chupacabra”. The witness had stepped outside to secure his garbage cans during the storm when, from behind a tree, there came a strange creature, “small, hunchbacked, with a sort of snout, leaping along with great agility, on two legs, with thick dark hair, round dark eyes, weak looking but powerful legs, long ears, and very pointed teeth”. He described it, in brief as “part fox, part bat, and part kangaroo”. The creature passed very close to him and eyed him as though with fear. Then in leapt away and vanished in bushes.
Source: Jorge Martin in: Evidencia Ovni # 19, 1998

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