Chupacabra. Belarus

Chupacabra in the Lepel district. The first victim in Chereyshchina was the priest Vladimir. At the beginning of the summer, his estate was attacked. An unknown creature tore the metal mesh of the cage and dragged the rabbit away. Six dead chickens lay with their necks bitten through. Four birds disappeared without a trace. There was no blood at the scene of the massacre. Father Vladimir decided that stray dogs had got into trouble, and did not complain.

The second victim of an unknown animal, a villager, was found in the office of JSC "Cheryoshchina". Elena Davydova works as a chief economist. In early July, someone attacked her 70-kilogram boar of this length:

The story began like this. Around one o'clock in the morning, Elena was woken up by 10-year-old daughter Jan. She said she couldn't sleep because of the pig's screeching that had been going on for an hour. The mother went outside. The screeching was clearly interspersed with the growl of an unknown creature. I was afraid to go to the barn. She took a large wrench and started banging it on the porch railing. The strumming of metal on asphalt reached the ear. His eyes, accustomed to the darkness, made out a dog that had broken loose with the chain. Although it was some 20 meters to the barn, I got into the car and drove. Two dogs have already been caught in the headlights - the one, unknown, with a chain, and the second, one villager, with a collar. She turned the spotlight on the outbuildings and entered the shed. The bloodied boar was standing with an ear torn off or chewed off, which was lying nearby. Bloody bites were visible all over the body, but the flesh was not torn out. I rushed to drive around the village in search of the attacked beast. The two dogs caught my eye several times. They behaved peacefully, they did not show any aggression. Maybe it's a support group, but not those who attacked the boar, Elena decided.

The husband stabbed the poor guy. When disassembling the carcass, a knife was inserted into the bitten wounds. He was buried by five centimeters under his weight. It was obvious that the fangs were inserted not to kill the animal, but to drink blood.

During the inspection of the shed, they came to the conclusion that the beast could not get through the gap left for ventilation. Most likely jumped over a one-and-a-half meter fence.

We turned to the veterinary station about the edibility of pork. They replied that the meat was not checked for rabies infection. They began to eat. So far, everything is fine.

A month before this incident, a neighbor's dog howled day and night. After the attack, she immediately fell silent. An accident?

After the mysterious invasion, the owner reinforced the outbuildings so that the mouse would not fit through. Although they say that a predator does not steal twice in one place, Elena is now afraid to leave the house in the dark.

At Leonid Klyashtorny's, someone attacked a cow in a barn. When the owners heard the animal's rampage, they rushed into the barn. A cow that had broken loose was rushing between the walls. Her back was scratched by four deep objects - claws or teeth. No one was noticed in the barn.

Rumors spread through the village about an attack on livestock in Dvor-Babcha, a flock of 15 sheep in Bolshoy Zhezhlin. Someone found messages on the Internet about the outrages of either a mythical or a real creature called a chupacabra in Ukraine, Latin America, Russia. Finally, the villagers were horrified after the St. Bartholomew's Night from August 14 to 15.

Pensioners Alla and Dmitry Usoviki lead me to a summer shed for pigs. Alla claims that the chupacabra jumped over a fence 1.3 meters high — there were claw marks on the boards, and wool stuck to the post.

At seven o'clock in the morning on August 15, the hostess carried the piglets to eat. I opened the double doors of the barn and was horrified. Two 20-kilogram wild boars lay lifeless jack, turned to each other. One was missing an ear, the other an eye. Her husband, daughter-in-law, and two neighbors came to inspect the corpses. Measured the depth of bloodless punctures on the bodies — the match is hiding. A piece of the spine has been eaten out, the shoulder blade. The stomach is eaten up to the intestines. The backs and sides are scratched by three deep and two small claws. One head was cut to the bone as if with a scalpel. They estimated that about two kilograms of flesh were eaten from both.

They began to remember that a dog barked at night. They thought it was a cat or a hare. And the downpour did not allow to go outside. And then they fell asleep.

The police were called. We arrived quickly. Examined, interviewed, folded the protocol and left. The veterinarian did not clarify either. The corpses were buried in the bushes.

 Neighbor Marat Chuvilin came up. He showed a picture of dead boars taken on a mobile phone. They lie wounded. There is no blood. In general, it was neither in the bodies, nor under them, nor near them — it was sucked out. Only the walls are slightly sprinkled with small drops - apparently scattered during an unequal battle. There was no way to transfer the picture to a camera or flash drive.

Alla took me to another villager — Tamara Kostyukovich, whose chupacabra strangled 10 chickens that same night. The hostess shows the metal mesh of the chicken coop, the corner of which the monster unhooked from the bent nails.

Two sprawled chickens were lying on the farmyard, a young rooster was found behind the road in a cherry tree, seven birds were lying in the chicken coop. Everyone had holes in their backs. Of the other injuries, only one has a broken wing. There was no blood on the ground or in the carcasses - it was drunk. All the dead were buried.

Where is the old rooster? Only then he was found sewn under the garage. The poor man was trembling all over with fear — he got a lot too. I haven't eaten for two days. They caught the victim especially for showing me. The feathers on the back seem to have been plucked by hand.

 The neck is also exposed in the same way.

The owners are making more reliable locks, doors, caulking cracks, reinforcing the grid — eight chickens remained, because they were in another chicken coop.

"Local hunters saw this wild cat with offspring in the thickets"

The police did not sit idly by. A zoologist was called. He studied the circumstances of the attack of animals in Cheryoshchina and other villages, the traces left by the "chupacabra" and came to the conclusion that a lynx was operating. By the way, local hunters saw this wild cat with offspring in the thickets.

But what about such a romantic story with a chupacabra? I, like any normal journalist, am a sensation hunter. I would really like the myth of the monster to become a real story. However, first of all I am a realist. Therefore, I am forced to take the side of the zoologist. I just want to make an amendment based on my journalistic investigation. Pigs, sheep and a cow were attacked by a lynx, but chickens and a rabbit were destroyed by an ordinary ferret. It just so happened that both predators ended up in the same village on the same night, from August 14 to August 15.

However, the residents of Cheryoshchina console themselves with the thought that a lynx was operating in their sheds, and in their hearts they keep fear — what if a chupacabra is prowling nearby.