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Experts baffled after chilling cam footage captures creature branded a 'skin-walker' and 'chupacabra'

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Published 20:54 18 Sep 2024 GMT+1

Experts baffled after chilling cam footage captures creature branded a 'skin-walker' and 'chupacabra'

Could it have been spotted at last?

Joe Harker

Joe Harker

A bloke might have found the mythical 'chupacabra', a creature from American folklore which is said to drink the blood of livestock - hence the name which in Spanish means 'goat-sucker'.

Texas resident Michael 'Dumas' Demel had a bunch of cameras set up in the great outdoors and the images he's captured has left experts baffled.

When he checked the trailcam, he set up near Dubina he was planning on looking through roughly 100 pictures which he expected to see the regular crew of critters on.

However, when he looked at one of the pictures, the trailcam snapped and saw something pretty weird on there.

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Demel said: "I have three different cameras at three different hunting areas – they catch coyote, deer, bobcats, rabbits, raccoons, foxes.

Take a look at this picture, do you see it? (Michael Demel / Pen News)
Take a look at this picture, do you see it? (Michael Demel / Pen News)

“I look at approximately 100 plus pics a day from the three cameras, but that was the only photo that it showed up on.

“My first reaction was something doesn’t look right, so I stopped on the picture to zoom in.

“My first instinct was that it was a monkey."

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However, the more he looked the less he managed to identify the curious creature, so he started showing the picture around to a whole bunch of people.

He got a varied range of responses including people telling him it was an alien or a 'skin-walker', a witch that can disguise itself as an animal.

However, the most popular suggestion was that this was the work of the chupacabra, and experts are none the wiser as to help Demel figure things out.

He said: "I showed it to neighbours, family and friends. I got everything from a skin-walker, a monkey, a chupacabra, an alien.

“You hear stories of chupacabra in south Texas areas. The craziest was a skin-walker – I had to look up what that even is.”

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Look there! It's a chupacabra! (Michael Demel / Pen News)
Look there! It's a chupacabra! (Michael Demel / Pen News)

Appealing to higher authorities, he asked the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to try and ID his mysterious creature, but they drew a blank and just don't know what it is.

A spokesperson said: "I reached out to our mammologist and due to the quality of the image a positive identification of the animal is not possible."

They separately told The Fayette County Record that the mystery animal was 'too small to be a white tail deer fawn'.

Michael, who works in construction equipment sales, said he’d 'never' seen anything like this animal in his 10 years of taking wildlife pictures.

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"It's just out of the ordinary,” he said.

“I've seen hundreds of thousands of game pictures over the years and spent my whole life in the woods hunting – and this was a first."

Featured Image Credit: Michael Demel/Pen News

Topics: Weird, Animals, US News

Joe Harker
Joe Harker

Joe graduated from the University of Salford with a degree in Journalism and worked for Reach before joining the LADbible Group. When not writing he enjoys the nerdier things in life like painting wargaming miniatures and chatting with other nerds on the internet. He's also spent a few years coaching fencing. Contact him via [email protected]

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