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During 1975, Puerto Rico was stricken by a mysterious wave of _ other times, specific organs like livers would be missing. It livestock mutilations accompanied by UFO sightings. Many should be noted that blood and the "meaty organs" were the very times, animals were drained of blood and left like emptied wine- items offered to the dark gods of antiquity in the ancient Middle skins for investigators to puzzle over. Twenty years later, in East and even in pre-Columbian America. The description of El 1995, things turned really weird. Chupacabras is very reminiscent of that of the Sumerian Utukku The mutilations and blood-drainings returned with a vengeance, or even the Gala and the Egyptian Ushabtiu—created as "artifi- and over a two-year period the "culprit" was seen or encountered cial" life-forms (yet no less alive) to do the bidding of the Lords first-hand by dozens of witnesses. Termed "El Chupacabras", or of the Underworld. Maybe times are tough in the subterranean "The Goat-sucker", the creature seemed like something out of a realms and the "gods" have taken to stealing the substances which cartoonist's nightmare. It was described as four to five feet tall, are no longer offered to them—or could it be that the Nagas are generally reptilian in appearance, with a kangaroo-like hip or coming out to play? haunch structure, spines along a back-ridge and a humanoid head The Utukku are reptilian in aspect, vaguely humanoid and with protruding, incandescent eyes reminiscent of descriptions of slightly "winged", just like El] Chupacabras. Again we are the "grey aliens" of ufology. Sometimes the creatures would be reminded of the chimerical, genetic hybrids mentioned in the grey-green and hairless; sometimes they would have flat black or Book of Enoch, which were created by the Nefilim (the Sumerian grey fur. With folding flaps of skin under their arms which con- Annunaki and Igigi) before the Deluge when they "sinned against nected to their rib cages, they could purportedly glide like flying birds, wild animals, reptiles and fish", creating hybrid creatures to squirrels or fly outright, and they had three- serve them. These monstrosities also ter- pronged retractable mouth-organs used for rorised mankind—as the people of Puerto slicing, dicing and sucking blood and fluids. Rico might verify! At first it was thought that the sightings Perhaps, instead of "looking skyward" for were surely an elaborate hoax, or simply hys- "alien invaders", we should start looking teria, until the sheer number of incidents and downward for ancient parasites which are reports reached overwhelming proportions. . more or less native to our planet. Hair was obtained from one mutilation site During 1975, and analysed by a Japanese lab: while | Puerto Rico was stricken | 4. Other Forms. leemed to be "similar to the hair of a wolf", it . reatures similar in description to was labelled as coming from an animal which by a mysterious wave Chupacabras have been seen around the was "unknown". of livestock mutilations world, ranging from reptilian humanoids The creature was a typical cryptid in some . (the "Loveland Frog", "Lizard Man", etc.); respects, seemingly popping in and out of accompanied by "little people" of a wide variety of descrip- existence at a moment's notice and generating UFO sightings. tions; bulbous-headed and bug-eyed, stick- fear and confusion all over the island. thin grey humanoids; and winged From Puerto Rico, the Chupacabras anthropomorphic forms. Such appear- cents quickly read bie rest * bane Twenty years later, ances. OF periods of intense "crypts " merica, including Mexico, Sou . . or "alien" activity, are often hall- Florida and the desert southwest of the In 1995, things turned marked by animal mutilations, which United States. This marked it as a dis- really weird. involve precise (even surgically pre- tinctly cultural phenomenon (Hispanic), cise), selective organ removal and but that by no means indicates that it blood-draining, or else by mass disap- was not genuinely taking place. pearances of pets and livestock. A connection was soon suspected in These sightings cannot all be dis- Puerto Rico between El Chupacabras missed as hallucinations or hoaxes, and the mountainous rainforested region particularly the sighting reports which of El Yunque, which is honeycombed consist of several witnesses’ testimony. with mostly unexplored cavern systems. The sheer number of sightings is too In fact, caverns underlie much of the great for them to be so easily dis- island. Several witnesses reported seeing the creature or creatures missed, and the number of unexplained animal mutilations and fleeing to the El] Yunque region when discovered or pursued. disappearances which correspond with these "flaps" would seem Soon, other parts of the Spanish-speaking world were reaching to support this. similar conclusions. And, like the demons of old, an acrid, debili- Sometimes these creatures are confronted with violent force, tating, foul odour often accompanied the visits of the beast. yet almost always they resound "as if hollow" and are otherwise One brave soul, Jesus Sanchez, was victimised repeatedly, his impervious to human weaponry—as in the case of the rabbits being drained of blood. Finally, one morning at 4.00 am "Hopkinsville Goblins" of Kentucky, which were shot by the wit- he surprised the invader by blinding it with a bright light. Whenit — nesses. "Mothman" of West Virginia, a tall, winged humanoid rushed to escape, he struck it with a machete—only to discover who haunted the region of Point Pleasant—particularly an old that "the blow sounded as if it had hit a drum". The creature, military storage area which had "underground bunkers"—made unscathed, made its disappearance as usual. mechanical whirring sounds as it flew and did not flap its wings at What is to be made of a report like this? How can a creature all. The now ubiquitous "grey aliens" have been described as both “have hair" yet "sound like a drum" when struck (or shot, for "mechanical" in their motions, moving "stiffly" or "jerkily". This that matter) and escape unharmed? will be examined again shortly, but all of these beg an obvious And why the almost methodical and indeed selective nature of question. the animal mutilations? Sometimes only blood would be taken; Are all of these "creatures" simply different makes and models by a mysterious wave of livestock mutilations accompanied by UFO sightings. Twenty years later, in 1995, things turned really weird. APRIL — MAY 2001 NEXUS = 61 www. nexusmagazine.com