NEMESIS: The Chupacabras at Large (Reissue 2013)

Nemesis: The Chupacabras at Large

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This is a re-issue of the original monographmade available in 1996 through Arcturus

Books of Port St.Lucie, Florida, containingContributions from Dr. Rafael A. Lara Palmeros

and Salvador Freixedo.

© 1996, 2013


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WEIRD SCIENCE: CHUPACABRAS AS GENETIC EXPERIMENTBy Scott Corrales

It has often been said that H.G. Wells was far in advance of his time.From his late 19th century perspective he not only discerned the perils ofnature gone wild in Food of the Gods, but also the horror of tampering withgenetics in The Island of Dr. Moreau, in which animals are turned intomisshapen parodies of humanity as the book's renegade scientist tries to fathomsecrets forbidden to mankind. The Victorian author's foresight appearsparticularly accurate a century later. Genetic tampering has been the taboosubject which refuses to go away, particularly as science uncovers new andstunning possibilities in leaps and bounds, from the creation of "plantimals"--fusions of animal and vegetable cells-- to patented animals, such as the so-called "hupigs" (pigs bred with human genes in order to minimize the danger ofrejection during animal to human transplants) and even patented human organs. Arecent segment of Fox-TV's Encounters: The Hidden Truth discussed thepossibility of human-ape hybrids through gene splicing. These stunning inroadsinto the dark territory of mutations have found a curious parallel in ufology.The recent wave of cattle mutilations in Puerto Rico, which started early inthe spring of 1995, has had the curious distinction of featuring an unsavoryarray of strange creatures which depart from the now-classic Greys or even thewinged oddities that have often been seen in the island.

UFO researcher Jorge Martín, whose tireless investigation into themutilation scenario also uncovered these other "high strangeness" aspects,described the following case in a special issue of his Evidencia Ovni (UFOEvidence) magazine: a police officer investigating the mass slaughter of sheepin the town of Orocovis was startled by the presence of a "thing" standing inthe darkness. The bizarre creature was roughly humanoid in shape, and had amost peculiar yellow-orange coloring, plainly visible even at night. Itscampered away into the brush before the policeman could take any action.

On March 26, 1995, at 6 a.m. and in the same general area, Jaime Torresbecame aware of a nightmarish sight. Perched on the branch of a nearby tree wasa creature with a rounded, hairless head, large slanted black eyes, thin,clawed hands and legs, and a tail. The skin on this chimeric entity ranged fromdark grey around the eyes to brown, yellow, and purple on its back and sides.The monstrous "chameleon" then issued a subtle hissing sound which made Torresfeel sleepy and faint, sensations which he managed to overcome, just as thecreature leaped from the tree limb onto the ground and disappeared into thetropical vegetation.

These creatures would be seen by many other individuals throughout theisland municipalities of Orocovis and Morovis, nestled in Puerto Rico'smountainous center. On another occasion, witnesses were able to see a similarcreature crouching on the ground, stalking a bull in a nearby field. When alight was shone on it, it ran quickly into the underbrush.


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On April 2, 1995 a group of 15 adults and children witnessed a threefoot-tall greyish creature endowed with the power to make the assembledonlookers nauseous, even causing one of the children to pass out, and thefollowing day, separate witnesses encountered creatures which could best bedescribed as "reptilian" versions of the Greys.

The preceding paragraphs appear to indicate that the witnesses hadencountered altered or mutated versions of the Greys: drawings made of thecreatures sighted depict an almost "specialized" being of an arboreal nature,and the coarser-skinned reptilian Greys point toward another adaptation of theclassic type. The problem remains: who or what would be interested in creatingsuch mutations, and to what end? Proponents of an extraterrestrialperspective to the UFO phenomenon could argue that such variations representthe logical adaptation of the Greys to certain environments: an arboreal typeequipped with some sort of psionic ability to occupy forested areas, areptilian type for swampland, etc. These fusions could have been achieved byexperimentation with terrestrial creatures. This possibility was brought to theforefront in C.D.B. Bryan's Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind: UFOs,Abductions, and the Conference at MIT: one of the abductees whose experiencesare chronicled in the book reported being shown horses in a wire mesh cageaboard an alien craft. The abductee judged the animals in question to be threeto four-month old foals, with an extremely unusual characteristic. Rather thanhooves, the animals were endowed with padded, toed feet (like those ofprehistoric horses). When she inquired the reason for this, her captors merelystated that the horses had been "changed." The same experiencer was also showna herd of cows with sizeable tubular appendages protruding from their sides.Could these adaptations, for want of a better term, constitute an effort toassimilate terrestrial animals to otherworldly environments?

Whether extraterrestrial or mundane, it would appear that not all genetictampering of this sort has been successful: Jorge Martín investigated a 1989incident surrounding what could best be described as someone's experiment gonehideously awry. One evening in November of that year, two youngsters, IvanCotto and his friend Luis, were playing in a field behind Ivan's house. Martínnotes that the 12-year old refused at first to think back on the event, whichallegedly still gave him nightmares.

While Ivan and his friend played, a "thing" jumped out from behind someshrubbery and landed on the ground before them. The "thing" was described ashairy, ugly and with sharp fangs, without any discernible nose or muzzle. Thefrightened boys ran under a light post, but the creature jumped once more andlanded in front of them. The light from the streetlamp, however, apparentlyaffected the monster, causing it to shudder and emit strange sounds, as if inpain. It then started oozing watery, greenish "goo" through its mouth and chest(by means of fleshy appendages in that region). The painful experience causedthe being to retreat into the dense vegetation once more.

In spite of the terror, the two boys were able to give a precisedescription of the creature and even make a hasty sketch of its unsavoryappearance. It was entirely covered in dark fur, with a crest of fur runningfrom its head down to its legs. It had two powerful legs resembling those of arabbit or kangaroo, and it eyes were out of proportion with its small head. Thefleshy appendages in the chest region were also a most extraordinary detail.


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While it could be argued that the boys were attacked by an escaped mascotfrom a UFO, the description is strongly reminiscent of biologicalexperimentation being conducted in our day and age.

A 1993 issue of the Russian-language AURA-Z magazine delved into theexperiments of a real-life Dr. Moreau: Dr. Tsian Kanchen, a Chinese physicianwho was imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution and who later escaped to thethen USSR in 1971, becoming a naturalized Russian citizen in 1989. His researchon the bioelectromagnetic fields linking the components of living organisms ledhim to discover that these fields were part of DNA--the passive component,while the bioelectromagnetic field constituted the active component.

Thus, genetic information could be transmitted and projected onto DNA,which acts much like a blank recording tape, and, like all tapes, can beoverwritten.

Dr. Kanchen created a device which enables the information on oneorganism's DNA to be scanned and copied onto another. His experiments withwheat and corn seeds produced a wheat-like plant with traits which wereinherited by its offspring. Bioelectrical fields for peanuts were projectedonto sunflower seeds with stunning results: the latter mutated into a peanut-like shape and acquired some of the peanut's characteristic taste.

But Dr. Kanchen's most ominous successes--those which have a bearing onthis article--involved living creatures. Five hundred chicken eggs exposed tothe bioelectrical field of a duck yielded 480 web-footed hatchlings withflattened heads, long necks, and the general characteristics of a duck. Agoat's bioelectrical scan was projected onto a pregnant rabbit, resulting inbunnies with camel-shaped heads and enormous curved teeth.

The ethics of "weird science" aside, this constitutes evidence that it ispossible to create such mutations through technological intervention, and thereis evidence that many of the strange creatures encountered in Puerto Rico arethe product of human or non-human experimentation with terrestrial life-forms.

Jorge Martín says that he was informed about a Federal agency whichcreated a task force to investigate where these nightmarish creatures wereemanating from, since they appeared to be the product of "geneticmutations...or some kind of sophisticated genetic experimentation." Capturedspecies are taken to a secret laboratory located on the island for furtherstudy, as was the case with a strange animal captured near the town of Guayama,and which could have been a mutation of an alligator or large reptile. Thesmall "Bigfoot" variants seen in Puerto Rico could also be genetic mutations ofsome sort.

And what about our own Bigfoot? In 1974, Californian psychic JoycePartise, holding a sealed envelope containing a photograph of a Sasquatchfootprint, gave an amazing reading: "This gorilla man...he just looks creepybut he's intelligent...It's as though they're from another civilization longago and have mutated because of radiation." She then went on to describe agenetic laboratory and its contents: "I'm seeing a lab with little animals incages and scattered around are samples of rocks and minerals and soils. Theyhave one of those hairy ape men in a big cage and he doesn't like being trapped[...] it seems they aretrying to control him, like a robot." The chilling detail to this paragraph isthat Ms. Partise was describing the interior of a supposedly alien laboratory.


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With the benefit of twenty years spanning her predictions from current events,what was unlikely in 1974 seems all too possible today.

Maryland-based researcher Mark Chorvinsky and Mark Opsasnick have alsolooked into the genetic mutation aspect of the "strange creature" phenomenon.While investigating the intense flurry of "big hairy monster" activity insoutheastern Baltimore County between 1973 and 1976, they became aware ofrumors of bizarre experiments being conducted around Poole Island, an armyresearch center near the Aberdeen Proving Grounds. Their investigation led themto Tom Sobotka, a diver and fisherman who claimed to have knowledge of thegoings-on in the offshore islands. Mr. Sobotka had been quoted by theWashington Post as saying: "There are a lot of things happening over there atEdgewood we don't know about. Experiments and mutations. They keep it all asecret. But they found an orangutan dead on the railroad tracks near here twomonths ago. A guard told me that section in there; it's unbelievable, what theygot. Human experiments..."

Chorvinsky and Opsasnick were told that mutations--such as a fish withthe feet of a deer-- could easily be found at Poole Island. The problem wasthat the island has been declared off-limits to civilians. The researchers wereable to determine that a considerable volume of known teratogenic (mutation-producing) agents such as perchlorethylene, tri-iso-propyl phosphite, andothers, have been released (whether accidentally or by design) into theAberdeen Proving Grounds area. The possibility of government experiments intohuman-ape hybrids, while outlandish at first, was not discarded by theinvestigators, who mentioned that their files held at least one case in which ahuman-ape breeding was thwarted at the last moment.

HIGH STRANGENESS: UNEXPLAINED ANIMAL DEATHS IN MEXICOA PRELIMINARY REPORT

by Dr. Rafael A. Lara Palmeros,Director of Investigations, CEFP (Mexico)

Translated by Scott Corrales

The Republic of Mexico, as never before, is utterly confused andseriously alarmed by the series of bizarre phenomena which have manifestedthemselves since the month of February of this year in a number of Mexicanstates.

IntroductionNever before in the history of Mexico have there been as disquieting and

strange a phenomenon as that of cattle mutilations. There have been isolatedreports of this aberrant phenomenon, but they were seldom taken intoconsideration. An example of this can be found in the 1993 reports of thedeaths of 30 horses in the state of Guerrero: genitals, tongues and viscerawere removed from the animals, and the blame was squarely placed on cattlerustlers. Other reports suggest that 30 sheep were slain by a mandrill-likecreature in the state of Hidalgo, and nearly a year ago, the town ofIztlalmanalco (Mexico State), on the slopes of Mt. Ajusco, reported the loss ofan unspecified number of sheep, chickens and cows, killed by "giant cats" whichhave remained unidentified to this very day (The School of Veterinary Medicine


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and Zootechnology of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México looked intothis case).

The following chronicle illustrates the events which have shaken thecountry in the past few months.

The Cases

On February 16, 1996, Professor Noé Montoya, a UFO researcher, remarkedin conversation to me that the outlying communities of the city of Puebla werereporting strange deaths among their farm animals--losses blamed upon acreature resembling the Puerto Rican "Chupacabras." I did not believe this;nevertheless, on February 24th, while participating in a television program anddiscussing the important research being conducted in Puerto Rico by ScottCorrales and Jorge Martín, I received word that cattle mutilations were in facttaking place in the outskirts of Puebla. I didn't know what to make of this,when on March 14, 1996, a phone call from Dr. Armando Gutiérrez of Tampico,Taumalipas mentioned the puzzling attacks on dozens of hens, 15 chickens and 4goats in the tinyvillage of Altamira, located some 2 kms. from Tampico. According to Dr.Gutiérrez'z testimony, the animals had wounds on their necks and had been leftcompletely drained of blood. I was unable to confirm this by means of the pressnor other media, which made me doubtful. It wasn't until March 29 when Dr.Jesús Benítez, a fellow doctor at the Hospital General de Zona II belonging tothe Mexican Institute of Social Security informed me that the "Primer Impacto"news program had mentioned the animal mutilations which had transpired inMiami, Florida as well as those in Mexico, particularly cases from Jalisco andVeracruz, mainly in the community of Tlalixcoyan, some 3 hours north of Jalapa.A relevant fact was that "NotiVer," the state of Veracruz's news program,reported that since the 6th of March, 25 bloodless sheep had been found in theColonia 25 de Abril sector of Nayarit. The dead animals presented punctures ontheir necks.

The first official news item concerning an unknown predator roaming theMexican countryside appeared on April 7, 1996. The location? Tlalixcoyan,Veracruz, where local cattlemen, municipal law enforcement and localauthorities kicked off a search for the enigmatic being, simultaneously issuinga list of the deaths attributed to it. Veterinarian Alfonso Hernández Pérezexpressed a belief that the sheep deaths could not be attributed to eitherbats, dogs, or felines.

On April 18th, newscaster Jacobo Zabludowsky openly mocked "...this beingcaptured by the Internet, whose means of sucking remain a mystery, just anothermyth among the hundreds which surround us...". His opinion on the subject wouldchange dramatically two days later when he reported the unexplained deaths inthe community of Las Granjas, not far from Ciudad Guzmán, Jalisco. Over twentysheep were found dead with the ubiquitous puncture marks on their bodies anddrained of blood. Their owner, farmer Alberto Durán, could not believe what hadhappened.

On May 2nd, Victor Barragán, a veterinary of the Universidad Autónoma deGuadalajara, stated: "...some feline and/or wild dogs were responsible for thethese massacres..." Nonetheless, Teodosio Méndez Meza, owner of the Amacueca


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Ranch, informed the authorities of the deaths of 16 sheep, while at the sametime, Bernardino Rodríguez of La Barranca de San Miguel experienced the loss of4 sheep from their pen. Barragán remained unmoved, repeating that some naturalcause (pumas, feral dogs, etc.) was behind these situations.

Meanwhile, Humberto Cota Gil, chief investigator for the UniversidadAutónoma de Sinaloa, declared that the "Chupacabras" was nothing more than theVampyrus Spectrum, a bat species originating in Brazil, and whose size rangesfrom between 50 to 70 centimeters; it sports six-centimeter fangs and a faciallobe of 25 centimeters. Intermunicipal police patrolling the region of Guasave,Los Mochis and Bachomobanpo were sent out to find this gigantic creature.

The death list continued to rise in Tlalixcoyan: on May 3, six dead sheepwere found with strange marks on their necks and in the vertebral region. Thesettlements of Trancas, Palo Gacho and El Nido were also affected by the spateof activity. According to a witness from El Nido, a doglike creature harassedhis flock, and when he attempted to shoot the intruder, it crossed a barbedwire fence without wounding itself or making any noise. In Sinaloa, a brigadeof specialists and policemen conducted a tour of inspection of all the affectedmunicipalities as the death toll rose to 100 animal losses. Jose Luis Garibay,a pathologist with Mexico's department of livestock and agriculture, determinedthat the animal must be enormous, since it was obviously quite capable oflifting 540 kilograms and slaying forty sheep simultaneously to consume 12liters of blood from each of them. A sheep which had been left tied at aparticular place in the village of Ruiz Cortines was found some 200 meters awayfrom where its owner left it. The animal had been decapitated andexsanguinated.

Townspeople armed with rifles and machetes took to the countryside thefollowing day in hopes of finding the predator, but according to the municipalsecretary, Sergio Palencia Pérez, not a trace was found, although some claimedhaving seen a kind of enormous bat flying at low altitude. In Los Mochis-Topolobampo, the supernatural predator killed off 40 sheep at Rancho LaRemolacha, prompting a massive mobilization of elements outfitted with infraredlights, shotguns, electrical equipment, helmets and riot shields.

This belligerent response did not keep the mysterious attacker from goingabout his appointed rounds. On May 5, Tlalixcoyan awakened to discover 20 moresheep and 12 unspecified farm animals entirely bloodless. Based on thetestimony of one Filogonio Jiménez, the Tlacoya ejido (farming cooperative) wasshocked to discover 13 sheep with wounds on their throats. Six turkeys werefound dead in a similar fashion at Piedras Negras, and two of Rancho ElPeladero's sheep were attacked by the nocturnal predator.

The village of La Loma, Jalisco, wasn't spared the bloodletting, as tenof its sheep were slain by whatever was roaming the night while the citizenry'sdogs howled pathetically. It was on this strange evening that José Angel Pulidoclaimed to have been attacked by the "Chupacabras," which he described as amonster some 80 cm. tall and weighing some 30 kgs., with ashen-dark "feathers"and sizeable wings.

Juan Robles, a farmer from San Miguel Coahuila, claimed that on May 6,1996 four of his sheep were attacked by the alleged predator, promptingengineer Angel Ramírez to demand a serious formal investigation of thesituation. This came about even as 12 lifeless goats were discovered in


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Lagunillas de Huimilpan, Querétaro -- exsanguinated and with the trademarkperforations on their bodies.

Biologists began issuing their theories at this point: Rogelio Sosa, aresearcher with The Sinaloa Center for Science, expressed his opinion thatserious investigation should be undertaken, since the creature was obviously avery strong one and equipped with formidable claws. His working hypothesis,however, was that the countryside was facing a "rabid feline." Luis CarlosFierro, head of the Office of Rural Livestock Development, dismissed the animaldeaths as "popular myths," assuring that the guilty parties were most likelycoyotes, dogs, mountain lions and cougars.

The "Chupacabras" made an encore in the state of Veracruz, this time atComunidad Cruz del Milagro in Sayula de Alemán, where it dispatched 7 cows inits customary manner. Hundreds of miles away, in the desert state of Chihuahua,8 goats were attacked by an enigmatic beast, according to Ricardo OropezaMedina of the Center for Epidemiology of the state health agency.

On May 8, 1996, 2 sheep and 6 turkeys were slain in Tlalixcoyan,Veracruz. The "manhunt" scheduled by the authorities did not take place, sinceAtilano Martínez, the municipal president, and Armando Aguirre, the livestockfarmers' representative, chose to attend a political meeting rather than complywith the wishes of the peasantry. The region is in the grip of tension andfear.

San Miguel Coatlinchan, Texcoco (outside Mexico City) made the news whenit was discovered that 18 birds were found dead and bloodless, with marks ontheir necks. Residents believe that the numerous prints left on the ground bythe "animal" are much larger than those of any canine and suggest very largeclaws.

In the wake of all these animal killings, livestock farmers beganinvesting in large hunting dogs for their almost ceaseless patrols of theirranches. The president of the Regional Cattlemen's Association admitted thatsome deaths had been caused by strange animal attacks. Zootechnician DavidAvila Figueroa with the University of Guadalajara opined to the contrary,stating that the cause of death was a kind of feline that was neithermysterious nor abnormal, and that animals,"being as sensitive as they are, diefrom heart attacks." (!?)

Vigilantes in the state of Nayarit fared somewhat better than thoseelsewhere: six bloodless birds prompted an intense mobilization and a vigorouspursuit of the creature. According to Mr. Silva Avila, "I saw it [the creature]in profile at a distance of some 10 meters, and it stood motionless. I pickedup a stone and threw it at the creature, but I missed. The animal turned towardme and moved away with hurried jumps, vaulting over a 2 meter high wall. Itmeasures some 80 cms. has a small head, short, pointed ears, like those of abat. Its eyes were brilliant red." He also added that the creature was coveredin black fur with legs that bent at the knees; two small arms, like those of akangaroo, protruded from its torso.

The creature returned to haunt the population once again, causing thepolice to sally forth, fully armed, and deploy tear gas against it. Meanwhile,in Cuatichán, (Mexico state), 19 birds and two pigs were found dead with thecharacteristic marks on their necks. The natives, curiously, began paintingtheir houses and hanging crosses made of ocote on their doorways. In Matamoros,


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on the U.S. border, the alleged apparition of the "Son of Chupacabras" (?) wasbeing investigated.

On May 9, the Archbishop of Morelia, Alberto Suarez Inda, begged thepublic to remain serene in the face of the phenomenon sweeping the country,publicly stating his confidence in the authorities. He declared that thereexist very strange phenomena which are complicated to investigate, and demandall the available time and means to be solved (author's italics). AntonioCamacho Díaz, a bishop of the Orthodox Catholic Church, suggested that thecreatures could be the result of some congenital deformity or a product ofradiation.

According to Carlos Vega Fineda, assistant director of municipal medicalservices, the so-called "Chupacabras" is merely a misidentification of thewell-known "murciélago de las tumbas" (the graveyard bat), which has merelychanged its dietary habits (?). As the mutilation epidemic spread, specialguards were established in the municipalities of Texcoco and Zumpango, equippedwith the added protection of crosses designed to scare the strange creatureaway.

Much in the same manner that Canóvanas in Puerto Rico had become theChupacabras' favorite feeding area, the creature's Mexican counterpart appearedto have claimed Tlalixcoyan in Veracruz for itself. The citizenry, enraged andfrightened by the depredations, demanded that the authorities do something toprotect their animals and themselves, since the possibility that the creaturemight turn on humans next was not taken lightly.

In Los Mochis, Sinaloa, one Benigno Cano claimed to have seen a strangecreature, some 90 cms. in height, with large, sharp fangs, red eyes, scales,and a "dragon-like appearance," which allegedly caused the deaths of 2 ducks, agoat and several chickens. Workers at the Abelardo L. Rodríguez dam stumbledupon the body of a dead bat, measuring 85 cms. in height and almost a meterwide, with gigantic fangs. Mr. Pavón Reyes, head of the Sonora specialoperations group (GOES), said that he would concede the "Ocurrió Así"television program the first bid on the story, since he expected a reward of$50,000 for his trouble. It was later learned that the creature was merely adead cat which had been split open and spread out to seem larger.

León, Guanajuato, a locale famous for its UFO-related incidents, was notspared a visit from whatever was killing animals all over the country. Twoboys, Jesús Barajas and Julio Bermúdez, reported having seen a strange beingmeasuring approximately 1 meter 20 cms., black-skinned and with bulging eyes,who later cleared a 2 meter tall fence, flying into the air.

On May 12, a veterinarian claimed that autopsies performed on dead geesesuggested that the death could have been caused by a giant bat created bygenetic manipulation in the U.S. or in Mexico. This line of thought was echoedthe following day by researchers from the School of Veterinary Medicine andZootechnology at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, who thought itlikely that mutations in canines and felines could well be responsible for thedeaths taking place all over the country.

On May 17, the residents of Ciudad Ayala in the state of Morelos had arepeat visit from the paranormal predator, who struck at their flocks of sheep.The losses were attributed to a "giant vulture." That same day, in El Tecomate,Sinaloa, frightened peasants used their machetes to kill an otter found in an


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irrigation ditch, believing it was the "Chupacabras."The same homespun "experts" that had amused the Puerto Rican press turned

up in Mexico: one of them believed that the "Chupacabras" had been brought infrom Africa and was being utilized by the "Golden Lucifer" sect for theirrituals. This being was allegedly able to sprinkle colored powders at hisvictims, putting them to sleep and later attacking them. According to one"expert," the Chupacabras had a lifespan of between 50 and 100 years.

Human Attacks

Aside from the fact that a number of attacks on humans were confirmedthroughout Mexico, it is worth mentioning the fate suffered by Mrs. TeodoraAyala Reyes on April 29 in one of the most shocking cases of the Mexican"Chupacabras" wave. It took place, as mentioned earlier, in the village ofAlfonso Genaro Calderón in Sinaloa. The attacker turned out to be, from thelady's own description, a very bizarre creature some 60 cms. tall which gaveoff a strong stench and had large wings. Mrs. Ayala was attacked at nighttimeand presented bruises on her neck, her back and her face. Her assailantdisappeared into the night.

As reported elsewhere, José Angel Pulido, a resident of Tlajomulco deZuñiga, was accosted by an improbable creature that inflicted wounds--hematomasand deep scratches--on his arm. The images of these two victims of allegedChupacabras mayhem were broadcast on Mexican television, causing nationwideconsternation. Two other attacks, such as those visited upon Juana TizocMontenegro and Elvira Meza, were never confirmed, although they received agreat deal of media coverage. Nonetheless, these last two witnesses coincide intheir descriptions of the attacker.

The Chiapas Case

This specific case is worthy of mention because is occurred in a statewhich is going through a high level of political conflict, and because certain"pseudo-investigators" attributed the events to activities of the ZapatistaLiberation Army (EZLN) in an effort to distract popular attention from what isgoing on in Chiapas.

On April 1st, 1996, Mrs. Julieta Calderón awoke to discover almost twentydead, blood-covered sheep on her property, a ranch named San Antonio de losSauces. The dead animals presented ripped throats, which according to theofficial version, proved that the attackers had been dogs. Curiously, neitherthe watchmen, nor the shepherd, nor the ranch's inhabitants, not even thehunting dogs, were alerted to the activity of the wild pack of feral canines.According to Jesús Espinoza Ramírez, a technician with the Ministry ofAgriculture, there is no doubt that the killings were perpetrated by dogs. Thishypothesis is being disputed by the ranch's owner.

One of the watchmen, Victor Manuel Samoaya, recalled seeing a "person"half a meter tall, naked and albino-like, hiding among the bushes. "I thoughtit was a child," he stated, adding that he and a companion went after thestrange creature without much success. The president of the Asociación deOvinocultores de Chiapas, Ernesto Sánchez Yanini, pointed out that in the


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twenty years he has devoted to cattle farming, he had never known so manyanimals to die in a single attack, although he does not dismiss the notion thata pack of wild dogs may have been responsible.

The Other Side of the Phenomenon: The Psychosocial Phenomena

Since it first appeared in the national media, the "Chupacabras" hascaptured the attention of everyone, from musicians to intellectuals. Numerousreferences to the creature have appeared in Mexico's print media, which givesus an entity which has been variously linked to Subcomandante Marcos of theEZLN, with the myth of "La Llorona," and to the poverty and lack of educationafflicting the country. The real "Chupacabras," so to speak, is the drought andhunger afflicting the country, along with the current political crisis,unemployment and lawlessness. Delirious minds have created their own myths andlegends as a result of the penury that has engulfed Mexico as a nation. Itshould be noted that "El Financiero" newspaper published in its May 12, 1996edition an extensive review of the phenomenon, ascribing its existence to theoft-mentioned Mexican Crisis. It went as far as to point out that thisphenomenon is a rumor which has invaded the country due to the low educationallevels among the population, which needs to be better informed in order to sortout truth from fiction. Paco Ignacio Taibo, a noted Mexican novelist andessayist, José Luis Cuevas, an artist, and many others have echoed similarsentiments: the Chupacabras is a rival figure to Marcos; it embodies formerpresident Carlos Salinas de Gortari, it embodies Mexico's poverty--manipulated,extorted, and deceived by its fellow countrymen.

Faced with this "evidence," one is led to believe that all the goings-onin this world relating to this bizarre phenomenon are mere fantasies.

Yet I wonder: are these fine gentlemen aware of what happens in cyclicalrhythms in the fields of England, France, Sweden, Brazil, the U.S., and Canada,among others, where mutilated, exsanguinated animals are found by the dozens?What would they think about the Exmoor Beast? The Gevaudan Beast? The recentwaves of cattle mutilations in New Mexico, and the 1993 wave of mutilations inGermany? It is one thing to discuss, philosophize, get together with cronies ina coffeehouse and reach "conclusions" without ever dirtying the soles of one'sshoes by investigating the scene where the events took place. In order to havegrounds upon which to discuss the phenomenon we must investigate, visit thelocations in question, interview witnesses, analyze the results gathered, andrefrain from issuing false conclusions which, in my opinion, mislead thepublic.

The Research

Upon discovering that one of the "hottest" sites in the country wasTlalixcoyan, a community located some 3 hours to the north of Jalapa, the statecapital of Veracruz, we commenced making preparations to visit the site.Nonetheless, bearing in mind that the School of Veterinary Sciences and


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Zootechnology of the University of Veracruz should already have been aware ofthe situation, we paid a visit to its facilities for an interview with itsdirector, Mr. Emilio Zilli Debernardi (who can be reached by telephone at 91(29)86-02-44), and with academician Jesús Morales. Surprisingly, these"authorities" professed having no knowledge whatsoever about the events, andrather nervously informed me that I was the first civilian to approach themwith an interest in this subject. To assuage their fears, I told them that Iwasn't an agent from the Department of State or from National Security --merely a medical specialist with an interest in the subject. Their responsewas: "We'll get in touch with you if we find anything..."

Faced with this attitude on their part, I tried to contact Mr. AgustínMorales, president of the Tlalixcoyan Cattle Farmers Association, headquarteredin Piedras Negras (Tel. 91-296-70088), who claimed not to be aware of anythingin particular, but would be happy to contact me once information on the subjecthad been brought to his attention. To this date, no further word has beenreceived from either agency.

We visited Tlalixcoyan on May 1st, 1996. The high level of apprehensionamong the population was clearly evident, and when we spoke to a number offarmers and cattlemen, a constant appeared to be that no sound was everperceived from the areas in which the mutilations took place. It was only onthe following day that the bloodless, mutilated animals were discovered. Mr.Pedro Hernández told us he had seen "...a kind of large rabbit which hoppedalong until it vanished into the vegetation. It measured approximately 80 cms.and was dark in color. The following day, I found three completely bloodlessgoats and four chickens in a similar condition...I don't know what exactlyhappened." Another witness, Mrs. Dionisia Pérez, informed us that an animalresembling a very large dog had assaulted her sheep pen and shaken the oldestsheep "as if it were an old rag." We investigated prints in the surroundings,but did not find any traces. Possible organic remains were examined withoutanything significant being discovered. At this point in time, there existed thepossibility that an official investigation, which would include competentauthorities as well as civilian researchers would be launched by officials. Itnever took place.

According to three local children--Baltazar Herrera, Ramiro Rodríguez andJuan Hernández-- they found three dead sheep in their farm on April 6. Thehapless animals had been relieved of their blood, and the boys were unable tofind any animal prints belonging to a dog, coyote or similar creature. Theytold me that they had said nothing to the authorities out of fear of reprisals:this was a very significant aspect we were able to pick up on during our stayin Tlalixcoyan. The region is constantly in turmoil, since it containsmarijuana and poppy fields, secret airstrips, and is a choice location for drugtraffickers. In spite of this fact, the locals were requesting the authorities'help prompted by their growing fear of the phenomenon. This help neverarrived, since the authorities in question emitted verdicts from the safety oftheir desks without bothering to evaluate the real concerns of the ruralpopulation.

On May 4th, television channel 5 transmitted a report stating that theCoatepec region (close to Jalapa) as well as Xico had been visited by theChupacabras, which had slain 6 hens, 4 rabbits and a goat. We visited the area


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the same day, interviewing veterinarians, farmers, members of the Cattlemen'sAssociation, and even workers of the local health care center. The results werenegative. No one was able to give any information, for which reason we cannotsay for sure if what transpired in the area was true or false.

What conclusions can be drawn from the investigation performed? None. Wecan only consider that something or someone killed the animals, which werefound with ripped throats or punctures on their bodies.

On May 11th, we investigated the case in Jalapa, visiting ColoniaIndependencia, where we were able to see the geese that had been slain thereand the puncture marks on their bodies. We interviewed Dr. Villanueva, whocommented that he had been unable to find any traces of blood on the birds.Residents and animal owners told us that they didn't hear anything at the timethe killings took place.

Analysis

As we stated in our introduction, Mexico has never faced as fascinating aphenomenon as the current one, and it is only logical to suppose that vague,silly, opportunistic, political and pseudoscientific explanations should makethe rounds, coupled with a thorough ignorance of the real phenomenon.

It is sad to notice the lack of a serious investigative criteria, backedby the scientific method, to face a situation of such proportions. It wouldseem that the explanations purveyed by different government bureaucrats areefforts at convincing the population that "nothing is going on in Mexico." Thecomments made by Juli Carabias, Secretary of the Environment, show the absenceof a real awareness of the facts. The aim: to lead the population intobelieving that "it is all due to natural causes," when to this very day no oneknows what is killing goats, sheep, chickens, etc.

As an investigator of these events, I would take the following pointsinto consideration

1. The cattle mutilation phenomenon is global, since it has occurred in France,Germany, Britain, the U.S., Brazil, etc.2. It is linked to a diversified phenomenology that includes the presence oflarge felines, winged entities, humanoid creatures, etc. (as in some of thecases presented here). To date, there have been no UFO sightings linked to thephenomenon at the sites where killings have occurred (although they have beenseen in others).3. The phenomenon finishes as abruptly as it begins (folklorists andpseudophilosophers attribute this to the traditions and collective unconsciousof all peoples).4. Real, objective information about the events must be made available to thepopulation, free from bias and manipulation.5. Scientific resources must be deployed in an effort to understand (if at allpossible) what is causing these animal deaths.6. Form brigades of veterinarians, zootechnicians, biologists, chemists, etc.charged with investigating each particular case openly and without prejudice.7. The government should support the individuals involved in this researchendeavor with police or even military vehicles (if necessary).


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8. Keep an open mind regarding the evidence.

It is indeed fascinating that with the amount of research carried out,both from the bibliographical and field perspectives, the mystery stillpersists. It is also important to point out that some very strange reports haveissued from the state of Jalisco, particularly from the Zapopan region, inwhich humanoid presences have been reported--women of a wolf-like appearance--in connection with the mutilation epidemic. This has resulted in significantsearches throughout the area without anything having been discovered to date.Witnesses insist that they have seen a woman with wolf-like characteristics,who had already attacked a horse and two people (as reported in CrónicaPoliciaca magazine, p.19, #4, May 7, 1996). Curiously enough, this leads us tothink about events which took place in the Dominican Republic during the1970's, involving mutilated animals and the presence of humanoid creatures.

On May 14th I placed a phone call to Dr. Bernardo Villa in Mexico City.Dr. Villa is an investigator with the Institute of Biology of the NationalAutonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and is considered one of the world'sforemost mastozoologist. During our conversation he remarked: "...it isextremely important to conduct field research in the places which have beenaffected, following the scientific method: observation, an exhaustive analysisof specimens. This should not be dismissed lightly, particularly with thepsychosis that has gripped the population." (As a sideline commentary we willadd here that Dr. Villa played a critical role during the investigation of the"Tecolutla Monster.")

But this is Mexico, where the words of a misguided politician carry moreweight than the statements of a true scientist.

NOTE: This is a preliminary investigation, "closed" on May 20th 1996.Nonetheless, we continue to receive information from different states inMexico.

[Editor's Note: Dr. Lara's thoroughness during all his investigations makes hima "researchers' researcher." This preliminary report quotes a whopping 70sources, which are far too numerous to include in this report, and are on filewith SAMIZDAT].

Updates to "The Chupacabras Diaries" from January to May 1996By Scott Corrales

Friday, January 5, 1996

Two goats were slain by the Chupacabras in Caguas' Barrio Cañaboncito. Policeofficials reported to the scene after being alerted by Wanda Rivera, whodiscovered her two young goats dead within their concrete and wire cage, whichwas still closed and gave no signs of having been forced. Three sheep were alsobled dry at the residence of José Ramos Aponte in Aguas Buenas. According tothe owner, he rose early on Thursday morning to find that his animals weredying from their puncture wounds.


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Tuesday, January 8, 1996

The Chupacabras attacked a farm in Canóvanas, killing a pair of sheep belongingto Monchito Colón. Police officers Orlando Marín and Rosa Santiago reported tothe site. Just as the police reached the area, another call was received fromJosé Febo, who had allegedly just seen a creature with pointed ears, a strangeprofile, and a shaven head. Febo encountered the creature as it rested on atamarind tree. When it noticed the human, the entity jumped off the tree andran "like a gazelle."

Thursday, January 11, 1996

Mayor José Soto of Canóvanas, who led expeditions in search of the elusiveChupacabras back in November '95, made a formal request of Police CommissionerPedro Toledo to help him obtain the resources needed to capture the creature.While the commissioner met with Mayor Soto, no allocation of police resourceswas made.

The creature attacked the Canóvanas area once more, killing a sheep and arooster belonging to Tomás Santiago López. The sheep was badly wounded and waslater put down by a local veterinarian. Mayor Soto visited the Santiago farm,located in Barrio Cambalache.

Monday, January 15, 1996

Two sheep were found dead on a farm in Lajas, P.R.. Wisbel Ayala, head of theCivil Defense, looked into the matter, declaring that a veterinarian identifiedonly as "Dr. Ruiz" had offered to analyze the carcasses, which had been"attacked by the monkeys which live in the area." The possibility that thecarcasses will be frozen and shipped to the CDC in Atlanta hasn't been ruledout.

According to SAMIZDAT correspondent José Valdez, the unusually cold weatherconditions Puerto Rico experienced during January 1996 kept Chupacabrasactivity to a minimum. He speculates that the creature may have gone into somesort of hibernation for a period of time. The fact of the matter is that theelusive creature is back, and has even been reported on the island of Vieques--20 miles off the Puerto Rican mainland.


The police seem unable to protect even their own. Police Colonel AgustínCartagena, who owns a farm near Caguas, P.R., received a visit from theChupacabras. The intruder killed 22 animals--an assortment of ducks, chickens,and guinea hens. This incident apparently took place just days after six sheepwere killed on the property of Police Lieutenant Jorge Rivera, whose farm islocated in Canóvanas.


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The Chupacabras turned its thirst for blood against five ducks, slayingfour and leaving one mortally injured. However, it met its match in the fierceflock of geese kept by Mrs. Luz Bonilla in her Guaynabo backyard. Even theChupacabras meets its match now and then, it seems.

According to Mrs. Bonilla, the geese made a racket in the wee hours ofthe morning. Upon venturing out to her backyard to see what had happened, shewas faced with the sight of the dead ducks. Mrs. Bonilla added her voice to agrowing number of citizens demanding a serious investigation by theCommonwealth government into this matter.

On the other side of the island, reports came in from a number of sourcesdescribing a flurry of UFO activity. Police officials confirmed receivingdistressed phone calls regarding this unusual activity. The sightings allegedlytook place over the Costas, Sábana Yeguas and Candelaria sectors of Lajas. Theobjects were described as triangular in shape and moving at prodigious speedacross the night skies from south to west. Curiously enough, the UFO reportscoincided with the arrival of several squadrons of jet fighters from the USAF.Local residents were awakened to a deafening sound, only to find the fightersmaking low-level runs over their homes. The police could not speculate as towhy the Air Force had chosen to embark on practice runs in the area.


A professor from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, Dr. Juan A.Rivero, has become part of the scientific task force which is currentlyinvestigating the puzzling deaths of animals throughout the island--deathsattributed to the creature known as the Chupacabras.

Dr. Rivero expressed his support for the theory that the animal deathscaused throughout the island have been the work of Rhesus monkeys which werebrought to Puerto Rico's offshore islands for research purposes. A Harvardgraduate and director of the Puerto Rican Zoological Society, Rivero suspectsthat most of the strange animal deaths which took place during 1995 were causedby the Rhesus, which has been known to kill for the sport of it.


Julio Víctor Ramírez, staff writer for El Vocero, described the strangedisappearance of a Siberian Husky and the death of a number of animalsbelonging to Antonia Rodríguez García, a Mayagüez housewife who notified localauthorities about the incident.

According to the report filed by police officer Carlos Rivera, the victimreported the loss of a pair of rabbits and one of her dogs. One of the rabbitshad curious incisions on its neck, while the other showed signs of rippedflesh. The animals gave the appearance of having been drained of blood. Themutilations appear to have taken place at 3:00 a.m., and the police reportindicates their having discovered chunks of raw meat mixed with fur from Mrs.Rodríguez's missing dog.


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The dog engaged in a fierce encounter with the intruder, which tore off aclump of the Husky's fur during the fray. The report did not speculate whetherthe rabbits had been killed by the Chupacabras or by a more mundane creature.


A dead pet is a cause for great sadness in any family, but a beloved petfound shredded by an unknown force, perhaps a supernatural one, inspires sheerterror.

Julio López and his family can attest to this, having experienced itthemselves on the evening of January 23, 1996 when they returned to their homein Urb. Las Carolinas near Caguas. The pet in question--a rabbit belonging toMr. López's youngest daughter--was found torn to bloody shreds in its cage,which showed signs of violent destruction. Some kind of dark excrement--different from that of cows, horses, dogs or apes--was found on the site. Itwas suggested that the darkness of the excrement was the result of theattacker's having ingested blood.

Mr. López was quoted by San Juan's El Vocero newspaper as saying: "Theshape in which the cage was left was incredible, it being built out of metaltubing and linked wire...they took out the rabbit, killed it, and tore out itshead and other entrails." López added later: "This is the work of asupernatural agency--neither a dog nor an ape nor a snake could have done sucha thing."

Ironically, Mr. López works as a butcher for a Caguas butcher shop. Heexpressed his understanding of what people throughout the island have felt whenthey discover their beloved animals have been viciously slain. His twelve year-old daughter still weeps uncontrollably over her dead rabbit.

Saturday, February 3, 1996

The authorities have sought solace once more behind theories ofravenous monkeys and one-fanged dogs--the Nineties equivalent of "Swamp Gas." Aturkey belonging to Herminio García, a beekeeper from the Mayagüez area, hadthe dubious distinction of being the first animal of its kind to be slain bythe Chupacabras. The gobbler was found dead with claw marks on its neck.

The interagency task force led by Wisbel Ayala, entrusted with the taskof analyzing the spate of mysterious deaths around the island, took the deadanimal away for autopsy purposes. Ayala expressed the belief that althoughthere were no witnesses, a monkey attacked the turkey. The owner did not havetime to see the assailant, since, by his own admission, as soon as he heard thesounds made by the attacker, he ran to grab a shotgun in hopes of defending hisanimal, but arrived too late.

Out of a total of nine confirmed cases in western P.R., 4 have beensubmitted to forensic analysis within conclusive results. The cases remainofficially open.

Thursday, February 8, 1996

Mayor José Nazario of Lajas has never seen a UFO despite persistent


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sightings over his municipality in southwestern Puerto Rico. He belittles theimportance of the phenomenon, but did not wish to engage in argument with localufologists on the matter. Mayor Nazario's position on the subject differssignificantly from that held by Humberto Ramos, Mayor of Adjuntas, the mountaincommunity where UFOs became an everyday occurrence in the early 90's. Unlikehis colleague, Ramos has seen the maneuvers of unknown lights in the skies overhis municipality.

The Chupacabras returned in full force to the Quebrada Negra sector ofCanóvanas, killing at least two sheep and mutilating an unspecified number ofother animals. The incidents occurred around 3:00 p.m. on a farm owned by Mr.Elías Reyes, who told authorities that his dead livestock had puncture marks ontheir necks and bellies, as well as torn flesh on their hindquarters, throughwhich inner organs were apparently extracted. Mr. Reyes refused to believe thatapes or wild dogs could have committed such a horrifying act, and called uponGovernor Pedro Roselló to show some leadership concerning this distressingsituation.

¿Does the Chupacabras travel by saucer?

Many Puerto Ricans are expressing a belief that the elusive Chupacabras cannotbe captured because it (or they) travel by flying saucer. Two Thursdays ago,drivers going past Dorado's Barrio Los Rodríguez at 10 AM insist upon havingseen a luminous object land in a densely forested area. The object remainedthere for about 3 hours (disappearing at 1 PM). This was attested to by Migueland María Rodríguez, who live in a house behind the hill in question. Many"busybodies" headed for the place in which the unidentified object was reportedand instead found caves filled with strange utensils, even chopsticks, as canbe seen in the photo of the on the left. However, this family was relieved of14 chickens, one of which appeared completely bloodless. A photo was taken ofthe site where the alleged UFO landed: it shows lights through the woodedgrowth. On the right, curiosity-seekers who claim to have seen the flyingobject emerge from the above-mentioned location on Saturday at 10:30 PM. Theysay that the object in question is being seen frequently in this area.

Friday, March 8, 1996Reports issuing from Puerto Rico in January and February

expressed a belief that the Chupacabras (singular or plural) had gone intohibernation. This concept gave rise to the question of where such an activitywould take place, focusing popular attention on the municipality of AguasBuenas and the extensive cave system found in this area.

This lull in activity ended abruptly when farmer Arturo Rodríguez ofAguas Buenas' Barrio Sumidero reported the loss of 30 fighting roosters andhens. The slain birds presented puncture marks on their bodies and throats.Agents from the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources allegedlyvisited the site to conduct further research.


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Tuesday, March 12, 1996

Residents of the Barrio Maravilla section of Las Marias added to theirwoes the appearance of an exotic creature and the strange deaths of tworabbits. The locals are frightened to admit the possibility that theChupacabras is behind these animal deaths.

On Saturday, March 9th, a boy named Ovidio Méndez, who was in the processof burying a dead hen in his backyard, ran into a strange creature some fourfeet in height, walking on two legs. The child stated that the creature hadelongated red eyes, large fangs, clawlike hands and a dark grey body. YoungOvidio told the police officers who reported to the scene that the "thing"remained motionless during their encounter and made no threatening gestureswhatsoever. "The pointy-eared animal ran away," he added.

Officials explored the immediate area surrounding Las Marías but wereunable to come up with anything. Not all residents were sold on the idea of theChupacabras as the source of the animal deaths. One woman expressed the beliefthat a dog was really the party responsible for the death of her rabbit, butanother resident felt that the marks found on her dead pet were "very strange."

The Chupacabras was allegedly foiled in one of its attacks: a mare fendedoff its strange assailant with powerful kicks, causing it to run away. Thesedetails were released by police lieutenant Carmelo Rodríguez of the localpolice precinct.

Newspaper El Vocero alerted its readers to the possibility that theChupacabras and its kind have spread throughout the world--a truly soberingthought. Journalist Julio V. Ramírez observed that animal mutilations bearingthe distinctive "signature" of the Chupacabras have been reported in Brazil'sAmazonia and in Guatemala, where hundreds of sheep and chickens were killed ina bizarre fashion. One Guatemalan farmwoman reported that over a hundred of herchickens were found completely drained on blood and with "strange puncturemarks" under their wings.

Wednesday, March 13, 1996In a most unusual development, the Chupacabras was "exonerated" of guilt

in the March 9th slaying of a cow belonging to Mayagüez-area cattleman PedroRojas Rodríguez, a resident of the Montoso sector of that community.

According to Mr. Rojas, "an unknown assailant" had killed his cow, takingthe choicest cuts of meat. This most un-Chupacabras-like attacker left behindthe animal's skin, head, legs and entrails. Agents of Puerto Rico's CICexpressed a belief that "we are dealing with a human cow-killer who is preyingon all the cattle in this area."

Tuesday, March 19, 1996More fighting roosters and dogs have been lost to the Chupacabras,which

has haunted the city of Aguada's Barrio Mamey over the past weekend. A localyouth, José Pellot, had a terrifying close encounter with the bizarre predator:as Pellot went out to his backyard after hearing an unusual sound, he becameaware of a doglike creature. To his amazement, what he had taken to be a dogsuddenly became fully erect, standing some five feet in height. Pellot laterdescribed the creature as being hairy and powerfully built. The surprise


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encounter with the creature coincided with the deaths of several fightingroosters and a dog belonging to Santos Pellot, José's father.

Wednesday, April 3, 1996

Distasteful though it may seem to many, particularly those researcherswho pride themselves on their strong scientific backing, there exists thewidespread belief on the island that the Chupacabras and its kin are demoniccreatures, heralding the "period of confusion" (parusia, in Greek) foretold inthe Book of Revelations. All the sophisticated arguments about one-fanged dogs,rogue apes, aliens and genetic engineering have been unable to assuage thisstrong concern.

What does any investigator do, however, when witnesses report that theChupacabras exited the scene "to the strong smell of sulphur"?

Aguas Buenas' Barrio Sumidero, which had the unenviable distinction ofbeing the first place visited by the Chupacabras after its "reawakening" from apurported rest period, is once again in the news. The paranormal predator madefree with a large number of backyard animals over the preceding days, leaving atrail of dead chickens, geese, ducks and sheep in the La Vega, Capilla, and LaAraña sectors of Barrio Sumidero

The ravenous intruder killed eleven chickens at the farm of LuisFontánez, who had carefully placed his birds into individual cages. Six deadducks, discovered by Pascual Ayala at his farm, completed the night's handiworkin this part of the island which became famous late last year when a cowbelonging to Luis Felipe Navas, a senator, was found entirely drained of blood.

On April 1st, three sheep (a fourth was reported missing) joined the listof victims when their bloodless carcasses were found on the property of RafaelPeña. The animals betrayed the same puncture marks in the throat and abdomenwhich have characterized a Chupacabras attack. A strong smell of sulphur filledthe air in the wake of the killings, making some of the individuals on thescene feel ill. This group of sixteen people included farmer Peña himself,Aguas Buenas mayor Victor Aponte, EL VOCERO photographer Eddie Deese Conde andelements of the Civil Defense. Nausea and vomiting among the nocturnalexpedition's members caused the search to be postponed. The mute testimony ofthe damage was undeniable. "Whatever" caused the animal deaths had torn agalvanized iron gate, measuring 16' wide by 14' high, off its hinges.

The potent smell of sulphur was ascribed to a hypothetical "defensemechanism" possessed by the creature known as the Chupacabras. Others havespeculated that the sulphurous odor may also be used to render its prey unableto flee.

Local residents kept their own counsel, however, as to the nature andmeaning of the sulphur.

"Chupacabras Universalis"

When the Chupacabras first appeared, it amazed half of the population andcaused the other half to curl its lips into a sneer of contempt.Pseudoscientists took to the airwaves arguing about one-fanged dogs, troupes of


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feral apes, cats and even bats. Skeptics tried to prove their superiority,arguing that a rare avian known as the "night-jar" was in fact the Chupacabras,and that it had been seen in Puerto Rico during the late '80's. Their logic wasa poor substitute for their linguistic ignorance--the chotacabras of the late80's was in no way, shape or form similar to the chupacabras of the mid '90's.

The collected experiences of hundreds of witnesses who courageouslystepped forward with their stories (and the other myriads who have kept theirsightings secret, no doubt) were treated as tabloid fodder by friends and foesof the paranormal alike. The friendly side was unwilling to lend credence in athe sudden appearance of a creole monster which could topple the long-established Bigfoot or Mothman from their paranormal pedestals, or felt thatthe lack of a clear-cut UFO link, in these Roswell-obsessed days, made itunworthy of interest.

The growing evidence was ignored by major newspapers. One of them, theSan Juan Star, went as far as reprinting only what had already appeared in thewire services concerning the story. Other newspapers, such as Puerto Rico'sClaridad, argued that the Chupacabras was merely a ploy to derail the island'sbid for political independence by sinking the population into a morass ofsuperstition and fear. This "liberal" newspaper blasted Jorge Martín, whoseselfless and tireless investigation brought the story to light, as well asSalvador Freixedo, a world-class paranormal researcher, for their part in atelevision program (on a state-owned educational channel) devoted to thecreature. It didn't help that José "Chemo" Soto, the mayor of Chupacabras-afflicted Canóvanas, belonged to the pro-statehood political party.

Today, a year and a quarter after the initial mutilations began in themountainous districts of Orocovis and Morovis, the Chupacabras drama stillunfolds on "the shining star of the Caribbean," but it has taken its show onthe road, with unscheduled appearances in Florida, Texas, Arizona, Mexico,Costa Rica, Guatemala, Perú and Brazil. Chupacabras portorricensis has becomeChupacabras universalis, and it's our turn to deal with him.

The Central American DebutWhen a woman claimed to have been the victim of the Chupacabras, this

time in the town of Bijagual de Turrubares in the tiny Central American countryof Costa Rica, her experiences were written off as the delusions of someonetrying to explain natural phenomena with magical, superstitious reasoning.

Erlinda Vega, the victim in question, stated that a creature with largewings and a small face and eyes seized her by her dress and attempted to carryher off. Her husband responded to her screams of terror, but "did not seeanything." Bijagual, a sleepy town even by Latin American standards, was joltedinto the reality of a living nightmare. A team of researchers from the CostaRican ministry of agriculture visited the community to interview the humanvictim and to inspect a dead heifer which had been found in the area. Accordingto their testimony, the bovine had been slain by a vampire bat.

Costa Rican authorities tried to explain the situation as mere localfolklore: their country has a tradition of supernatural beasts. One of them,known as "el cadejo" (a diabolical canine that attacks humans) is stronglyreminiscent of England's "black shuck." Francisco Escobar, a sociologist,explained that rural poverty and desperation, combined with the accessibility


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of television, have created a cocktail designed to fire the imagination andbelief in supernatural solutions to unusual problems. "The real Chupacabras,"he said on Costa Rica's Channel 7, "is the poverty and lack of education whichimpede access to services and to the means of production."

Saturday, April 13, 1996

Accompanied by a strong smell of sulphur, the Chupacabras returned infull force to haunt the wee hours of the morning. On this occasion, it chose tofeast upon animals belonging to Mrs. Amparo Vázquez, a housewife from SanLorenzo's Barrio Quebrada. The death count rose to 9 chickens and one hen.

According to Mrs. Vázquez, dogs all around her neighborhood had barkedincessantly the previous evening, as if trying to warn their owners about aprowler in the dark.

Residents of a nearby development, Jardines de San Lorenzo, reportedseeing something which resembled an enormous bird flying over the area. Thoseinterviewed by the local media stated that they had never seen a bird of suchsize before, and had certainly never heard shrieking sounds such as those itwas emitting.

An upswell of sympathy from cat owners everywhere greeted the sad newsthat an entire litter of kittens and their mother had been slain by theChupacabras. Mrs. Nydia Pastrana, a farm owner from Trujillo Alto (directlysouth of San Juan), heard sounds in her back yard in the middle of the night,but chose not to investigate. The following day she found that her cat and alitter of kittens had been slain by perforations in their necks. Some unknownforce had broken down the gate to her backyard in order to commit the crime.

Monday, April 29, 1996If the home is in the heartland, the Chupacabras certainly returned for a

visit when it committed a rash of slayings in the municipality of Cidra inPuerto Rico's mountainous interior. After almost a year's absence from thisbeautiful lake region, the paranormal predator chose to leave a most terriblecalling card: it drained the blood of a newborn colt, attacking the haplessanimal with such intensity that for the very first time ever, the nocturnalassailant actually left an impression of its claws on its victim's corpse.That, and a large amount of yellowish "goo" with a foetid smell of sulphur.

Authorities reported to the home of Luis Ramos of Cidra to investigatehis claim. According to the colt's owner, the family dog had not stoppedbarking all evening, punctuating its barks with strange howls as if it werewitnessing a terrifying sight. Bravely, Mr. Ramos went outside in the dark, butwas unable to see anything amiss. The following morning, when he went to checkon the colt, he was stunned to find its exsanguinated carcass.

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of the predator's attack upon the helpless colt. Those present at the scenespeculated that the Chupacabras had gripped the horse's hindquarters withexcessive strength in order to extract as much blood as possible. A deepperforation was discovered under the colt's right flank.

Friday, May 3rd, 1996When police officers in Ponce today went on record saying that they had

no explanation whatsoever for the deaths of sixteen ducks, they weren't beingnaive. Hector de Jesús Santiago, a resident of the Brisas del Caribe sector ofthis southern Puerto Rican city, awoke as usual at six o'clock in the morningto feed his pet ducks--only to find them dead. Curiously enough, an assortmentof roosters and hens which also formed part of his backyard menagerie wereunharmed. The police officer who reported to the scene, José Pérez, expressed abelief that "the ducks couldn't have possibly been killed by dogs, since dogsbite and chew the body. These birds only had perforations on them."

Wednesday, May 8th, 1996

Police officials were at a loss to explain the deaths of twenty chickens-- slain by a telltale perforation beneath one wing--in the grounds of a housein Villalba, on Puerto Rico's southern shore. Mr. Randy Alvarado visited thepolice headquarters in person, notifying the duty officer that he hadencountered the dead birds first thing that morning. The birds had customarilyroosted on a tree in his backyard.

Lt. Victor Santiago told reporters that he "had no explanation for whathad transpired, since it is difficult to catch a chicken sleeping on a treelimb...imagine what it takes to catch twenty of them." When asked if he fearedthat the Chupacabras had paid his precinct a visit, he declined to comment,adding only: "this is a very strange event...a complex case."

Over a dozen slain ducks had been found a week before in nearby El Tuque,presenting the same puncture marks which have characterized the wave of animalmutilations which has played out for well over a year.

AN EXCERPT FROM SALVADOR FREIXEDO'S "DEFENDAMONOS DE LOS DIOSES"

[World-renowned ufologist Salvador Freixedo faced animal and humanmutilations during the 1970's while living in Puerto Rico and Mexico.This very important book, which has failed to attract the interest ofU.S. publishers, constitutes a vital piece in the mutilations riddle.SAMIZDAT has taken the liberty of reprinting a section entitled "UFOs andBlood" to present readers with Sr. Freixedo's conclusions on thesubject.]

Remember that in the preceding pages we not only linked the "UFOphenomenon" with what we have been calling the "gods," in other words, thatthose who appear to us today under the guise of spacemen are the very same whoappeared as gods to our forebears (sometimes in flying machines, as manyancient chronicles tell us), demanding adoration and sacrifice. In step withthis idea and identification, we now encounter another fact that leaves us


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stunned, after what we have said earlier.This is the bare and undeniable fact: Periodically, UFOs tend to take

certain entrails and vast amounts of blood extracted from animals--preferablycows and bulls--which they have previously mutilated on farms. This butchery,which always takes place at night, has occured practically everywhere in theworld, and the authorities of some countries, having been notified by ranchersand damaged parties, have intervened to find the source of these slayings,without having ever found a satisfactory explanation.

That we connect these deaths to UFOs is not a result of conjecture, orfor lack of a satisfactory explanation issued by the authorities. We havepersonally investigated quite a few cases of this nature and have heard thetestimony of eyewitnesses to the events.

Readers new to this strange facet of UFO activity (which likens UFOs tothe legendary Dracula), will be inclined to dismiss it as another legend.Putting Dracula aside (and much could be said about him), we are left withevents whose investigation has no need of oral traditions or old books--allthat one has to do is take the trouble to read certain articles that modernnews agencies publish now and then in newspapers.

Anyone who needs to be convinced of such strange events must do what thisauthor did: As soon as the first news item concerning the mysterious deaths ofanimals appeared in the papers, he took off immediately for the mountainousregion in which they occured to investigate the facts for himself. Not only washe able to hear the accounts in person, but he was also able to photograph cowsthat had been murdered the previous night by UFOs. The animals bore the typicalwounds associated with this kind of deaths.

The death and bleeding of animals by UFOs is a totally accepted fact byall good investigators of the subject, and there was even a small magazineentitled Mutilations in the U.S. that devoted itself to recording all theseevents. This magazine devoted itself almost exclusively to incidents in theUnited States, but it is a well known fact that these slayings take place onall continents and in countries like France, Brazil and South Africa, amongothers, which have provided detailed reports after lengthy investigations.

I understand the strangeness and hesitation that this sort of thing canproduce in the all those readers who have heard statements like these for thevery first time. But in these and in similar cases, wisdom demands that we donot shun reality by denying it or ignoring it; the truly wise approach is toinvestigate thoroughly without prejudice and fear and to be willing to reachthe final results. To do otherwise is to run the risk of remaining permanentlyin error, which has sadly happened to humanity and continues to happen as faras its "sacred" beliefs are concerned, and with many other beliefs having to dowith the reason of being and the explanation for human life.

When we accept certain truths to be "inviolable" and "absolutelycertain," we automatically close ourselves to the investigation of otherpossibilities that could explain life and the entire nature of the Universe ina different way to how "sacred beliefs" and "inviolable truths" would have it.Ordinarily, those who are doing well thanks to these "sacred beliefs"(religious leaders) and "inviolable truths" (scientists and some professionals)are those who oppose these new explanations and investigations violently,because they could unseat them from their privileged positions.


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And if the slayings of animals aren't even grudgingly accepted, it isunthinkable that occasional bleedings of humans by UFOs should be accepted. Andthey are not accepted because, generally speaking, facts of this sort are lessabundant in our times and when they do occur, they are often discreet and takeplace in remote areas, hardly ever reaching public awareness. We shall discussthis shortly.

Allow me a quote from an unpublished book of mine, entitled Sesenta casosde ovnis ("Sixty UFO Cases") which has never been published thanks to thecarelessness of a certain editor. The reader will bear in mind that when Iwrote what I am transcribing below, I had not yet come to the conclusions thatI would reach years later as a result of my intense research into the UFOphenomenon in its entirety:

"I have no doubt that some sort of so-called «extraterrestrials» are thecause of the thousands of deaths and disappearances of all manner ofdomestic and wild animals. I am unsure as to why they do it, but I amsure that they are the butchers.""Some will wonder how I can be so sure about wild animals being slain byUfonauts, and they have every right to wonder."The dead coyote in a field outside the Mexican city of Querétaro didn'ttell me, to be sure. But there exist many reasons that lead me to thisconclusion.

"Querétaro, some 200 kilometers northeast of Mexico City, is a placewhere strange things have occured, both in the past and in our own times,related in some degree to UFOs. One day in 1975, a young man from ahumble background told me how, two months before, at night, he hadwitnessed a UFO flying very slowly and at low altitude over his house (atthe outskirts of town). Excited by what he had seen, he ran after theUFO, following its trajectory into a deep gully outside the city, not farfrom his home. When he reached the gully's edge, he saw a large lens-shaped object on the ground, emitting a fantastic white light. Fearful atthe sight, he crouched amid some shrubs. From his hiding place he wasable to see several "midgets" with flashlight-like objects in theirhands. These flashlights emitted thin, concentrated beams of light andthe "midgets" were having a good time hacking down plants with them,enthusiastically cutting one after the other."After a while, my friend, who had remained concealed and motionlessbehind the shrubs, saw the object change colors and moments later, beginto ascend very slowly, balancing itself repeatedly some five meters overthe ground until it shot off heavenward. During its balancing motions, itstruck a large cactus and toppled it."Months later, when I accompanied the young man to the site, I asked himto show me where the cactus had been felled. We headed in that direction,and sure enough, there lay a large, half-desiccated cactus. In spite ofthe time that had gone by, we were able to see without any difficulty thelarge rounded imprints of more than one landing on the gully floor. Lateron, at his home, the young man gave me fused rocks that he had collectedfrom the landing marks while they were still hot; he had placed them in a


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jar, and after a while, the inside of the jar had been covered in ayellowish dust that resembled sulphur."All these details are more or less common to many other UFO landings,but what was new to me here was the half-desiccated coyote I discoverednot far from one of the landing sites. What attracted my curiosity werecertain strange characteristics that could be made out along the animal'scarcass. Strangest of all was the fact that the entire body had beenwrung , much like a rag is wrung to extract water from it. In spite ofthis, its bones were unbroken."It was also interesting to see that no ants or any insects whatsoevercould be found beneath or around the carcass, while there was a goodamount of the animal's flesh still stuck to the bones. It had dried up inan unusual manner, without rotting and disintegrating as is usual withanimals that have died in the field."Confirming my suspicions about the cause of the coyote's death, myfriend said that at another site on the mountain there was the skeletonof a "tlacuache" (a variety of opossum) that betrayed the samecharacteristics and which, curiously, was in the vicinity of the landingmarks of another UFO landing site."As far as the deaths of domestic animals by Ufonauts is concerned, wehad many cases in 1974-75 which were investigated by myself and by manyothers interested in these matters."During the month of September 1974, there was a true UFO flap inprogress over the entire island, but especially in the southwestern andwestern regions. One morning, I heard on the radio that some animals hadbeen found mysteriously dead in a small farm. If I remember correctly,they were two pigs, two geese, one or two calves and several goats. I gotin my car and drove there immediately, discovering that the animalsfeatured the customary wounds, and there was something else that hadastounded their hapless owner: there was not a single trace of blood inany of them in spite of their wounds, which were quite deep, and that thetwo dead geese were white as snow, so any trace of blood would have beenevident immediately."Over the course of the following days, the newspapers continued toreport on more dead animals in the same area. I went to the countrysideon several occasions to investigate the facts and discovered that thefarmers were as intrigued by the deaths of their livestock as they wereby the lights that could be seen at night in the sky. Some of them toldme that they looked like the revolving "gumball" lights that patrol carshave on their roofs."On one of my journeys I was able to see a black and white cow lying inthe middle of a field. I got out of the car and headed toward her,although getting there was far from easy. The cow had the typical woundson her head and neck; the skin on one side of her head had been removedas if with a scalpel; the outside of one of her nasal passages wasmissing but there was no tearing whatsoever. Despite the fact that partof the head was white, there wasn't a drop of blood to be found anywhere.The peasant who had accompanied me could not begin to think what couldhave killed that cow. He began to tell me how that very same night he had


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heard the dogs barking furiously, and a blind old woman who lived on theedge of that field told me that the cattle--which are usually leftoutdoors at night--had been running in a crazed state from one end of thefield to another."(It is worth noting that there were many other strange phenomena takingplace in Puerto Rico at that time, such as the appearance of largeunknown animals, mysterious explosions, apparitions of Virgins and saintsin different towns, religious images that either wept or bled, bizarrehuman disappearances, etc. In my opinion, all these apparently unrelatedthings are very much related--in fact, even more than merely related,they can be said to proceed from the same source."

Thus concludes the lengthy quote from my unpublished manuscript.

I'm not sure if the reader has realized, in reading the earlier biblicalquotes, that there are organs like the heart, the lungs, the stomach, theintestines, or members like the head and the legs, which are hardly evermentioned at all (bear in mind that I have only included a sampling of thetexts devoted to this subject), and when they are mentioned, it is oftenordered that they be "burnt outside the encampment." However, the kidneys andthe lining of the liver and the kidneys are constantly mentioned without anyexceptions in the texts, and the same can be said for fat or gristle and aboveall, blood: "Eat not the blood nor the fat, for they are of the LORD."

As a curious anecdote, we will have to point out that there have been UFOcases in which, apart from taking the blood, which they never fail to do, theyhave taken precisely these very same entrails which are so emphasized inLeviticus. One of these cases, which I have mentioned elsewhere, is that of aBolivian peasant woman, back in the 1950s. While approaching her fold of sheepon a remote mountain pasture, she saw with amazement how a short being with asort of box on its back was killing her sheep one by one, extracting part oftheir kidneys through a small incision and placing them into a sort of plasticbag. Frightened by the sight, but ready to defend what was hers, the womanbegan pelting the strange visitor with stones. Caught in the act, the beingceased its task immediately and began to move upward, apparently impelled by ajet that extended downward from the box on its back.

While it is true that a few cases cannot prove anything, there isnevertheless no doubt that Ufonauts, much like the gods of antiquity, have astrange predilection for animal entrails, and more importantly, cannot disguisetheir interest in the blood of both animals and humans. John Keel mentions acase in which a bloodmobile in Ohio was repeatedly assaulted by a UFO which wastrying to lift it into the air by means of large, pincerlike appendages. Amidthe hysterical cries of a terrified nurse, the driver evaded it as best hecould until the presence of other vehicles along the road caused the UFO tocease and desist.

As a summary to all of this I will say that in ages past, it would seemthat both Yahweh and the rest of the Elohim managed to convince those primitivetribes to offer them animal sacrifices. In our own times, faced with theimpossibility of telling civilized societies to continue to offer themsacrifices (out of which they probably obtained some sort of benefit), it would


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appear that they are handling the sacrifices themselves, finding the victims infarms on their own and taking, as they did in days of yore, certain entrailsand blood, out of which they apparently extract some vital substance, somepleasant drug and some energy which they need to maintain the physical formthat they adopt to speak to us or to materialize in our dimension.

Also human blood

If the mutilations and bleedings of animals are interesting, those ofhuman beings are all the more so.

In 1977, when I was in the city of San Luis Potosí, some 300 kilometersnorth of Mexico City, the first case of this nature reached my attention: anewborn child had been found lifeless and entirely devoid of blood. The bizarrecircumstances surrounding the case prompted me to investigate deeper, and Iimmediately realized that it was not an isolated case but one among manysimilar ones.

The general circumstances were these: the victims were usually newbornsor very young babies; hematomas or blemishes on their skins were apparent, asif blood had been sucked through them. The common denominator in all cases wasthat they were entirely bloodless. In some cases it appeared as if the bloodhad been sucked out through their mouths, as there were no wounds or marks ofany kind on their flesh. It is also common for the mothers of these children tobe found in a deep, lethargic state of sleep beside their dead offspring, as ifthey had been drugged by someone while the bleeding of their children was beingcarried out. There are also adults who claim--or suppose--that they have beenattacked in their sleep, because they awaken to find themselves covered inbruises and also feel a great lassitude.

All these events occured in the municipality of Landa de Matamoros, inthe state of Querétaro, and in different localities. Naturally, people began totalk about vampires and other things and panic spread among the poorinhabitants of the region. The cases were reported to the authorities, whoconducted an investigation to find what could have caused the deaths, but asoften happens, no conclusion was ever arrived at and the authorities tried tolet the matter be forgotten. The places in which most of these incidents tookplace were Tres Lagunas, Tancoyol, Valle de Guadalupe, Pinalito de la Cruz andother very small hamlets located on the eastern Sierra Madre, not far from theSan Luis Potosí border.

One can, of course, attribute these deaths to natural causes, but thereare nonetheless certain circumstances that make them very similar to animalmutilations. One of these strange circumstances, which students of the UFOphenomenon will find meaningful, is the fact that the inhabitants of the regionwere constantly seeing lights moving slowly across the sky at night around thetime when the incidents occurred. The lights would stop on nearby hills, oreven in the treetops, and executed very strange maneuvers. The humble villagerscall these lights "brujas" ("witches") and are in fact quite afraid of them(they reappear from time to time), and to defend themselves against them, theyhave certain magic rituals that were described to me.


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All these events were pointed out more than once in the press and I evenhave a clipping from a local newspaper, "El Heraldo de San Luis Potosí," whichreads: "The most recent cases took place in Tres Lagunas and Valle deGuadalupe. In the first place, a 7 year-old girl found on the same morning thather mother, Josefa Jasso de Martínez, was in a deep sleep, hugging her two day-old baby. When she wouldn't wake up, the girl ran to tell her aunt. Theydiscovered that the baby was dead and the mother did not become completelyconscious until two days later."

The newspaper quotes another case in the village of Valle very similar tothe one we just mentioned: the mother, Maria Nieves Marquez, was foundunconscious beside her child. In both cases, the mothers were very weak and thebabies did not have any wounds or marks on their skin.

These are the incidents which I have investigated, and let it be knownthat I have provided more information elsewhere concerning other cases in whichentirely bloodless human corpses have been found in the wilderness, coincidingwith the sightings of mysterious lights flying at low altitude over thecountryside at night (these cases took place in Canada).

To put events like these in writing and to make them known in a seriousmanner tends to infuriate two types of people: the "serious" ones, whether theyare scientists or not, who believe that there is little that remainsundiscovered in the world and that the authorities and science can explainanything that happens; and certain "ufologists" who continue to believe thatUFOs are like the vanguard of the kind space brothers who are on their way toEarth to help us.

The events I'm narrating are frankly disconcerting, but they are entirelyreal and with more proof than religious leaders of Christianity can muster tosupport their beliefs. It is not unusual, then, that the hypotheses presentedto explain them should be equally disconcerting and even contrary to whatscience and religion have been telling us for years.

When phenomena that are new and radically different are discovered, it isnot unusual that human thought processes should suffer some upheaval,since new and more encompassing theories appear as the old ones crumble--theories which are able to explain the new, hitherto unknown facts.

Take for example the current debate between evolutionists andcreationists in the U.S. . When the Christian church had a monopoly on thought,there was no problem with explaining the origin of human life: the Bibleexplained it quite clearly. When new facts, unknown to religious leaders,appeared, new theories were created to explain them, while at the same time,Biblical explanations bit the dust. It was then that official science began tomonopolize thought with its new theories of evolution, accusing christianleaders of being fanatical and unable to accept the facts. Official science wasright...until other facts turned up in our time (or more precisely, humanityreflected upon many strange events which had taken place throughout the ages)which toppled many scientific theories. At this very moment, science iscommitting the same mistake that the religious leaders made. Science isdogmatizing about the origin of Man (out of one bone not only do they imaginean entire skeleton but an entire way of life) and worse yet, official scienceturns a deaf ear to any talk about facts that are not contained within itscollege handbooks, and refuses to analyze the enormous array of data that


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contradicts its theories. When all these "facts" point toward an interstellarorigin for the human race, science is still bent on proving that our ancestorswere hanging off trees.

I shall go into detail in this regard later, when we shall see thisconfirmed and magnified by other events in history of which we can have nodoubts at all.

Why blood?

In previous paragraphs I stated that I did not know the reason for thisaddiction to blood on the part of the gods of antiquity and the gods of our ownage, UFOs. However, I shall make my suspicions known to the reader--suspicionsbased not only on my own conclusions and those of other authors whose texts Iquote, but on information that some contactees have received from the aliens,even if this information cannot be trusted.

Key to this matter is the fact that blood liberates the type of energy(electromagnetic waves, in the final analysis) that the gods find so pleasing,in a very easy and natural way. To obtain such energies from a living body, thegods must kill it violently and then burn it, while the blood flows freely,releasing this energy in an entirely spontaneous manner, contrary to whathappens to the better part of entrails and dismembered organic matter.

Paracelsus affirms that black sorcerers use the vapors of blood to summonastral entities which find the necessary plasma to materialize in this element.The priests of Baal wounded their bodies to produce tangible apparitions withtheir blood; in Persia, near the Russian villages of Temerchan-Shura andDerbent, the adherents of a certain religious sect form a circle and dancethemselves into a frenzy, wounding one another with knives until they aredrenched in blood. Then, each of the dancers sees himself accompanied by anastral being. In ancient times, the enchantresses of Thessaly mixed the bloodof children and sheep to summon wraiths. Among the Yakuts in Siberia, sorceryis still practiced as it was in Thessaly. The spilling of blood is vital to theprocess, since without it, it is not possible to summon entities. Bloodyevocations are also practiced in some parts of Bulgaria, particularly thosebordering Turkey: an astral entity materializes for a few instants. The Yezidis(who inhabit the harsh mountains of Asiatic Turkey and Armenia, Syria and Iraq,numbering some 200,000) form great circles around the high priest, who invokesSatan. The worshippers gyrate and leap and wound each other with knives, andcertain phenomenal manifestations tend to occur, such as enormous balls offlame which later assume the shape of bizarre animals.

Information similar to the above (taken from Isis Unveiled by H.P.Blavatsky) can be found in the works of many other authors and in almost allthe ancient chronicles.

These profane works aside, we must never forget the words of Yahweh tohis people: "Never eat the blood; pour it to the ground like water." (Lev.3,17; Deut 12, 16 and 24, etc).


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Summary and explanation

As a summary of all that has been said in this chapter, we began byasking ourselves why and for what reason did the gods manifest themselves, andwe answered broadly that they did so out of pleasure and out of necessity,although this necessity is very relative. Also, upon examining the problem froma different viewpoint, we stated that they sought material and immaterialthings among us: as an example of something material we said blood, and as anexample of immaterial things we said the energy produced by our excited brains.

However, we must repeat the clarification that this energy coming fromour brains is not entirely "immaterial" or "spiritual," but rather a thingbelonging to the physical realm, even though it is invisible to our senses.This energy from our brains is transmitted in wavelengths of a frequency thatis much too high to be perceived by today's instruments. Some brain waves areclearly perceived by today's instruments (EEGs, etc.), but the brain waves weare referring to, those which are of interest to the gods, are undetectable toour scientists, and it is only thanks to developments in parapsychology thatthey indirectly have an idea that they exist.

The last few paragraphs have been set aside to explain more about thosephysical things which the gods seek in our world, and we have noted theirpredilection for entrails and blood.

However, this explanation would be insufficient if we did not go deeperinto this bizarre addiction of the gods. We shall try to do so in the nextparagraphs--which are of great importance, in my opinion--and see that thereason behind their predilection for blood, fat and certain organs is the sameone that leads them to receive the waves emanating from excited brains.

When organic matter is destroyed, or, stated differently, when livingmatter dies, certain physical elements that make it up, such as its cells,protein, aminoacids, molecular compounds and even its atoms and molecules,return to the dust, where they continue their endless cycles of disintegration,fusion and transformation. But other physical elements (on a quantum orsubatomic level) that make up physical matter are liberated rather thanrecycled. These elements are not "material" in the classic sense, even thoughthey are physical; nor can they be perceived directly by our senses, since theyhave a wave-like nature. They are what we term "energies," since we lackspecific terms for them, as we are barely aware that they exist, or radiations,vibrations, waves, etc. . They are part of what we call, from anotherperspective, "life."

When something alive dies, it is really the material vehicle that goeswith life that dies. But when the shell in which it makes itself visible inthis dimension disintegrates, life is released as an energy, and initiates orre-initiates its cycles of fusion and transformation with other energies thatvibrate in its own dimension and cycle or in a similar one. This is anotheraspect or perspective of the endless levels that compose the fantastic livingbeing we inhabit, the Universe.

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given off when living matter disintegrates. This energy apparently gives them agreat source of pleasure, which is why they seek it today and have sought italways, employing a thousand different ruses to obtain it. If we had to explainit by means of an example, we could say that termites only find wood to beuseful as food, whereas a superior animal--a human--finds that very same pieceof wood useful for a thousand other things except as food, and even finds ituseful to burn it; for when wood is burned, it emits warmth and an aroma, whichare held in high esteem by humans, but are useless and even lethal fortermites.

When living matter, whether animal or vegetable, dies slowly after agradual ageing process, this vital energy is given off slowly way before thefinal moment, which makes it much harder to capture and to use by those able todo so. But when the creature is fully alive and dies violently (such as when ananimal is butchered) or else disintegrates rapidly, then all that vital energyis liberated in a rush and is much more easily received and used.

No matter how strange these ideas may seem, we see many different andgeographically diverse cultures putting them into practice.

In some African tribes, when a child is ill, particularly of a malaiseunknown to its parents and the tribe's witch doctor, and if the symptomsinvolve a general weakness, the treatment prescribed involves the slaughter ofa bull or cow, bleeding and disemboweling it immediately, and placing the childwithin, closing the carcass until only the child's head protrudes. The childremains within the dead animal as long as the carcass remains warm.

Among the notes of an old medicine man in Galicia (Spain), the very sameremedy has been discovered, although in this case the animal employed was agoat, and of course, it was only used to treat a specific limb, which wasplaced within the slaughtered animal for a good while, or when the patient wasa newborn child.

It would seem that the body of a weak and sickly child, thirsty forenergy (absorbing the life that is streaming out of the animal as waves) is thevery same thing that the gods do, although the latter do it consciously, thanksto their great control over matter. To the child, the act of sucking in thisenergy is an unconscious and desperate one made by his body in order to avoiddeath. To the gods, this energy is a game or pleasant experience that is in noway vital to their existence.

I stated earlier that when a living being--a plant or animal--disintegrates quickly, vital energy is liberated in a rush and is much morereadily receivable and usable. It is redundant to say that the easiest way ofdisintegrating matter is by cremation. It is here where we must go to historyand remember the following fact: in all the cultures of antiquity, the godsdemanded "holocausts" as the foremost religious sacrifice, rather thancollective repentance or rational worship. These ceremonies called for thesacrifice of a victim (human or animal) and then for the sacrifice to be burntto ashes. It had to burn until it was consumed, which is what the two Greekwords holo-causton ("all burnt") mean. In the most solemn feasts of the Greeksand the Romans great animal sacrifices--particularly of bovines--were made,which were called hecatombs (another word originating from two Greek words"hecaton bous" meaning "hundred cows"),with which they made huge pyres in honorof their deities.


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These ceremonies ending in vast bonfires were the perfect means that thegods used to "squeeze" all the vital energy within those living creatures:first, through the butchering or vivisection of the victim--and the resultingoutpouring of blood--they obtained the most subtle energy they desired: thatwhich left their dying bodies and was emitted by their terrified and tormentedbrains. Later, when the victim was already brain-dead, but still alive on thecellular level, the fire took care of quickly releasing all the vital energycontained within their still warm entrails and the cells of the entire body.

These waves of energy being given off by the victims' smoking corpseswere, as we said, a sort of drug or scent for the "senses" of the gods. In thePentateuch much mention is made about these "burnt offerings" and it is saidthat they were "a soothing feast for Yahweh," or that they rose heavenwardtoward him like "a soothing aroma." Something along the lines of an after-dinner smoke, or a cup of coffee, or perhaps even a stronger drug.

And if we look at other religions in this regard, we run into the verysame unusual phenomena that we discover in the Bible. It doesn't matter thatevery age, every culture and every belief has executed or interpreted themdifferently--they remain the same in the final analysis, and also remainutterly irrational and largely absurd to the unbiased, fearless human mind.

In other religions we also find (1) the death of animals, (2) thecremation of their bodies, (3) ceremonies in which blood is the prime element.

Not only that: in many religions, these deaths and cremations of animalswere of human animals. In some religions, these human offerings had trulybarbaric liturgies, unworthy of savages, let alone a god. In spite of this, wesee that they were practiced by people who had developed into great cultures.Think about the immolations of children made by the Incas every so often toPachacamac and the Huacas, the huge ritual slaughter of the Aztecs, theperiodic sacrifice of the firstborn of the noble families in the Persianreligion, etcetera.

And to those Christians who console themselves by believing that Satan iscapable of inspiring all manner of aberrations "in those poor people who haveno knowledge of the true God," we have some bad news: as it turns out, theJudaeo-Christian god, Yahweh, also demanded these human killings despite thefact that he enjoyed being called "merciful and good." Not only that, he oftencarried these slayings out himself:

"And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed250 men (that were offering incense!)" (Num. 16,35).

Yahweh became enraged and "fourteen thousand and sevenhundred died" swallowed by the earth. (Num. 16,49).

"So they smote him, and his sons, and all his peopleuntil there was none left alive [by Yahweh's command]"

(Num. 21, 35)

After the slaughter of the Midianites commanded by Yahweh(because the women and children had been spared) Mosesbecame enraged and said: "now therefore kill every male


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among the little ones and kill every woman that hathknown man by lying with him." (Num. 31, 17)

"And so it was that all that fell that day, both of menand women, were twelve thousand" (Jos. 8, 25)

In the New Testament and in modern theology, an attempt is made to throwa thick veil over all of this, much in the same way that some of Yahweh's notvery "divine" deeds are sublimated. But one cannot conceal the truth for longand the verses of the Pentateuch are there, defying the passing centuries, tobear witness to all these divine monstrosities.

And furthermore, as a variation on this sacred ferocity, we find Asianand African religions in which the "god" demands that the spouse or spouses beburned in the same pyre in which their deceased husband is being cremated. Itis very probable that the faithful of these religions believe that their god isgood and merciful (!). But don't we believe that the god of Christianity iskind and merciful even after he sacrificed his son on a cross and threatens us--miserable human ants--with a hell in which we shall burn forever?

We shall put aside the religious matter for the next chapter, when Iexplain the different strategies the gods use to make us do their bidding. Toclose this chapter, we can say that while this vital energy we have beendiscussing--which is released via cremations--is available in both the animaland vegetable kingdoms, it is found in greater abundance in the former and at asuperior level which appears to please some more highly evolved dwellers of theCosmos, whom we could term "superior gods." The energy released from vegetablecremation, however, is not much to their liking, aside from not being asabundant, and is more to the liking of lesser entities. For that reason, it isonly natural that when they want "holocausts" of vegetable matter (and theyhave done so since the beginning of time), these holocausts have to be muchgreater. As we stated earlier, vegetable matter releases far less of thisenergy that the gods look for in our world [...].

What the gods want

These are the things that the gods want from us:

1. First and foremost, they want the waves produced by an excited human brain,particularly a tormented one.2. They want the "waves of life," in other words, the energy given off by aliving body when it dies violently.3. They want the waves that are given off by each and every cell, which remainalive for a time after the man or beast has already died.4. They want decanted blood, because once it is outside the body, it gives offan energy that they desire.

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* The terror and despair the poor man feels gives themthe first thing they want.* Violent death (usually by beheading) gives them the second.* The cremation of the body gives them the fourth.* A river of blood, the natural result of these sacred

barbarities with which humans have been deceived for millennia,gives them the fourth.

All this aside, we are certain that there are more things that they seekand obtain in their undetected visits to our dimension. We would probably noteven understand them if they were explained to us.


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Documents

valle de guadalupe

religious leaders

barrio sumidero

jorge martn

san juan

costa rica

low altitude

unknown force