I hope the CFZ hasn't paid for air fare just
yet!!!--Chinese chupacabra mystery solved

post from Everyone's Blog Posts - CryptoFlorida on 29 April 2010 11:16:42 AM. © Everyone's Blog Posts - CryptoFlorida

An ordinary albino civet cat with a skin disease that has been mistaken for the legendary "chupacabra". (Photo: GlobalTimes)

BEIJING, April 15 -- As reported by the Global Times on March 29 this mystery beast resembling a chupacabra, upper, isseen shortly after its capture in a village in Suining, Sichuan
Province.

A chupacabra ("goat-sucker"), is a legendary, fearsome and possibly mythical beast said to inhabit parts of theAmericas and Puerto Rico, but not China nor anywhere in Asia.

Following the Global Times report, the Daily Telegraph in England claimed to have interviewed a Chinese hunter inSichuan Province who said creature resembled a bear that had been
changed from a human, just as in a Sichuan local legend.

However, the mystery is solved. Kong Huazhen of the Daying Forestry Department, Sichuan recently announced that the mysterycreature is an albino civet cat with a skin disease and "we have let it
go."