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Woman claims roadkill is actually mythical creature
September 2, 2007
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Phylis Canion holds the head of what she is calling a chupacabra on Friday at her home in Cuero, Texas.
Cuero, Texas — Phylis Canion lived in Africa for four years. She's been a hunter all her life and has the mounted heads of a zebra and other exotic animals in her house to prove it.
But the roadkill she found last month outside her ranch was a new one even for her, worth putting in a freezer hidden from curious onlookers: Canion believes she may have the head of the mythical, bloodsucking chupacabra.
"It is one ugly creature," Canion said, holding the head of the mammal, which has big ears, large fanged teeth and grayish-blue, mostly hairless skin.
Canion and some of her neighbors discovered the 40-pound bodies of three of the animals over four days in July outside her ranch in Cuero, 80 miles southeast of San Antonio.
Canion said she saved the head of the one she found so she can get to the bottom of its ancestry through DNA testing and then mount it for posterity.
She suspects, as have many rural denizens over the years, that a chupacabra may have killed as many as 26 of her chickens in the past couple of years.
"I've seen a lot of nasty stuff. I've never seen anything like this," she said.
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Ragingbear (Anonymous) says…
LJW too lazy to post pictures again. It's a dog that had a severe case of the mange and lost all it's hair.
3 September 2007
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barclau (Anonymous) says…
It looks like a Xoloitzcuintli (Mexican hairless dog). Not a mythical beast.
3 September 2007
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waydownsouth (Anonymous) says…
My goodness its ugly.