Daily Travel Photo: Beware the Chupacabra!

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Granada Nicaragua Chupacabra

Careful! Chupacabra Crossing

The Chupacabra is a dangerous nighttime creature that attacks & sucks the blood out of people and livestock all throughout Latin America! Or so the legends say…

I found this ominous-looking sign deep in the jungles of Nicaragua, while walking back to my hammock in the dark. Suddenly I heard a large animal passing through the foliage next to me! When I shined my headlamp in that direction, I caught the flicker of a pair of eyes deep in the shadows of the thick underbrush…

Did I just spot the elusive & deadly Chupacabra?!
Sweet dreams… :twisted:

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  1. jill- Jack and Jill Travel The World
    March 7, 2011 at 12:00 pm #

    Awesome pic!!

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  2. South America ME
    March 7, 2011 at 12:11 pm #

    A few years ago the Chupacabra appeared almost every night on Chile’s main 9 o’clock news.

    I think there was nothing else going on at the time (no political upheavels or natural disasters around the world) and they discovered the chupacabra got great ratings.

    I must admit, the scenes of chickens and sheep sprawled across the ground without a drop in their bodies led most to continue believing in the legend.

    Saludos
    Rob W.
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    • Matt | YearAroundTheWorld
      March 7, 2011 at 2:32 pm #

      In the United States aliens kill the livestock, in Latin America it’s the Chupacabra’s fault.

  3. David from Quillcards
    March 9, 2011 at 6:36 am #

    I love the eyes in the forest – :-)
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  4. The Curmudgeon
    March 9, 2011 at 8:23 am #

    Those are just mouse eyes peaking out at you. I myself am a famous mouse fighter. Send me a plane ticket and I’ll take care of it for you.

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    • Matt | YearAroundTheWorld
      March 9, 2011 at 9:09 am #

      Must have been a monster mouse! Think you can handle it?

    • The Curmudgeon
      March 10, 2011 at 10:09 am #

      First the plane ticket of course.

  5. Ted Nelson
    March 9, 2011 at 10:34 am #

    Too bad you did not get a photo. You would have been an internet legend.

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    • Matt | YearAroundTheWorld
      March 11, 2011 at 12:35 pm #

      Next time I’ll be prepared! I’m gonna need a net, tranquilizer darts, motion activated tree cameras, and a goat. Now I have to figure out how to fit all that in my backpack…

  6. Rebecca
    March 14, 2011 at 1:16 am #

    Eeek, scary!!
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  7. Superxicana
    July 12, 2011 at 5:02 pm #

    Awesome find!!! I still remember when all the Spanish news channels kept reporting Chupacabras sightings almost every night! Moms jumped right in scaring their children into behaving or the Chupacabras was gonna get them!! hahahaha P.S. love the Machete ;)
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  8. Treehouse Guys
    September 12, 2011 at 2:02 pm #

    Come on Matt. I painted that sign. Our chupacabra has green eyes. It inspired our new tee shirt that reads, “Chupacabra Sucks”

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