Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe BROWNSVILLE, Texas, March 1 (UPI) -- Authorities cannot confirm if "El Chupacabra" is back but fear about the blood-sucking monster certainly has gripped residents near the border in south Texas. Residents' concerns about the Chupacabra, literally goat sucker, surface every time a pet or a farm animal dies under mysterious circumstances, reports ABC. A new warning requires children to stay inside so they don't have to face the red-eyed, spiky-haired, creature sporting a green-blue hide, which is believed to have moved from Central America to Texas in the 1980s. Advertisement Science fiction buff Dave Pettis in California is among those who believer in such mythic creatures, says the report. "I just believe there can be something out there like that," he says. "I don't think every animal in the world has been classified." Anthropologist Tony Zavaleta also loves the chupacabra myth if only because it has become a part of the great Mexican-American folklore.
