Chupacabras -- once feared to be in South Florida -- make comeback in Texas

By LUISA YANEZ

lyanez@MiamiHerald.com

The legendary chupacabra -- the goat-sucker animal once believed to roam in Miami-Dade -- is rearing it's ugly head again, this time in Texas.
This week, two strange-looking canines, some say eerily similar to a chupacabra, have been killed in North Texas, according to WOAI.com
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It all began when a rancher southwest of Fort Worth said he heard a growl coming from inside his barn. When he looked in, he said he saw the ugliest creature he has ever seen.
An animal control officer was called to the rancher's property and shot and killed the animal.
``I'm not sure on that part. All I know is, it wasn't normal,'' animal control officer Frank Hackett told WOAI.com. ``It was ugly, real ugly. I'm not going to tell no lie on that one.'' Two other bizarre-looking animals have been killed in the same general area over the past week. DNA tests are being done to figure out what they are.
Back in 1996, the chupacabras roamed in South Florida -- or so the lore goes. A rancher in the Northwest Miami-Dade County found two of his cows brutally slaughtered into mounds of guts and severed heads.
The chupacabra fever and fear spread. Local residents were transfixed with a dog-like animal that literary sucked up its prey, spitting out its bones. Soon all animal deaths were blamed on the chupacabra.
The fever died down and chupacabra moved on to Northwest Broward, tearing through chicken wire and dining on pet rabbits.
Since the mid-1990s, the chupacabra has allegedly been spotted in other states out West.