That same description has weathered decades of scrutiny. Coleman is the author of Cryptozoology A to Z . Latin Invasion Indeed, in Latin America, the animal's reputation has spread south on a wave of Internet and newspaper publicity, with the Chupacabra behaving as a sort of celebrity monster. As recently as October of 1999, Brazil's Corriero Braziliense newspaper reported eight goats and three sheep dying of single wounds to the neck. Other Brazilian eyewitnesses claimed to have seen an animal that may fly or leap with powerful, monkey-like hind legs, attacking animals and humans both.
Most witnesses also claim to have seen fangs.
No meat was taken, and only a small bite to the neck was apparent. And though no photographs of the assailant itself exist, hundreds of photos of the dead animals are on record, eerily similar drained of blood, but otherwise intact. And there are those eyewitnesses, from dozens of incidents in far-flung regions, all telling strikingly similar stories. No such eyewitnesses came forward in Chile, but Calama's incident fits the profile. Whatever killed the livestock hadn't eaten them, but inexplicably drained the animals of blood and left the meat behind.