The American paranormal researcher Nick Redfern offers readers another version of who the Chupacabra might actually be.
This version, like the previous one, was told to him by one of the eyewitnesses.
“In January 2010, I came to Puerto Rico trying to find traces of the Chupacabra. Immediately after my arrival, I received a call from the local TV company, which wanted to make a film about my research, and they said that they had found several people who have something to say about the Chupacabra.
One such eyewitness was a woman named Guanina from the city of Moca, in the west of the island. Soon I met with her and her husband and Guanina told about her case. It was a bit different from what I expected, but very intriguing.
Most of the Chupacabra began to be talked about since the 1990s, but frightening stories about a creature called the vampire Moca (Moca Vampire) circulated in Puerto Rico back in 1975.
According to eyewitnesses, it was a winged blood-sucking creature and it attacked cows, goats, pigs and poultry. All animals were found dead and with unusual holes in their skins, and an autopsy showed that the blood was completely pumped out of the bodies of the animals.
Tales about the vampire Moka were ordered to live long after one of the farmers killed two large local pythons and it was stated that they were the ones who killed livestock and birds.
However, Guanina is confident that she saw those who were actually responsible for these attacks. It was true much later, in 1987.
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Guanina in those years was only a young teenager and loved to walk in the vicinity of Mok, especially in the hills. And then one day she was again walking somewhere in the wasteland, when suddenly she heard a loud and desperate squeal of a pig from the top of the hill.
The girl began to quickly climb the hill and soon came across a shocking sight: six or seven medium-sized monkeys at once surrounded a wild pig, which was already badly bitten on the ground.
Guanina started shouting loudly at the monkeys, not thinking at all that these aggressive creatures could attack her too. For several seconds the monkeys looked at them, and then, fortunately for the girl, rushed away into the thicket.
When the monkeys ran away, the pig found the strength to rise to its feet and wandered in the other direction. Only after that did Guanina decide that it would be better for her to get out of here, pick up, hello, and she rushed to run home.
Gaunina told her parents about this case and they decided to figure out what it was. They read books in the local library and found that the monkeys that the girl saw were most similar to rhesus monkeys.
However, there were two inconsistencies at once. First, although rhesus monkeys were artificially introduced to several islands in Puerto Rico in the 1960s, they were never seen in the Moca area. The nearest of them live in a research center on the neighboring island of Cayo Santiago and they would hardly be able to swim such a distance on their own.
Secondly, rhesus monkeys are almost exclusively vegetarians, they eat fruits, grains and various seeds. From protein food, they absorb larvae and beetles and in attack on other animals (especially those large as pigs) to kill and eat their flesh and blood, they have never been noticed.
In any case, this was not done by normal monkeys, but maybe they were monkeys subjected to some kind of experiments? Who knows what they are doing with them in the same research center on Cayo Santiago …"