Chupacabra is at least 100 years old! This is the conclusion that a local historian from the Zhytomyr region came to: he found references to the creepy creature in newspapers 100 years ago. And he was very surprised.
A creature similar to a kangaroo attacked domestic animals at night; it was seen in the Ukrainian forests at the beginning of the 20th century! 57-year-old Alexander Pirogov has been researching the history of his native Radomyshl for a long time. Therefore, I became interested in the newspaper "Radomyshlyanin", published in the district town in 1912-1917.
“This newspaper is now a real bibliographic rarity,” says a local historian. - In Ukraine now there are only four copies of it from different years, in the capital's scientific library named after Vernadsky. But in St. Petersburg, in the local state library, the files of "Radomyshlyanin" have been preserved for several years. It was with them that I worked. And in one of the newspapers I found a very strange note."
On a yellowed page of a newspaper dated February 6, 1913, the following was printed: “An unheard-of beast. A few days ago, an animal appeared in the village of Lyakhovoy, which causes a lot of harm to some settlements. He makes his way to domestic animals, mainly pigs and sheep, and distorts their faces, scratches their eyes. It is believed to be "Kangaroo". How she appeared in our area is unknown. " Almost modern descriptions of "chupacabra": and lacerated wounds on the bodies of animals, and the resemblance of a strange animal to a kangaroo - short front legs and long hind legs.
“A hundred years ago, the strange animal was never caught,” says Alexander Pirogov. - My friend lives in the village of Lyakhovoy, which was renamed Osichki after the war. When he was little, he heard from his grandmother the memories of a creepy creature that pestered pets, attacking them at night. The peasants then even organized round-ups, attracted hunters - but all in vain. A hundred years after these strange events, the Chupacabra reminded of itself again.
In the fall of 2012, on the outskirts of the regional center Malin, 20 kilometers from Osichok (Lyakhova), a mysterious creature attacked rabbits in several houses, breaking the walls of the cages, and killing the animals. One of the owners, whose rabbits suffered, pensioner Pavel Isaenko, managed to see the animal. “Something jumped past me from the cages,” Pavel recalls. "The creature was about a meter tall, had an upright posture and yellowish smooth skin." Isn't it a description of the mysterious "Kangaroo" from the last century?