Illinois - Around 1989 when Tim B. was 15 and living in Naperville, he believes he may have encountered chupacabras. "I was at a friend's house drinking and carrying on. When it became time for me to walk home, my walk was through a large dark field, then over a hill and down, then over railroad tracks, then up a hill again to my home. I reached the tracks, now standing on them. I was paralyzed with what I saw. Looking directly into my eyes - a demon as I called it - was a quarter of the way up the hill in front of me in some brush about 20 ft. from the path I took. It was bald with huge eyes, about three to four feet tall and the hands having claws. I saw no other features. I was so scared, it took everything I had to just run. I have never run as fast in my life. I ran by him up the hill, never once looking back.
Location Unknown - One night, when I was he was in seventh grade, Kip H. was coming home froma friend's house when he saw something red up in the trees. He stopped to get a better look and saw something move. "Then I saw two glowing red eyes," Kip said. "Whatever it was stood up. It stood to about 3 to 3-1/2 feet tall. I had seen all these things about the chupacabras on TV and I did not believe them, but what I saw looked exactly like the descriptions I had heard on TV. The creature made a sound like a drunken dog or something - squealing like I never heard before. It sounded unearthly. Then I saw something like a long tongue come out of its mouth and move around. My house was about three houses away, so I ran."
Unfortunately, the creature ran, too, chasing Kip down the street. "It was in my neighbor's yard moving around. I pounded on the door to my house and rang the doorbell a lot of times. My step-dad opened the door and when I turned to look, the creature had run away."
Location Unknown - It was a cold February morning when Sonoran P. woke up and went about his daily routine. His mother had gone to work, so he made himself some breakfast and sat to watch a little TV. He heard a window break. Being alone, he grabbed a golf club and went to investigate. In his own bedroom, he got the shock of his life. "When I saw what it was, I got paralyzed," Sonoran reported. "Climbing in my bed was a creature I had never seen before. It appeared to be hurt because it seemed it could not move well."
Sonoran, golf club at the ready, slowly moved closer for a better look. "That thing hissed horribly. It shrieked in an unworldly manner, which made me even more scared. It was about the size of a large rabbit, dark in color and had reddish eyes. It had wings, a spine of quills in its back and a semi-reptilian face. It appeared to have hair and small legs. I thought it was a sort of large bat, but when I clearly saw its face I instinctively raised the golf club. It hissed and showed its large, yellowish teeth, which appeared to be sharp, like those of a crocodile."
Apparently, the mysterious creature wasn't really hurt as it hopped out of the window and rapidly hopped across the street into the oak trees. "The shrieks it gave made it strange," Sonoran said, "and its red, glazing eyes are something not easy to forget."
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