Chupacabra found?

[YanmarFever]

Cmon you guys, everyone knows thats Art Bells dog from coast to coast.

Well it didnt take long to let the cat out of the bag

 

[Podunkadunk]

Eddie,
I think your right about news stations...my wife calls it "their hurting for news". I agree.

Bigfoot...Native American's passed stories down for years. Maybe they were just bored, sitting around the wigwam campfire passing the time! Over thousands of years, someone drew a pic on a cave wall...he was bored too!

The skeptic side of me agrees with you 100%. Why have there been no bones documented and authenticated as "the missing link"? With Satellites in space that can read the label off a pack of cigarettes, game cams with high resolution, people everywhere in the woods with digital cameras and modern CD recording equipment, why haven't there been some really good photo's taken? I'm not talking about the 1966 type "Patterson" (I think that was the name I read) video. I'm talking some high resolution up close and personal Discovery Channel HD stuff! Also, someone tell me this, with people in these rural areas (I'm not talking National Parks or Forests), why hasn't anyone bagged and tagged one of these things. You know that these guys have long guns (or at least I would) with cougars and in some spots bears, in the woods. If not for hunting, then protection! I'll believe wholeheartedly when some podunkadunk bags one and has a pic of him strung up hanging off his FEL, and Bill Oreilly is there covering the story!

It's like UFO's. People associate UFO's with aliens. When in fact, the obvious being UFO stands for Unidentified Flying Object. This basically means that the person seeing it, couldn't determine it's origin/make/model. I'm not saying I've been everywhere, but I've flown from the North Pole to off the coast of Australia, over 5k flight hours, 32 countries and millions of miles of ocean surveilled. I/we never saw anything that couldn't be identified as either a satellite, another aircraft, weather phenomenon or mother nature. Either they (aliens) are extremely aware of our technology and can "cloak" (pardon my "Star Trek" reference) or they stay well away from military type aircraft (because of visual sightings). I do believe that we aren't alone though and to quote somebody from that movie with Jodie Foster "If we are alone, it's an awful waste of space". I sure would have loved to have seen something that I was maybe seeing visually, but we weren't picking up on RADAR, ESM or IRDS. Maybe they are just waiting for us to blow ourselves up so they can come in and drive our tractors!

I'm rambling, I'll drink a tall cup of shut the heck up now.

Podunk

 

[texbaylea]

Eddie,
I think your right about news stations...my wife calls it "their hurting for news". I agree.

Bigfoot...Native American's passed stories down for years. Maybe they were just bored, sitting around the wigwam campfire passing the time! Over thousands of years, someone drew a pic on a cave wall...he was bored too!

The skeptic side of me agrees with you 100%. Why have there been no bones documented and authenticated as "the missing link"? With Satellites in space that can read the label off a pack of cigarettes, game cams with high resolution, people everywhere in the woods with digital cameras and modern CD recording equipment, why haven't there been some really good photo's taken? I'm not talking about the 1966 type "Patterson" (I think that was the name I read) video. I'm talking some high resolution up close and personal Discovery Channel HD stuff! Also, someone tell me this, with people in these rural areas (I'm not talking National Parks or Forests), why hasn't anyone bagged and tagged one of these things. You know that these guys have long guns (or at least I would) with cougars and in some spots bears, in the woods. If not for hunting, then protection! I'll believe wholeheartedly when some podunkadunk bags one and has a pic of him strung up hanging off his FEL, and Bill Oreilly is there covering the story!

It's like UFO's. People associate UFO's with aliens. When in fact, the obvious being UFO stands for Unidentified Flying Object. This basically means that the person seeing it, couldn't determine it's origin/make/model. I'm not saying I've been everywhere, but I've flown from the North Pole to off the coast of Australia, over 5k flight hours, 32 countries and millions of miles of ocean surveilled. I/we never saw anything that couldn't be identified as either a satellite, another aircraft, weather phenomenon or mother nature. Either they (aliens) are extremely aware of our technology and can "cloak" (pardon my "Star Trek" reference) or they stay well away from military type aircraft (because of visual sightings). I do believe that we aren't alone though and to quote somebody from that movie with Jodie Foster "If we are alone, it's an awful waste of space". I sure would have loved to have seen something that I was maybe seeing visually, but we weren't picking up on RADAR, ESM or IRDS. Maybe they are just waiting for us to blow ourselves up so they can come in and drive our tractors!

I'm rambling, I'll drink a tall cup of shut the heck up now.

Podunk

I agree wholeheartedly with the last paragraph. A number of years ago I was on a flight from Houston to California for NASA. Since it was a last minute trip I was seated in the rear where the fuselage is starting to narrow. I looked out the window and saw this cigar shaped metallic object. With no references I could not have estimated how long it was. Then I sat forward to see it better and it changed length!! Now wait I minute - ain't no UFO going to respond to my head movement!!!!

Being a physicist I started out to analyze what I had seen. I finally decided that there was enough temperature differential (and therefore a density difference) across the interface between the boundary layer and the moving slipstream to create a reflective surface. What I was seeing was the end of the horizontal tailplane. Why double ended? I could not be sure but thought that the layers within the window contributed also to the effect.

Someone less analytical may have thought he/she was seeing a UFO since there was a lot of that in the news at the time. My seat mate could not see it at the time unless he moved his head closer to the window. Luckily he was a friend.

I was referencing podunkadunk's last paragraph but I agree with his closing sentence too!!!

Vernon

 

[Podunkadunk]

Being a physicist I started out to analyze what I had seen. I finally decided that there was enough temperature differential (and therefore a density difference) across the interface between the boundary layer and the moving slipstream to create a reflective surface. What I was seeing was the end of the horizontal tailplane. Why double ended? I could not be sure but thought that the layers within the window contributed also to the effect.
Vernon

Sounds like "intermittent quantification of rigid flexibility within a fixed variable", to me.

 

[Billfrommich]

I'm quite relieved to see that this creature was finally identified. I was concerned that perhaps my in-laws had passed through the lone star state and my son-in-law got involved in something strange.
Thank God the grandkids are fairly normal!

 

[tallyho8]

Why have there been no bones documented and authenticated as "the missing link"?

I know that there are eagles, alligators, bobcats and many other creatures roaming my section of woods but I have never found bones from any of them. Probably the only possum and armadillo bones I see are smashed on the highway and usually disappear within a few days. If I shoot a coon and leave it in my pasture, it and all its bones disappear in a couple of days. Since bones can disappear so rapidly, I imagine it will be quite hard to find bones from something that died tens of thousands of years ago that there may have only been a few of to begin with. I know we have found many dinosaur bones that are older but they were very prolific and stupid enough to get trapped in tar pits quite often.

 

[EddieWalker]

While I agree that there are allot of animals in the woods that I have never seen, nor ever found any remains of, I also must admit to not really looking for them either. Of course, there's no gurantee that I'd find anything even if I was looking, that doesn't mean that they have never been found by others.

I don't know how long small bones last, but I have found racoon, sqirrel, mice and owl skulls while out hunting. I've found deer, bear, coyote, hog, elk, bobcat and even a mt goat skull. It does seem that bird skulls and remains are very, very rare, but the bigger species are not all that uncommon to find their bones while in the woods. I don't know my bones very well and cannot identfy most of what I've found, but those skulls are fairly easy to figure out.

I have a buddy that is a big time skull collector. He has a cabinet full of them and he's always out in the woods looking for them. He's good at it too and has found hundreds of them. Everything from snakes and birds, to big game and sea life washed up on shore. There are people like him that really put allot of time into this all over the world. They trade and sell skulls to each other all the time. It's not my thing, but seeing what he's found is truly amazing. Of couse, he does belive in bigfoot and spends allot of time looking for his skull.

Every animal that we know of in existance has left some sort of evidence that they exist. Bones for every one of them have been found by those out looking for them. Yet not one bigfoot bone has ever been discovered. To me, this is proof that it does not exist.

Eddie

 

[jinman]

Mystery follow-up,-
The DNA results are finally in.
The Chupacabra turns out to be a Texas coyote.
Full story here in the Houston Chronicle this morning:

'Chupacabra' turns out to be a Texas coyote | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

I looked at that picture in your Houston Chronicle link. For the life o' me, I can't tell which one is the coyote. Did you notice the look on her face? The surgical gloves are a nice "touch" too.

 

[GolfAddict]

Mythical El Chupacabra finally captured? | abc7.com

 

[Depmandog]

Mythical El Chupacabra finally captured? | abc7.com

The biologist thought this animal is from the canine family...I have never seen any canine that could manipulate it's front paws like this thing.

Funny looking creature. Wonder what it is???