As eyewitness accounts start cropping up in the mainland, the chupacabra becomes less like a spiny alien-reptile, and more like a mangy coyote. But chupa-believers hold firm, and theories abound. Maybe the creature was invented by NASA. Maybe it was an extraterrestrial. Or maybe the real vampire was something else entirely.

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