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Is the Chupacabra real? According to some Texans it is.

Jerry Ayer, the owner of a taxidermy school in Blanco, Texas, is in the possession of an unknown animal that many are calling the famed and mythical creature-the Chupacabra.

A former student found the animal dead in her family’s barn after laying poisonous bait for an unknown predator that had been causing problems several months ago.

The body reportedly looks much like a hairless and mutated coyote or dog. It is described to have leather-like skin, a pointed muzzle, unusually long legs and teeth (fangs), with a kind of fuzz running along its spine and feet and weighs approximately 30 pounds. Researchers from Texas A&M University have taken a tissue sample to determine exactly what it is and Ayer says he is being contacted by others as well.

Ayer, who does not believe in the Chupacabra, has received numerous phone calls and death threats since the discovery came out. “I’m almost at the point where I’m going to take my sign down and hide under a rock somewhere,” he said. He plans to stuff and mount the creature, believing it will end up in a museum.

The Chupacabra was first, allegedly, spotted in Puerto Rico in 1995 and has been in the center of controversy ever since. Roughly translated from Spanish means ‘goat sucker’ which was given to the creature due to the puncture wounds it leaves on its victims, where it is said to drain the victim’s blood.