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.

In Spanish Chupacabra means “goat sucker”. It got its name after farmers had found their goats dead and sucked dry of all their blood. It is said to be hairless with large fangs and pays with three claws on each. Some say it also has sharp spiney prominences on its back.

No one has ever seen a live Chupacabra but the owner of a taxidermy school in Blanco Texas thinks he might have one of the approximately 30 pound animals. Jerry Ayer who owns the school says he is not sure what he has but thinks it may be a form of a coyote that is genetically mutated or defective in some way. Ayers said it has been hard on him with all the media attention once word got out that he has a Chupacabra, and that he feels like hiding the sign advertising his business under a roc because of it.

Ayers received the body of the animal from a former student who found it in the barn of his cousin where it died apparently from eating poison the cousin put out to kill rodents. Ayers also said that Texas A & M University took tissue samples and will, hopefully, be able to determine just what the animal is.

Ayers seems to think the animal will end up in a museum somewhere and he will be glad when it does he says because then the media attention will die down. Ayers says there is no way he can teach with all this going on.

Jerry Ayer, a teacher at the Blanco Taxidermy School in Blanco, Texas claims to have a dead Chupacabra

Ayer says he’s never seen anything like this before. He says one of his students found it.

“It got into his cousin’s barn and they thought maybe it was a rodent tearing stuff up, and they no idea since they’ve never seen it,” Ayers said. “He got out some poison and this is what they got the next day.”

The animal is described as gray, with leathery skin and unlike anything that is native to Texas.

“There’s no hair on it, it’s got long teeth, it’s got the long tail like a coyote but there’s no hair,” said Butler. “It just seems to me that the legs are a little longer than a coyote and I can’t tell you one way or another if it’s a coyote with mange or if it’s a chupacabra.” said Lynn Butler of Rosenberg speaking to a local TV station.

The Chupacabra from the Spanish words chupar, meaning “to suck”, and cabra, meaning “goat”; literally “goat sucker”), also called El Chupacabras in Spanish, is a legendary cryptid rumored to inhabit parts of the Americas, according to Wikipdedia.

Ayer plans to donate the remains to a museum.