*Note: here at G8WAY, we don’t lose our minds over every creature someone claims jumped a fence in the dark.*
As a Puerto Rican and an eclectic occultist, I find that this creature — spiritually and culturally — does not align with the otherworldly occurrences that are glued to the Puerto Rican island. A crunchy, emaciated, disease-ridden coyote struggling for its last breath. A “monster” whose name literally translates to: "Goat-Sucker".
This is what we’re known for with regard to things that go bump in the night..? Not the Taíno zemí spirits, not the ancient Caribbean energetic currents, not the legitimate unexplained phenomena in El Yunque — but a funky-smelling wild dog with alopecia and bad vibes?Chile, absolutely not. Folklore matters — ut accuracy matters more. The occultist in me respects folklore. It preserves culture, memory, trauma, archetypes, and yes — sometimes actual energetic imprints. Every legend tells you something, even if it’s not literal.
But the chupacabra?
The chupacabra is the folkloric equivalent of a tabloid headline left in the sun too long.
People forgot the real earlier case — El Vampiro de Moca, which actually had a pattern, historical context, and cultural depth. But nope. “Chupacabra” sounded cute, catchy, and spooky, so it stuck.
It’s folklore, yes. But it’s also lazy. What people say the Chupacabra is, depending on whose uncle you’re talking to, the chupacabra supposedly looks like: A reptilian, quilled jumping, kangaroo-ish, bat-winged, fanged thing with supernatural abilities that drinks livestock blood like a demonic Capri Sun.
In occult terms, this reads like: mythological archetype soup mixed with sleep deprivation.
The descriptions are high-strangeness themed, sure — but inconsistent, unstable, and lacking the energetic signature that typically appears in true paranormal entities or interdimensional fauna.
Translation:
The vibes ain’t vibing. HERE'S what the Chupacabra actually is - the scientific + occult common sense edition. Aaaaand this is the part people don’t like to hear:
Every tested “chupacabra carcass” has turned out to be a coyote or coyote-wolf hybrid with severe mange.
And mange does a LOT to an animal’s appearance and behavior:
Hair Loss
Patchy spikes of fur left behind → mistaken for quills.
Gray, Thick, Scaly Skin
Infestation causes a reptilian look — not mystical, just medical.
Prominent Fangs
Swelling around the mouth makes the teeth look dramatic.
A Horrific Odor
When your skin is dying, you smell like a dumpster soaked in sulfur.
Weak, Desperate Behavior
A mange-riddled coyote can’t chase wild prey → livestock becomes the easy target.
Occult perspective:
None of this suggests an entity, spirit, dimensional bleed-through, or energetic anomaly.
It suggests biology doing biology in the ugliest way possible. Sometimes the universe is mystical. Sometimes it’s a sick dog. As one can denote, discernment is in of itself dirty spiritual hygiene.
About That “Blood-Draining” Thing
People swear the chupacabra “vampirically drains animals of blood.”