Superstitious Latinos watched the new movie Species. Slum dogs killed some goats and chickens. Two and two together equals an alien blood sucking monster.
The people that think mangy coyotes are some kind of undocumented cryptid are simply mouth breathing morons.
Yes, I know that Google says the first documentation of the chuoacabra myth was in 1995, after Species came out.
Color me skeptical.
That old Mexican I mentioned was born circa WW II. He was 50 years plus old in 95. The name referred to SOMETHING he feared from his childhood.
Just because today's researchers can not find written evidence of a legend before 1995, does not mean it did not exist in remote, non-urban legends.
