POPE KILLS CHUPACABRA

Thirteen year old Carter Pope of La Salle, Texas, woke up on Sunday and saw a strange creature walking through an open field. "Something slowly came across and started shaking, slowly moving across," Carter said. "It was gray, no hair at all. I thought 'That's a chupacabra.'" He then shot, and killed the beast.

While there are myths of some legendary Chupacabra which stalks the Texan and Mexican landscapes, sucking the blood from livestock like some sort of animal vampire, usually it is just some poor miserly coyote that's lost its hair and is all mangy from disease. Then it wanders into some human habitat, scares the shit out of some people, and gets shot. Pope has collected skin and hair samples to test whether or not this is the case.

Watch the video report from KPRC, Houston TX: