Editing Chupacabra (section)

== History ==
In 1975, a series of livestock killings in the small town of [[Moca, Puerto Rico|Moca]], Puerto Rico were attributed to {{lang|es|el vampiro de Moca}} ('the vampire of Moca').<ref>{{cite web|last=Wagner|first=Stephen|year=2000|title=Encounters with Chupacabras|url=http://paranormal.about.com/cs/chupacabra/a/aa071403.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071017163054/http://paranormal.about.com/cs/chupacabra/a/aa071403.htm|archive-date=17 October 2007|website=[[About.com]]}}</ref> Initially, it was suspected that the killings were committed by a [[Satanism|Satanic]] cult; later more killings were reported around the island, and many farms reported loss of animal life. Each of the animals was reported to have had its body bled dry through a series of small circular incisions.[[File:Chupacabras.JPG|thumb|Graphic depiction of Chupacabra, as described by Puerto Rican witnesses in 1995]]

The first reported attack eventually attributed to the actual chupacabras occurred in March 1995. Eight sheep were discovered dead in Puerto Rico, each with three puncture wounds in the chest area and reportedly completely drained of blood.<ref name="trail">{{cite web|last=Wagner|first=Stephen|year=1998|title=On the trail of the Chupacabras|url=http://paranormal.about.com/library/weekly/aa051898.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050919215215/http://paranormal.about.com/library/weekly/aa051898.htm|archive-date=19 September 2005|website=[[About.com]]}}</ref> A few months later, in August, an eyewitness named Madelyne Tolentino reported seeing the creature in the Puerto Rican town of [[Canóvanas, Puerto Rico|Canóvanas]], where as many as 150 farm animals and pets were reportedly killed.<ref name="trail" />

[[Puerto Ricans|Puerto Rican]] comedian and entrepreneur Silverio Pérez is credited with coining the term {{lang|es|chupacabras}} soon after the first incidents were reported in the press. Shortly after the first reported incidents in Puerto Rico, other animal deaths were reported in other countries, such as Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, and the United States.<ref name="trail" />

In 2019 a video recorded by {{lang|es|Mundo Ovni}} showed the results of a supposed attack on chickens in the Seburuquillo sector of [[Lares, Puerto Rico]].<ref name="2019 attack in Lares">{{cite AV media|title=Reportaje: Ataque a gallinas en el sector Seburuquillo de Lares|trans-title=Report: Attack on hens in the Seburquillo sector of Lares|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F3i6vAXIzQ| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211103/0F3i6vAXIzQ| archive-date=2021-11-03 | url-status=live|via=YouTube|publisher=Mundo Ovnis|access-date=20 June 2020|language=es|type=News segment}}{{cbignore}}</ref>