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I saw a Chupacrabra Friday night. At least that is what everyone is telling me I saw<\/a>. Or maybe it was a mountain lion\u2026 in this very non-mountainous region just outside Charlotte, North Carolina. Oooo, I know. It was a coyote with mange\u2026 that was the slightly larger than a standard great dane or mastiff. No, the consensus seems to be that what I saw was the mythical creature, chupacrabra<\/a>. Illegally crossing the border from South America, no doubt. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ll tell you what I saw and you can decide.<\/p>\n

Friday evening, right around midnight, my son & I were walking home from a neighbor\u2019s house. Family game night got a little competitive and everyone lost track of time. Now we live in a fairly rural area so I will contend that it was dark outside. But not that dark. The night was clear and the moon bright enough<\/a> so that we didn\u2019t need a flash light. And then we saw it\u2026<\/p>\n

It jumped out of the shadows and made a dash across the yard. It was a very large black thing<\/em> that looked like a giant dog. It was definitely not a deer judging from it\u2019s gait. Once we spotted each other from across the yard it gave two quick bark like growls as a warning. When it saw we weren\u2019t moving away the chupacabre thing ran toward us growling like a dog & hissing like a cat. Then proceeded right passed us towards the fence where it bounded over the barrier and ran off down the hill on TWO LEGS. And no, I had not been drinking. <\/p>\n

After poking around online trying to find a natural explanation, the closest thing I found was a baby black bear with mange. No other animal makes sense. A coyote is too small and mountain lions aren\u2019t in this region. Bears though. We have those occasionally. A small bear fits the size description and could run off on two legs. So yeah. I\u2019m going with mangy bear. <\/p>\n

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Bear it is. Because any of the other alternatives are too frightening<\/a> and would require the services of a priest and gallon of holy water. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"