El Chupacabra



Day 2 Of My Trip, Monterrey.

Hey Everyone,
It's noon here and I'm getting ready to go out and explore the whole city for the first time. I'm so excited. There's so much to see and do. I'm hungry so I'm gonna go find something to eat first. Yum! Real Mexican food. Monterrey has so much history. Kat Von D is from Monterrey. How awesome is that! Her tattoos are amazing. But anyways that's just a random fact I learned. Sorry so short but I must go explore.

I'm Back Again!!
So, this city is amazing. I saw so much today.  The place I ate at was so tasty.  It was a little place inside Barrio Antiguo, an old neighborhood in Monterrey. I had a traditional dish called cabrito, which is kid goat cooked over hot coals. I think I'll try the traditional dish of every city that I go to. I'll write about them, of course.  There seems to be a lot of things about goats in Monterrey. The most traditional dish is kid goat and the most traditional desserts are made from goat's milk.  I even heard a story about a mysterious creature that killed goats and drank their blood.  The goat sucker, El Chupacabra, they call him.

I was wandering around Barrio Antiguo when I saw an interesting little shop.  I needed to find something for my roommate anyways.  There was a picture hanging up by the register of a scary looking, mutated coyote thing. I asked the guy working behind the counter what in the world that strange creature was. "El Chupacabra," he said. I did not know what that was so I asked him if he could explain. He started to tell a story so I sat down in a chair beside the counter and listened as he started to describe this strange beast....

The goat sucker resembles a coyote or strange-looking dog in the way it is shaped but has scaly skin similar to a reptile.  It is the size of a small bear.  It has sharp fangs, which it uses to drain the blood from its prey, usually livestock, and it has sharp claws too.  They say that the chupacabra hops and sits on its hind legs like a kangaroo. It only bites its prey once or twice, just enough times to suck the blood right out of the animal.  Plenty of people have spotted chupacabras around here, looking for their next victim. This picture beside the register was taken at my father's home.  He shot the creature when we saw it coming out of his hen house.  Plus we found a young goat that the chupacabra had killed that night.  My dad and I found the goat out in a field with two holes in its neck. He whistled as the chupacabra began to hop away so that it would turn and he could see what exactly it was.The chupacabra came at my father when he noticed us standing there.  My dad shot it.  I was there.  When that horrible creature turned around, it was unlike anything I had ever seen before. It began to hiss and screech at us and come back towards us. It was ugly, probably the ugliest thing I have ever seen.  Its eyes glowed red when it looked at us.  Some people say it does that to make people nauseous but I don't think that is true. Its eyes looked bugged out, like a messed up Boston Terrier. The smell it left behind was horrible.  It smelled like sulfur.  I have never been so scared in my life. I didn't know if this thing was going to eat us or not. After my father shot it, we called in the local police to take it to a lab in Texas to get it checked out.  We took this picture first so that we could show everyone and find out if anyone else has seen this strange animal.  We also thought that no one would believe such a story so we needed some proof.

"Wow!" That's all I could say. The guy at the store had copies of the picture so he let me take one. I'll include it in my travel journal.  I had never heard of this story.   When I get back, I'll have to research if any chupacabras have been sighted in Nevada.  I'm really tired after exploring all day and I need to wash up for dinner so I must be going.
Until Next Time,
Ellie

Here is the picture of the chupacabra. Crazy-looking, isn't it?
El Chupacabra

Author's Note: In the first story of my storybook, I chose to tell the story of the Chupacabra. I used the Wikipedia article over the chupacabra to get the details of what it looks like, what it does to its prey, etc. Ellie encounters the story of the chupacabra in an old neighborhood of Monterrey. While looking over the Wikipedia article on Monterrey, I noticed that different things involving goats are mentioned, like the most traditional dish, cabrito, which is kid goat. There are also traditional desserts made from goat's milk.  Since chupacabra means goat sucker in Spanish, I decided to use the fact that goats seem to be a central theme in Monterrey to tell the story. After Ellie eats the cabrito, she wanders into a shop where she hears the story of the chupacabra. The guy telling the story has had an encounter with the chupacabra.  I decided to tell the story in this way so the guy would have first-hand experience with a chupacabra.  In the next story, Ellie will wrap up her trip in Monterrey and move on to her next destination, Mexico City. In Mexico City, she will hear and write about the legend of La LLorona.







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Image Information
El Chupacabra. S Womack. 2004. The Atomic Think Tank.

Bibliography Information
Monterrey. Wikipedia.
Chupacabra. Wikipedia