El Chupacabra Research Paper

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Why do urban legends persist to this day? Urban legends persist to this day because if one person tells their family or friend then they might tell someone and they will tell some else and it will keep on going so much some people might think it’s real. This is the tale of El chupacabra that began in Puerto Rico in the late 1990s. People described El chupacabra as a bipedal creature four to five feet tall with large eyes, spikes down its back and long claws. El chupacabra gained this dark mystical name from the initial reports from Puerto Rico in 1995. The word “chupacabra” is originated from Spanish with chupar meaning “to suck” and cabra meaning “goat.” In March and August of 1995 attacks of more than 150 farm animals left officially dumbfounded.

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