Two Years Ago This Month: Chupacabra Alert!

In January 2010, news reports broke about an ostensible chupacabra that had been found dead on a golf course in the north Texas town of Runaway Bay, Texas! The local Wise County Messenger newspaper reported that the “brown, earth-colored creature is hairless with oversized canines and elongated padded feet with inch-long toes tapered with sharp, curved claws. The creature also had long hind legs.” A careful examination of this monster, however, revealed it to be a raccoon that had been rendered hairless by mange. The Runaway Bay city council nonetheless followed up by voting in the chupacabra as the new town mascot.

Read about the "Legend of the Chupacabra" in the "Mayhem" section of Texas Confidential: Sex, Scandal, Murder, and Mayhem in the Lone Star State!