Chupacabra?
This is an experience that I had. At first I passed it off, until I heard a show on Coast to Coast am about the Chupacabra. In this particular show they postulated that the Chupacabra may be more insect-like in nature. Recently a man named Dub, who also lives here in Texas, posted a picture that looks very similar to what I saw. I sent Dub and email and the below portions are what I wrote to him and his wife.
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One afternoon I was riding in a car going south on highway 183 in Austin. If your not familiar with this part of Austin, this was in 1999 and was under construction at the time. Just a couple of years earlier this area had been mainly trees and hill country. It was in the middle of Summer and very hot. My brother and roommate were in the front seat and I was in the back staring out the window. Traffic was kind of heavy and we were beginning to pass a grouping of trees next the highway. I looked up at the top of the trees (which was about 30 feet up). I saw something floating about 5 or 6 feet above the trees. At the time there were just a couple of businesses beginning to pop up in the area. Close to this group of trees was a small used car lot and I assumed what I was seeing was a group of black balloons or something used for drawing attention to the lot. I was about to pass it off, but as we got closer I realized it was something completely different.
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I can only describe it as a creature 4-5 tall from end to end. It was jet black and had a little bit of a sheen to it, which is why I thought it was balloons at first. Its shape was almost exactly like a Cricket with its arms drawn up in front and its legs bent backwards like in your drawing. Although it wasn't horizontal, it was actually floating upright and vertical with its "face" staring towards the road. When I realized what I was looking at I got chilled. This thing was hovering motionless just above the tree line, perfectly still. I got the eery impression that it was overlooking everything. I have never seen something that was so real, yet so unreal and out of place. It remained completely motionless and did not waiver back and forth, even with a slight breeze blowing that day. I kept looking for some string or stick underneath that could be holding it up, but there was only empty space underneath it. As we passed by the trees I tried to get my brother and friend to look at it, and although we weren't going very fast, by the time I could get their attention we had already passed it. They never saw what I was talking about.
