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.
Tony said,
April 16, 2006 at 10:54 pm
(This comment is actually post by Tony)
I recently emailed Dub and received permission to post his experience here. Below is the story Dub sent to Coasttocoastam.com. i have left out Dub’s last name and email address so that no one harrasses him or his wife.
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Chupacabra 4-13-2006
Two years ago my wife Ann and I both saw something very strange.
We were driving home late at night in East Texas near Crockett, when we saw something run right across the road in front of us. It was about 10 ft. in front of our car.
We both later on drew a picture of what we saw and they look almost the same.
The features we both noted were:
About 4 to 5 feet tall and ran on the two hind feet.
The knees bent backward, not forward as a human.
It was extremely fast and made it across the road in 3 to 4 seconds.
It had the body of a slim small child, not like a fat Kangaroo.
The arms chugged back and forth like a person would run.
The head had a pointed chin and a pointed top at the back like a roosters comb.
The body looked gray or some other dark color.
It was not fat, but was slim.
The thing looked to be an Alien to both of us.
We have never seen a picture of any animal that resembled what we saw.
It seems there have been many spotting of such a thing in the past.
These are found on the Internet under Chupacabra.
If you have other sightings of anything like this, we would like to know about them.
The following is a composite drawing of what we saw.
Dub Thomas:
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(This is an excerpt from what Dub emailed me after contacting him)
My wife and I drew pictures when we first saw the thing and they both had the same features.
We did not look at each others drawing until we had them completed.
It was very dark and we only had a few seconds to see the thing, but it was no further then 20 ft in front of our car and the head lights were right on it. Our road to the lake is very windy and it was just after we came out of one turn that we saw it.
It ran very fast like a small child and we could not make out many features. The hind legs were what we both noticed the most as the knees bent backwards as it ran.
I had looked on the internet for a long time until my next door neighbor told be about seeing something on the Chupacabra. That search on Google led me to many sites of interest. One had a picture someone had drawn of almost what we had seen. I took that picture and edited it to what we saw as best I could. It still may not be the exact thing we saw, but it is very close in size and shape and the knees bending backwards.
We always look for it again every time we drive into town from the lake and back.
We have told our grand kids about it and have called it the TROLL of the lake road.
That gets their attention and now they look for it also.