Rash of Chupacabra Livestock Attacks in Brazil

Brazil isn't the usual place to see El Chupacabra, but in the last few weeks, there has been a rash of livestock killings in Bahia, Brazil, which seem to match the typical Chupacabra M.O..

Berry Pickers in Kapok Forest Reserve see Mapinguary

According to a new report, a group of acai berry pickers in the Kapok Forest Reserve claim to have seen a Mapinguary.

In what appears to be only the second documented Mapinguary sighting of the century, the anonymous eyewitnesses say that they heard a loud scream whilst picking berries, and began to imitate it. However, they realised that the sound was coming from nearby, and soon noticed "a creature dark in colour", two feet high and with only one eye. They fled, and apparently did not sleep for the following week.

Needless to say, a two foot-high Mapinguary has never been reported before. If the story is true, and the animal is a Mapinguary, it could have been a youngster, like the ones allegedly raised by an Indian tribe in the 1980's. This does seem likely, given the fact that it did not attack the berry-pickers.

Of course, this is assuming that the sighting is genuine, and the animal was a Mapinguary, either sloth or ape.

Video: Holy Shit!

In the above video, a very large Anaconda startles some people on a boat, in what I must assume to be the Amazon. The brave guy on the boat decides, for some reason, to grab it by its tail, showing part of it to the camera. The snake then swims off, looking very much like a sea serpent.

Although it appears to be strangely large and thick, it seems that the part we can see is only large because the snake is currently digesting something, perhaps a tapir or peccary. But if other eyewitness accounts are to be believed, there certainly are bigger fish out there.