Well, ladies and gentlemen, what an epic weekend. Erika, my End of the Block

Don't Mess with Us....

cohort, and I met up this weekend and traveled down to Stamford, Connecticut to see our friend RJ. Now mind you, the three of us getting together used to be a time-honored tradition, where for three days we do nothing but smoke, drink, eat good food and revel in deliciously deep conversations. “Deliciously deep”….kind of makes us sound like yuppy cocksuckers. If YOU consider a whole talk on the hilarity of giving birth unknowingly to an infant in the toilet as deliciously deep, then call us cocksuckers. Unfortunately, our encounters have been few and far between these past couple of years while I was employed with the cruise line industry. So it was great to simply come together again and without awkwardness pick up right where we left off.

The main reason why Erika and I came down was to see RJ’s band, Jacques Le Cocque, play at a local bar in their hometown. I was really excited to see my buddy RJ not only show off his guitar expertise but also to see him sing and let loose on stage. He’s always been a reserved kind of guy, so before the band, neither Erika or myself had ever heard him sing or perform before a group of people. (Well, that’s not exactly true; when he and I in London, RJ caroused our group in a version of Tenacious D’s ‘Fuck Her Gently’ for Thanksgiving that was really quite special). He warned me before I traveled down to Stamford not to laugh or I would probably ruin it for him. I thought, “I’m screwed.”

So anyway, this bar, located just a couple of streets down from his house, was a tiny little joint in the neighborhood. The front of the place was boarded due to the damage caused by a drunk driver seemingly unable to discern road from building (I think that is very ironic, don’t you?). Anyway, the establishment hires a couple of touring bands to play in one night, but also hires one local group, hence Le Cocque’s opportunity. It was odd though, because the other two bands were reggae influenced. Jacques Le Cocque, on the other hand, plays underground punk rock. Now, being a Vermont resident, I have many times gone to bars and joined the swaying crowd as they got drunk off the groovy vibes or funk rifts. When I came to Stamford, I had heard this stuff for so long, I got to admit those first two bands made the night feel kind of dull. I was craving for some new live music…something with a kick. I think the rest of the audience was experiencing the same thing.

So by the time RJ’s band came on the stage (it was already 12:30am), the place was packed. As they prepared the stage, a different kind of energy formulated – causing all that was there to perk up just to see what the hell was going on. When the music began there was an explosion of sound as they blasted into the Ramones, “Do You Wanna Dance?” And, each member brings their own sense of performance quality. There’s Pete, who Erika calls “The Ham”, loves to interact with the crowd and he adds a great entertainment value that simply wasn’t there with the first two bands. The bass guitarist, Jeff, though having a more serious side, was just as interesting to watch with his great bass rifts, good vocals, and the most interesting facial bone structure I have ever seen. Then there is the drummer, Jason, who I think had the most energy throughout the whole show, and brought a kind of edge to the band. He’s that cool, rebellious type, almost as if he were saying, “Yeah, whatever, I’m up here. We’re Jacques Le Cocque, and this is what we play. If you don’t like it, you can go fuck yourselves.” Badass. And, last but not least there’s RJ. RJ, looked like the odd one out, appearing petite amongst his tall and lanky bandmates. And, yet, he made up for it with his great playing and vocals, and it seemed as though everyone in the band turned to him for help and guidance during the show. Their kind of lean-to guy. 

Here is an early video of them playing in the summer night.  More to come in the future, I’m sure.

Overall, it was a great show. Erika and I could not stop dancing, nor could the people in front of us, who were concocting strange twists and leg raises to the fast beat of the music. Keep an eye for these guys down the road, they might be big.

Other than the show, Erika, RJ and I enjoyed our weekend; watching the actual Maysle’s documentary Grey Gardens (funny to watch, even more entertaining to imitate), indulging in Peruvian cuisine, taking weird pictures (coming to the blog soon), going to the mall to watch Erika try to buy boots for under $30, play a kid xylophone, talk to a guy named Dawson who instructed us that people living in their 20’s don’t have time to worry about what other people think, talk to an older drunken man about the beer cosy a woman knitted for him right at the bar, and of

Keep 'em away from your sheep....

course, speak of plans for our new movie idea, El Chupacabra. Imagine two inexperienced investigators go on a mission to find the most feared creature of Mexico….and see the hilarity that ensues. RJ’s is still in an idea frenzy. Speaking of which, expect soon our first guest blogger, the one and only RJ, who will expound on how much he thinks John Mayer sucks.

DISCLAIMER: THE VIEWS AND COMMENTARY OF OUR GUEST BLOGGERS DO NOT NECESSARILY IN FACT REPRESENT THE VIEWS OF THE END OF THE BLOCK.

Well, actually, in this case it does. So read ‘em and weep kids. Erika and I left Stamford on Sunday, satisfied of our adventure, and knowing that we return to Rhode Island to experience the next great escapade of our lives…*drumroll please*….THANKSGIVING ‘09! Stay tuned.

O que são esses animais?!

Série com cinco vídeos lança uma perspectiva a respeito deste misterioso animal…

Veja os vídeos clicando aqui!

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Fonte: Terra TV

In this weeks episode, Harry Trunckles confronts evolution, Jess tells us important things to know, Jasper Pennies reviews the Time-Travelers Wife, John Titor tells us about sewing machines, Michelle Glasshappy tells you how to bust out of prison, Nicola Novakowsky explains chupacabras, and you get your weekly horoscopes. We have actual music this time around by Batard Tronique and the Gasoline Brothers.

http://carlsagansdanceparty.podbean.com/2009/11/05/carl-sagans-dance-party-3/

Una imatge per al concurs de Cg-Node “mutación-aberración de la naturaleza” on vaig participar amb això, a la majoría de gent no li agraden els ulls, i de fet no son el q jo volía fer, però com sempre ho deixem tot per última hora …

Interessant l’aportació d’en Bruixa al concurs, no apte per a puritans i gent sensible amb el cos nu: LINK

Xupacabres

Vivir en una ciudad como el D.F. puede o mejor dicho es algo estresante, el trafico, las marchas, los guaruras, los/las que se forman en doble fila, semáforos inservibles, robos, patrulleros gandallas, burocracia, corrupción y demás cosas hacen imaginar que es imposible llevar una vida tranquila.

Pero no todo es tan malo amiguitos; tenemos grandes cosas que disfrutar, pueden armarse de su teléfono celular, ipod, aypo o reproductor que les apetezca y escuchar unas singulares melodías mientras se transportan en servicios como el metro o metrobus o hasta el turibus.

Aprovechen y paseen por el parque España, la alameda, Chapultepec, el parque hundido, visiten las exposiciones de reforma o la simple caminata por el Zócalo.

Aventúrense al tianguis del chopo, a visitar el monumento a la madre, a la lagunilla a comer birria en la polar o tacos en el chupacabras.

En fin disfruten de esta su ciudad como gusten, al ritmo que mejor les convenga y dejen el stress fuera de sus vidas y pásenselo chingón.

“Soy Vegetariano, por eso, fumo de esa Mostaza”

Queridos amigos de la nave de la risa, Carmen… (ya se que carmen no está presente) me alegra deciros que reabro el blog tras unas vacaciones merecidas y es que, he encontrado una idea muy digna de reinaugurar mi blog. Asique sin más dilaciones, ¡ahí va!

Resulta que tras varios días de imitar a Buenafuente imitando a su vez a Iker Jimenez, Carl y yo empezamos con la coña de pasarnos videos de Cuarto Milenio, pero nada de lo que encontramos fue comparable con el video que tengo en mi poder.

¿Un nuevo misterio puede ser?, ¿tal vez una incógnita en el mundo paranormal?

Un ser mitad mito, mitad leyenda…

Estoy hablando, de como no, el CHUPACABRAS. Ese ser que ya por su nombre, causa miedo. Chupacabras, ¿tio?… Que genio le puso ese nombre, que clase de estupefacientes habria consumido, y lo que es más importante, ¿¡Por qué cabras!?. Ya solo el nombre nos revela que este ser no puede existir, y que en caso de ser algo, la idea original del nombre es un ser que se dedica a chupar cabras, desde luego no es algo que asuste demasiado. Me imagino en un pequeño pueblo aislado…

- Oh no, vienen los lobos a comerse nuestro ganado!… Espera, ¡no!. Es peor si cabe, es de nuevo ese extraño ser que se dedica a chuparnos las cabras. Rápido, ¡huid!

Yo sinceramente, creo que es una metáfora lo de “chupar la cabra”, todavía me sigue sonando a película porno, “La chupacabras”. Tal vez sea porque llevo la malicia en la mente, pero no se, como nombre no me inspira temor, porque lo de matar una cabra a base de chuparla lo veo un plan como que muy a largo plazo. Tambien esta la otra version “chotacabras” que esto ya suena a salvaje, el chotacabras me suena a un señor muy mal de la cabeza… este señor es… es un sátiro que le molan las cabras, este señor es un guarro.

Pero, no voy a analizar el nombre, sino el video de Cuarto Milenio que tan buen reportaje ha logrado sobre uno de los mitos mas hablados y al que dedican la friolera de 4 minutos, bien por los directivos del programa…

Bueno, como inicio puede estar bien, la musica es más de investigacion que de terror, pero vale, bien… Me hace gracia cuando dice “Atención a estas imagenes, yo no se que son” que es en plan, pues coño para que nos enseñas mierda, curratelo Iker, da el callo ¡colega!

Pero, esta solo es la intro, asique no la comentaré más, vamos al tema en cuestión…

Bien, ya nos situamos un poco más, un animal que ataca, Carmen… Perfecto, todo bien, tenemos datos objetivos, dos policías lo cual convierte la informacion en MUUUCHO más segura (notese ironía). De todas maneras, en la pantalla del fondo en lugar de salir algo del famoso chupacabras, vemos un tipo que parece ser estadounidense, por sus medidas 90 60 90, y en su otro brazo también, y que Carmen observa mientras habla del extraño ser, tal vez sea el muso de Carmen, ¿por qué no decirlo?. Yo asumo que sera uno de los policías, ¡pero que podía ser su primo!

Pero, vamos a escuchar lo que aseguraban estos policías

Dientes grandes, cabeza enorme, piernas cortas, y la frente comprimida hacia atrás… ES CARMEN. Si amigos de la nave del misterio, el chupacabras concuerda al 100% con Carmen, eso explicaría muchas cosas como sus grandes conocimientos de lo paranormal o el por qué del tamaño de su dentadura. Dice que los policías, se han criado en el campo y nunca habían visto nada así… vamos a ver, de que campo son ellos, ese extraño ser, ES UN PERRO, es un perro tio, que sales a la calle y te cruzan 50 perros, vamos no me jodas, el famoso y legendario chupacabras es un chucho (estos perros mezcla de tó’ un poco). Aun así, van más allá, claro.

Dice Carmen, “segun los veterinarios puede ser un coyote”, vamos que los veterinarios lo vieron, se hecharon unas risas, y los despacharon. Vieron las imagenes y dijeron, eso es un coyote, chupacabras mis cojones. Pero Iker, ve un banquete donde el resto un mendrugo de pan, y para él lo lógico es inaceptable, es basura televisiva, para él debe de ser algo paranormal, entonces dice “Un coyote, con la cabeza deforme, con un golpe o con alguna deformación malgénica”… di que si Iker, ole tus cojones iker, deformación malgénica, ese perro ha sido tocado por el demonio.

Pero queridos amigos, ahora llega mi parte favorita, lo que me he reservado para el principio, tenemos la explicación de un experto, Felix Barroso, ¡DESDE EL LUGAR DE LOS HECHOS!, nos cuenta que ha ocurrido, ojo al dato.

Bueno, nuestro experto en lo paranormal, vestido con su indumentaria para la situacion me tiene fascinado. Este tipo, es que lo vale, lo vale maldita sea. No tiene menor desperdicio, es pura dinamita, puro vigamo, no tengo adjetivos tan sublimes para lo que es él. Es, es, es el gañán versión policiaca. Fijaos, que habla como un policía cuando cuenta como han incautado varios Kg de droga (por ejemplo) pero con su tono extremeño, KIAAAAAA. Vemos su riqueza lingüistica “Inclusive, parece como si una especie de animal raro, fuerte, robusto, musculoso…” que dices si señor, para que digan que en los pueblos no tienen dotes en el idioma. Lástima que se le escape una de sus verdaderas palabras que le pasaban por la cabeza “…se encontró, que la cochina, la cerda madre…”, ahi está Felix que se ha dado cuenta de su error y rectifica, BIEN.Parece que luego retoma el nivel, con frases como “estaban completamente exangües” o su inicio de frase en gerundio “observando…”.

Pero casi al terminar dice “…estaban comidos completamente por la parte de los costillares y la parte del pejcuezo’ ” y lo que es peor, algo que todavia no soy capaz de entender es eso de ¿ “…una especie de jarros con gumia…” ?… ME MATA ESTE TIPO… OLE, Y OLE MAEHTRO.

Dicho esto y poco más, finiquito por hoy.

Mañana más, pero no mejor porque es imposible… aqui en mi blog (Gran Wyoming)

PD. Siento la mala calidad del video pero es que he tenido que cortarlo y tal y he perdido mucha calidad en los cambios a vimeo y eso..

Source.

The teeth say it’s a coyote. It’s hairless for some reason– most likely a medical condition. It’s weird limb proportions suggest that it may have been a deformed coyote, which made it more susceptible to mange.

I don’t know why it’s a “chupacabras,” unless the intent is to sell newspapers.

En 1952, un espíritu le revela a un divulgador científico que un plato volador procedente de Ganímedes sobrevolará el edificio Kavanagh, en Plaza San Martín, en el centro de la ciudad de Buenos Aires. En 1967, un sacerdote jesuita le encarga a un contactado polaco traducir el Martín Fierro a un idioma extraterrestre. En 1968, los diarios informan la teleportación de un matrimonio desde Chascomús, provincia de Buenos Aires, a la ciudad de México y dos empleados del Casino de Mendoza tropiezan con una nave aterrizada, cuyos ocupantes graban en el chasis de su auto un mensaje interestelar. En los 70, un profeta jura trabajar con tecnologías alienígenas inspirado por voces de ultratumba. Y otro anuncia por televisión el inminente desembarco de 50 platos voladores sobre la Laguna de Chascomús. Entrados los 90, una mujer abandona una vida confortable para construir un Museo Ovni en Entre Ríos y madura el plan de un encapuchado que sostiene ser de otro mundo. En 2002, la Argentina asiste a una extraña oleada de crímenes vacunos. Reencarna el Chupacabras en La Pampa, donde un paisano asegura que un plato volador le robó su móvil y otro que ingerir carne de vaca mutilada le confirió superpoderes. Mientras todo esto sucede, desde 1956 hasta 2009 la esposa de un militar perseguido vive un idilio secreto con un amante del espacio exterior.
¿Quiénes son los invasores? Este libro afirma, duda, interroga y reflexiona. Pero, sobre todo, cuenta qué experiencias vivieron, en qué creen y quiénes son los protagonistas de la Argentina extraterrestre.

Invasores. Historias reales de extraterrestres en la Argentina. Por Alejandro Agostinelli. (Sudamericana, 2009).

Makhluk dalam legenda merupakan makhluk mitologis dan hidup dalam cerita rakyat (seringkali dikenal sebagai “makhluk ajaib” dalam buku-buku sejarah). Beberapa makhluk, seperti misalnya naga dan Griffin, memiliki asal muasal dalam mitologi tradisional mereka, dan dipercaya merupakan makhluk yang benar-benar ada. Beberapa di antaranya berdasarkan kenyataan, yang mungkin faktanya diputarbalikkan oleh kisah para pengembara; seperti misalnya “Sayuran beranak dari Tartaria”. Kisah Unicorn mungkin muncul dari cerita tentang badak yang diputarbalikkan kenyataannya.

Sebaliknya, beberapa makhluk yang keberadaannya hanya dituturkan dari mulut ke mulut, kini dicari-cari dan ditemukan sebagai makhluk yang benar-benar ada; seperti misalnya cumi-cumi raksasa. Di Afrika, penduduk pribumi Kongo bercerita kepada para pelancong Eropa tentang keberadaan binatang yang wujudnya seperti perpaduan antara zebra dan jerapah. Ketika para pelancong menganggap bahwa itu hanya cerita rakyat, pada tahun 1901, Sir Harry Johnston membawa sebuah kulit binatang yang membuktikan keberadaan makhluk tersebut, yang kini disebut Okapi.

Seringkali makhluk dalam legenda merupakan chimera, yaitu gabungan dari dua binatang atau lebih. Sebagai contoh: Centaurus adalah gabungan antara manusia dengan kuda, Minotaurus adalah gabungan antara manusia dengan banteng, dan puteri duyung, merupakan gabungan antara wanita dengan ikan.

Beberapa makhluk dalam legenda diyakini masih ada sampai sekarang, seperti misalnya Bigfoot, Mothman, Chupacabras, dan monster Loch Ness. Dalam perkembangan zaman, makhluk-makhluk dalam legenda dipakai sebagai lambang keluarga dan dekorasi bangunan. Makhluk-makhluk ini juga diadaptasi dalam budaya populer, terlebih dalam permainan, seperti misalnya Dungeons & Dragons atau Everquest, film-film Hollywood dan band power metal (seperti misalnya DragonForce). ^Wikipedia

Bigfoot

Mothman

Chupacabras

Loch Ness

Yeti

Reconozco que son raros y a veces son dificiles de creer… Pero por lo que parece todos estes animalitos son reales… Mirad, mirad:

Del siguiente vídeo si que no puedo garantizar si son reales o son fake…

Pero si son reales creedme que iré con mucho más cuidado por las noches xD

¿Qué opinais vosotros?

Por Claudio García, Dark Suns

El animal instantes después de nacer.

Esto ocurrió en la localidad estadounidense de Steamboat, Colorado. Un ternero de siete patas y dos espinas dorsales fue alumbrado mediante cesárea, creyendo los dueños de la madre que se trataba de un nacimiento de gemelos. Debería haber sido de esta manera, pero la divisón del embrión no se completó, dando lugar a la extraña malformación.

Lee Mayring, el veterinario encargado del caso, asegura que es la malformación más extraña que ha visto nunca, ya que no conocía un caso semejante que tuviese más de cinco patas.
Ahora la medicina se encargará de estudiar al animal exhaustivamente.

Source.

I have no idea what a chupacabras is.

Maybe Kang and Kodos are chupacabras:

Noticia en ingles:

The mythical chupacabra is a hairless, nocturnal wolf-dog; the name, roughly translated, means “the goatsucker.” Widely regarded as the Mexican Bigfoot, tales of the bloodsucking beast originated in Puerto Rico, but alleged sightings have been reported  over the last few years in the U.S. Last week a Texas taxidermist got what might be a chupacabra, and CNN and Telemundo rushed over to interview him faster than you can say “Look at that hairless goatsucker!”

“The phone has been ringing off the hook” at the Blanco Taxidermy School, Robert McDaniel, the chief instructor, told The Times on Wednesday. The news media and the curious — “Good Morning America” among them — have called in asking for interviews and to find out if they have really found a chupacabra. “We’ve gotten about 100 calls today,” he said.

The interest is all about a dead, hairless, coyote-like creature that was captured by Lynn Butler, a former student at the school. According to McDaniel, Butler heard something in his cousin’s barn “tearing up the chickens pretty bad. So he left poison out thinking it was a raccoon or other varmint.” The next day he discovered the lifeless animal that many claim is a chupacabra.

Jerry Ayer, owner of the Blanco Taxidermy School, isn’t so sure that what he has really is what everyone hopes he has. But as the man who is in the process of stuffing the beast, he does know he’s working on something unique.

But what makes it so different from other coyotes or dogs is that it is  mostly hairless. “It has a little fuzz around the feet,” Ayer says. “Almost like little socks of fur. And there’s a little hair up the backbone. Very odd-looking.”

Clearly intrigued by the creature’s abnormalities, Ayer continues, “The hairlessness is sinister because you can see the bones protruding at the hips.”

It’s that creepy look and scavenger-like behavior that Ayer believes leads people to buy into the myth. “These types [of animals] will zip in and out of people’s backyards and eat anything live or dead. They have two big canine teeth in the front and they go for the neck.” When someone hears the animal and goes out back with a flashlight to investigate, “They see this weird-looking dark creature running off. And they see two holes in the side of the neck of a goat, and they take it from there.”

What they take it for is a chupacabra, whether Ayer agrees or not. “It doesn’t matter what I call it,” Ayer says. “It’s been labeled.”

But one thing does matter to Ayer. “I don’t want to be known as the chupacabra quack,” he said by telephone.  ”People say there’s a mythical beast and [that] I have one. I’ll call it chupacabra because people love it, but I don’t know what it is.”

Two universities might help identify exactly what Ayer has. He said he has received requests from the University of Texas and UC Davis to provide tissue samples for their ongoing research.

And what of the possibility that a chupacabra might make an appearance locally — say, at the Los Angeles Zoo? Asked if the zoo would house a chupacabra if one was captured, Jason Jacobs, the zoo’s marketing and  public relations director, put off  the issue as a matter of conjecture. “We don’t have scientific proof that one exists,” Jacobs noted.

Meanwhile, as the university scientists conduct their studies, the careful craft of taxidermy is being performed in Central Texas.

McDaniel and Ayer, who are half-brothers, say they have no immediate plans to charge admission to view the animal once it is properly stuffed and mounted; they’re just happy that it is bringing attention to the taxidermy school. (According to McDaniel, for $3,500 the school will provide all the education anyone would need to become a professional taxidermist.

Once the mounting is complete, Ayer says, he plans on displaying it at the school. But he’ll store it at night in a safe place — because, he says, he’s sure something as rare as whatever he has would be quite valuable to thieves.

But what makes it so different from other coyotes or dogs is that it is  mostly hairless. “It has a little fuzz around the feet,” Ayer says. “Almost like little socks of fur. And there’s a little hair up the backbone. Very odd-looking.”

Clearly intrigued by the creature’s abnormalities, Ayer continues, “The hairlessness is sinister because you can see the bones protruding at the hips.”

It’s that creepy look and scavenger-like behavior that Ayer believes leads people to buy into the myth. “These types [of animals] will zip in and out of people’s backyards and eat anything live or dead. They have two big canine teeth in the front and they go for the neck.” When someone hears the animal and goes out back with a flashlight to investigate, “They see this weird-looking dark creature running off. And they see two holes in the side of the neck of a goat, and they take it from there.”

What they take it for is a chupacabra, whether Ayer agrees or not. “It doesn’t matter what I call it,” Ayer says. “It’s been labeled.”

But one thing does matter to Ayer. “I don’t want to be known as the chupacabra quack,” he said by telephone.  “People say there’s a mythical beast and [that] I have one. I’ll call it chupacabra because people love it, but I don’t know what it is.”

Two universities might help identify exactly what Ayer has. He said he has received requests from the University of Texas and UC Davis to provide tissue samples for their ongoing research.

And what of the possibility that a chupacabra might make an appearance locally — say, at the Los Angeles Zoo? Asked if the zoo would house a chupacabra if one was captured, Jason Jacobs, the zoo’s marketing and  public relations director, put off  the issue as a matter of conjecture. “We don’t have scientific proof that one exists,” Jacobs noted.

Meanwhile, as the university scientists conduct their studies, the careful craft of taxidermy is being performed in Central Texas.

McDaniel and Ayer, who are half-brothers, say they have no immediate plans to charge admission to view the animal once it is properly stuffed and mounted; they’re just happy that it is bringing attention to the taxidermy school. (According to McDaniel, for $3,500 the school will provide all the education anyone would need to become a professional taxidermist.

Once the mounting is complete, Ayer says, he plans on displaying it at the school. But he’ll store it at night in a safe place — because, he says, he’s sure something as rare as whatever he has would be quite valuable to thieves.

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This is the supposed chupacabras.

Another hairless coyote chupacabras has been found.

And we have a body– and it’s at the taxidermist’s shop!

It weighs 35 pounds, which means we have a typical dog coyote from Texas.

And it amazes me that no one in that article said it was a coyote. It’s a coyote. Coyotes get mange and other skin conditions that cause them to lose their fur. It may also be possible that some Texas coyotes are developing really thin coats as an adaptation to an environment heavily laden with ectoparasites.

It makes for nice headlines to claim that someone has a chupacabras in the freezer. However, I don’t think this animal is anything other than a coyote that has no fur.

BLANCO, TX – A taxidermist in Texas says he has the fresh corpse of a chupacabra in his possession!

Jerry Ayer, a teacher at the Blanco Taxidermy School, says a student of his was the one who initially found the chupacabra. “It got into his cousin’s barn and they thought maybe it was a rodent tearing stuff up, and they no idea since they’ve never seen it,” Ayers said. “He got out some poison and this is what they got the next day.”

While it looks similar to a local coyote, the legs are longer and its leather skin is extremely unnatural. The legendary chupacabra is rumored to inhabit Puerto Rico and Central America, although they have been spotted north of the Mexican border.

‘Chupacabra’ translates to ‘goatsucker’, as the creature is believed to drink blood from livestock. The goats’ are found dead, usually with a few puncture wounds found around the chest and throat, and completely drained of blood.

There have been a number of sightings over the years, even some corpses found, but the animals always turn out to be dogs or coyotes with severe cases of mange. Could that explain Ayer’s creature? Watch the video and decide for yourself:

Em 1952, um espírito revela a um divulgador de ciência que um disco voador vindo de Ganímedes sobrevoará o edifício Kavanagh, na praça San Martín. Em 1967, um padre jesuíta pede a um contatado polonês que traduza o livro Martín Fierro para o idioma extraterrestre. Em 1968, os jornais noticiam o teletransporte de um casamento para o México e dois empregados do cassino de Mendoza tropeçam em uma nave aterrissada, cujos ocupantes gravam no chassi do seu carro uma mensagem interestelar. Nos anos 70, um profeta jura trabalhar com tecnologias alienígenas inspirado por vozes do além. E outro anuncia pela televisão o iminente desembarque de 50 discos voadores sobre a lagoa de Chascomús. Nos anos 90, uma mulher abandona uma vida confortável para construir um museu óvni no estado de Entre Ríos e amadurece o plano de um capuz que assegura ser de outro mundo. Em 2002, a Argentina assiste a uma estranha onda de crimes contra vacas. Reencarna o chupacabras em La Pampa, onde um camponês assegura que um disco voador lhe roubou seu celular e outro que ingerir carne de vaca mutilada lhe deu superpoderes. Enquanto tudo isso acontece, desde 1956 a 2009 a esposa de um militar perseguido vive um idílio secreto com um amante vindo do espaço.
Quem são os invasores? Este livro afirma, duvida, interroga e reflete. Mas, sobretudo, conta que experiências viveram, em que acreditam e quem são os protagonistas da Argentina extraterrestre.

Invasores. Histórias reais de extraterrestres na Argentina. Por Alejandro Agostinelli. (Sudamericana, 2009)

Blog de Invasores
http://invasores-ellibro.com.ar/

Espaço exterior e interior

De Invasores. Histórias reais de extraterrestres na Argentina (Editorial Sudamericana, 2009), Agostinelli diz: “É minha melhor tentativa de refletir o que escutei, vi e percebi na experiência mais agradável que um jornalista pode desfrutar, que é a experiência de fazer contato com outras pessoas com vontade de te contar o que aconteceu de mais importante na vida delas”. Entre a crônica, o ensaio e o jornalismo investigativo, Invasores revela o fascínio do seu autor pelo estranho e sua paixão por iluminar o incompreendido.

Blog del Autor

http://magiacritica.com.ar/

Blog de Invasores

http://invasores-ellibro.com.ar/

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“Invaders. Real stories on extraterrestrials in Argentina” (“Invasores. Historias reales de extraterrestres en la Argentina”, Editorial Sudamericana, 2009).

Alejandro Agostinelli’s New Book by Mariana Guzzante (Los Andes On-Line, May 31, 2009)

Journalist Alejandro Agostinelli has published a book that reopens the legendary UFO case that bewildered Mendoza in 1968. It is being displayed today in our province. This documentary history is a review of Argentinean sightings that involve Chupacabras, little green dwarves and spiritism. There is a revival of alien culture: “V” is returning to television, and the Star Trek remake is on top of the box office. The invaders are among us once more.

It isn’t hard to picture Alejandro Agostinelli – an interesting journalist, a tracker of mysteries – scouring through the X-Files of this part of the world.

His book is somewhere between the pleasure of the chronicle and the flashback of an archive. That’s how this project should have started. Editorial Sudamericana has recently published it under the name “Invasores”, and that’s how it ended. Over 342 pages written with the perfect excuse of narrating Argentina’s most startling extraterrestrial sightings, including the famous case involving “little green men” that caused an uproar in local ufology in ’68.
A journalist may delight in sleuthing across the paranormal landscape; for he protagonists of these events –the contactees– it is an exhumation of an extreme experience.

A Contactee Event In the Heartland
A couple vanishes in Chascomús and appears instantaneously in Mexico, as though written in the script for the movie “Jumper”. Two employees of the Casino de Mendoza encounter little green men and have a telepathic experience with them; a team of Buenos Aires spiritists makes contact with an “engineer” from Ganymede, the largest moon of Jupiter. A woman named Silvia Perez founds the “Museo del Ovni” in Victoria, Entre Rios.
The stories told in “Invasores” appear to avoid falling into ufological fervor, but nonetheless insert a disquieting description: “true stories”, as stated on the cover. You mean they’re real? “Yes,” says the author, “because these are documented stories. The reader may enjoy the recollections and experiences of their protagonists while having solid historical data at hand. None of the stories is unreal. All of these have appeared in the press, in newscasts and eventually in books on the subject.”

Thus, with several first-person accounts that are sheer narrative gold, Agostinelli chose 11 invasions. What will be the outcome of reading this book, now that the subject of aliens feels slightly retro? “No idea, that’s another mystery,” says the author. It may be, perhaps, a fine opportunity for taking out the folding chair and watching the skies again.

Che Ovni

It is clear that this is a work charged with comparative paranoia, hallucination and longing.
Furthermore, these accounts include the Chupacabras, [the subterranean city of] Erks, tours of Mount Uritorco and strange abductions like that of Zulma Fayad. There is even a translation of “Martin Fierro” (Argentina’s national epic – ed.) into “Varkulets”, an unusual alien lingo. And a constant appears. Unlike other countries, which point to Mars or Venus as the alien homeland, Argentineans connect more closely with visitors from Ganymede, one of the Jovian satellites.
“UFOs, the stories woven around them, and their effect upon culture. Those are the subjects to which I devoted the greatest time and passion throughout my life, “ Agostinelli says frankly.

- And how did you come to choose the cases? How did you know that these were the stories, and not others?
”These were the ones that had the greatest impact on me while I studied the subject of UFOs. Furthermore, by having worked on TV documentaries, I have a rather visual training. I know which stories are the most attractive, involving and suggestive. My criteria for selection were double. Moreover, all of the stories had to reveal unknown aspects in the lives of their protagonists. On the other hand, each story should be worthy of a motion picture. If for any reason (a lack of information, the inability to access direct witnesses, that sort of thing) they didn’t click, they went right back to the inkwell.”

-It’s hard not to ask which case affected you the most.
“There are two open-ended adventures that contain the hardest mysteries to digest. One of them is the so-called Vidal Case, which began with a news item published in June 1968. It told the story of a couple driving along the road from Chascomus, Province of Buenos Aires, when they drove into a fog bank and lost consciousness. Later, the couple and their car reappeared in Mexico City. In this case I learned that the motion picture “Che Ovni” had been shot almost a year earlier. This film, directed by Anibal Uset, starts with a couple teleported by a flying saucer from Buenos Aires to Madrid, car and all. It opened two months after the Vidal Case. This couple was never found and it’s unlikely they ever existed. But as with all legends, the controversy endures. Anibal uset cannot categorically prove that he created the case to promote his movie. In any event, my book contains hints that support his claim. It is followed, no doubt by the Mendozan question involving the Casino workers.

-How did you trace the route to be followed?
“Like I said, once I chose the stories, I arranged them in a more or less chronological order. At other times, I added stories according to geographic proximity. I went to Mendoza in an effort to locate Juan Carlos Peccinetti and Fernando Villegas, the Casino workers, but also other possible protagonists of what appears to have been a prank, based on a clue I was given in Mar del Plata.
Then I visited Chile, where I interviewed physicist and mathematician Pablo Kittl Duclout, the nephew of brothers Jorge and Napy Duclout, who is the only surviving relative of the first Argentinean contactees.

“In the early Fifties, Jorge and Napy were spiritists. During their séances, a spirit they identified as a “talented engineer” would talk to them about life on Ganymede, the planet Jupiter’s largest satellite. I was delighted to find out who was the engineer who contacted them, but I won’t tell you. That’s the end of the story and it would ruin it. The first trip involved climbing to the roof of the Kavanagh Building, where they were summoned to appear by the commander of a saucer that was supposed to arrive from Jupiter. I also visited Santa Rosa, because La Pampa is the homeland of the wave of cattle mutilations that unleashed in 2002, and the city of Victoria, Entre Rios, where Siliva Pérez Simondini’s Museo OVNI operates.”

The fact is that Alejandro found the Earthlings to be infinitely more complex and fascinating than the aliens.

Parenthesis one: “Aníbal Uset was the first Argentinean filmmaker who toured the world to shoot a comedy based on the extraterrestrial rumors of the Sixties, and even more with Martin Rappalini, who was a the time a young writer accused of “concealing the truth” about the legendary marital abduction. These stories merited another chapter.
El Muñeco Mateyko, Pipo Mancera, Javier Portales, Cuchuflito, Jorge Sobral, Marcela López Rey, Erika Wallner and Perla Caron starred in the movie version of the story. A relic? Yes indeed. The odyssey had a musty smell to it until I learned that Catherine Fulop had starred in a Nineties remake of the movie. In Spain, she was also convinced that she’d been transported by aliens.”

Parenthesis two: Pablo Kittl Duclout, the physicist from the Andean foothills, informed the researcher to the fascinating destiny that awaited his uncles, the protagonists of the first announced UFO sighting from the rooftop of the Kavanagh Bulding in 1954). Apparently, an advanced spirit had revealed to them the existence of a higher technology. “Those disclosures were so extraordinary that they inspired Napy to film Argentina’s first 3D motion picture, “Buenos Aires en Relieve (1954),” notes Alejandro.

Three: “I also visited the nursing home where Martha Green now lives. A lovely old lady who was whisked away from Earth in the 1950s by Enis, her interdimensional lover, while her husband, a military man in the Perón regime, was embattled by the Aramburu dictatorship.”

How distant is “Invasores” from ufology?
“I wouldn’t say “light years away” because that would be a wisecrack. But I don’t think that I could’ve written a book like this while I was an ufologist. Or when I was a militant skeptic. I believe that the right distance is having realized that the protagonists were the people I was interviewing. And I chose the first person to take over my own subjective approach.

What about Fabio Zerpa?
Zerpa is convinced that the ones that appear in his stories are aliens. I’m convinced of the existence of human beings, and some of them claim having had experiences involving extraterrestrials.

-So, do you or don’t you believe in alien life?
It’s not whether I believe or don’t. It may exist. But in that case, I imagine them as being too smart. To the extent that I doubt they’d bother visiting Earth. Perhaps, if they read “Invasores” they’ll find we’re a very interesting species.

Original Source: Los Andes On-Line.

Translation Source: Inexplicata. Journal of the Institute of Hispanic Ufology (IHU), presenting UFO and paranormal cases from Spain, South America and the Caribbean. (c) 2009, Scott Corrales IHU. Special thanks to Guillermo Gimenez, Planeta UFO).

(Agostinelli say: Thanks Scott!!!)

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I’ve never understood why so many people think any species of dog without hair is a chupacabras (and that’s how it is spelled, with an “s” a the end.) I suppose it’s good for ratings.

But I think it helps ensure that people are just a little bit dumber when it comes to the native creatures of this continent.

On another video, I explained that these animals were not coyote/hyena crosses. Such animals don’t exist. In fact, a coyote/hyena cross is about as likely as a cat/golden retriever cross.  Hyenas are Feliform carnivores, which means they are closely related to cats, mongooses, civets, and all the animals that were once classified with mongooses and civets. Dogs are Caniform carnivores. They are more closely related to bears, raccoons, skunks and stink badgers, weasels (all the Mustelids),  the red panda (which is classified in its own family), and the Pinnipeds (seals, sea lions, and walruses).

You may have intergeneric hybrids (like the Wholphin and cama), but you will never have inter-family hybrids. It’s not going to happen.

Now,  I do have some questions about these hairless foxes and coyotes.

I suspect that most of these have mange.

However, it’s also possible that because these animals live in tropical and subtropical conditions at realtively high densities, they have developed a hairless or balding adaptation as a way of controlling the ectoparasites that infect them. The hairless dogs of Latin America are thought to have developed hairlessness as a way of controlling these parasites.

Now, I don’t think that if this were the case that the coyotes got those genes through hybridization. The genes that cause hairlessness in Latin American hairless dogs also cause weak tooth roots. A coyote would be at a distinct disadvantage when it comes to feeding itself. However, there are street dogs in Mexico that crossed with coyotes and gave them this gene. No one has tested them for the hairless gene, but at least one of these animals was part or fully domestic dog.

However, I think it’s much more likely that they are nothing more than some species of known canid with mange.

But calling them chupacabras is good for ratings and getting everyone excited.