1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:09,480 Find other great podcasts like this one at podmoth.network. 2 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:12,240 Do you have a hunger for cinematic horror? 3 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:16,200 Do you enjoy the thrill from seeing boogie men, beasts and butchers go about their dark 4 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:17,200 work? 5 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:21,320 Then all you need to do is speak of the devil and the devil will come to you. 6 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:25,600 Speak of the Devil is a podcast for all movies that have anything from demons and poltergeists 7 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:27,960 to serial killers and the supernatural. 8 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:28,960 I'm Kayla. 9 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:29,960 And I'm Taylor. 10 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:34,120 Join us as we embark on a journey through the dark recesses of horror films, from the 11 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:37,520 classics to blockbusters and everything in between. 12 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:41,440 New episodes come out every Wednesday wherever you listen to podcasts. 13 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:43,200 We're not scared of anything. 14 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:47,720 Are you? 15 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:53,080 Most animals can't just suck off other animals, Colby. 16 00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:54,080 Monkeys do. 17 00:00:54,080 --> 00:01:00,400 Oh, that they do, buddy, that they do. 18 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:25,520 I ruined. 19 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:27,880 That's just how good you are at puns. 20 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:31,720 But anyways, hey, everybody, welcome back to another episode of Cryptic Cocktail Party, 21 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:35,840 a show where we have a few drinks, share a few laughs, take a dive into the unknown. 22 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:37,040 I'm your host, Dave. 23 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:41,920 And as you can probably guess by now, I'm joined by fan favorite, Colby Clark. 24 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:42,920 How's it going, buddy? 25 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:43,920 Hello, everybody. 26 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:47,600 That's the enthusiasm I wanted you to bring. 27 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:48,600 I'm so excited for this. 28 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:50,920 Yeah, Colby, I got a doozy for you today. 29 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:51,920 Awesome. 30 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:52,920 I was hoping. 31 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:55,680 You were hoping it was going to be a good one? 32 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:56,680 Yeah. 33 00:01:56,680 --> 00:02:00,560 I mean, yeah, the back of my mind, I was like, maybe it's just going to be like, but there's 34 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:01,560 no way this is Dave. 35 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:06,760 We're talking about I only bring you around when it's like the big guns, the heavy hitters. 36 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:07,760 You know what I mean? 37 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:08,760 Yeah. 38 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:09,760 When we have things to discuss. 39 00:02:09,760 --> 00:02:10,760 Exactly. 40 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:11,760 But how was your day? 41 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:17,480 I know you went antiquing Applebee's made candles. 42 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:18,680 I think I reached the pinnacle. 43 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:20,680 I think I reached the peak. 44 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:24,440 Yeah, antiquing Applebee's and candle making. 45 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:25,440 It really. 46 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:27,480 It doesn't get much better than that, buddy. 47 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:28,480 I'm not going to lie. 48 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:30,120 That sounds like a pretty great Sunday. 49 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:31,440 It was a good time. 50 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:32,440 Yeah, it was a good time. 51 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:33,440 How did the candles come out? 52 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:34,440 And then here we are. 53 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:35,440 Did the candles come out fine? 54 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:39,840 They're, I was going to say drying. 55 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:40,840 We're waiting. 56 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:44,960 We're waiting to see what happens. 57 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:48,000 Yeah, we went. 58 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:52,840 It was our first time and we'll see. 59 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:56,120 You know, there's always a little testing period. 60 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:58,840 It's a learning curve with anything you make. 61 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:01,120 You don't just dive into candle making. 62 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:02,400 No, I wouldn't. 63 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:03,960 I wouldn't recommend it. 64 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:11,360 But you didn't make like the soup, like what I say, motor oil and, you know, like, like 65 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:13,160 really manly scented candles. 66 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:15,800 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 67 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:16,800 Smoked brisket. 68 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:24,320 If you're working on your truck and, you know, go barbecue going, you know, there's, I mean, 69 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:25,320 those are good smells. 70 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:27,960 There's got to be a niche market for that somewhere. 71 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:28,960 Right. 72 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:29,960 Absolutely. 73 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:30,960 Yeah. 74 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:31,960 Yeah, it's out there. 75 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:35,080 No, we went with, we did three cents in one. 76 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:38,960 We combined cinnamon, apple and vanilla. 77 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:41,720 No, no, no, no, no. 78 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:45,520 We took the vanilla out and we did oatmeal, oatmeal cookie. 79 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:47,000 All right. 80 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:48,000 Something like that. 81 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:49,560 Just some really good fall winter scents. 82 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:52,760 Yeah, I just wanted to take a big gulp of it, you know? 83 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:58,400 Yeah, too bad it's fucking the middle of November and it's fucking seventy five degrees outside. 84 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:00,400 It's not, it's fine. 85 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:01,800 Yeah, the world's not burning. 86 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:08,360 And I use my esophagus for stuff, so I shouldn't fill it with candle. 87 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:09,360 No, it's fine. 88 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:11,760 Yeah, no, I'm glad you're doing good. 89 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:12,760 I miss you, buddy. 90 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:13,760 I'm glad to have you back. 91 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:14,760 It's been a minute since you've been on the show. 92 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:15,760 It has been a minute. 93 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:17,680 I'm trying to remember the last one you were on. 94 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:19,200 Was it the Spectre Goat Moose? 95 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:20,200 Was it the moose? 96 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:23,200 It was the last time. 97 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:25,200 Couldn't have been. 98 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:29,680 No, we didn't want to after that because that was the double header, right? 99 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:30,680 The moose? 100 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:31,680 No, no, no. 101 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:32,680 Yes, you're right. 102 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:34,960 No, that was the that was the most recent one. 103 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:35,960 Yes. 104 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:40,600 Well, this one's a little bit more fucked up than a ghost moose. 105 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:42,680 So OK, ghost moose. 106 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:43,680 Yeah. 107 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:50,560 I'm drinking this Francis Ford Coppola Frankenstein wine and it's already going to my head. 108 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:51,560 It's fantastic. 109 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:52,560 Yeah. 110 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:54,680 It's six o'clock on a Sunday night, but whatever. 111 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:56,480 That's no, that's good stuff. 112 00:04:56,480 --> 00:05:00,520 Other than the Frankenstein wine, how have you been? 113 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:01,560 Oh, man. 114 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:02,920 No guest ever asked me that. 115 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:03,920 I'm good. 116 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:07,920 That's the saddest thing I've ever heard. 117 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:08,920 No, it's good. 118 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:10,960 The past few weeks have been crazy. 119 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:15,200 Went to Vegas a couple of weeks ago for when we were young and also to celebrate the wife 120 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:18,480 and I's anniversary, which was shortly after yours. 121 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:20,680 So congratulations on you. 122 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:21,680 Thank you. 123 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:23,080 Congratulations to you guys as well. 124 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:24,080 Yeah, it was cool. 125 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:25,080 Vegas sucks. 126 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:26,080 It's hot. 127 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:28,280 It's 180 degrees no matter where you go. 128 00:05:28,280 --> 00:05:32,280 I got violently sick the second day I was there, not like throwing up, but like sore 129 00:05:32,280 --> 00:05:34,400 throat fever, the whole thing. 130 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:38,360 So having a fever on top of like a hundred billion degrees was sucks. 131 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:41,320 But I got to drink beer on the streets. 132 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:43,760 Cool life hack anyone trying to visit Vegas. 133 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:44,760 Don't buy street. 134 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:49,800 Don't buy beers from the bars or like the six side shops. 135 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:53,420 Look for the dudes who just have a cooler on the side of the street who are just selling 136 00:05:53,420 --> 00:05:56,800 loose beers and you really pay them with cash app. 137 00:05:56,800 --> 00:06:00,240 Because, yeah, dude, absolutely. 138 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:01,240 They're amazing. 139 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:03,920 It's the hole in the wall of drinking on the streets. 140 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:04,920 Yeah. 141 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:06,260 And it's like ten dollars cheaper. 142 00:06:06,260 --> 00:06:07,260 It's wild. 143 00:06:07,260 --> 00:06:08,260 It's good. 144 00:06:08,260 --> 00:06:09,260 Yeah. 145 00:06:09,260 --> 00:06:10,260 But it's fantastic. 146 00:06:10,260 --> 00:06:14,640 I mean, support the mom and pop jobs. 147 00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:16,880 Small businesses, guys. 148 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:17,880 Small businesses. 149 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:18,880 It's a different time. 150 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:19,880 That sounds awesome. 151 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:20,880 I've never. 152 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:24,200 No, we when we're in Florida, you can kind of walk around a little bit. 153 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:28,640 Yeah, but this is like you can get violently drunk on the streets in Vegas. 154 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:30,840 You're not that fuck. 155 00:06:30,840 --> 00:06:31,840 It's a lawless place. 156 00:06:31,840 --> 00:06:32,840 It really is. 157 00:06:32,840 --> 00:06:35,840 It needs to be cleansed with fire. 158 00:06:35,840 --> 00:06:37,480 It's the only way. 159 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:40,160 Well, I mean, the desert's already encroaching in on it. 160 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:41,280 Well, it's not really encroaching. 161 00:06:41,280 --> 00:06:43,480 They built it right in the middle of the desert. 162 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:45,280 So it is what it is. 163 00:06:45,280 --> 00:06:47,280 Mother took it upon herself. 164 00:06:47,280 --> 00:06:48,280 Fuck. 165 00:06:48,280 --> 00:06:49,280 All right, Colby. 166 00:06:49,280 --> 00:06:53,480 Well, speaking of vacations, you're a pasty boy. 167 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:57,480 Top notch. 168 00:06:57,480 --> 00:07:03,360 And I say that because I got to warn you, we're going we're going a little we're going somewhere 169 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:04,360 tropical. 170 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:05,360 Oh. 171 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:06,360 All right. 172 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:11,200 So we need to get your swim trunks ready and you get some SPF like one hundred and eighty. 173 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:12,200 I don't want you much. 174 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:13,200 They got. 175 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:14,200 Yeah. 176 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:15,200 Flops. 177 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:16,200 We're going to be on the sands. 178 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:17,840 I only wear that coffin three thousand. 179 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:20,440 You know what I'm saying? 180 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:24,160 You seem like the kind of kid who wore a sun shirt when they were younger. 181 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:25,160 A sun shirt. 182 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:26,160 Yeah, like right. 183 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:29,160 But no, we're going to go to Puerto Rico. 184 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:30,160 Oh, are you excited? 185 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:31,160 Yeah. 186 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:32,160 I heard it's beautiful. 187 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:33,160 I'm excited to go anywhere. 188 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:34,160 I never been. 189 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:41,080 Well, Puerto Rico, home to some of the most amazing beaches, beautiful nature reserves, 190 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:44,160 delicious foods and hands down some of the best rum you'll ever drink. 191 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:48,040 I work with a bunch of Puerto Ricans and during like Christmas parties and stuff like that, 192 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:50,080 they'll bring like Puerto Rican rum. 193 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:52,680 It'll fucking ruin your life, but it's so goddamn good. 194 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:54,480 Oh, I bet. 195 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:55,480 Sounds amazing. 196 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:59,800 Puerto Rico has a very rich culture spanning several centuries. 197 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:02,000 It's rich in art, music, history. 198 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:06,560 It's even home to three of the world's five bioluminescent bays. 199 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:09,200 Are you familiar with those? 200 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:14,880 Yeah, I know the term Bay, you know. 201 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:20,560 So the bioluminescent bays, they have this algae that when it's disturbed, it glows like 202 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:22,080 bioluminescence. 203 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:25,400 So you like run your hand in the water and it glows blue. 204 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:30,800 I feel like I didn't say that right, but I said that right, right? 205 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:35,120 Glows blue like radiation, like I'm going to glow blue after I go in there. 206 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:37,800 Well, it's home to three out of the world's five of those. 207 00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:42,440 And one of those bays was officially declared the brightest by Guinness Book of World Records 208 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:43,440 in 2008. 209 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:44,440 So that's pretty awesome. 210 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:49,200 And the best part is, Colby, we don't even need our passports to go there. 211 00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:51,400 It's part of America. 212 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:53,480 Yeah, it's that's yeah. 213 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:58,360 So if you're American anyways, it's been a U.S. territory since 1917 after the Spanish 214 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:01,960 ceded the island to the U.S. after the Spanish-American War in 1898. 215 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:03,960 OK, yeah. 216 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:05,840 So this is why I come here. 217 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:06,840 It's for the knowledge, right? 218 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:07,840 It's for the history. 219 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:11,400 I want you guys, I want everyone listening, including the guests, to learn a little bit 220 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:16,600 of something that is actually factual, because after the intro to the episode, it's it's 221 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:17,600 iffy. 222 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:20,760 Yeah, it's you know, it's up for grabs. 223 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:21,760 Yeah. 224 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:26,520 But what if I told you, Colby, that hidden away behind the beautiful beaches, the rum, 225 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:31,680 the shiny exterior of the popular tourist destinations hides a creature so mysterious, 226 00:09:31,680 --> 00:09:36,680 so terrifying, so evil that it gripped an entire nation in fear and evil not bound by 227 00:09:36,680 --> 00:09:41,860 borders but has been spotted and blamed for the deaths of thousands of animals all across 228 00:09:41,860 --> 00:09:46,320 Central America and even as far north as the American Southwest. 229 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:50,760 That creature is known only by one name, which roughly translated from its native Spanish 230 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:56,760 means the goat sucker or more famously, the chupacabra. 231 00:09:56,760 --> 00:09:58,760 Oh, OK. 232 00:09:58,760 --> 00:09:59,760 All right. 233 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:02,240 I told you we got a good one. 234 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:03,240 The creature. 235 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:04,240 Cool. 236 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:05,240 Yeah. 237 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:08,320 Now, you're not a cryptist guy, but you're familiar with. 238 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:09,920 The chupacabra, obviously, right? 239 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:10,920 Right. 240 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:14,120 It's it's easily one of the top. 241 00:10:14,120 --> 00:10:17,840 Cryptids in the world, like right up there with like Bigfoot, the Mothman, you know what 242 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:18,840 I mean? 243 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:19,840 Right. 244 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:22,840 You've been on the show where I've said a cryptid and you actually knew the name of 245 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:24,200 it. 246 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:25,200 This is true. 247 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:26,560 That's the one that I've been on. 248 00:10:26,560 --> 00:10:27,560 Yeah. 249 00:10:27,560 --> 00:10:28,560 Yeah. 250 00:10:28,560 --> 00:10:33,560 Now, you know, the chupacabra has been featured in TV shows and movies like the Jackie Chan 251 00:10:33,560 --> 00:10:38,640 Adventures, the X-Files and Workaholics all the way to trading card games like Magic the 252 00:10:38,640 --> 00:10:39,640 Gathering and Metazoo. 253 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:43,800 I mean, like I said, you weren't even a cryptist guy and I 100 percent know that you have heard 254 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:44,880 of it. 255 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:48,600 But the reverence we have for the chupacabra wasn't always what it was. 256 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:52,280 Like we didn't celebrate it the way we do in pop culture today. 257 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:56,500 It presented a real fear and created real hardship for those who have seen it or witnessed 258 00:10:56,500 --> 00:10:57,880 the aftermath of its presence. 259 00:10:57,880 --> 00:11:03,880 So with that all out of the way, are you ready to learn about El Chupacabra? 260 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:04,880 Very much so. 261 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:06,880 See, you sound excited. 262 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:11,440 I'm this is cool. 263 00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:16,240 I love learning. 264 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:20,520 So stories of the chupacabra date back decades, maybe even centuries, according to ancient 265 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:28,360 petroglyphs that were found in caves, but put there by the native Taino people dating 266 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:31,240 back as far as the year 25. 267 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:36,040 But for the sake of time, I'm going to kind of yada yada yada and say that in my opinion, 268 00:11:36,040 --> 00:11:42,880 the real story of the chupacabra began in 1975 with the Vampire of Mocha when on February 269 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:47,440 25th of that year, a Puerto Rican newspaper started reporting on mysterious and gruesome 270 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:50,000 animal deaths in the town of Mocha. 271 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:57,040 Now according to reports, 15 cows, three goats, two geese and a pig were found dead with small 272 00:11:57,040 --> 00:12:02,200 puncture wounds on their body as if someone or something had inserted a sharp object into 273 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:03,200 the site. 274 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:05,520 Kind of like vampire fangs. 275 00:12:05,520 --> 00:12:09,640 Later autopsies were performed on the animals determined that all of them have been drained 276 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:11,080 of their blood. 277 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:15,880 Every last drop. 278 00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:20,240 Even with knowing this fact, the police still decided, eh, probably a dog. 279 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:22,640 Dog probably did that. 280 00:12:22,640 --> 00:12:25,680 You know how, yeah, yeah, they just said dog. 281 00:12:25,680 --> 00:12:26,680 Yeah. 282 00:12:26,680 --> 00:12:29,120 You know how dogs famously have lips and are able to suck shit out? 283 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:30,120 Right. 284 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:31,120 Yeah. 285 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:32,120 All of it. 286 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:33,120 Yeah. 287 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:34,120 All the liquid. 288 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:35,340 And attacks like this continued for months. 289 00:12:35,340 --> 00:12:38,720 By March 7th, it had already killed 30 animals in this manner. 290 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:42,680 By March 15th, a farmer had lost 34 chickens. 291 00:12:42,680 --> 00:12:48,080 April 2nd, the vampire creature had branched out and was attacking all over Puerto Rico 292 00:12:48,080 --> 00:12:51,080 when eight goats and a dozen rabbits were found dead. 293 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:57,520 And it all culminated on June 25th when 25 farm animals were found dead, drained of blood 294 00:12:57,520 --> 00:13:01,360 and no sign of the mysterious creature responsible for these crimes. 295 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:07,240 People did report seeing UFOs during this time, as well as some like weird ass bird 296 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:12,120 causing Betty to think that the vampire of Mocha and the Chupacabra were two completely 297 00:13:12,120 --> 00:13:13,120 different things. 298 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:18,920 But Colby, in my professional opinion, and that's as a professional podcaster, not as 299 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:22,880 a cryptozoologist, I think that there it's the same thing. 300 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:25,200 It's pretty similar. 301 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:27,080 What do you feel right now? 302 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:28,160 I disagree. 303 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:31,160 That was my cousin. 304 00:13:31,160 --> 00:13:35,360 He was, he actually didn't eat enough that year. 305 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:36,360 He's got real thin. 306 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:37,360 He's real anemic. 307 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:39,640 That's my cousin Mocha. 308 00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:42,880 It sounds just like a reckless, reckless behavior. 309 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:45,960 He's going to get us all found out. 310 00:13:45,960 --> 00:13:49,080 Yeah, it could be. 311 00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:50,080 It could be. 312 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:53,440 I also wanted Dracula, a Dracula this year for Halloween. 313 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:56,480 I thought that was just the role of a lifetime for me. 314 00:13:56,480 --> 00:13:58,480 A Dracula, not the Dracula. 315 00:13:58,480 --> 00:14:00,920 No, no, no, just like a. 316 00:14:00,920 --> 00:14:02,200 I don't think that's how that works. 317 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:03,200 I think there's the. 318 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:05,360 It makes it funner though. 319 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:10,680 But also that means that you actually went as vampire Watsky for Halloween. 320 00:14:10,680 --> 00:14:12,960 Unbeknownst to you. 321 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:14,960 Yes, unbeknownst. 322 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:15,960 Right. 323 00:14:15,960 --> 00:14:16,960 Yeah. 324 00:14:16,960 --> 00:14:24,520 I also thought that it was a smart idea to put stage blood in my mouth before going on 325 00:14:24,520 --> 00:14:27,880 for our set. 326 00:14:27,880 --> 00:14:30,320 And then I didn't really know what to do with it. 327 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:32,360 I was just like kind of gargling a little bit. 328 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:35,640 And then I just like spit it out halfway. 329 00:14:35,640 --> 00:14:36,640 That's pretty bad. 330 00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:39,200 And then it was cool at the time. 331 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:41,240 But then I read. 332 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:43,600 Yeah, but nobody was really at that level. 333 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:49,040 I thought that, you know, read the room, Dracula. 334 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:53,720 And then I read the bottle and I said, don't put in eyes in eyes or mouth. 335 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:56,520 Oh, yeah, you got to get those capsule things. 336 00:14:56,520 --> 00:14:59,520 I got pretty sore throat the other day. 337 00:14:59,520 --> 00:15:01,520 OK, moving on, Colby. 338 00:15:01,520 --> 00:15:07,560 Now, after those July 1975 deaths, the vampire seemed to kind of just stop. 339 00:15:07,560 --> 00:15:10,440 No more reported deaths and everything just kind of went back to normal. 340 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:16,520 That is until the mid 90s when a rash of animal mutilation spread across Puerto Rico like 341 00:15:16,520 --> 00:15:17,520 wildfire. 342 00:15:17,520 --> 00:15:24,920 Now, in 1995, the first reports of the chupacabra came out of kind of kind of on us. 343 00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:27,080 I think I'm pronouncing that right. 344 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:31,440 Kind of honest, Puerto Rico, when eight domesticated sheep had been found dead, their blood drained 345 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:35,840 and two small puncture wounds were found in their chest where the supposed creature latched 346 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:38,880 on and sucked its victim dry. 347 00:15:38,880 --> 00:15:43,080 Even stranger is that when the vet examined the carcasses of the animals nearly 12 hours 348 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:48,400 later, none of them showed any signs of rigor mortis. 349 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:51,640 Do you know rigor mortis is kind of just blankly staring at me? 350 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:58,960 Yeah, it's when it's when you die, your body goes into a state of like stiffness. 351 00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:02,160 It's like light as a feather, stiff as a board, but without the light as a feather part. 352 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:03,160 Right. 353 00:16:03,160 --> 00:16:04,160 Right. 354 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:07,960 Now, authorities not really knowing what's also a song by Kendrick Lamar. 355 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:08,960 Okay. 356 00:16:08,960 --> 00:16:11,480 I know you don't know him very well. 357 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:14,960 That is my Taylor Swift post. 358 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:16,400 Yeah, I do. 359 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:20,880 Taylor Swift is going to have Kendrick Lamar is going to be a household name once that fucking 360 00:16:20,880 --> 00:16:21,880 song blows up. 361 00:16:21,880 --> 00:16:22,880 I'm telling you now. 362 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:27,360 I mean, it came out like nine years ago. 363 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:29,840 He's not not really knowing what the fuck is going on. 364 00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:33,200 And this is like 20 years removed from the mocha vampire killings. 365 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:36,920 They just shrugged and again were like, I don't know, Fox did it. 366 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:38,920 It had to be a fox. 367 00:16:38,920 --> 00:16:43,480 Foxes like a just like a mean one notoriously violent foxes. 368 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:51,040 Now by a majestic and violent nature, by April of 1996, the creature managed to suck off 369 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:58,280 over 2000 animals in the area, including chickens, cows, rabbits, dogs and his personal favorite 370 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:00,600 animal, the one that gave it its namesake, the goat. 371 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:03,600 What's so funny, Colby? 372 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:06,160 Why you what? 373 00:17:06,160 --> 00:17:09,240 Impeccable phrasing, I would say. 374 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:11,240 I wanted to gloss over and just see if you catch it. 375 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:12,240 You did. 376 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:13,240 I'm proud of you. 377 00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:18,600 Now, obviously, the idea of an unknown animal going around murdering animals will put anyone 378 00:17:18,600 --> 00:17:20,040 on edge. 379 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:22,400 Farm guards were stationed around farms. 380 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:24,520 Kids weren't allowed to walk to school alone. 381 00:17:24,520 --> 00:17:27,560 And some people just straight up left their homes. 382 00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:28,920 No one knew what this thing looked like. 383 00:17:28,920 --> 00:17:32,000 And they wanted to kind of put a name to the face, which made it even more terrifying not 384 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:35,440 knowing what it looked like, just that it was going around fucking sucking off your 385 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:36,440 cows. 386 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:37,440 Yeah. 387 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:46,540 And but that would come sooner than later when Madeline Tolentino and her mother saw 388 00:17:46,540 --> 00:17:50,240 the creature just chilling on the sidewalk in front of their house. 389 00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:51,840 I don't know what it was doing. 390 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:54,080 They made it sound like it was just waiting for a newber. 391 00:17:54,080 --> 00:17:56,920 Like it was just like sitting there racing. 392 00:17:56,920 --> 00:18:00,960 You guys know which way the Ford dealership is? 393 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:01,960 Yeah. 394 00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:09,240 So the way she described it was, quote, it looked like a kangaroo without a tail, walking 395 00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:12,040 on its hind legs like a human, end quote. 396 00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:17,200 But it had two little arms, almost like a T-Rex with three fingers and three toes. 397 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:20,960 Its eyes were big and black and all the went all the way up to its temples. 398 00:18:20,960 --> 00:18:25,640 Kind of like a, you know, like the gray aliens, like picture an alien, you know, talking about 399 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:26,640 right now. 400 00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:29,120 No ears, just little tiny holes where its nose should be. 401 00:18:29,120 --> 00:18:31,820 And it had spikes all along its spine. 402 00:18:31,820 --> 00:18:34,160 But that wasn't her only encounter with the Chupahabra. 403 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:38,520 A little while later, she would discover, discover the creature in her garage. 404 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:43,160 And her husband and one of his coworkers tried to tackle the creature, but were ultimately 405 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:44,160 unsuccessful. 406 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:45,560 First of all, fuck that, dude. 407 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:53,040 If I saw a five foot tall lizard kangaroo with spikes on it, would you be tackling it? 408 00:18:53,040 --> 00:18:54,360 I wouldn't. 409 00:18:54,360 --> 00:18:57,680 If I was a braver man, maybe. 410 00:18:57,680 --> 00:19:00,840 That guy's got some balls. 411 00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:01,840 Right, dude? 412 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:02,840 Holy shit. 413 00:19:02,840 --> 00:19:03,840 Fuck that. 414 00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:07,480 Now, the encounter prompted her to draw a sketch of what she saw and share it with the 415 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:11,800 local news, which quickly spread and caused a whole slew of people to come forward with 416 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:13,720 their encounters with this monstrosity. 417 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:19,880 Now, there have been some discrepancies over the years about what this thing actually looks 418 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:20,880 like. 419 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:22,400 Some say it stands on two legs. 420 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:23,720 Others say four. 421 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:27,280 Some say that it's three, three to maybe five feet tall. 422 00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:30,160 Some say it's got big old bat wings. 423 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:33,680 Others say it's got spikes on it or just like a really pronounced spine. 424 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:36,080 And some, sometimes it's all three. 425 00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:37,800 Some say it's got big black eyes. 426 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:40,400 Others say large red glowing eyes. 427 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:44,320 But one thing that they can all agree on is that it's scaly. 428 00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:49,840 It's got sharp claws and it smells like sulfur. 429 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:51,840 Just farts all day. 430 00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:52,840 That's sulfur, right? 431 00:19:52,840 --> 00:19:53,840 I have no idea. 432 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:54,840 Yeah. 433 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:55,840 The spawn of Satan. 434 00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:56,840 It's all bad. 435 00:19:56,840 --> 00:19:57,840 Essentially. 436 00:19:57,840 --> 00:19:58,840 Yeah. 437 00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:02,680 Well, she did say, so this lady did say to her mother that she saw, quote, the devil 438 00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:04,540 hurt, devil himself. 439 00:20:04,540 --> 00:20:06,920 So it is, that's how terrifying it is. 440 00:20:06,920 --> 00:20:10,640 Is the devil from down under. 441 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:11,640 That's Australia. 442 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:12,640 Yeah. 443 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:14,000 We're in Puerto Rico. 444 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:16,600 I mean, I'm getting a real kangaroo vibe here. 445 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:35,320 chupacabra and the news of the animal exploded even further across Latin America with alleged 446 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:17,600 Am I not? 447 00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:19,440 That's because I said the word kangaroo. 448 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:20,440 You did? 449 00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:21,440 I did. 450 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:22,440 No. 451 00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:23,440 Subliminal messaging. 452 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:42,280 sightings and attacks popping up all over Central America, South America, Mexico, Florida, 453 00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:48,000 and the American Southwest attacks and sightings while becoming less frequent and not on such 454 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:51,800 a massive scale did continue well up into the two thousands. 455 00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:55,160 People reported spotting the chupacabra to this day. 456 00:20:55,160 --> 00:21:00,960 There's like a shit ton of videos and pictures and shit all over YouTube, TikTok, Instagram. 457 00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:07,040 And while some of them are kind of cool and I'm sure you've seen some of them in passing, 458 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:08,040 I would assume. 459 00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:09,040 I don't know if you're a TikTok guy. 460 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:12,400 Maybe not yet. 461 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:15,400 Not yet. 462 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:21,240 That's that's where I'm getting old, but well, either way, they if you've seen any of these, 463 00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:25,640 they don't really match that original 1995 description that I gave earlier, which I guess 464 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:30,020 brings me to a question that you're probably asking yourself. 465 00:21:30,020 --> 00:21:32,520 What is the chupacabra? 466 00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:33,520 Yeah. 467 00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:34,520 Yeah. 468 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:35,520 Is it? 469 00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:36,520 Is it? 470 00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:38,960 Is it a blood sucking vampire? 471 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:39,960 Hmm. 472 00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:48,960 That is reptilian and T-Rex kangarooish. 473 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:56,680 You sounded so defeated asking that question. 474 00:21:56,680 --> 00:21:58,520 Because it's mind boggling. 475 00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:02,200 I don't know what to like the information that I thought I had in the chupacabra. 476 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:07,360 And then what you've presented make it like so many different things that I wouldn't think 477 00:22:07,360 --> 00:22:09,320 would meld into one thing. 478 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:10,320 All right. 479 00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:15,600 Well, before I go into the possibilities of what a chupacabra could be, what was your 480 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:19,400 preconceived notion of what a chupacabra was? 481 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:27,680 I guess I was envisioning almost like like a scary little gerbil that like if you don't 482 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:35,920 feed, you know, before midnight or something, you know, talking about a mogwai, you fool. 483 00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:38,240 Yeah. 484 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:45,400 Mostly gerbils is like a like a an exorcist gerbil gerbil that's in dire need of an exorcism 485 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:51,120 mixed with like a kangaroo and something, you know, southwest ish. 486 00:22:51,120 --> 00:22:55,920 Are you just basing what your preconceived notion was off of the things that I said to 487 00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:57,400 you five minutes ago? 488 00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:05,760 No, because then you added scales and the devil and sucking blood. 489 00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:08,800 Like and and fuck. 490 00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:09,800 Yeah. 491 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:13,280 Well, let's I'm just I have no clue now. 492 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:14,280 All right. 493 00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:19,480 Well, as far as the more recent side needs go, and I'm sure some people won't like this 494 00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:22,240 answer or will disagree with me. 495 00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:26,920 But as far as what people are showing pictures and videos and stuff of now, even from the 496 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:32,360 early 2000s, those are just dogs, coyotes and sometimes even bears with mange. 497 00:23:32,360 --> 00:23:37,120 Now, for those of you that don't know what mange is, mange is caused by a mite that burrows 498 00:23:37,120 --> 00:23:42,080 under the skin of an animal, causing complete hair loss, skin discoloration. 499 00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:46,200 And it's super itchy and painful, which causes like open sores and bleeding on the animal. 500 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:48,560 And it's super sad. 501 00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:54,360 And while it is super unnerving to see a wild animal with no fur, black and cracking skin 502 00:23:54,360 --> 00:23:58,840 with sharp teeth, most people don't automatically think mange dog. 503 00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:00,440 They think, oh, fuck, it's a monster. 504 00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:03,440 You know, I mean, yeah, yeah. 505 00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:04,440 OK. 506 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:08,360 As we've discussed several times on this show, what do people do when they see something 507 00:24:08,360 --> 00:24:12,080 they don't fully understand, especially here in America? 508 00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:13,080 Shoot it. 509 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:14,080 They fucking kill it. 510 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:15,920 No throw rocks at it. 511 00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:21,160 Many people have tackled in your garage. 512 00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:25,440 Many people have claimed to have shot and killed a chupacabra only to find out that 513 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:26,600 surprise surprise. 514 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:30,960 It wasn't a blood sucking monster, but just a poor animal suffering from mange. 515 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:34,480 Sometimes it's a hybrid coyote wolf mixture, dogs, whatever. 516 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:36,200 So that's cool. 517 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:37,640 Fun, fun fact. 518 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:39,640 Scabies is a type of mange. 519 00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:42,320 And if if mange is all you need to be a chupacabra. 520 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:48,360 Well, Colby, I've had I've been a chupacabra twice because really? 521 00:24:48,360 --> 00:24:49,360 Yeah, I got. 522 00:24:49,360 --> 00:24:50,360 Yeah. 523 00:24:50,360 --> 00:24:51,360 Dang. 524 00:24:51,360 --> 00:24:53,160 I hang out a lot of punk houses. 525 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:55,400 Well, yeah. 526 00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:58,080 That's what I call my pinch of dirt. 527 00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:01,360 What the fuck? 528 00:25:01,360 --> 00:25:06,680 It strengthens you, you know, for the rest of your life, you're set. 529 00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:07,960 You're probably never going to get sick. 530 00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:09,760 You know, that's not how that works. 531 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:15,080 Well, if a pinch of dirt or strength in your immune system, how about a couple of handfuls 532 00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:18,040 of the dirtiest people on Earth? 533 00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:19,040 Myself. 534 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:24,000 But but what else could the chupacabra be? 535 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:26,480 I mean, it's got to be something. 536 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:28,880 I mean, right. 537 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:36,000 That makes sense is like I see that you're proposing that possibility. 538 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:41,040 So logically, that totally makes sense is, oh, this may be what it was misconceived as. 539 00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:44,720 Yeah, it's definitely been misidentified a bunch of times as mange dogs. 540 00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:48,840 There's a lady who there's some lady who fucking killed the chupacabra, quote unquote, and 541 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:53,960 she like sent its DNA off to like four different labs and it all came back. 542 00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:56,720 We don't have anything in the system based off this. 543 00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:58,960 And so she's like, it's got to be a chupacabra. 544 00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:02,960 And then someone else tested it and found out that it's a mixture of coyote and wolf 545 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:03,960 DNA. 546 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:07,040 That's why no other lab had it on file. 547 00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:12,880 So it's just the waters are really muddy when it comes to the chupa. 548 00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:13,880 Yeah. 549 00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:14,880 Chupacabra. 550 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:22,280 The labs are always really just the nicest dogs, you know, just they just love, love, 551 00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:23,280 love. 552 00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:24,280 Sometimes I hate it here, Colby. 553 00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:25,280 All right. 554 00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:26,280 So what else could it be? 555 00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:30,640 Some say it's a it's extraterrestrial in nature. 556 00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:34,840 During the mocha vampire attacks in the 1970s, people claimed to have spotted UFOs in the 557 00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:37,400 area as well as during the rash of attacks in the 90s. 558 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:41,040 What's even weirder, though, is that in the U.S., we were kind of having our own cattle 559 00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:47,240 mutilation problem that also had an explosion in the 1970s, actually 1975, and then starting 560 00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:52,600 back up again in coincidentally 1995, where cattle and livestock were discovered with 561 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:59,640 eyes, tongue, skin and even reproductive organs being removed with surgical precision. 562 00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:03,280 There's no trace of blood to be found, no tracks leading up to the animals and even 563 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:05,960 scavengers would avoid the dead animals. 564 00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:08,280 So some pretty weird, weird shit. 565 00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:09,280 Could it be connected? 566 00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:11,280 I don't know. 567 00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:12,280 Sure. 568 00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:13,280 Right. 569 00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:14,280 Fine. 570 00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:15,280 Right. 571 00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:16,280 It could be. 572 00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:19,120 Other theories suggest that it was a government experiment that somehow escaped from Fort 573 00:27:19,120 --> 00:27:25,360 Buchanan, which is a U.S. military base located less than 40 minutes from Canavanas, where 574 00:27:25,360 --> 00:27:28,600 this whole thing pretty much started in 1995. 575 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:31,440 Why the government would create something like this is beyond me. 576 00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:33,280 But hey, it's not my theory. 577 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:34,280 So whatever. 578 00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:40,520 And why go to such extremes to make it some like covert mission? 579 00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:43,480 You think you could just like order that in and do some tests? 580 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:50,560 You don't get to like circumnavigate a farm in the middle of the night with no tracks. 581 00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:51,560 What's the point of it? 582 00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:52,560 I don't know. 583 00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:53,560 I don't know. 584 00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:54,560 It makes it more fun. 585 00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:55,560 We got money to spend. 586 00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:56,560 Who knows? 587 00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:57,560 Yeah. 588 00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:00,280 But speaking of labs and also speaking of things being shipped in to be tested on, 589 00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:02,760 another explanation is monkeys. 590 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:07,480 Oh, monkeys are at it again. 591 00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:11,440 There was a massive population of rhesus monkeys in Puerto Rico that were being used for blood 592 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:13,000 experiments. 593 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:15,360 Some people think that a troop of them may have escaped. 594 00:28:15,360 --> 00:28:21,000 And while they may not have been responsible for the attacks, as far as I know, monkeys 595 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:22,000 don't just suck blood. 596 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:23,720 They will kill other monkeys and eat their brains. 597 00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:25,400 It's pretty fucked up. 598 00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:29,680 But they could be responsible for the sightings as monkeys do sometimes stand on their back 599 00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:31,640 legs and it looks goofy as fuck. 600 00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:33,920 I don't think I've ever seen a monkey stand. 601 00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:35,560 It's weird and I don't like it. 602 00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:36,560 Yeah. 603 00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:37,560 I've probably seen a monkey stand. 604 00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:38,560 Right. 605 00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:39,560 I hope so. 606 00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:40,560 You know, what's fun? 607 00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:46,000 You never lost like funny monkey videos on like YouTube or Vine or something. 608 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:47,000 Absolutely. 609 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:48,000 Monkeys are awesome. 610 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:50,240 They are pretty good. 611 00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:56,920 So you're telling me that there was a troop of scientists monkeys. 612 00:28:56,920 --> 00:29:03,320 Now when I say troop, I don't mean like a theater troop or like an army troop. 613 00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:06,320 Just a bunch. 614 00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:07,800 A bunch of monkeys. 615 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:09,920 They didn't start a commission. 616 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:10,920 No. 617 00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:17,440 And had documentation and they, you know, one of them wore glasses. 618 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:18,440 It wasn't Planet of the Apes. 619 00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:19,920 Like they weren't like filled with super. 620 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:20,920 Actually, I don't know. 621 00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:25,080 I don't know the full story of it because some people just put theories out there with 622 00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:26,080 no explanation. 623 00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:27,680 Could it be this? 624 00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:28,680 Sure. 625 00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:34,920 And then I think that's great because yes, there's logical and then there's like, oh, 626 00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:38,520 but you know, what if it was the craziest thing? 627 00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:39,520 Right. 628 00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:40,520 Yeah. 629 00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:41,520 You got to have a full spectrum. 630 00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:42,520 Absolutely. 631 00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:43,520 I get it. 632 00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:44,520 I get it. 633 00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:52,240 Now, Colby, whatever the troop of copper is, monkey, kangaroo, alien, as far as I can tell, 634 00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:54,040 it hasn't attacked any humans. 635 00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:56,560 So that's kind of a plus. 636 00:29:56,560 --> 00:30:01,640 But the fear it caused in the people and communities are ravaged was and is still very real. 637 00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:05,480 Maybe not fear for their lives type fear, but fear for their animals. 638 00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:08,760 Because for some of these people, their livestock is how they make their money. 639 00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:10,440 And also this thing was also eating pets. 640 00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:13,440 I don't know if I mentioned this, but it was like dogs, cats. 641 00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:14,520 It was fucking everyone's lives up. 642 00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:16,160 So these people, pets are like family. 643 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:17,280 So I get it. 644 00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:23,480 I will say, Colby, that I do believe there is something to the attacks in the seventies 645 00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:28,520 and the nineties just because the description that that lady gave is so fucking out of pocket 646 00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:31,600 and all the weird shit that was also going around at the time. 647 00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:32,600 Yeah. 648 00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:34,960 That I do believe there might be something to it. 649 00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:41,240 These modern sightings, anything from like two thousands on, I don't think it's real 650 00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:45,160 just because the original description and what they're describing now and what they're 651 00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:49,120 showing a video is clearly some type of canine. 652 00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:50,500 There's no way around it. 653 00:30:50,500 --> 00:30:51,640 And so that I don't buy. 654 00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:56,520 But hey, I'm not here to sway like anyone's beliefs or opinions. 655 00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:59,640 But I mean, come on. 656 00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:03,680 But I mean, come on. 657 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:04,680 Come on. 658 00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:06,000 That's that's the whole thesis paper. 659 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:07,000 It just is. 660 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:08,000 Come on. 661 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:09,000 Yeah. 662 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:16,000 Well, yeah, they have a very condensed version of the story of the Chupacabra. 663 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:22,440 I kind of breeze through this like really fast because there's a lot to get through. 664 00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:25,800 But I hope it made sense and I hope everyone listening enjoyed it. 665 00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:29,720 But Colby, I want to get your opinion on this story. 666 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:30,720 All right. 667 00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:31,720 You you have the floor. 668 00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:32,720 Tell me what you think. 669 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:33,720 Ask me any questions. 670 00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:36,800 I'll try to answer the best I can. 671 00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:43,840 I think that probably similar to a lot of different stories of cryptids. 672 00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:47,840 You know, there was it's a convoluted sort of thing. 673 00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:49,840 There's a lot of layers to it, right? 674 00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:53,720 That could have been two different things, two different beings. 675 00:31:53,720 --> 00:32:01,240 Part of it could have been, you know, an actual logical thing, you know, such as, you know, 676 00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:04,960 mange and yeah, but the mange I feel like is coyote or something. 677 00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:07,240 The mange is more I think the modern things. 678 00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:14,000 Mange does not cause animals to sprout bat wings, spines and bulbous fucking eyes. 679 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:15,000 You know what I mean? 680 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:16,000 Right. 681 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:17,000 Right. 682 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:20,560 Well, it's one piece of it that can be legitimized. 683 00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:21,560 Yeah. 684 00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:22,560 Right. 685 00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:23,800 So so I get that. 686 00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:27,880 And that's ultimately what you're trying to do is see how many things you can legitimize 687 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:32,960 and then you take in as much statistics as you can from different sightings and see what 688 00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:34,340 things match up. 689 00:32:34,340 --> 00:32:39,480 So I bet you it was a bunch of different things throughout all of these stories. 690 00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:40,480 Probably some of them. 691 00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:44,040 Yeah, there's absolutely zero explanation for and then some of them, there's probably 692 00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:48,240 more of an explanation that falls in line with something that's realistic. 693 00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:50,320 But yeah, dude, I don't fucking know. 694 00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:58,560 You know, you know, it's not going to figure this out today, though. 695 00:32:58,560 --> 00:32:59,560 You and I probably. 696 00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:00,560 Yeah, probably not. 697 00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:01,560 I don't think we're going to do it. 698 00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:02,560 But uh, but would you? 699 00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:03,560 It was a good story though. 700 00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:04,560 Right. 701 00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:05,560 It was fun. 702 00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:06,560 It's it's fantastic. 703 00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:07,560 I learned something. 704 00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:16,440 I learned a bunch of things geographical, how to use fear as a tactic to control the population. 705 00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:22,360 I heard a little tidbit about my cousin. 706 00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:24,760 Yeah, well, he's doing well. 707 00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:27,200 Yeah, it wasn't the vampire named Mocha. 708 00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:29,040 It was a vampire of Mocha. 709 00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:30,040 Like it was the where it was. 710 00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:34,320 It wasn't the person didn't name the vampire Mocha. 711 00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:38,040 Oh, well, no, it's fine. 712 00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:43,440 Uh, but yeah, Colby, I think we've we uh, I think we solved it. 713 00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:47,280 I think that it's nowadays is dog with mange. 714 00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:50,720 I think the Chupacabra is in fact real. 715 00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:54,080 I think because it seems like holy shit. 716 00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:55,080 All right. 717 00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:56,080 So there was. 718 00:33:56,080 --> 00:33:58,480 Did you just figure it out? 719 00:33:58,480 --> 00:33:59,480 Well, listen. 720 00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:00,480 So the Chupacabra. 721 00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:03,480 So listen, shut up, Colby. 722 00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:11,240 So the Chupacabra in nineteen seventy five cattle mutilations in America, nineteen seventy 723 00:34:11,240 --> 00:34:17,200 five Chupacabra in nineteen ninety five cattle mutilations. 724 00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:21,640 Nineteen ninety five. 725 00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:23,400 I don't know what happened in 2015. 726 00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:27,440 There could have been fucking way more Chupacabras and way more cattle mutilations. 727 00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:29,600 Like what if it's like an every 20 year thing? 728 00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:32,320 Like what if it's like what if it's like fucking Pennywise from it? 729 00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:34,800 And just or what if it's exponential? 730 00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:39,040 Like what if it's like nineteen seventy five to nineteen ninety five? 731 00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:43,560 But that's going to be twenty twenty five, like add an extra 10 years. 732 00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:44,560 Right. 733 00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:45,560 Yeah. 734 00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:51,920 What if it's like he just stuck in this constant loop of just spawning here in this dimension 735 00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:52,920 every 25 years. 736 00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:53,920 And it's like, really? 737 00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:55,560 What if they just fucking? 738 00:34:55,560 --> 00:35:02,240 There was a theory that the Chupacabra was a like a pet of an alien and it got like a 739 00:35:02,240 --> 00:35:03,240 fucking dog. 740 00:35:03,240 --> 00:35:04,240 That's good. 741 00:35:04,240 --> 00:35:05,240 That's good. 742 00:35:05,240 --> 00:35:06,240 We got to end this. 743 00:35:06,240 --> 00:35:09,240 It's fucking 40 minutes now. 744 00:35:09,240 --> 00:35:11,240 We're going to talk about. 745 00:35:11,240 --> 00:35:12,520 But I think we did a good job. 746 00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:13,520 We should have a part two. 747 00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:15,400 We should have part two. 748 00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:16,400 We'll do. 749 00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:17,400 We could do a part two later. 750 00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:18,720 Dave, can I tell you something? 751 00:35:18,720 --> 00:35:19,720 What's up? 752 00:35:19,720 --> 00:35:24,240 You're my Chupacabra. 753 00:35:24,240 --> 00:35:25,240 Say it back. 754 00:35:25,240 --> 00:35:26,240 You're my Chupacabra. 755 00:35:26,240 --> 00:35:27,240 Thanks, bud. 756 00:35:27,240 --> 00:35:32,800 All right, Colby, do you want to plug anything? 757 00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:34,600 You got your band, you got any shows coming up? 758 00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:35,600 What do you got? 759 00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:43,200 Yeah, we got a show at Charlie's Hill in Laos, Lebanon. 760 00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:44,480 Lebanon, Maine, not the country. 761 00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:45,480 Yes. 762 00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:53,800 Now we're going to travel to the country of Lebanon for a show called Homie Fest 3. 763 00:35:53,800 --> 00:36:00,240 Our boy, Han, set it up. 764 00:36:00,240 --> 00:36:06,240 No, that's next weekend, November 11th. 765 00:36:06,240 --> 00:36:09,320 We got invited by the homes and stand abandoned. 766 00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:11,720 We played with them. 767 00:36:11,720 --> 00:36:14,840 Charlie's Hill last month, month before. 768 00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:15,840 It's a blast. 769 00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:16,840 Colby, so much fun. 770 00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:18,840 No one wants to know the first. 771 00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:19,840 You got a show. 772 00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:20,840 Lebanon Homie Fest. 773 00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:21,840 First of all. 774 00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:22,840 Yeah. 775 00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:23,840 You're bad at promoting. 776 00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:24,840 Right. 777 00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:25,840 Lent is last light is our band. 778 00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:26,840 We got a single out. 779 00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:27,840 We're coming out with another one. 780 00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:28,840 What's the name of the thing? 781 00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:29,840 As you know, oh, the the past single was Maki Hiki Kamaha. 782 00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:30,840 OK, yeah. 783 00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:31,840 And the next one, you know, to be determined, I don't want to spoil anything. 784 00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:32,840 Fuck, dude, this wine is killing me. 785 00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:33,840 I'm fucking silly as shit right now. 786 00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:34,840 We got to end this. 787 00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:35,840 I love this. 788 00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:36,840 I love this. 789 00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:37,840 I love this. 790 00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:38,840 I love this. 791 00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:39,840 I love this. 792 00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:40,840 I love this. 793 00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:41,840 I love 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you know, 813 00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:29,440 I have no idea what bands to compare them to. 814 00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:33,440 I'd say like, Not Clues, Boundaries-esque. 815 00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:35,440 Not even close, Colby. 816 00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:37,440 Trying to be, you know, big. 817 00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:39,440 Those are bands that you're inspired by. 818 00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:40,440 Very much so. 819 00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:42,440 They do not sound like, you do not sound like that. 820 00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:46,440 But what we sound like, I still haven't figured it out. 821 00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:47,440 It's weird. It's good. 822 00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:49,440 I guess it's good. 823 00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:50,440 Hell yeah. 824 00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:55,440 All right. Follow me on Instagram at Crypto Cocktail. 825 00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:57,440 Follow me on Twitter at Crypto Cocktail. 826 00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:00,440 Follow me on TikTok at Crypto Cocktail Party. 827 00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:03,440 Follow me on YouTube at Crypto Cocktail Party 828 00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:08,440 because I now have, I've been doing shorts, I guess. 829 00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:09,440 I don't know. 830 00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:11,440 I don't know what it is, but it's fine. 831 00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:13,440 People seem to kind of like them. 832 00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:17,440 It's just me reposting things from TikTok onto shorts. 833 00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:18,440 So it's whatever. 834 00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:19,440 Hell yeah. 835 00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:20,440 Yeah. But yeah, with that, 836 00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:21,440 I guess it's the end of the episode. 837 00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:23,440 Colby, do you want to say goodbye to everyone? 838 00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:51,440 Yeah. See you later, everybody. 839 00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:55,440 Bye.