We woke up to sparkly snow on the ground this morning, and lightly falling flakes floating through the air. This is after we went to bed in the dark last night when the power went "POP" at about 9 pm. We stumbled about, fumbling for flashlights, then lit all the candles we could find.
Now that we had a beautiful candlelit atmosphere, I figured we'd have a quiet romantic evening. Instead, Bill told me a story about a "real" chupacabbra that was found in Texas recently. A chupacabbra is a mythical monster like Bigfoot or the Yeti, talked about in legend in Mexico and Latin America. Bill and Alex have always been facinated by stories of the chupacabbra, which is supposed to be a humungous goat-like beast, if you can imagine such a thing.
What is it about guys? Why do they think macabre hybrid monsters are interesting? Or even entertain the notion that they are real? Is it the primal hunter instinct or the need to protect?
Do they need to have proverbial dragons to slay (or think that they would be able to slay), even in our modern age?
Anyway, the punch line was that when the road-killed corpse was taken to the lab at UT in Austin, they found that it was just a wild coyote with a bad skin disease. And run over by a vehicle to boot.
So, presumably, the search for evidence of the existence of the fearsome chupacabbra continues...
Sheesh.
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And to think the candlelight ambience was wasted on the chupacabbra!!!! Sounds like something that would happen at our house....hmg
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