10 Terrifying Monsters Sighted Around The World

Translating literally to ‘goat sucker’, Chupacabra sounds more like a playground insult than a real-life legend. But legend it is, inhabiting the South America and feasting on local livestock with alarming vigour.

Draining its victims entirely of their blood, Chupacabras are famed for their vampire-like qualities, skulking through farmland in search of creatures to devour, then leaving the bodies behind with three trademark puncture wounds where they’ve taken their fill.

The most common description of a Chupacabra is a reptilian creature with spines running down its back, standing at about four foot tall. Others are described as similar to hairless dogs, and the spines instead forming bat wings, though both descriptions are similar in that it has glowing red eyes and leaves strange three-toed footsteps in its wake, as well as the pungent smell of sulphur.

Regarded as being responsible for up to 1,000 animal deaths since its discovery and with numerous break-ins to children’s bedrooms, the pint-sized cryptid is not one to be messed with, unless you want to be sucked dry like an old Capri Sun pouch. Just imagine that.