Moment mystery creature turns up outside woman’s house – MSN

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Some said it was a chupacabra – a notorious bloodsucking cryptid from American folklore. Others called it a skin-walker – described by the Navajo as a .

Jonathan Downes

Cryptozoologist, naturalist, musician, singer, composer, poet, novelist and Director of the Centre for Fortean Zoology since 1992. Jon was born in Portsmouth in 1959 and spent his infancy in Nigeria and his childhood in Hong Kong. His wife Corinna died of cancer in 2020, leaving him with two stepdaughters and a six year old granddaughter called Evelyn.