Recently, a couple in the backwoods town of Ratcliffe, Texas, claimed to have caught a real-life chupacabra, the legendary beast that is rumored to feast on the blood of livestock. They managed to trap the freakish creature, named it “Chupie” and kept it alive on a diet of cat food and corn.Had the elusive chupacabra suddenly become a household pet? Does it even exist in the first place?Benjamin Radford, who spent five years doing research for his 2011 book, “Tracking the Chupacabra: The Vampire Beast in Fact, Fiction and Folklore,” told International Business Times it’s relatively easy to separate chupacabra fact from fiction when the evidence is measured against the principles of nature.

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