The lore of the chupacabra is being rekindled in the small East Texas community of Pollok after a mysterious animal with striking similarities to the Elmendorf beast was killed there.

A mystery animal killed in Pollock last week is strikingly similar to one killed in Elmendorf in July.

Results of DNA tests to try to identify this animal, killed in Elmendorf, are not in yet.

"It was so much like it," said Stacy Womack, referring to the animal killed underneath her mother's house Friday. "It's unreal. It's just such a creepy creature when you see it."

Womack, a former veterinarian assistant, said she's never come across such a hairless creature with long fangs and claws.

Local animal experts there also are baffled by the doglike creature's identity.

Womack said its closest resemblance is the Elmendorf beast, shot and killed in July. But even the Elmendorf creature remains a mystery, said Devin Mcanally, the farmer who shot it.

Mcanally said he still is waiting on lab results of DNA testing on the animal slain on his land. The animal's blue-grey skin is almost hairless and appears to be covered with mange. A closer look at the animal's jaw line reveals a serious overbite and four huge canine teeth, and a long, rat-like tail curls behind the animal's emaciated frame. The hairless critter weighed about 15 pounds, had long back legs, shorter front legs and a long, thin tail.

A privately funded San Antonio foundation that studies the unknown arranged for the testing in August.

Whitley Strieber, co-founder of the Communion Foundation, said he anticipates the results soon.

Strieber said he has seen pictures of the creature Womack's brother killed near Lufkin.

"It's very clear that it's the same type of animal," Strieber said, adding it is evidence that the animal killed in Elmendorf was not the last of its kind.

The Elmendorf creature stirred the South Bexar County community, which also wrestled with the animal's identity. Speculation ran rampant, with some claiming it was a chupacabra ??” a fabled goat-blood-sucking beast said to have terrorized the Mexican countryside.

The animal was shot and killed shortly before noon Friday after crawling under her mother's house in Pollok. Womack said large dogs in the yard "went nuts" and alerted the family, but would only whine and wouldn't go under the house with the animal. Her brother shot the animal, tied a rope around it and dragged it out from under the house for a closer look, she said.

Womack was called to take a photograph of the animal, and possibly help identify it, as well. A live animal, just like the one in the picture, darted across the road in front of her car while she was driving to the scene.

When she arrived with her camera and expertise in tow, Womack said she almost couldn't believe what she was looking at.

"It was so necrotic, its tissue was just rotted," Womack said. "It had no hair, a severe overbite and its claws were entirely too long for a dog."

She said the animal's front legs were much smaller than it's hind legs, and that despite it's overall ghoulish appearance, it's extremely long canine teeth were in excellent condition. Also, despite having been shot, there was virtually no blood seeping from the animal's carcass. The animal's ear also "broke like a cookie" when it's head was held up for a photograph, she said

"It's body looked like something that has been dead for a month or so," Womack said. "Like I said, I've worked in the veterinary field for more than 20 years and I've never seen anything that bad."

The animal was male and weighed between 15 and 20 pounds, she said. The identical animal that sprinted across the road ran with it's head down and it's tail between it's legs, according to Womack, but wasn't tall enough to be a coyote or a wolf. She said the live animal is probably the dead one's mate.

"I would just like to see somebody go out there and try to trap the other one," Womack said. "Because it's in misery, too, and what if it gets into the population?"

Womack showed pictures of the animal to a Texas Parks and Wildlife game warden, who "totally freaked out" and called for a department biologist, she said. The biologist told her it was likely a coyote with mange, but wasn't able to match the animal's skull shape -- and overbite -- with pictures of coyotes in reference books, according to Womack.

Pictures were also dropped off at the Texas Animal Health Commission, where the veterinarian was out of the office and hadn't contacted Womack as of Tuesday afternoon. She said a biologist was on the way to Pollok to collect a tissue sample of the animal, for DNA testing.

"I just want people to be aware that things like this happen," Womack said. "If it's not the mange, it's something that doesn't need to be in the environment."

Source: MySanAntonio.com
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA101404.1B.
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A story in Tuesday's The Lufkin Daily News about Pollok's "mystery beast" generated quite a few comments from readers. The odd-looking animal still hasn't been identified, but several East Texans said they'd had experiences with the "strange critter" before.

"About three weeks ago, I was in my back yard and saw a strange critter come up in the pasture behind my house in Apple Springs," Jason Black wrote in an e-mail. "It was the size of a small dog ??” not as big as a coyote ??” and had the blueish gray skin color mentioned (in the article) and a strip of coarse hair down the top of it's back. It didn't appear to have any hair on the rest of its body and it had a long, whip-like tail."

Black said his house is located near the end of a dead-end road in rural Trinity County. The animal was walking along a fence line bordering a large pasture when it was spotted. Black said he managed to get within five yards of the animal by using a large oak tree as cover, close enough to see that it was "very lean and straggly-looking." He wasn't able to get a good look at the animal's teeth.

"I don't know what it was but I've never seen anything like it before," Black said. "I'd say it was maybe 18-inches tall at the head, 15 pounds or so, and very ugly!"

Black said his first impression was that the animal looked like a "poor-looking blue heeler and coyote mix," or that it "almost looked like a miniature hyena!" The animal darted into a nearby wooded area after it spotted him, Black said.

"Whatever it was, it was the weirdest looking creature I've ever seen, and it sounds familiar to what this article describes," Black said.

Another reader sent an e-mail saying he'd recently spotted a similar "mystery beast" while driving to work one morning near Pineland, in Sabine County.

"I had just signaled to turn off U.S. Highway 103 to U.S. Highway 96," the reader wrote. "The animal crossed the road ahead of me. My first reaction was that this was a greyish/blue, mangy coyote. There was some signs of hair on his head."

The reader said he felt sorry for the animal that "loped across the road with its tail tucked between its legs." He described it as a "mess," and reckoned that it was probably near death. The reader said reading Tuesday's article made him feel uneasy.

"The area, US 103 and US 96, has abundant wildlife, you see a lot of different animals," he said. "This one stood out. This animal may be more well established than we know."

Another reader said she spotted a similar "beast" two years ago, while she and a friend were riding horses at a hunting lease in southern Angelina County.

"It just ran across the road in front of us and never stopped or looked at us," she wrote in an e-mail. "Everyone thought we were insane! It will be interesting to find out how many people have seen these things."

The friend happened to be Laura Dubose, who works in retail advertising for The Lufkin Daily News. Dubose remembered the incident well, and said her friend had placed an excited cell phone call after seeing the photo in Tuesday's newspaper.

"When we saw that picture, we knew what it was," Dubose said. "I just knew that's what we had seen. She knew it too when she saw the picture. We were both shocked and surprised."

The photo validated the friend's brief encounter with the animal, according to Dubose, who said their husbands "had a good laugh and called us silly women" when they returned to the hunting camp and told them about the experience.

Martha Sutton also contacted The Lufkin Daily News to point out that the "mystery beast" depicted in the photo resembles a breed of dog known as the Ibizan hound. Sutton, who described herself as a "dog-fancier" with 25 years of dog breeding and show experience, said the breed is an ancient one that's only been recognized in North America within the past 20 years.

"It just seemed to me that when I saw the critter, it did resemble that breed," Sutton said. "The profile looks so similar to me."

Sutton provided a link to the American Kennel Club Web site's description of the Ibizan hound. The dog depicted on the AKC Web site is quite lean and exotic looking ??” almost Egyptian-like ??” and its overall appearance does resemble the animal found in Pollok. The exceptions are that the Pollok animal's severe overbite, shortened front legs, coloring and weight don't match the Ibizan hound.

Given the breed's characteristics, Sutton said the dogs could appear undernourished even if they were quite healthy. Variances in breeding over time and other eccentricities could also help explain the noticeable differences in the animals, she said.

"People tend to forget that many people think dogs basically evolved from coyotes and dingoes," Sutton said. "So there will be some similarities."

Other example of sighthounds people may be more familiar with would be Afghan hounds, Salukis, and Borzoi (Russian Wolfhound), according to Sutton.

- MYSTERIES OF THE DEEP BLUE SEA DEPARTMENT -

Mexico City - A team of international archaeologists have set sail from Mexico to seek a sunken city that has been dubbed the "Mayan Atlantis", press reports said on Monday.

Quoted by the Mexican newspaper Milenio, team leader Paulina Zelintzky, a Russian archaeologist, said sonar equipment had given indications there could be ancient structures on the ocean floor between Mexico's Yucatan peninsula and Cuba.

According to Milenio, resonances showed geometric images similar to pyramids and round structures. The archaeologists will search the area using a mini-submarine known as "Deep Worker".

Signs there could be Mayan remains on the seabed first surfaced in 2000 when the area next to Cuba's westernmost tip was being explored for petroleum.

Before beginning their project, the archaeologists had to raise $2-million. They set sail from the port of Progreso in eastern Mexico on the Yucatan peninsula.

- LISTEN TO YOUR DREAMS DEPARTMENT -

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REDMOND, Washington --A teenager missing for eight days has been found alive in her wrecked car by a woman who said prayer and dreams led her to the site.

Laura Hatch, 17, last seen at a party Oct. 2, was found Sunday in her 1996 Toyota Camry about 150 feet below a road in this suburb east of Seattle, King County sheriff's deputies said.

Hatch was listed in serious condition at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, where she was being treated for severe dehydration, a possible blood clot near her brain, broken ribs, a broken leg and facial injuries, said her sister, Amy Hatch.

"We were afraid that we weren't going to find her, we weren't going to get her back," the sister told KING Television in Seattle. "This is the best thing that could happen because there were a million awful scenarios."

More than 100 friends and acquaintances from Creekside Covenant Church cheered and sang at a celebratory prayer service that initially had been scheduled as a vigil Sunday night.

"We had already given her up and let her be dead in our hearts," her mother, Jean Hatch, told KOMO-TV.

Hatch evidently went eight days without food or water, sheriff's Sgt. John Urquhart said, adding that there had been no indication of foul play.

"There was no police search," he added. "We felt she was most likely a runaway. Obviously, there was another reason."

Parents Jean and Todd Hatch hired a private investigator and on Saturday organized an unsuccessful search with 200 volunteers in areas near the place where the car was found.

Sha Nohr, a church member and mother of a friend of Hatch, said she had several vivid dreams of a wooded area with the message, "Keep going, keep going," after she went to bed Saturday night.

She said she awakened Sunday morning with an urgent need to look for Hatch, had her daughter join her and drove to the area where the crash occurred, stopping at one point, then leaving because "it just didn't feel right" and going to another spot.

Along the way, Nohr said, she prayed: "I just thought, 'Let her speak out to us,'"

At the second stop something drew her to clamber over a concrete barrier and more than 100 feet down a steep, densely vegetated embankment where she barely managed to discern the wrecked car in some trees.

She called to her daughter, who flagged down a passing motorist and the man helped Nohr get closer to the car as aid was summoned.

"I told her that people were looking for her and they loved her," Nohr recalled, "and she said, 'I think I might be late for curfew.' "

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