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Have you ever found yourself on a Wikipedia deep dive on the weird side of the internet? In this show - weird thing enthusiasts Ryan and Shane take turns presenting their latest fascinations to each other covering everything unusual, unexplained, and unhinged!
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Top Comments of this video!! :3
Shane trying to picture all the dead animals but Ryan had the opportunity to say "Well imagine 90 jars of peanut butter..."
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i like that they are both wearing the same type of hat, but ryan has his ears subtly tucked in under the hat, while shane has his hat tucked boldly under his ears. truly a dynamic duo we have here.
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21:47 Ryan having Shane simulate the experience of being tired and seeing a a blood sucking creature in the night by making him do maybe three jumping jacks, and making him look at a dog in the dark then Shane immediately being correct has me in tears on the floor
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I will never forget an American exchange student doing a report on Capybara's in our high school English class (public speaking on a topic of your choice) and our teacher interrupting to yell at him for not bothering to research the topic. She went on a rant about how Capybara's were vicious creatures that attacked livestock and killed babies. It wasn't until she said that their name meant "Goat Sucker" that the American student asked if she meant Chupacabra.
Edit: Answers to main questions.
I'm in Australia. The teacher didn't back down, so they got roasted for the next 3 years by not just us, but other classes who heard about it as well.
The student was a really shy and quiet kid, I honestly don't remember anything about him before that day. He ended up being one of the popular kids by the time he headed back to the US
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I’m absolutely shocked that Ryan didn’t put an aliens theory on the board. That sketch looks like an alien with spikes
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Hopefully For Debrief:
Hey! I'm a Puerto Rican who has heard about all these stories throughout my childhood, and I feel that I could bring some more context to this.
There are many legends that surround the Chupacabra and one of them was that they might’ve been alien like creatures. It’s always been rumored that the rainforest “El Yunque” is a hub for extraterrestrials because there have supposedly been many UFO sightings in the area. People could’ve just been watching a lot of alien movies at the time and developed the characteristics from there.
There was even a point in time in which a mayor when on a hunt into the woods with a few men in order to search for the Chupacabra and they were all endlessly made fun of by the public. It’s still something people bring up and laugh about to this day. Though cayotes aren't a thing in Puerto Rico, monkeys are a lot more common here than people think. Just a few years ago the authorities became a laughingstock to the people because they tried to catch a monkey and it took them days to be able to catch it because of the inexperience that the island has in dealing with them. Usually, we just let them do their own thing and they are almost exclusively seen in rural areas which is why it would make sense that farmers had the most sightings of the “Chupacabras”.
It’s actually really funny because in Puerto Rico, the modern-day perception of what in looks like is mostly the doglike creature described in other Latin American countries. It basically feels like a game of telephone that circulated right back with an entirely different description than the original. Now a days its mostly older folks who might still believe in it, but it’s now used as a myth to tell children, so they’ll behave and not go out at night at the risk of the “Chupacabra” getting them.
I guess the question is:
Given a bit more context from the place where the myth seemed to have originated from, does it still seem likely to you that it exists, or does it seem like a rumor that people ended up just going along with because they couldn’t find an explanation? (Ryan don’t worry about the blood sucking aspect, you can just chalk that all up to the vampires.)😊
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"A boat!?"
"That's a f*** kangaroo."
istg these two are the best duo ever.
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question for debrief: As an Australian the description seems to be eerily similar to the Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger) that is now extinct. They are marsupials (just like kangaroos), were able to open their jaw an unusual amount (up to 80 degrees), with a thick stiff tail and pouch, they look doglike with stripes down their back that could be confused for "feathers" in the dark. And according to Robert Paddle, originating from a second-hand account, the thylacine was characterised as a blood drinker throughout the 20th century. The were also historically shy and hid away from humans. Just something to think about.
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For Debrief: Do you guys think that the chupacabra sightings in US and Mexico was perhaps just a stray Xoloitzcuintle (Mexican hairless dog)?
Xolos are known for being completely hairless, however some are born with fur on their heads, feet, ears, and sometimes tail. This might explain the “feathers” people claim to see it had?
The photos Dr. Phylis Canion took, and the taxidermy she had done looks just like a Xoloitzcuintle. It’s hard to believe it’s not just a Xolo with mange, rabies, or some kind of genetic defect.
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If you take into account that witness testimonies tend to exaggerate because of fear, pretty much all of the initially described physical attributes align with a starving canid with mange.
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As a puertorrican (who has always lived on the island and still does but is also a Watcher fan) this episode is hilarious to me for many reasons. Here are some thoughts:
- The ‘El Vampiro de Moca’ headline always makes me laugh because El Vocero is known to be a sensationalist (and often flaky) newspaper
- Silverio Pérez (the guy who supposedly coined the name) is not only from the same town as me, but the same neighborhood (my grandma and his parents have known each other forever bc they were born, raised and always lived in the same area)
- Ryan’s pronunciation of ‘Canovanas’ is hilarious, but he did alright with Moca, Morovis and Orocovis
- Very surprised that it wasn’t brought up that the mayor of Canovanas (Chemo Soto) led chupacabra hunts with townspeople during the craze of the 90s (I am SO serious about this, he was really out there with weapons ‘n shit 😭) and in the years after. PLEASE look it up, it’s hilarious
- There’s a brunch place in Canovanas called ‘Chupacabras best brunch in Canovanas’ and that just feels like a place Shane and Ryan would visit
- Dying at the fact that ‘los monos de Cataño’ made an appearance in this story (Cataño is a town very close to San Juan and I guess the island maybe falls a bit closer to Cataño). As a kid I heard spooky tales about the monkeys making their way to the mainland and still being out there in the woods. Had never thought of them as possible culprits but it’s an interesting thought. As a funny sidenote, a year or two ago there was a whole thing with a monkey in Santurce (a very urban area of San Juan) and how it hilariously evaded the authorities for DAYS (they literally tried to lure it into a cage with bananas, it was very funny and the memes were top notch). The only problem with the monkey theory is the method of those original killings (the puncture wounds).
- A kid I knew in elementary school claimed they had heard/seen the chupacabra outside their house. It’s ingrained in the local mythology at this point
- I’d say the PR killings were done by a different creature than the other countries as the descriptions started skewing noticeably towards canine once it hit the rest of LATAM and the US and, again, method (puncture wounds vs throats ripped out).
- In 2018 there were supposed sightings of a creature dubbed ‘La Gárgola’ (the gargoyle) by the press in the town of Barceloneta and people freaked tf out bc it felt like chupacabra stuff all over again. Several days later, some politicians were caught doing some shady stuff so a lot of people concluded that “yeah no, La Gárgola was definitely a distraction while they did that”. Great memes there as well tho!
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I think like most cryptids, the original sightings are the most compelling. SOMETHING was killing those animals in the 70s, but once the myth of the chupacabra became popular, people started using it as an explanation for other much less strange occurrences.
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someone’s GOTTA fire the “veterinary specialist” who couldn’t recognize a dog with mange and went straight to “genetically engineered creature.” absolutely crazy I love it
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forever delighted by how excited Shane briefly gets at the idea of monkeys driving a boat
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For debrief:
Just considering the initial murders that happened in Puerto Rico around 1975, could it be a cult or some kind of devil worshippers performing a ritual, or preparing for some ritual (like an animal sacrifice)? Since they largely targeted goats, which is often how the devil is depicted and they sucked out blood in a very specific way.
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question for debrief : why were me and my friends terrified of chupacabras growing up? we lived in alaska. chupacrabras don’t show up there
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Life seems better since Shane and Ryan are telling stories again
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My mom still tells me about the story of her hearing a huge chaos outside her grandmas house while she was staying over, and when the fam woke up a lot of animals especially chickens. It had also attacked a few cats, Not only around her grandmas house but throughout the town in 1 night she vividly remembers the 2 puncture wounds on the animals. It was pretty wack and i still get goosebumps everytime she tells me about it. Like it's just so weird how so much chaos can be caused in 1 night, so fast and so many accounts of dead animals.
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i love how they avoid the word unsolved like the plague, its so funny
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@stardust3176
10 months ago
I like how the Mexican chupacabra is a dog, and the Puertorican chupacabra is a weird ass gremlin creature
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