Chupacabras Encounters Monkey-Man

by George Andrews 

     There are significant similarities as well as differences between the first wave of chupacabras reports that came out of Puerto Rico in 1995, the current wave of chupacabras reports that have been coming out of Chile since March 17, 2000, and the monkey-man phenomenon in India that terrorised  inhabitants of Delhi and other locations during the month of May this year, 2001.

     The main difference between the Puerto Rican  and Chilean versions of the chupacabras is in the physical descriptions made by witnesses. In Puerto Rico it was described as  looking like a cross between a kangaroo and a dinosaur, while in Chile it has been persistently described as an ape‑like humanoid.  What both creatures have in common is the bad habit of leaving behind the exsanguinated cadavers of domestic and wild animals wherever they go. The same paranormal abilities are attributed to both versions, such as the ability to leap enormous distances, the ability to fly, the ability to dematerialise, and the ability to enter and to leave securely locked rooms and buildings.  As both versions are associated with UFO activity and have the distinctive large eyes of the Grays, it seems reasonable to speculate that the Grays may be trying out different types of genetically engineered cyborg animals to interact with the terrestrial environment in various ways. Chupacabras is clearly a creature designed to collect blood and glandular extract. What sort of mission monkey-man was designed for is not yet understood.

     Descriptions of the Chilean version of the chupacabras are remarkably similar to those of the black and hairy monkey-man of India. Here are some chupacabras witness descriptions from Chile, which I quote by permission of Scott Corrales from his Chupacabras Rising: the Paranormal Predator Returns, published by the Institute of Hispanic Ufology, P.O. Box 228, Derrick City PA 16727. Here are some descriptions that were all made between April and July of 2000.

     "It stood about 1.5 meters, like a big monkey, with long clawed arms and enormous fangs protruding from its mouth, as well as a pair of wings."

     "An immense man, standing some 2 meters tall. Its shoulder blades were split, as if it had wings."

     "A kind of ape or mandrill with human features, but with very large eyes."

     "It had large yellow eyes, thick black-and-gray hair, and was standing approximately 1.5 meters tall."

     A truck driver was parking his rig at a rest stop about 5 in the morning, when all three of them saw "a very ugly animal, very hairy and black, having a long oval head, fangs, and slanted goggling eyes. It had pointed ears and whiskers similar to those of a boar."

     Bearing in mind that in both Puerto Rico and Chile, although the exsanguinated cadavers of domestic animals were to be counter by the thousands, direct attacks on human beings were so rare as to be almost non-existent, let us now turn our attention to the monkey-man of India.

     I wish to thank Jean-Luc Rivera for providing me with relevant newspaper articles from India for the period between May 15 and June 19, 2001.

     The newspaper articles from India do not mention any exsanguinated domestic animals.  This may mean that there are in fact none of the attacks on domestic  animals so characteristic of chupacabras activity throughout the Americas, or it may mean that covert censorship of the news media in India systematically suppresses stories on this subject. Until more thorough investigations can be made, this must remain an open question.

     The newspaper articles agree that monkey-man attacks humans directly, but his motivation seems incomprehensible. When monkey-man has a human in his power, what does he do? He scratches the human more or less extensively with a metallic instrument, and then disappears. For a creature displaying so many paranormal abilities, this seems a remarkably clumsy way of collecting tissue samples, if that is the purpose. Or instead of taking tissue samples, are they inoculating the scratched individuals with bacterial, viral or other agents?

     People were seriously hurt and killed by falling downstairs or jumping from high places in the panic that ensued after someone thought they saw monkey-man in the vicinity, but it would be inaccurate to construe such incidents as direct attacks on humans by monkey-man. Those scratched by the metallic instrument recovered from their superficial wounds, but typically found it difficult to describe their assailants. They frequently stated that they could not see the creature, or were attacked by a shadow.  Here are two typical witness statements, taken from the New Delhi Pioneer of May 17, 2001:

     A 40-year-old resident of Gali, Raj Rani, suffered some scratches on the hand, neck, nose and head. Rani said while she was asleep on the terrace, she felt someone scratching her neck. She turned to see who was there. "I could not see anything except a figure that had red and blue lights on his body. I tried to resist, but I was thrown down the stairs and received a head injury," she said.

     60-year-old Tara Kumar from Ashok Nagar  has a fragmentary recall of his attacker. Pointing to the telltale scratches on his posterior, he said, "It was a little after midnight. I was sleeping on the rooftop. Suddenly I find someone jabbing my neck. I turn around and see this monkey.  I could only see him from the waist upwards.  His face looked like that of a bandar monkey, and the rest of it (till his waist) was covered in black. I was petrified with fear. But before I could yell, he took a big jump, something like 25 feet high, and bounded away God knows where."

     Other witnesses stated, "It was a strange kind of black shadow, a strange kind of animal no one has seen before" and "He touches a lock and it breaks, but he is afraid of the light." When a boy who was attacked dug his elbow into monkey-man, it felt as if he was hitting something metallic that had been covered by a cloth.

     Some remarks that were made by policemen were highly perceptive: "It is not possible for the same creature to attack at two distant places in close succession."

     "We have been told the creature is five and a half feet tall, is black and rather hairy. In fact, since he struck 13 times in 3 hours, we suspect there may be more than one of them."

"Can you ever believe a monkey in jacket and jeans, with glistening cat-like eyes and an ability to vanish into thin air?"

Monkey-man is said to leap from terrace to terrace, never touching the ground. His eyes glow. One man said that when he tried to grab the monkey, it turned into a cat and ran away.

     Details such as the glowing eyes, the ability to disappear, and the ability to make gigantic leaps are shared by both chupacabras and monkey-man. And there is a historical precedent for the phenomenon in the case of Springheel Jack, who terrorised London in 1837. Springheel Jack had metallic gloves, with which he scratched his victims, had glowing eyes, was dressed in black, and was given his name because of his ability to make enormous leaps.

     One of the puzzling factors in the monkey-man equation is the fact that the attacks were almost without exception on the poverty-stricken, and were confined to slum areas. From the alien point of view, selecting victims exclusively among paupers would almost guarantee minimal medical treatment of the superficial wounds, and minimal medical follow-up. By confining the attacks to the impoverished, the wealthy and the scientific elite who control the society can be led to believe it is all superstition and delusion, the ravings of the ignorant, since almost no one in the upper social classes was being attacked.

     An article in India Express of New Delhi on May 19 stated that "Doctors at Swami Dayanand Hospital have devised a new way of tackling the inflow of 'victims' of monkey-man attacks: they are asked to shell out 1,800 rupees for six doses of anti-rabies vaccine. "On hearing this, they run," says a doctor."

     An article in the Hindustan Times of May 17 describes  a team of policemen  laughing at a scratch victim who retreated from a hospital "after doctors offered him an anti-rabies shot." What they apparently found so amusing was that the scratch victim could not afford to pay for the anti-rabies vaccine, though this article does not mention the price.

     About the same time that hospitals cut down on the influx of scratch victims by charging these inhabitants of slum areas fees they could not afford, the police also changed their tactics. They had been swamped with more calls than they could investigate, many of which were bogus, creating an impossible situation. However, they now began to arrest  those calling them for help, unless they could prove their stories. As hardly anyone could provide  the type of proof that they required, quite understandably the flood of phone calls dwindled to next to nothing. Who is going to phone the police for help, if their response is going to be to arrest you, and treat you like a criminal on charges of "rumor-mongering", apparently a prosecutable offense in India?

     These measures undoubtedly reduced hospital admissions and phone calls to police, providing a cosmetic veneer of social normality, while driving the real problem even further out of control. The more severe the repressed problem, the deeper the long-term damage done. If both medical and legal authorities lose their credibility simultaneously, what is there left in a society for a well-meaning citizen to cling to?

     One of the rare upper class victims was a doctor's wife, who was attacked in her home. She said, "He was dressed in white.  He seemed to be covered in bandages, like a mummy. Only the large, frightening eyes were visible."

     Anyone who is at all acquainted with the abduction phenomenon in the United States would recognise this as a classic description of a Gray.

     In the newspaper articles of May 15 the possibility that monkey-man might be an extra-terrestrial cyborg or robot was included along with the other possibilities.

     However, after May 15 the possibility that monkey-man might be an extra-terrestrial is not mentioned even once in any of the newspaper articles I have seen. Did orders come down from higher up that such an explanation would be unacceptable?  The special police commission to investigate the phenomenon attributed the whole problem to "mass hysteria", which was about as believable as the U.S. Air Force attributing UFO phenomena to "swamp gas" or "weather balloons".

     The husband of a victim said that his wife did see the creature, which was not a hallucination, and the authorities are blaming it on the victims and the media to hide their own incompetence. He requested anonymity as the police had pressured him to change his testimony so that the paranormal aspects of the attack are omitted and the attack can be treated as an ordinary crime. People who claimed to have been attacked within their securely locked  homes risked prosecution if they tried to tell police.  Apparently no one in India was aware of the recent chupacabras attacks in Chile, which repeatedly demonstrated the creature's ability to enter and to leave securely locked rooms and buildings.

     Another victim said, "I saw the creature with my own eyes. I did not even complain to the police about the attack, as I knew they would not believe me and  would brand me insane. This report has confirmed my belief. The police could not catch the creature, and have got the so-called experts to put the blame on people like us and the press."

     What some doctors found perplexing was that in several cases there were multiple witnesses to an attack, and the eyewitness accounts supported each other. If what they had been witnessing was a hallucination, this would not be the case.

     A doctor pointed out that the nails of all animals have some degree of curvature, and so do scratches caused by them, while the scratches on the victims are straight. In some cases, there was only one scratch. In others, they  were all over the body, but of a superficial nature. The scratches appeared to the doctors to have been caused by some sort of metallic instrument.

     The only mention of similar events having occurred in Chile was in the  Hindustan Times of May 16, which said the events in Chile had occurred in the 1940s. Not one word was said about the abundance of such phenomena in Chile since March 17, 2000, and continuing into the present. Didn't the journalists  know about the events in 2000 and 2001, or was this information censored?

     Besides the victims that were only scratched, and people in a panic who jumped or fell from high places upon hearing a cry of alarm, monkey-man is directly responsible for at least two human deaths. The wounds inflicted on these two men not only resemble each other, but also resemble wounds inflicted on animals by chupacabras in the Americas. THE STORY IS CARRIED IN THE New Delhi Pioneer of May 18. The two victims, who were both among the impoverished, died six hours apart in locations that were not far from each other.

     19-year-old Satyavir, who lived in a roadside shelter, was declared dead on  arrival at Narender Mohan Hospital, where Dr. Deepak stated: "There were three punctures in the victim's skull, which were 2-to-3 inches deep and 6 inches long. When they brought him in here at 8:30 AM, about an hour after the attack, there was no bleeding. There were two fractures on the right hand, the upper and lower joints. There were also line scratches on the back and abdomen.  On the right hip there was a deep wound."

     The second victim, Naranjian, had a job pushing a broom at the local railway station. He was attacked while sleeping in his courtyard, and had two puncture wounds in his head, 2 inches deep and 5 inches long.

     Making holes in the head or neck of the animals it attacks is a type of wound typically inflicted by chupacabras in the Americas. The thrust of the perforation is always toward the brain or heart.

     Within the next few days after these killings, monkey-man attacked three other individuals in the region, but only inflicted the usual superficial scratches. Such behavior is quite puzzling, but it is clear that neither chupacabras or monkey‑man can be characterised as benevolent.

     If we are to situate the monkey-man epidemic in India within its international context, it is obvious that the events in Delhi began almost immediately after Dr. Steven Greer's Disclosure Project at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on May 9-12, which tried to put an end to the UFO cover-up by presenting twenty retired military officers and government officials,

who gave public testimony concerning UFO incidents they had been personally involved in during the course of their careers. It was a gallant attempt, but for the most part the news media trivialised, trashed, or simply ignored this major landmark event. It was almost immediately afterwards that the monkey-man  manifestations began to occur in India.

     Dr. Steven Greer sincerely believes extra-terrestrial activity on Earth to be for the most part beneficial. Other researchers, including myself, consider his point of view excessively optimistic, though we support what he is trying to do with his Disclosure Project.

     Is the phenomenon itself reacting to the persistent suppression of information by the established authorities in our society?  The message the phenomenon is sending us may be that the more we repress positively-oriented extra-terrestrial initiatives, such as those proposed by Dr. Greer, the more strongly the negatively-oriented extra-terrestrials (such as chupacabras and monkey-man) will manifest among us.