Significant Appearances in Media
The popularity of the chupacabras has resulted in it being featured in several types of media. At least one published mystery novel uses aspects of the myth as the centerpoint of the plot. Other kinds of books include those that provide a scientific explanation for the phenomena. The chupacabras has been featured in films such as Scooby-Doo and the Monster of Mexico and in independent film productions including: Chupacabra: Dark Seas, starring John Rhys-Davies, Guns of El Chupacabra, starring Scott Shaw, El Chupacabras and Vuelve el Chupacabras. Welsh rock band Super Furry Animals have a song on the 1997 album "Radiator" called "Chupacabras".
An entire episode of The X-Files series, El Mundo Gira, is devoted to the chupacabras. So was an episode of BONES. A segment in the Season 2 Dexter's Laboratory episode, "Got Your Goat", features a chupcabra. A "Brazilian jungle monster" from Generator Rex turns out to be a chupacabra.
A chupacabras appears as a legendary creature in the video game Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare, where it takes the appearance of a cross between a hyena and a boar. It has also been portrayed various times in the anime series Negima!?
In the episode "Chupacabra" of the American television series The Walking Dead, Daryl Dixon claims to have seen one while squirrel hunting, but it is later revealed that he was hallucinating after eating Psilocybin mushrooms.
The TV series Ugly Americans featured chupacabras living in New York.
CNN's Ed Lavandera has described the chupacabras as the "Bigfoot of Latino culture" and has stated that "El Chupacabra also symbolizes the fear of something that doesn't exist". Following the incident in Cuero, Texas the popularity of the chupacabras myth was receiving global attention. Phylis Canion, who was responsible for capturing the alleged specimen, claimed that t-shirts highlighting the event were shipped to locations such as Italy, Guam, and Iraq. The publicity that Cuero received following this event has led to some suggesting changing the town's mascot. In July 2008, History's Monster Quest series featured the Texas carcasses, which were determined to be dogs and coyotes.
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