El Chupa-WHA? Hairless Creature Found Near Library

What could it be? A cat? A raccoon? A fox or a dog? The creature was hairless, with a cat like face, small fangs protruding from its dark lips and a body like a coyote and raccoon mixed together.

But it was found dead, so it wasn’t giving up any answers to our questions. 

"What ever it was, it was different and it was ugly," said Tom Rowe, groundskeeper of the in Port Washington. "It was like nothing I have ever seen before."

The Library has seen its share of wild animals on the property — with wild turkeys hanging out on the front lawn to deer continually running down the east side of the building to cross Grand Avenue.

But, this was neither turkey, nor deer. 

Truly, it could only be one thing: El Chupacubra.  

A Chupacubra is supposedly part reptile, part coyote and is said to be a vampiric and ugly creature. However, in recent years the chupacabra label has simply become a catch-all name for just about any strange, hairless creature that can't be immediately identified by whoever first sees or finds it.

Wisconsin has seen its share of weird and fantastical creature sightings, usually of bigfoot in the Northwoods. 

Looking at w-files.com, I found that someone in Port Washington reported the presence of a  “boobooshaw” back in the 1970s. He described it to be a “black skeletal-like creature,” without actually having seen the thing. 

The El Chupacubra legend originates in South America and Mexico, but recently, there have been sightings of El Chupacubra in Wisconsin from Racine to Waukesha to the northern counties.

So, why not Port Washington?

We have a beautiful marina on a beautiful lake, great restaurants with, I’d assume, equally great trash to pick out of — what more could a strange, hairless creature want in life?

Without picture proof, however, we will never know for sure what the thing was that resided near the library in picturesque Port Washington, but it certainly has me looking at the creatures of night a little differently.