Jan 23 2007
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Killer Snakes, Winged Weirdoes and Politicians
Part 2 of the Moca Vampire Saga
Read Part 1 here on UFOmystic entitled: Dark Visitors: Puerto Rico’s Moca Vampire.
The exploits of the greedy vampire finally set the cogs and wheels of government in motion, resulting in official action in the form of a visit from the Senate Agricultural Commission, led by Senator Miguel A. Deynes, police colonel Samuel López and a number of functionaries. Following interviews with the affected parties and local law enforcement officials, Senator Deynes requested that Police Superintendent Astol Toledo “redouble his efforts in getting to the bottom of the situation,” as there was no doubt in his mind that no animal could cause so many deaths. (In yet another curious parallel between the Moca Vampire and the Chupacabras of the nineties, the Superintendent of Police 20 years later would be named Pedro Toledo).
Partisans of the “killer snake” theory, which had gained adherents in the wake of Luis Torres’ adventures with the boas, had their hopes dashed yet again by Dr. Juan Rivero, a Mayagüez-based herpetologist who unequivocally stated that the Puerto Rican boa, a non-poisonous reptile, was physically incapable of slaying animals as large as a goat, much less a cow. The herpetologist further explained that the snakes’ mouths were not adapted to suck blood, ruling them out as potential exsanguinators.
Felix Badillo could not believe his eyes when, on the morning of March 23, 1975, he found a ten pound piglet dead in it pen. The tiny porker was missing an ear and had a sizable hole on the side of its head. Badillo was haunted by the fact that such a thing could have happened to one of his animals, since his fierce watchdog had neither barked nor growled during the night and there was no sign of a struggle. The pig farmer was hardly comforted by the expert opinion of Dr. Angel de la Sierra, a specialist with the University of Puerto Rico, who noted that the cut on the piglet’s ear stump was similar to certain incisions made in experimental surgery to study deafness.
By this point, the Moca Vampire had apparently tired of its monotonous diet and was ready for a little variety. At ten o’clock at night on March 25, laborer Juan Muñiz was allegedly attacked by a “horrible creature covered in feathers,” as he would later describe it. Muñiz was returning home to Moca’s Barrio Pulido when he saw the unsightly entity. The laborer threw stones at the entity to frighten it away, but only managed to provoke its anger: the creature flew toward him, prompting Muñiz to seek shelter behind some bushes before running to a neighbor’s house. An armed band of locals went out to find the winged weirdo, but their efforts were fruitless.
The “vampire” would soon transcend the narrow confines of Moca to embarking on an island-wide spree of animal killings in April 1975. Among its first depredations outside the San Juan metropolitan area was the slaying of a pig on a farm belonging to one Benigno Lozada in Guaynabo, P.R.. Meanwhile, an all-out effort to apprehend the suspected human element behind the mutilations had been set into motion by the police, while on the other hand, the media bent over backward to find a “rational” or “scientific” explanation that would dismiss the strong supernatural air surrounding the unknown predator. When some “odd bats” were discovered in a limestone cave near Moca, hope welled in newsrooms throughout the island. However, it was soon pointed out that the bats were in fact of the ordinary kind, who live on fruit and do not attack animals.
To be continued…
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January 23rd, 2007 at 12:57 pm
[...] Part 2 of the Moca Vampire saga is available here on UFOmystic at: Killer Snakes, Winged Weirdoes and Politicians. [...]
January 24th, 2007 at 1:54 am
Wild dogs, Nick.
Wild dogs.
Paul
January 24th, 2007 at 5:26 am
Paul
Indeed some are, I’m sure. Some, I’m equally sure, are not. Maybe a return trip to the island to resolve it is is order?!
February 5th, 2007 at 9:06 am
[...] Read Part 2 here on UFOmystic entitled: Killer Snakes, Winged Weirdoes and Politicians. [...]