Out in southern Texas, a rather mysterious creature was recently found on the property of Phylis Canion.

Could this be the almost mythical chupacabra?

Texas A&M University as well as National Geographic are supposed to be investigating this “creature”.

To our admittedly untrained eyes, this chupacabra looks like a mangy coyote.

Here’s the location where this creature was discovered:

Map of Chupacabra sighting

Read the full news report, see the photo of the dead creature and draw your own conclusions. Come back here to Mysterious Earth and leave a comment with your theory.

From the town of Archer Florida comes a report about a pretty strange encounter on June 1, 2007.

we saw what looked like a dead dog on the side of the road, but it didn’t have any hair, just like the skin was hanging off and it was just black (the skin).

This creature reportedly chased the family vehicle and even passed it - the writer reports he was going over 30 mph at the time.

Obviously, this is a pretty peculiar story. Wonder what was actually seen - maybe a dog with severe case of the mange?

Here’s the location of this incident:

Here’s where the incident happened:

Here’s the original report.

Thylacine Still Alive?

The last known Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger, died in a zoo in 1936. Since then, countless folks have allegedly spotted living Tasmanian Tigers. Giving the occassional rediscovery of supposedly extinct animals, you can’t just totally brush these claims aside (even if most people making the claims are obvious hucksters).

The latest claim of a live Thylacine comes from two German tourists, Klaus Emmerichs and Birgit Jansen who say they took two photos of a Thylacine in March, 2005.

Now, they are headed back to Tasmania to capture the extinct beast on video.

We wish them luck.

Of course, they didn’t help their credibility when they tried to sell their photos for $25,000.

Read more details about these intrepid Thylacine hunters here.

Mothman Museum

In Point Pleasant, West Viriginia, there’s a tiny museum devoted to the fabled Mothman. Here’s a short video tour of it (and the video has to be short, because the museum is apparently quite small)…

Skunk Ape Film

photo from the Miami Herald

Skunk apes — apparently, they crawl lonely swamps and woods in the American south. They’ve been spotted in many southern states, but most of the sightings seem to occur in Georgia and Florida. Florida…oh yeah…gators and skunk apes. This southern version of Bigfoot is big, hairy, and smelly (but then again, such a description fits some of my neighbors — and maybe yours).

A group of film students from Florida International University in Miami Florida went out into the Everglades in search of the ever elusive Skunk Ape and they’ve produced a cool documentary about their experience.

Read the full report from the Miami Herald — the film is called Footprints and its about 15 minutes long. Hopefully, it’ll show up in online — doesn’t seem to be on YouTube yet, though.

Hogzilla

Giants hogs? Around big city Atlanta Georgia?

Yeah, its true…Hogzilla roamed around the streets of Atlanta, but he roams no more!

The hog hung snout down from a tree Friday in William Coursey’s front yard, not far from where the avid hunter said he shot the beast. He said he hauled it to a truck weight station, which recorded the hairy hog at 1,100 pounds. (AP)

If true, WOW!

So if you’re in the woods around Hotlanta, watch out for those giant hogs. In the meantime, read more about the story.