{"id":3364,"date":"2010-04-28T00:30:08","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T18:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptopia.us\/site\/?p=3364"},"modified":"2012-11-25T07:52:14","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T01:52:14","slug":"dry-gulch-chupacabra-captured-in-oklahoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/2010\/04\/dry-gulch-chupacabra-captured-in-oklahoma\/","title":{"rendered":"DRY GULCH CHUPACABRA CAPTURED IN OKLAHOMA!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cryptopia.us\/site\/category\/monsters\/discovered-species\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1394\" title=\"discovered-species\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/discovered-species.gif?resize=100%2C99\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"99\" \/><\/a>Tulsa&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newson6.com\/global\/story.asp?s=12063067\" target=\"_\">News On 6<\/a> has reported that a bizarre-looking, rat-like animal dubbed the &#8220;Dry Gulch Chupacabra&#8221; &#8212; that eyewitnesses claim has been roaming the countryside of rural Mayes County &#8212; has been captured and turned over to wildlife experts.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Scheffel (who, along with his cohort Josh Cook, managed to capture the animal) claimed he first encountered the strange creature\u00a0on his back porch a few weeks ago when he turned on an outside light he saw the thing scurry away.\u00a0Scheffel stated that the rodent-like creature was so odd that he questioned his sanity:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It looks like a huge rat.\u00a0It&#8217;s kind of creepy.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/rat-coon2.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3369\" title=\"rat-coon2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/rat-coon2.jpg?resize=196%2C295\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"295\" \/><\/a>Scheffel and Cook\u00a0turned the creature\u00a0over to the experts at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildheartranch.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wild Heart Ranch<\/a> Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation in Claremore. Experts at the WHR believe that the creature (much like most accounts of south-western NEO-CHUPACABRAS) is nothing more than a raccoon that has an advanced case  of mange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tulsa&#8217;s News On 6 has reported that a bizarre-looking, rat-like animal dubbed the &#8220;Dry Gulch Chupacabra&#8221; &#8212; that eyewitnesses claim has been roaming the countryside of rural Mayes County &#8212; has been captured and turned over to wildlife experts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2504,"featured_media":12239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[187,223,1121],"class_list":{"0":"post-3364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-chupacabra","9":"tag-dry-gulch","10":"tag-news"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/rat-coon1.jpg?fit=200%2C299&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2504"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10330,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions\/10330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}