Brian McCarty's photo of El Chupacabras

Photographer Brian McCarty snapped this shot of El Chupacabras about to pounce on a goat outside Mission San José de Laguna in the Laguna Pueblo of New Mexico. (Vinyl cryptid by Sara Antoinette Martin.) McCarty Photoworks

[#1 posted by nanuq , February 17, 2009 8:42 PM]

That chupacabras looks like it sucked down a few too many goats already.

[#2 posted by Anonymous , February 17, 2009 8:50 PM]

I didn't see this one on his website... do you think he's selling prints?

[#3 posted by Avarice , February 17, 2009 8:58 PM]

Nice goat.

[#4 posted by TheMostHorrible , February 17, 2009 9:04 PM]

This is all the proof I need.

[#5 posted by gregjsmith , February 17, 2009 9:37 PM]

Pueblos don't like you taking pictures on pueblos.

http://greginthedesert.net/2009/01/21/taking-pictures-on-pueblos-prohibited/

[#6 posted by redteam , February 17, 2009 11:37 PM]

FINALLY someone spells chupacabras properly - with the s at the end. Yes, folks, a single chupacabras has the s at the end. Just like a single dishwasher is a lavaplatos. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

[#7 posted by Lauren O , February 18, 2009 8:28 AM]

I second Redteam. You get 1000 points for using the correct form of the word. You've prevented an Internet flinch for me today.

[#8 posted by Johnny One Spur , February 18, 2009 8:46 AM]

Re: taking pictures on pueblos...

Some care, some don't, some sell photography permits. I was at Laguna Pueblo a couple months ago, and there's a ticket booth that sells both tickets and photography permits. If he brought in and set up the "vinyl cryptids," it's almost positive he would have had a permit.

[#9 posted by bbonyx , February 18, 2009 10:23 AM]

@ #4 - You made my morning.

[#10 posted by dailycrosshatch , February 18, 2009 1:24 PM]

fake!