Walt Andrus RIP

Well, I heard tonight that one of the last UFO old-timers, Walt Andrus, has died. I met Walt probably seven or eight times between 2009 and 2014. I lecture regularly for the San Antonio, Texas chapter of MUFON and Walt continued to come to the monthly meetings, even in his 90s. He was still bright and alert and I remember him telling me some cool and amusing stories of when he met George Adamski, Truman Bethurum, and a few others from the old days of the Contactees. He also owned a skull of one of those "Texas Chupacabra"/hairless coyotes and donated it to me in 2009. It now sits on one of my shelves. That's it below! RIP, Walt.

(The photo above was taken at the San Antonio, Texas, MUFON gig on June 24, 2014)

On The Road

A few photos from my travels of the past week, to Illinois, Austin, and San Antonio: hanging out with good friends Ken Gerhard and Jen Devillier, and also with MUFON legend Walt Andrus, authors Rosemary Ellen Guiley and April Slaughter, and Steve Busti, of the Austin-based Museum of the Weird.

 Me and a chick who has seen better days

 April Slaughter

 Me and April

 Rosemary Ellen Guiley

 

 Rosemary and me

 Good friends Ken Gerhard and Jen Devillier

 Me with MUFON's Walt Andrus

 Steve Busti, at his Austin, Texas-based Museum of the Weird

 Cool part of Austin's 6th Street

The "Texas Chupacabras" - Not An "Unknown"

 

 

Every now and again I get asked questions about the so-called "Texas Chupacabras." Many people (mainly because of the name that has been applied to it) assume it's a totally unknown animal, like Bigfoot, the Yeti, or Nessie, etc.

 

It's not. At all. In the slightest.

 

Unlike those other creatures, we have hard, physical evidence of the Texas animals, in the forms of bones, preserved body-parts and skulls. I own such a skull (no not my skull lol), and it's clear they are coyotes of some type, as DNA has clearly demonstrated this.

 

But, what's weird is that there appear to be certain genetic abnormalities with the "Texas Chupacabras" that makes it something very different to (as some believe it to be) just a hairless coyote.

 

There are reports of over-elongated jaws, very short front limbs (giving it strange hopping-like movements), and much more. So, the "Texas Chupacabras" is not an unknown animal, but a known one that for some odd reason may be physically changing by the generations...

 

The picture accompanying this - taken a couple of days ago - shows the skull of the one I own, which was given to me by MUFON legend, Walt Andrus.