Exhuming chupacabra?

Not going to happen any time soon, I'm afraid. WOAI is reporting that Whitley Strieber, the purported UFO abductee that hosts a national radio show and maintains the Unknown Country website, has backed off on plans to exhume the Elmendorf chupacabra for genetic testing, complaining that there's too much media attention. This, from a guy who thrives on media attention.

McAnally will respect Strieber’s wish to keep the dig out of the media spotlight. But Tuesday morning, when McAnnaly thought the dig was still on, he double-checked the grave to make sure he remembered where he buried the hairless creature. When he did, WOAI reporter Jeff Vexler was standing next to him.

“He put in a couple of shovel digs and before I knew it, he had hit a bone,” explained Vexler. “And when I looked down, there was a pretty nice sized bone--maybe 4, 5, 6 inches long.”

So it looks like we'll have to wait a little while longer before learning whether the creature is indeed the fabled chupacabra, a dwarf coyote with mange, a hairless Mexican dog or a really weird looking muntjac. We'll also have to wait with bated breath to learn whether WOAI news reporter Amy Davis will learn to open a dictionary once in a while:

When WOAI began reporting the story of this bizarre, unidentified beast that was slaughtering McAnally’s chickens--Strieber's interest was peaked.

It's "piqued" Amy, not "peaked." Sheesh. This is stuff any first-year journalism student should know. Those kinds of language mistakes drive me nuts.

Now Playing: John Cougar Mellencamp Human Wheels