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Chupathingy

Chupathingy

Find and kill a chupacabra.

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How to unlock the Chupathingy achievement in Red Dead Redemption - Definitive Guide

Source: RipTen Videogame Blog

Chupathingy
Find and kill a chupacabra.

This is the last challenge on the Undead Hunter Challenge

Chupacabra

The greatest chance of finding the Chupacabra is in Nuevo Paraiso when you are on the last tier of the hunting challenges. When you are near the random Chupacabra spawn, a message will appear and you will be able to see the radius of its possible location on the map.

* The Chupacabra can be found in the fields North West of Torquemada. When zoomed out on the game map, the area will have a picture of three horses.
* The creature can also be found South East of Perdido
* South of Casa Madrugada, or North of Chuparosa near the river.

Video courtesy of Yumiya89

Thanks to STLfan2468: If you can't find the Chupacabra, save your game at Chuparosa and QUIT the game. Load the game up and head to the area south west of Las Hermanas. The game will prompt you that a mythical creature is in the area.
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29 Nov 2010 13:05

38 Comments
i had finished the campaign when i was doing this, dont use the track system ingame, most of the time it doesn«t work.
just try going near las hermanas, like in the video, and walk around there till you'll get the message "A mytical creature has appeared in the area"
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By BoGuS 13 PT on 05 Dec 2010 23:52
I got it in Agave Viejo, right on the train tracks.
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By Motopsycho X on 08 Dec 2010 04:52
Found on Red Dead Wiki that by killing goats the Chupacabra will show up, worked for me.
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By Master AO on 13 Jan 2011 22:06
u may want to reference the fact that the name of this cheeve comes from the popular web series, "Red vs. Blue"
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By DragonFangDan on 07 Feb 2011 17:40
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By LAFTA on 20 Feb 2011 17:01
BoGus, give credit where credit is due dude. No one likes a plagiarizer.
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By DragonFangDan on 04 Mar 2011 07:02
YOU MIGHT WANT TO ADD THIS: If you can't find the Chupacabra, save your game at Chuparosa and QUIT the game. Load the game up and head to the area south west of Las Hermanas. The game will prompt you that a mythical creature is in the area. Boom! Easy as pie.
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By Kamera on 20 Mar 2011 20:45
ive tried all of these places including riding back and forth between mexico 3 times and have yet to have even spotted it once.
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By TheHeightOfItAl on 28 Apr 2011 11:28
did you try doing what STLfan2468 does on his comment?
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By BoGuS 13 PT on 28 Apr 2011 12:06
Couldn't find it, anywhere tried everything suggested, went into armadillo and it appeared there :S WTF?
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By ZachRobins0n on 25 May 2011 19:59
Also got no chevo and my stats say ive killed 1 chupacabra
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By ZachRobins0n on 25 May 2011 20:00
The killing the goats works. After hours of walking in the same area, I started to kill goats and it popped about 2 minutes after killing about 6 of them.
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By oO Link X007 Oo on 29 Jul 2011 16:11
Scanned everywhere for a few hours before I found him just east of Sepulcro, among the hills there
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By Carbokris on 09 Aug 2011 13:02
Nothing seemed to work untill I killed some goats in the Torguemada area, it appeared right after killing a bunch. Might be just a coincidence though
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By Firing Dutchman on 18 Apr 2012 08:43
At: LAFTA and DragonFangDen: It says the source name.
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By Exalted Entity on 20 Apr 2012 21:16
I spent a couple hours on this, tried goat killing, and the Chuparosa quit-load thing. Neither of those worked. What did work for me in the end was to go to the western-most part of that "3 horse" channel just west of Torquemada where most people were finding it and then literally ran my horse in circles (hold stick to the left and jam on A) crossing north and south of the trail. After about 10 minutes the Chupacabra spawned. Killed it, saved in the nearest town and went right back for the Unicorn which took no searching at all, it was just on the eastern end closer to Torquemada.
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By Billservo on 01 Jul 2012 04:36
The "game save at Chuparosa" worked perfectly! Thanks!
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By TOWELIE07 on 02 Aug 2012 22:21
I found it just south of where "Perdido" is written when zoomed in just after I gave up at the south-west of Las Hermanas thing
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By Chosen One 41 on 09 Jun 2013 18:36
Nothing worked for me till i killed 5 or 6 goats,then he appeared! smile
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By T1TANMONKEY on 16 Jan 2014 13:16
mine spawned north east of Sepulcro while riding from one spawn point to another
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By Raw Sauce Ross on 11 May 2014 17:23
The Chuparosa save worked for me as well. Beautiful.
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By Mr Rodster on 25 May 2014 02:56
DONT RIDE DEATH!! Apparently it wont spawn if you are looking for it on Death, I looked for hours on Death then switched to a different horse and found it almost instantly.
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By mudder85 on 16 Jul 2014 00:59
I got this using the Chuparosa method and I was riding Death
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By KILLSHOT666 on 12 Sep 2014 23:03
do you need to be rank 5 in hunter challenges in order to find the chupacabra?
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By Draxler Knight7 on 02 Mar 2015 16:26
@xavi 7 oritz It's been a year since I played it for 100% but I did the challenges and I think I recall this being one of the challeges but it shouldn't request you to be rank 5 in it
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By Raw Sauce Ross on 02 Mar 2015 16:42
Been looking for it for hours, checked all locations, but I couldn't find it. So I left to save the last towns I needed to save. I went back to it's main location Northwest of Torquemada, and I found it instantly. I don't know if this is common knowledge, but it seems that it only spawns once all areas have been saved.
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By Spelunkie on 29 Jun 2015 10:26
Been searching for this for over an hour and no joy - even with the save trick mentioned :( oh well, no z for my Alphabet challenge angry
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By metallicafan459 on 25 Jun 2017 21:21
Got it in Torquemeda by the horses on the map :)
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By metallicafan459 on 26 Jun 2017 07:35
This is one of those random chance achievements, there’s no real definitive way to have the chupacabra spawn. Just keep going to common spawn locations and eventually you should get it to spawn. After trying the Chuparosa save method and having it fail, I rode to Torquemada (on Death, believe it or not) and it spawned, while riding around the general vicinity, beneath the three horses on the map.
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By Ethigy on 14 Dec 2017 20:00
Finding this thing is the worst
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By Seitzz on 02 Nov 2018 19:09
I randomly found the chupacabra, killed it and I didn't get the achievement, nor did it count towards the completion of the Hunter challenge. Wtf?! After that I went to Chuparosa to save the game and try this tactic, but the game crashed while saving... This is the most broken DLC I've ever played! So many bugs, partially game-breaking, and R* never fixed them. Shows how much they care about their costumers.
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By Antr0p0phagus on 19 Feb 2019 23:13
I've never heard of that glitch, but interesting Antr0p0phagus.
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By Raw Sauce Ross on 22 Feb 2019 03:47
I couldn't find it doing the Chuparosa save/quit method. Tried killing goats and that didn't work either. But when I followed a group of goats for 2-3 minutes on foot it spawned. It was near Escalera.
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By Enrique Pelaez on 15 May 2023 06:00
Southeast of Perdido at 2 AM on a Friday is a definite spawn, worked several times for me. Nothing else worked. Thanks to the RDR Wikia for the tip.
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By Amael#4775 on 22 May 2023 06:27
My chupacabra appeared west of El Presidio on my way to pick up a lost soul after I completed the main storyline.
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By nightmareNENO on 12 Dec 2010 09:45
Read your solution right after getting to this part of the game and traveled south east of El Perdido like you said, and within 15 seconds ran into the chupacabra.
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By LobsterParty on 17 Dec 2010 05:32
STLfan2468's suggestion didn't work for me at all. Maybe it only works at certain times of the day or perhaps he was just really lucky. I saved at Chuparosa, quit the game and went south west of Las Hermanas multiple times. Each time I would make a fresh save to make sure I didn't mess things up. I'm not sure where south west of Las Hermanas exactly it was supposed to be so I'd just ride to Las Hermanas and then ride directly south west with slight variations multiple times before trying again. I tried at least 5 times and then gave in and started doing the missing people missions... I happened across the Chupacabra near El Perdido en route to one of those missions. My advice, if you haven't done all the side missions and you intend to see if it'll pop up while you're finishing up those.
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By Crayon Taster on 20 Nov 2011 05:49
Nothing on here really works. Jesus. Not sure how that STL guy got mentioned because I tried it twice and nothing popped up.

I was wandering around Casa Madrugada looking for goats to kill/slaughter for this nasty beast like was mentioned several times.

I gave up after seeing someone mentioning Torquemada. So I set out for this town and on the way, it appeared right in the middle of El Presidio, Mesa de Sol and Diez Coronas.

Seriously. I just killed the thing and am looking at my screen.

My tip? Don't even read any comments. Just ride from one town to the next and pray.
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By Skinny Kim Jung on 30 Sep 2015 03:44
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Source: RipTen Videogame Blog

Chupathingy
Find and kill a chupacabra.

This is the last challenge on the Undead Hunter Challenge

Chupacabra

The greatest chance of finding the Chupacabra is in Nuevo Paraiso when you are on the last tier of the hunting challenges. When you are near the random Chupacabra spawn, a message will appear and you will be able to see the radius of its possible location on the map.

* The Chupacabra can be found in the fields North West of Torquemada. When zoomed out on the game map, the area will have a picture of three horses.
* The creature can also be found South East of Perdido
* South of Casa Madrugada, or North of Chuparosa near the river.

Video courtesy of Yumiya89

Thanks to STLfan2468: If you can't find the Chupacabra, save your game at Chuparosa and QUIT the game. Load the game up and head to the area south west of Las Hermanas. The game will prompt you that a mythical creature is in the area.
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29 Nov 2010 13:05

38 Comments
i had finished the campaign when i was doing this, dont use the track system ingame, most of the time it doesn«t work.
just try going near las hermanas, like in the video, and walk around there till you'll get the message "A mytical creature has appeared in the area"
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By BoGuS 13 PT on 05 Dec 2010 23:52
I got it in Agave Viejo, right on the train tracks.
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By Motopsycho X on 08 Dec 2010 04:52
My chupacabra appeared west of El Presidio on my way to pick up a lost soul after I completed the main storyline.
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By nightmareNENO on 12 Dec 2010 09:45
Read your solution right after getting to this part of the game and traveled south east of El Perdido like you said, and within 15 seconds ran into the chupacabra.
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By LobsterParty on 17 Dec 2010 05:32
Found on Red Dead Wiki that by killing goats the Chupacabra will show up, worked for me.
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By Master AO on 13 Jan 2011 22:06
u may want to reference the fact that the name of this cheeve comes from the popular web series, "Red vs. Blue"
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By DragonFangDan on 07 Feb 2011 17:40
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By LAFTA on 20 Feb 2011 17:01
BoGus, give credit where credit is due dude. No one likes a plagiarizer.
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By DragonFangDan on 04 Mar 2011 07:02
YOU MIGHT WANT TO ADD THIS: If you can't find the Chupacabra, save your game at Chuparosa and QUIT the game. Load the game up and head to the area south west of Las Hermanas. The game will prompt you that a mythical creature is in the area. Boom! Easy as pie.
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By Kamera on 20 Mar 2011 20:45
ive tried all of these places including riding back and forth between mexico 3 times and have yet to have even spotted it once.
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By TheHeightOfItAl on 28 Apr 2011 11:28
did you try doing what STLfan2468 does on his comment?
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By BoGuS 13 PT on 28 Apr 2011 12:06
Couldn't find it, anywhere tried everything suggested, went into armadillo and it appeared there :S WTF?
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By ZachRobins0n on 25 May 2011 19:59
Also got no chevo and my stats say ive killed 1 chupacabra
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By ZachRobins0n on 25 May 2011 20:00
The killing the goats works. After hours of walking in the same area, I started to kill goats and it popped about 2 minutes after killing about 6 of them.
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By oO Link X007 Oo on 29 Jul 2011 16:11
Scanned everywhere for a few hours before I found him just east of Sepulcro, among the hills there
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By Carbokris on 09 Aug 2011 13:02
STLfan2468's suggestion didn't work for me at all. Maybe it only works at certain times of the day or perhaps he was just really lucky. I saved at Chuparosa, quit the game and went south west of Las Hermanas multiple times. Each time I would make a fresh save to make sure I didn't mess things up. I'm not sure where south west of Las Hermanas exactly it was supposed to be so I'd just ride to Las Hermanas and then ride directly south west with slight variations multiple times before trying again. I tried at least 5 times and then gave in and started doing the missing people missions... I happened across the Chupacabra near El Perdido en route to one of those missions. My advice, if you haven't done all the side missions and you intend to see if it'll pop up while you're finishing up those.
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By Crayon Taster on 20 Nov 2011 05:49
Nothing seemed to work untill I killed some goats in the Torguemada area, it appeared right after killing a bunch. Might be just a coincidence though
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By Firing Dutchman on 18 Apr 2012 08:43
At: LAFTA and DragonFangDen: It says the source name.
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By Exalted Entity on 20 Apr 2012 21:16
I spent a couple hours on this, tried goat killing, and the Chuparosa quit-load thing. Neither of those worked. What did work for me in the end was to go to the western-most part of that "3 horse" channel just west of Torquemada where most people were finding it and then literally ran my horse in circles (hold stick to the left and jam on A) crossing north and south of the trail. After about 10 minutes the Chupacabra spawned. Killed it, saved in the nearest town and went right back for the Unicorn which took no searching at all, it was just on the eastern end closer to Torquemada.
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By Billservo on 01 Jul 2012 04:36
The "game save at Chuparosa" worked perfectly! Thanks!
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By TOWELIE07 on 02 Aug 2012 22:21
I found it just south of where "Perdido" is written when zoomed in just after I gave up at the south-west of Las Hermanas thing
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By Chosen One 41 on 09 Jun 2013 18:36
Nothing worked for me till i killed 5 or 6 goats,then he appeared! smile
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By T1TANMONKEY on 16 Jan 2014 13:16
mine spawned north east of Sepulcro while riding from one spawn point to another
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By Raw Sauce Ross on 11 May 2014 17:23
The Chuparosa save worked for me as well. Beautiful.
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By Mr Rodster on 25 May 2014 02:56
DONT RIDE DEATH!! Apparently it wont spawn if you are looking for it on Death, I looked for hours on Death then switched to a different horse and found it almost instantly.
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By mudder85 on 16 Jul 2014 00:59
I got this using the Chuparosa method and I was riding Death
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By KILLSHOT666 on 12 Sep 2014 23:03
do you need to be rank 5 in hunter challenges in order to find the chupacabra?
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By Draxler Knight7 on 02 Mar 2015 16:26
@xavi 7 oritz It's been a year since I played it for 100% but I did the challenges and I think I recall this being one of the challeges but it shouldn't request you to be rank 5 in it
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By Raw Sauce Ross on 02 Mar 2015 16:42
Been looking for it for hours, checked all locations, but I couldn't find it. So I left to save the last towns I needed to save. I went back to it's main location Northwest of Torquemada, and I found it instantly. I don't know if this is common knowledge, but it seems that it only spawns once all areas have been saved.
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By Spelunkie on 29 Jun 2015 10:26
Nothing on here really works. Jesus. Not sure how that STL guy got mentioned because I tried it twice and nothing popped up.

I was wandering around Casa Madrugada looking for goats to kill/slaughter for this nasty beast like was mentioned several times.

I gave up after seeing someone mentioning Torquemada. So I set out for this town and on the way, it appeared right in the middle of El Presidio, Mesa de Sol and Diez Coronas.

Seriously. I just killed the thing and am looking at my screen.

My tip? Don't even read any comments. Just ride from one town to the next and pray.
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By Skinny Kim Jung on 30 Sep 2015 03:44
Been searching for this for over an hour and no joy - even with the save trick mentioned :( oh well, no z for my Alphabet challenge angry
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By metallicafan459 on 25 Jun 2017 21:21
Got it in Torquemeda by the horses on the map :)
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By metallicafan459 on 26 Jun 2017 07:35
This is one of those random chance achievements, there’s no real definitive way to have the chupacabra spawn. Just keep going to common spawn locations and eventually you should get it to spawn. After trying the Chuparosa save method and having it fail, I rode to Torquemada (on Death, believe it or not) and it spawned, while riding around the general vicinity, beneath the three horses on the map.
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By Ethigy on 14 Dec 2017 20:00
Finding this thing is the worst
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By Seitzz on 02 Nov 2018 19:09
I randomly found the chupacabra, killed it and I didn't get the achievement, nor did it count towards the completion of the Hunter challenge. Wtf?! After that I went to Chuparosa to save the game and try this tactic, but the game crashed while saving... This is the most broken DLC I've ever played! So many bugs, partially game-breaking, and R* never fixed them. Shows how much they care about their costumers.
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By Antr0p0phagus on 19 Feb 2019 23:13
I've never heard of that glitch, but interesting Antr0p0phagus.
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By Raw Sauce Ross on 22 Feb 2019 03:47
I couldn't find it doing the Chuparosa save/quit method. Tried killing goats and that didn't work either. But when I followed a group of goats for 2-3 minutes on foot it spawned. It was near Escalera.
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By Enrique Pelaez on 15 May 2023 06:00
Southeast of Perdido at 2 AM on a Friday is a definite spawn, worked several times for me. Nothing else worked. Thanks to the RDR Wikia for the tip.
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By Amael#4775 on 22 May 2023 06:27
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As the others have said, the "Chupathingy" achievement is for killing the Chupacabra. The Chupacabra won't even spawn until you've unlocked rank 5 of the Undead Hunter challenge. I personally found the Chupacabra North West of Torquemada in Mexico. As with all undead, just shoot it in the head and it's game over :)

This video also shows me unlocking the "Mad Marston: The Trail Warrior" achievement (for completing all of the challenges), along with the "Fan Service" achievement (for breaking/taming the Unicorn). The Unicorn spawned in the same area as the Chupacabra within seconds of it dieing, as I'd already acquired all 4 horses of the apocalypse.

Hope this helps you guys :)
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01 Jun 2011 23:01

As the others have said, the "Chupathingy" achievement is for killing the Chupacabra. The Chupacabra won't even spawn until you've unlocked rank 5 of the Undead Hunter challenge. I personally found the Chupacabra North West of Torquemada in Mexico. As with all undead, just shoot it in the head and it's game over :)

This video also shows me unlocking the "Mad Marston: The Trail Warrior" achievement (for completing all of the challenges), along with the "Fan Service" achievement (for breaking/taming the Unicorn). The Unicorn spawned in the same area as the Chupacabra within seconds of it dieing, as I'd already acquired all 4 horses of the apocalypse.

Hope this helps you guys :)
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01 Jun 2011 23:01

For those who dont find Chupacabra:
A way that worked for me twice is to save your Game in Chuparosa and quit the game or turn off your console.

Then start up the game again loading this Savestate.
The Cupacabra should now spawn near the 6 Palms where you found the 4. Treasure at Sepulco. Sepulco is South-East of Las Hermanas.

This worked for me 2 out of 5

Hope this will help you, too.
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thumbs up, worked as well just outside Sepulco on the 1st try.
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By ReliantGung ho on 26 Oct 2013 13:25
HOLY SHIT YES. i didn't shut down the Xbone... but i quit out of the game entirely and waiting a minute... then loaded up and as soon as i got to that little valley/treasure spot... "mythical creature in the area"...

GREAT FIND! (worked in july 2021)
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By ShadyShall on 08 Jul 2021 04:39
can't find it
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By Draxler Knight7 on 09 May 2015 17:38
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After messing about in Mexico for several hours trying to get the Chupacabra to spawn I did the following.

Outside the Presidio I got off my horse, Death, and shot it in the head.
I then redeemed the horse bond thing for War and gave a little whistle to bring him to me. This took some time as I'd just killed Death and within 5 minutes of having done that whilst walking along the road I got the notification that a Mythical craeture had appeared.
War was by now whistleable so I got on him, chased the Chupcabra killing it easily with a couple of shots.

In conclusion I think riding around on Death causes the Chupcabra not to spawn. Get off that horse and mince about in any of the suggested areas and within a few minutes it should appear.
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02 Dec 2011 12:55

Just want to add the higher your completion percentage is the higher your chances of finding him are. I searched for literally 7-9 hours (not all at once) looking for him and he didn't show up. Then I completed all the lost souls at Fort mercer, fast traveled to Torquemada went to the fields where the 3 horses are on the map, and there he was.
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03 Sep 2012 14:29

Just thought i'd make a video finding this fella, make sure you are on rank 5 on the undead hunter challenge, also some have mentioned that killing goats might make the chupacabra spawn sooner, i killed every goat i saw and shortly after the chupacabra spawned. Just run around the area shown on the video and I'm sure it wont take you long , just be persistent, took me about 20 minutes of running around the area.
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27 Aug 2018 20:40

Undead Hunter challenge 5 requires you to kill it, so that means you have to get to Undead Hunter level 5 before you can kill it. It is a rather small, black hound-like creature which will be marked on your map. 2 shots in the head will kill it.

Possible locations: South of Perdido, South of Sepulcro, Casa Madrugada and Northern Diez Coronaz.

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MISSABLE and GLITCHED

Warning: Failing to break Famine during your first encounter with him, will cause the Chupacabra to not spawn and thus will lock you out of this trophy. Also note that the Chupacabra can potentially be a one-time-spawn, which makes this trophy very missable if you screw up and fail to kill the creature when it first appears. If it does spawn and you failed to kill it, press the button and quit to the XMB so you can then reload the game for another attempt. There have also been confirmed reports of this creature not spawning if you use a Blood Pact Horse.

The Chupacabra, won't appear until you have completed Rank 4 of the Undead Hunter challenge but can be found in Mexico: Chuparosa, South Perdido, South Sepulcro or Casa Madrugada. Once you are in the vicinity of the Chupacabra, you will see a notification telling you that a mythical creature is in the area. When you see the creature, make sure to kill it during your first encounter as it may not reappear again.

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I got this achievement by killing 5 wolves and 2 cougars on the skinny road between Manzanita Post and Tanner's Reach first then riding a horse in a big circle on the bigger road in that area to kill 2 bears then fast traveled to Fort Mercer and went to the little road under where the word "Rio" for Rio Bravo is when the map is zoomed in all the way and killed another cougar there for rank 4 of the undead hunter challenge, then rode the horse to Chuparosa in Mexico and did a manual save, after saving I set a waypoint to Torquemada and started walking there, the chupacabra spawned around 7 PM a little southeast of Las Hermanas and took three shots from the buffalo rifle to die and the achievement unlocked.

I'm playing from a disc with the latest update on my 4GB 360 slim without my 60GB Internal hard drive plugged in.
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22 Sep 2022 02:55

Chupacabra is rubbing off on the wasteland in the Torquemada area, where three horses are drawn on the map
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06 Jan 2024 07:47

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and in a dozen more places, look strictly at night, I found it near the church at midnight on Friday
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By zotik on 24 Jan 2024 20:33
Found it the first time in the afternoon in Mexico. About “strictly at night” stuffing
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By Alexandrzlk on 07 Mar 2024 11:41
You need to look near the river above Chuparosa. As soon as I got there, it took a couple of minutes and I was found.
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By LocDog on 14 May 2024 01:17
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