A sheriff's department in Texas believes it may have caught the legendary chupacabra on camera.

Dewitt county deputies on patrol recorded what they believe is the mythical creature.

"I've been covering these back roads for a long time and I've never run across anything like this, until that day."

Last Friday, hours before sunset, corporal Brandon Riedel and his partner were checking fence-lines near Cuero when they stumbled across the alleged creature of the night.
"We came around a corner and saw this running down the road."
Riedel says it's hairless, with a long snout, short front legs and long back legs.
"It's just strange."

Some believe the thing the eventually disappeared into the brush could be the legendary goat-sucker himself... The chupacabra.

He tells us it looks a lot like this creature found dead in Cuero last year.
It was first believed to be a chupacabra.
But tests at Texas state showed it was some sort of coyote.