it's an auspicious sounding date, and corporal brandon briedel and sheriff ellie carter are on important police duty. >> we were out in this area with reference to loose livestock. we had cattle on the road. we were looking to find out where they came out of. >> their humdrum hunt for runaway cows is about to take an unexpected turn. >> we came around the corner here and saw this animal -- >> what is that -- oh, man! >> it was a canine breed, it was hairless. it was just odd. odd looking. >> i told brandon, i said, "it's the damn chupacabra." >> i reached up and hit the record button on my car video system. >> this close encounter of the hairless kind is a big deal. people here believe the legendary beast is haunting them, but there's never been proof. the hysteria began a year earlier whether animals on dr. phyllis canyon's ranch started to die suspiciously. >> i began to lose chickens. and i lost them in a fashion very different from any predator that we have in south texas. it was not interested in the meat as much as it was the blood. and in all instances, it was all opened up just i