This reply is to both Dean and Sean.
I mean,
Yes, dangerous encounters of this sort have been described by
many people. "Branton" recounts many of these in his work, and
sometimes touches on the fact that some of types of
subterranean beings seem to have an interchangeability
between physical and ethereal (spiritual) reality. Others,
however do not, such as the creature in the picture. Also,
evidence indicates that El Chupacabras is a VERY PHYSICAL,
probably hybrid (possibly genetically-engineered) being. I
recommend Scott Corrales' excellent book, the best on the topic,
called "Chupacabras and Other Mysteries."
Doubtful there
Sean, if you read my research and that of many other people,
you'll find that such beings run the gamut from a purely animal
physicality, to an ability to change density (perhaps due to an
alternate evolution, or an intentional design, for dealing with
differing pressures between the surface world and various
underworld regions), to the purely spiritual and demonic (this
latter type still capable of being visible to human sight if they
wish, or attaining some sort of temporary physical form). All of
these are the source of many of the legends of fairies, monsters,
demons, etc. which haunt human folklore, history, and religion,
as well as our collective unconscious.
Over two decades ago, I also thought that such things were
purely spiritual in nature. After over twenty years of researching
these manifestations, encounters, folk, victim, and witness
accounts, etc., and noting that physical evidence (like the animal
in the photograph) does come to light upon occasion, I no longer
hold to a view of the "purely physical."
Evidence like the thing in the photo, in my opinion, indicates the
beginning of many strange, horrifying developments which have
all been foretold or prophesied in many traditions.
In addition to the emergence of those things from "the pit" which
has been opened (as described in Revelation, wherein which
PHYSICAL, destructive beings or demons are released), or is
opening (perhaps due to the quakes) into the surface world,
there will be a great increase in earthquakes and storms (due to
the approach of a large, mostly unknown heavenly body called
Nibiru/Planet X, and its electromagnetic effect upon the sun's
outer layers and coronal mass ejections, the electronmagnetic
particle "sea" in which the planets float, etc.). The "heavenly"
things affect earthly events as well as the infernal/subterranean.
Watch for a revival of one of the biggest sins of the
Nephilim/Annunaki, as described in the Apocrypha and hinted at
in the current version of the Bible: genetic engineering which
mixes human and animal DNA. It's already being experimented
with by human scientists and rogue scientists, and it's only a
matter of time (the VIABLE pig-human hybrid embryo created in
Australia a few months ago was supposedly destroyed, but it
could happen again). Richard Shaver talked about this as well,
as having been done in the distant past, by those who are now
"trapped" (like the imprisoned Biblical Nephilim--an obvious
parallel) beneath the surface. Also watch for serious problems,
from human scientists and madmen, with cloning and the
creation of super-strains of old diseases, like smallpox.
Things are about to get weirder than fiction on planet Earth, in
the next few years.
IMO.
--Mike