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Hector Armstrong

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Hector "Tito" Armstrong is a Princeton University student from Puerto Rico and internet researcher recognized for operating the web's premier Chupacabra tracking page during the mid-1990s wave of sightings. As a guest on late-night radio, he compiled eyewitness accounts of the blood-draining creature and tracked its rapid spread from Puerto Rico across the Americas.

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May 8, 1996: Chupacabra - Hector "Tito" Armstrong | Open Lines

May 8, 1996

2h 47m

Hector "Tito" Armstrong, a Princeton University student from Puerto Rico who operates the internet's premier Chupacabra webpage, joins Art Bell as reports of the mysterious blood-draining creature explode across the Americas. What began as a Puerto Rican phenomenon has rapidly spread, with mainstream television news...