If so: I did not know this.
…[H.R.] Giger was also influential in a bizarre and little-known way: He unknowingly helped create the Hispanic vampire beast el chupacabra, one of the world’s best-known monsters which has been reported throughout Latin America attacking and sucking the blood out of animals — typically goats and chickens. Though many people mistakenly believe that the chupacabra has been reported for many decades, it was first sighted in Puerto Rico in 1995.
Apparently the description of the chupacabra by the woman who first reported it scans reasonably closely to the monster in the 1995 flick Species. …No, not Natasha Henstridge. What Natasha Henstridge turns into whenever the directors wanted to freak people out. Anyway: I suspect that there’s an adventure seed in that, at least for a modern horror game…