There's apparently a chupacabra shortage over at KPHO, because the TV station is "telling it like it is" about a new animal phenomenon -- high-fiving cats.

Here's the entire story: A bobcat was on a guy's porch in Cave Creek. One of the guy's house cats goes up to the glass door, and at one point, it looks like the bobcat and the house cat high-five each other with the glass between them.

In a story the KPHO anchor says "we just have to share," the TV station's coverage of high-fiving cats is absolutely incredible: Three different videos on the high-five on the station's website, on-location reporting, an interview with the homeowner -- and the homeowner's re-enactment -- and the "back story."

Get this -- it was also Friday the 13th, which was mentioned twice in the online version.

There's no follow-up story from KPHO as of yet, but we would assume it would tackle the issue of whether cats allegedly rule, and dogs allegedly drool.

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That's a video of something that isn't Bigfoot, as KPHO is "Telling it Like it is."

In less than a year, KPHO -- always "Telling it Like it is" -- has managed to run three stories about chupacabra sightings.

Now the local news station is tackling bigger and badder mythical beasts, hooking up with the Navajo Nation Rangers to check out "investigative reports" of other creatures that don't actually exist.

KPHO is now looking into the non-chupacabra side of the paranormal, including -- in the words of our local KPHO anchor -- "ghosts, witchcraft, UFOs, even... Bigfoot."

The Navajo Rangers have been investigating these types of things for about 10 years now, but when there are UFOs and chupacabras to be found, KPHO always seems to be there.

According to the investigative reporter in the segment, "Here in Arizona, so-called paranormal activity is abundant."

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KPHO: "Telling it like it is" -- even when it comes to animals that don't actually exist.

​Say what you will about the local TV news-hounds at KPHO, but the station is again leading the way in chupacabra-related journalism -- for the third time in less than a year, KPHO is reporting a sighting of the mythical animal, which doesn't actually exist.

If you're unfamiliar with the fictitious beast, click here.

Under the headline "Could it Be? Another Chupacabra Sighting?" KPHO reporter Steve Stout tells the tale of a Tucson meteorologist who claims he saw a chupacabra.

According to Stout, "some think it's the chupacabra, the creature of urban legend."

"Rumors of the mythical creature have been bouncing around the Southwest for half-century. [Chupacabras are] said to attack goats and livestock," Stout explains in the article.

Again, just to be clear, chupacabras aren't real -- but that hasn't stopped KPHO from reporting on them every time someone sees a sick coyote.

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Dream Act for Arizona? Shyeah...right.

​The "Dream" came true for illegal immigrants in California over the weekend -- Governor Jerry Brown signed a version of the controversial Dream Act into California law Saturday. Now, local TV news station KPHO is suggesting the "Dream" may be coming to Arizona (insert Wayne Campbell's "Shyeah...and monkeys might fly out of my butt" here).

California's "Dream Act" makes illegal immigrants eligible to receive state financial aid to attend California universities and community colleges. A federal version of the bill failed in the United States Senate last year.

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The DPS shutdown a highway to save a rabbit.

​As if rush hour in Phoenix isn't miserable enough, about 8 this morning, the southbound State Route 51 was briefly closed by Department of Public Safety officers as they chased a wayward rabbit off the freeway.

That's right -- they shut down the highway to rescue a rabbit.

DPS spokesman Bart Graves didn't have a whole lot of information on the road closure, telling New Times "we had a report of a rabbit scurrying about the freeway nearly causing an accident on SR 51 as drivers swerved to avoid hitting it. We tried to locate the animal and get it off the road, but it apparently hopped off before we got there."

KPHO -- always "telling it like it is" -- got its hands on some video of the officers chasing the rabbit. The TV news station hammed it up on its website with the following headline: "DPS Officers Save Rabbit From Hare-Raising Experience" (wocka, wocka, wocka).

See some video of the rabbit below.
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​You may have witnessed a mysterious light flash over Phoenix earlier tonight. Apparently, a lot of people did. We didn't -- but a "slew" of KPHO viewers, and Phoenix Sergeant Steve Martos, the Phoenix P.D.'s Air Unit, and several other Phoenix police officers certainly did.

Of the aforementioned witnesses, KPHO's the only one taking the "event" seriously.

We corresponded with Martos about 20 minutes ago. He reports the following:

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Unless it comes to mythical beasts that don't actually exist.

​For the second time this year, KPHO is "Telling it Like it is" about mythical chupacabras. The problem, obviously, is that chupacabras aren't real.

On the TV station's website right now is a story with the headline "Teens Kill Possible Chupacabra."

It's a story about a Texas teen named Carter Pope, who claims he shot and killed "a real live chupacabra."

Again, chupacabras aren't real.

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​If you checked the KPHO website this afternoon, you might be thinking a child who mysteriously vanished from Canada seven years ago turned up over the weekend with a strange woman at a laundromat in Chandler.

Here's a link (although, the story has since been changed from its original version).

That's kinda what happened -- although, it's not quite as sensational as the CBS affiliate made it out to be.

The KPHO story gives the impression that the now 10-year-old boy was abducted from his Canadian parents in 2004. What KPHO leaves out of its story is that the woman with whom he was found in Chandler actually is his mother, and the "abduction" is more a parental-custody dispute than a mysterious, Jaycee Dugard-esque kidnapping.

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If you think you saw one of these guys galloping around Goodyear last week, you didn't.

​This just in: a naked leprechaun was spotted trying to buy crystal meth from a north Phoenix drug dealer early Saturday morning -- which is about as believable as KPHO's latest attempt at "telling it like it is."

The local TV news station is under the impression that there was a potential chupacabra sighting in Goodyear last week.

As you know, chupacabras don't actually exist, and the animal seen in the video the station is citing as evidence is more likely an ugly dog, or malnourished coyote, than the blood-slurping focus of urban legends.

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