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In southern Texas,
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Sheriff Joe D's Avesky's police
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department presides over a remote rural
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area. [music]
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>> Dewitt County is a large county, 910
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square miles.
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There are a lot of uninhabited areas of
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the county.
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The more the population spreads out, you
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begin to see more of these animals or
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creatures that you didn't really know
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inhabited the same county you did.
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>> On August 8th, 2008, two deputies are on
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a routine patrol down a country road.
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Their dash cam captures a bizarre
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creature.
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>> This animal is a little bit more than
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weird, it's unnatural. They did not know
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what it was.
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>> It seems dog-like,
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but this misshapen animal
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is no ordinary canid.
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>> It's almost had an alien look to it.
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It's got pointed ears that stick up atop
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its head. It's got an elongated snout,
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[music]
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fangs, protruding canines.
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First instinct is to be repulsed.
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>> The deputies believe this is evidence of
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a legendary blood sucking vampire dog.
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>> In South Texas, this close to Mexico,
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there has always been legends of
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different animals.
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We have this this mythical creature
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called the chupacabra.
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>> Descriptions of the chupacabra vary
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throughout the Americas,
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but in Texas, it takes the form of a
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hideous blood sucking hellhound.
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With a growing reputation,
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>> more and more stories came out about
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these livestock that were killed in the
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strange manner, and these were all
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attributed to El Chupacabras.
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>> And there is strange supporting evidence
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that a blood-sucking monster is
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terrorizing Texas.
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Nutritionist Dr. Phyllis Canyon owns a
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ranch in Tarrant County.
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In 2007, an unidentified beast
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slaughters her livestock.
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Its method of attack
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is chilling.
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>> Whatever was getting in was just killing
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one chicken and leaving it. Always open
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up in that thorax area.
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And that's where they would lick all the
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blood out.
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Never touched the meat. They were just
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sucking all the blood out of it.
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>> Experts acknowledge that on rare
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occasions, when something spooks a
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predator,
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it may leave similar bite marks.
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>> What happens is that a dog or coyote
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will attack an animal, they'll bite it
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on the neck, and then they'll run away.
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And the animal will die from internal
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hemorrhaging.
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>> But on Phyllis Canyon's farm, this is
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not a rare event.
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It's a persistent way of feeding.
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>> It happened through 28 chickens.
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28 chickens were identical.
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It craves blood
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and not the meat.
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>> The vampire beast stays in the shadows
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until Phyllis has a close encounter
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with the macabre creature.
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>> Something caught my eye, and when I
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looked over,
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I am shocked. I've seen a lot of things,
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but I've never seen an animal that
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looked like that.
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>> The chance sighting leads Phyllis
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to a chilling conclusion.
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>> Whatever it was that I was seeing was
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killing my chickens.
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>> The sheriff's department hears of
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Phyllis's sightings and shows her their
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video for comparison. The creature she
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saw in her pasture
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exactly matches the beast on the dash
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cam.
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>> That moment that it looks to the side
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was the icing on the cake. The top
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mandible was longer than the bottom
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mandible, and it was very evident. It is
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the most unusual animal that I've ever
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seen in my entire life.
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>> Dr. Kenyon makes it her mission to
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identify the bizarre beast.
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>> I didn't know what I had seen. I had no
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idea. Whatever it is, I'm going TO FIND
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OUT.
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>> INVESTIGATORS STUDY the video's [music]
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details
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to try to explain the bizarre creature.
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>> [screaming]
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>> One freakish feature of the beast is its
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strange hairless hide.
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>> It was kind of a bluish gray, and it
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looked like you were looking at the skin
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of an elephant on it. It It looked rough
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and
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>> At first, researchers suggest [music]
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the lack of fur could be consistent with
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a parasitic infection.
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>> Animals get what's called mange, and
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it's a It's a skin disease caught by
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mites.
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>> The mange mite burrows down in the skin,
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uh and it actually makes the hair fall
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out in little areas, and the skin kind
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of crusts over.
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>> But a skin infection cannot explain the
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other distinctive features [music] in
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the footage.
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>> It turns his head to the side and his
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profile is really weird.
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This thing is strange.
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>> Researchers struggle to explain dashcam
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evidence of a bizarre predator in Texas.
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Some suggest the beast may be the victim
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of a chemical mutation.
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>> We do live in a farming and ranching
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area in this part of South Texas.
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Um
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there are chemicals that are put out uh
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that
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some animal could come into contact
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with.
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>> Perhaps the creature in this footage is
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a product of some mutation from when it
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was in the womb.
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>> Chemical [music] mutations can create
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nightmarish deformities.
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But rather than showing signs [music] of
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a debilitating birth defect,
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the Texas vampire seems to be thriving.
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>> It's clearly well adapted to the
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environment and is a very fast predator.
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Able to avoid people and still find
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enough food and therefore pass their
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genes on to THE NEXT GENERATION.
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>> EXPERTS REMAIN PUZZLED, but a phone call
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finally gives Dr. Canyon a chance to
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identify this bloodthirsty predator.
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>> The chupacabra met its demise when
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somebody hit it with a car on the
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highway.
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>> The flesh and blood version of a
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mythical beast is now in [music] her
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grasp.
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>> I could actually start to study it and
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figure out what it was.
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>> To get an accurate reconstruction of the
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beast's bizarre features, she hires a
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taxidermist.
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And the result reveals a Frankenstein
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combination of animal parts.
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>> The texture of the skin reminds me of
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some type of an elephant hide.
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The forehead width is that of a wolf.
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The bottom mandible is about an inch
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shorter than the top mandible.
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When we look at the animal and we put
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all of these abnormalities together,
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the mystery still is what is this?
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>> But Phyllis now has access to [music]
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the beast's genetic blueprint.
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Veterinary forensics experts at UC Davis
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in California process a cell sample
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and send back the results.
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>> I had the DNA.
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And as I sat there and read it, I was
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totally amazed.
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They said, "It does not fit any animal
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that we have in our DNA bank.
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It had coyote on the maternal side
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and Mexican wolf on the paternal side."
