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0:00
Suzanne: This time wildlife mysteries
0:02
don't get any bigger.
0:03
For the past few years, a strange animal has been
0:06
showing up in Texas.
0:08
Woman: To me it was what they say is a Chupacabra.
0:12
Suzanne: Could this be the legendary vampire
0:13
"Goat Sucker" that so many people
0:15
are searching for?
0:17
It's got no hair.
0:18
Strange bumps on its butt and its legs are
0:20
a weird length.
0:21
Dan: Skeptics say it's just a mange coyote but
0:24
witnesses say different.
0:26
Phylis: We've all shot at mange coyote and it
0:28
definitely did not look like this.
0:30
Lorne: But none of our witnesses have
0:31
caught one alive.
0:33
Devin: After I shot it and got close enough to see how
0:35
different it really was I put 3 more bullets in it.
0:39
Dan: Will we manage to track down what's putting
0:41
the terror into Texas?
0:43
Suzanne: When animals attack there's one crack
0:46
team to call.
0:48
Lorne: 3 animal investigators,
0:50
all the latest technology.
0:54
Dan: If something is lurking in your back yard
0:56
we'll catch the culprits on camera.
1:06
Suzanne: There is a mythical beast stalking
1:07
Texas and our mission is to separate fact from fantasy.
1:13
First stop, a family in Willis whose grandmother
1:16
got the shock of her life in the pool in
1:18
the back yard.
1:21
Denise: She looked over from this side,
1:23
over the fence and what we saw we had
1:26
never seen before.
1:30
We had heard the stories of the Chupacabra on TV
1:34
before, seen pictures and people claim it's a coyote
1:38
with mange but the thing with this one is,
1:41
it looked very healthy.
1:43
If it was totally hairless from mange you would think
1:46
that it would be kinda cut and scratched or the skin
1:48
would be inflamed but it was none of that.
1:51
Suzanne: On the list of the World's Most Legendary
1:53
Beasts, the Chupacabra is right up there with the
1:56
Yeti and the Loch Ness Monster.
1:58
Dan: A vampire dog, its name translates as
2:01
"Goat Sucker" and is rumored to have drained
2:04
blood from goat herds in Mexico.
2:08
Could our mystery canine be the myth made real?
2:12
Lorne: Over a period of more than six months Denise
2:14
was able to shoot some tantalizing video footage.
2:18
Denise: And there he is.
2:19
Suzanne: And it's definitely weird looking.
2:24
Denise's son: that ain't no dog with mange.
2:26
Dan: With more rounded ears than a coyote,
2:28
a straggly rats tail, and the only evidence of normal
2:31
hair is running along the ridge of its back.
2:33
Could this be our Chupacabra?
2:35
Denise: That is not a coyote,
2:38
it has rounded teddy bear looking ears.
2:41
Dan: We see a flash of blue,
2:43
and another one and another.
2:48
Suzanne: Is it simply a trick of the evening light?
2:51
Or our first glimpse of the tell-tale blue eyes
2:53
of the Chupacabra?
2:55
Dan: So if it's not a mangy coyote what do
2:57
you think it is?
2:58
Denise: I really don't know,
3:00
I'm pretty sure it's a canine but I just think
3:04
it's something different.
3:08
Suzanne: Dan is not sure this is a chupacabra as he
3:10
and Lorne begin looking for clues.
3:13
To find proof this is a new type of animal,
3:15
we have a major challenge on our hands.
3:18
Dan: We know we're looking for something that's very
3:19
real but what is it?
3:21
A coyote with mange?
3:23
A crossbreed?
3:24
An undiscovered species?
3:27
Lorne: Or could it really be the legendary chupacabra?
3:32
Suzanne: Before long, Dan finds a paw print,
3:35
and he's convinced it's canine.
3:40
Dan: When you are trying to get an animal on film we
3:42
often use the behavior of that animal to give you a
3:45
good indication of the best place to put a camera trap.
3:51
Now the problem is we don't know exactly what animal it
3:53
is we are after.
3:55
So I'm kind of guessing a bit and I'm going to use
3:57
the best suspect which I think is a coyote.
4:00
So we are going in there to find some nice trees on a
4:03
trail and position some camera traps.
4:12
Suzanne: Ok so each one of these x's represents a
4:15
known sighting of one of these strange animals.
4:18
Lorne: That's a lot.
4:19
Suzanne: There are quite a few and they are
4:20
pretty far apart.
4:21
Lorne: Yeah there's loads.
4:22
Suzanne: So I think it's
4:24
probably unlikely that we are talking about a single
4:26
individual, and that we may have more than one
4:29
of these strange animals.
4:30
So it's time to get on the road and check
4:32
all these out.
4:33
Lorne: Let's do it!
4:36
Dan: We've really got our work cut out to catch
4:38
whatever it is on camera.
4:40
This has to be our biggest challenge yet.
4:43
Suzanne: Everything is bigger in Texas,
4:44
including the distances.
4:47
Lorne: We are heading four hours South of Willis
4:49
because someone has had another sighting
4:50
of this animal.
4:52
Suzanne: Except this time they have the body.
5:01
Phylis: For about 2 years off and on,
5:03
I have seen it on the ranch and then one morning a
5:06
neighbor called and said that something had
5:08
been hit and killed in front of our ranch.
5:10
So I went up and looked and low and behold,
5:13
this is what we found.
5:15
Everyone is perplexed.
5:17
Everyone said in the beginning well we think
5:18
it's just a mangy coyote.
5:23
Once they looked at the animal then all of a sudden
5:26
their inquisitive nature was stirred,
5:28
because they were like 'wow' we've all shot a
5:30
mangy coyote and it definitely did
5:32
not look think this.
5:34
You know, a coyote whenever it gets mange and loses all
5:37
of its hair, it still looks like it has a skin.
5:40
This appeared more as hide like to me.
5:43
The neck is very elongated, compared to what a coyote
5:46
neck would be.
5:48
All of this extra stuff here, around the ears,
5:51
is very very unusual this excess skin that it has.
5:54
Of course the eye color.
5:56
Suzanne: Yes, those blue eyes again;
5:59
just like Denise's mystery creature.
6:02
Phylis: And then it's got these sacks back here that
6:05
we know for a fact that are not any type of a gland,
6:09
we know that they are not a testicle
6:11
that are misplaced.
6:13
So there were a lot of things on it that I thought
6:15
were very unusual.
6:17
Lorne: My God, it is weird looking!
6:19
Suzanne: As the boys go off to investigate,
6:21
I've got a clue to follow up.
6:23
When most people in Texas find one of these strange
6:25
hairless animals, they either burn it, bury it,
6:28
or just get rid of it.
6:29
But when Phylis found hers she wanted to keep it so
6:31
she brought it here.
6:39
Most taxidermists keep a stock of animal body
6:41
armatures to drape the skin of the animal over.
6:45
The problem with Phylis' animal was that the closest
6:48
mold, a coyote, just didn't fit.
6:51
Robert: It was a little more than just the legs,
6:53
it was the width of the hips,
6:54
the width of the shoulders, the length of the neck,
6:58
the overbite on the jaw, everything was different,
7:01
everything had to be changed.
7:06
I have pictures of deers so that I can put a deer hide
7:09
back exactly like way it's supposed to be.
7:12
I've got no live reference for this animal,
7:15
because they don't exist.
7:19
Dan: We have a wealth of evidence proving that some
7:21
bizarre creature is spooking the locals and
7:24
we're determined to hunt it down.
7:27
Phylis: We always saw them moving into this pasture
7:30
and always into this dense brush so that's why we
7:33
really think that this is probably where they are.
7:35
Dan: It would be awesome to have a look maybe
7:38
an aerial view or something.
7:39
Phylis: Yeah that would be the only
7:40
way to do it because it's so dense.
7:44
Suzanne: And luckily Lorne has just the gadget.
7:47
A remote-controlled drone with a camera built into
7:49
its underbelly.
7:52
Dan: Easy, easy are you going to try and get it
7:54
actually over there or just high enough that
7:55
we can see down.
7:57
Suzanne: Neither as it happens.
7:59
Dan: Woo nooo it's gone.
8:12
Suzanne: Plan A fails spectacularly.
8:14
Time for Plan B.
8:18
Dan: Texas is in the midst of a really severe drought
8:21
and this is the only water hole for miles around,
8:24
Phyllis: The track of the Chupacabra looked like this
8:26
and this and this, and then pick the stick up and go,
8:29
but it had this mark at the end of it and that's how I
8:32
knew it was something different because I wasn't
8:34
used to seeing anything that had this
8:36
type of marking.
8:38
Suzanne: Phylis' last sighting of the mutant
8:39
monster was only a couple of weeks ago.
8:42
A water hole might just be the perfect place for a
8:45
goat sucking ghoul to hunt for dinner.
8:48
Lorne: We set some traps, it's really just a matter
8:51
of having the right tool for the right job.
8:58
Phylis: Dang you're really knocking that thing in.
9:00
Suzanne: Will critters coming to drink here draw
9:02
in the beast?
9:04
Back at HQ we watch the footage from the cameras
9:06
back at Denise's.
9:07
Lorne: Let's check it out.
9:12
Just hundreds and hundreds of clips of
9:13
foxes and raccoons.
9:15
Ah, check that out, it's amazing!
9:17
He looks like he is hiding from the fox.
9:19
Lorne has just one more clip for us.
9:22
Look!
9:23
You see that?
9:24
It looked like a canine didn't it?
9:26
It looked like the back end of a canine.
9:28
Check again Suz.
9:30
See it?
9:32
Suzanne: Just like fleeting.
9:33
Lorne: Yeah, really fleeting;
9:36
shame the camera traps are just
9:37
missing that first little shot,
9:40
you've got that delay.
9:41
Dan: But still it got one.
9:43
Suzanne: To get to the bottom of this mystery we
9:44
must do better.
9:46
We need to find the beasts lair.
9:48
Lorne: So this is the motion sensor,
9:50
if anything walks in front of that it's going to
9:52
trigger that camera up there.
9:53
It basically allows us to set the camera up were ever
9:55
we want, get a nice wide angle.
9:58
So if there's any animals that come into this water
10:00
hole, we are definitely going to capture
10:02
them on film.
10:03
Dan: And just to be sure we are going to get the
10:04
animals in we've got corn, deer pellets and maize,
10:09
and we are going to sprinkle the lot.
10:11
Suzanne: With a trap like this we've given ourselves
10:13
the best chance possible to catch our, "Chupra"
10:15
in pristine HD.
10:20
Dan: As night falls we head out with Phylis to
10:22
check the trip wire system is good to go.
10:29
Phylis: Thank you for that Lorne, that was great.
10:32
Lorne: But to find out if we have evidence of our
10:33
hairless monster, it's a long wait until the morning.
10:59
Lorne: It looks like a lot of clips.
11:01
Dan: Sounds good mate.
11:02
Lorne: Triggered at 3:20 am, 3:22, 3:24, 38.
11:07
Suzanne: Although the camera traps have worked,
11:09
there's no evidence of our elusive quarry?
11:13
Dan: Yeah we've got little raccoon tracks,
11:15
we've got some pig tracks as well.
11:18
Suzanne: I'm off to see the vet who originally examined
11:21
Phylis's creature and who immediately tested it for
11:23
the mite that causes mange.
11:25
Travis: What we do is do a little skin scraping on the
11:27
dogs skin, take a little piece of that,
11:29
put it under here and look under the microscope.
11:31
And then we can observe the mite.
11:36
Suzanne: Now the animal that Phylis brought to you
11:38
though, did the skin look like it was ya know had
11:42
mange that it was suffering from these mites.
11:43
Travis: At first, of course your first thought is,
11:46
because that is what you typically see,
11:47
is a hairless dog you see,
11:49
you think about mange, mites.
11:51
But when I did the sample I did not find any mites and
11:54
we actually sent off a specimen to a pathological
11:58
lab where they could do a more detailed
12:00
study of the skin.
12:02
They found no mites.
12:03
Suzanne: So you don't think that the animal had mange?
12:06
Travis: Can't say that 100% but after that histology
12:10
was done at that lab, I would say that it did not.
12:17
Lorne: So mange has been ruled out,
12:19
but there were also other tests done and one
12:21
came up with some remarkable results.
12:24
Suzanne: Phyllis had a DNA test run on the canine she
12:27
found and it came back a cross between and
12:29
Mexican wolf and a Coyote.
12:34
But could it's bizarre body and those mysterious
12:36
blue eyes really just be a Mexican Wolf
12:39
and Coyote mix?
12:40
Spencer: The Mexican Wolf population in the wild
12:41
today consists of about 50 that are known.
12:46
Suzanne: That's pretty small.
12:46
Spencer: It is pretty small.
12:50
Why are they so rare?
12:52
Well decades ago we had this animal, the wolf,
12:57
all over North America and we wanted to eradicate it.
13:01
We all grew up with the story "Little Red Riding Hood"
13:03
and the "Three little pigs."
13:04
Today, it's amazing the amount of people have the
13:08
fear of the wolf simply because of those stories.
13:11
Suzanne: How likely since it so small,
13:13
would it be for them to say interbreed with
13:16
a coyote, or dog?
13:18
Spencer: If a wolf can't find a wolf,
13:20
when it does come time to being romantic.
13:23
They're going to find the next best thing.
13:25
What we'll typically see is that if that wolf see's
13:28
that coyote, that coyote better run,
13:31
because it's an enemy.
13:33
Suzanne: But what about those haunting blue eyes of
13:35
Phylis' creature; could it be a wolf?
13:39
Spencer: Generally wolves are going to be born with
13:41
that blue eye color.
13:43
And within a very short period,
13:45
typically it's going to turn to that yellow.
13:48
That amber color.
13:50
I work with over 60 wolves; I've never seen an adult
13:53
with the blue eyes.
13:55
Suzanne: Given how unlikely an encounter with a Mexican
13:57
wolf is going to be in the wild any trace in our
14:00
creature that still shows up in the lab reports,
14:03
probably comes from a chance meeting generations ago.
14:06
Dan: I want a more evolutionary perspective on
14:08
this strange creature so I'm heading up to Albany in
14:11
New York state to meet up with a biologist and follow
14:14
up on some new leads.
14:16
People are telling us that the animals that they're
14:18
seeing are not manged in any way and how do you
14:20
think a dog can end up like this if it's not.
14:21
Roland: Well, the one way that we find hairless
14:23
animals in New York and other places is from mange.
14:26
The only other really hairless mammals that run
14:28
around are some types of domestic dogs.
14:35
Dan: Hypothetically speaking in one generation
14:37
you could have a hairless animal and also
14:40
hypothetically speaking given the right
14:41
environmental conditions that hairless animal may be
14:44
able to self perpetuate because if say it was in
14:46
New York it would have died out over the winter but in
14:48
Texas it has a higher chance of surviving.
14:50
Roland: I would say surviving but probably more
14:53
likely that it would sort of be this underlying
14:55
variation that would show up every once in a while.
14:57
Let's say there's this one event between a hairless
14:59
dog and a coyote so then you have one litter of
15:01
offspring and let's say half of them are hairless
15:04
and half of them are not.
15:05
Well those are going to then cross back into the
15:07
coyote population and so the hairless gene is going
15:11
to get diluted out and it's one of those things that it
15:14
would eventually maybe kind of like an albino gene.
15:16
There's no naked rabbits, there's no hairless gophers
15:19
or any mammals, you know it's not like
15:21
a natural phenomenon.
15:22
Suzanne: With reports coming in from all over the
15:24
state, we're back on the road in Texas to meet a
15:27
rancher who's seen not one mystery creature but
15:30
several at the same time.
15:32
Harvey: Well you know we wanted to get rid of it and
15:38
so I started shredding around it and ya know when
15:41
you start mowing your grass you start with the wide
15:43
part and keep coming in and there he was looking at me
15:47
to shorten the story I kept shredding and getting the
15:49
patch smaller and smaller and when I got it down to a
15:52
really tiny little mott of weed,
15:56
boom 4 of them come out.
15:58
Suzanne: 4!
15:59
Harvey: They just took off and went over to the river
16:02
and went down the bank and that was the last
16:04
I saw of those.
16:05
Dan: And these all looked the same?
16:06
Harvey: Yeah no hair on them or anything and
16:10
I said, "Boy, ya know, that's very strange."
16:13
Derek: These things are healthy I mean this thing
16:15
was running full speed.
16:18
Suzanne: Harvey and his son seem convinced just like
16:20
Phylis and Denise that we're not on the trail
16:22
of a mangy coyote.
16:25
Phylis: We've all shot a mange coyote and it
16:27
definitely didn't look like this.
16:29
Dan: Lorne and I get to work
16:31
setting up a fresh pair of camera traps.
16:35
Lorne: Harvey says this is the monsters lair,
16:37
if we are going to draw it out,
16:39
we've got to give it something to feed on.
16:41
We've placed the carcass of a road kill near the
16:43
burrows where it's been seen before.
16:46
Dan: As soon as we leave the carcass attracts a
16:48
whole lot of attention.
16:51
Perhaps as night falls our "Chupa" will finally
16:53
be drawn in.
16:57
Dan: To increase our chances of nailing this illusive
16:59
creature we're also using old fashioned "eye-shine".
17:03
Suzanne: You take a light and you flash it over and
17:05
see if you catch anything because what's happening is
17:07
that when the light passes over the eye of the animal
17:09
it is reflected back.
17:12
Dan: And if Phyllis' and Denise's creatures are
17:14
anything to go by it's all about those baby blues.
17:18
Lorne: This whole eye shine idea is great but it's
17:21
pretty old school.
17:22
I've got a thermal imaging camera which can detect
17:25
heat so I'm going to be able to see an animal from
17:27
so far away so we'll see how the thermal imaging
17:30
camera fairs against the eyes shine.
17:39
Suzanne: Almost immediately Lorne spots some armadillos
17:41
with his infra-red camera.
17:44
Dan: Turns out Armadillo don't have reflective eye
17:46
shine and he has spotted them here even though
17:48
they're small little things.
17:50
Lorne: That's great, it's such a clear image.
17:52
You can see from such a distance and the fact is
17:54
the backdrop is completely cold and an armadillo just
17:58
stands out like a sore thumb.
18:03
Suzanne: We haven't exactly had any "Chupa" sightings yet
18:07
but just as we reach the end of the track,
18:09
Lorne catches something on camera that forces us to
18:12
abandon the buggy and go into the brush on foot.
18:21
Dan: They're coming from that direction I think.
18:24
Oh and there's some that side.
18:25
Lorne: Yeah they are definitely coyotes.
18:27
Suzanne: There's a whole bunch of them.
18:28
Dan: They're around, we're surrounded by coyotes
18:31
Suzanne: This is possibly the closest we've yet
18:33
been to our illusive creature.
18:35
Dan: And so we came out and tried to follow it to see
18:39
where it was going and then by the bottom of this tree
18:42
behind this lovely little well used hole.
18:47
Suzanne: Could this be the mysterious creature's lair?
18:51
Lorne: Is it in there right now?
18:54
Dan: Perhaps our camera traps will finally
18:56
have caught the footage we are really after.
18:58
Lorne: And hopefully we've got the animal on there.
19:01
Dan: Fingers crossed.
19:09
Even as we head down the track with Derek,
19:12
it's apparent that something has been eating
19:14
the carcass.
19:15
Would it be too much to hope that we have finally
19:17
caught our mystery canine?
19:19
Texas' very own answer to the Yeti?
19:23
Lorne: That looks like a mangy coyote doesn't it?
19:26
It doesn't even look that mangy but.
19:29
Or does it look like the mystery canine
19:31
we are after?
19:32
Dan: I don't know.
19:33
I don't know about you Suz but I don't see that
19:35
looking particularly hairy but it's still got
19:37
a bit of hair.
19:40
Suzanne: A normal coyote.
19:43
But then something none of us have ever seen before.
19:49
It looks completely hairless except for a ridge
19:53
along its back, the bizarre creature that features in
19:56
all of the reports.
20:01
Dan: I can't believe we got it.
20:03
Lorne: I know.
20:04
Suzanne: In the center of frame and everything.
20:05
Lorne: This is it then this is what we're
20:07
looking for isn't it?
20:08
Dan: Yeah, I can't actually believe we've managed to
20:12
get this on camera!
20:13
Suzanne: We did it!
20:14
Dan: We did it.
20:17
Suzanne: This appears similar to the
20:19
animal captured on police footage in 2008,
20:22
almost 80 miles away.
20:24
So many sightings, over several years,
20:27
in different locations means there must have been
20:29
multiple creatures.
20:31
And who knows how many are on the loose now.
20:33
The only question remains what is it?
20:36
So the number of sighting seems to have been
20:38
increasing over the past few years of this strange
20:40
animal but I think it's likely that the majority of
20:44
them are actually manged coyotes.
20:47
Dan: And I think certainly we have evidence that there
20:50
are a few that are definitely not manged.
20:53
Phylis: Well a coyote when it gets mange and looses
20:56
all of its hair it still looks like it has a skin
20:59
this appeared more as hide like to me.
21:03
Suzanne: But we're agreed that it's at least
21:04
a type of canine?
21:05
Dan: Definitely canine.
21:07
Suzanne: I don't think that it is a
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new breed of domestic dog.
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Roland: You don't see any naked animals
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of any kind running around alright,
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you know, it's not like a natural phenomenon.
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Suzanne: I mean we're not going to get answers to
21:16
this overnight, but I do think we have something for
21:19
them that can at least get them headed in
21:21
the right direction.
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Dan: Yeah definitely.
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Suzanne: You ready to go talk to them?
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Dan: Yeah I think so.
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Suzanne: Okay.
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It's a Wild Scene Investigation first.
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We may not have found the Chupa,
21:42
but the locals are right.
21:45
Roaming the Texan landscape is some
21:47
mutant hairless canine.
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We're beyond the stage of seeing one of these animals
21:53
and being really spooked by it and just shooting it,
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burning it and burying it.
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If you do happen to find a dead animal,
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don't just get rid of it,
22:02
because that is valuable information.
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Dan: We may not know exactly what it is.
22:08
But we've proved it definitely does exist.
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And we're bringing in scientists to
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follow this one up.
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Suzanne: For each one of you is a kit.
22:18
And we need as many data points in this chupacabra
22:22
coalition as we can get.
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Alright.
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Dan: And it may take a while if we are to get all
22:26
the evidence we need.
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So a researcher from the University of Illinois has
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agreed to help and examine any DNA samples the locals
22:32
can get to them.
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Suzanne: You need to have a blood sample,
22:36
you need to have a hair sample,
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and you need to have a skin sample.
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So hopefully, we are going to finally solve the
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mystery of the beast with the blue eyes.
