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On this episode of Destination Truth...

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That's what I'm wishing for, baby.

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It just happened so fast.

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She was running after her chicken, she didn't want them to escape,

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and then all of a sudden it materialized itself right before her.

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Josh travels to South America after documented sightings of a werewolf in Argentina.

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And he finds that this legend's bite might be worse than its bark.

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What the hell was that?

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Next, the crew searches for a volatile gnome that reportedly lives in the Argentine woods.

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What can you tell me about the Pumbero?

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You know, there's stories and there's legends and whatnot,

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but this is one that really exists.

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Does Josh catch the elusive Pumbero or does he come up just short?

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I don't know, I should just be wrestling really, really close to me.

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I'm Josh Gates.

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My travels have taken me to the most exotic and mysterious places on Earth.

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I've seen some unexplainable things which have raised some strange questions.

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Now, I've pulled together a crack team armed with the latest technology to search for answers.

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I'm not sure what's out there waiting for me, but I know what I'm looking for, the truth.

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Anyone who has ever gone on a childhood camping trip or has turned on a cable TV at three in

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the morning knows a thing or two about werewolves.

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In America, we know them as those legendary beasts who, triggered by a full moon in the sky,

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turn from regular humans into manic, snarling, fur-covered beasts.

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But unlike here, there are places where the werewolf is not just considered a myth.

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I came across a creature called El Lobozone, which is Argentine's adaptation of our home-grown growler.

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Their version has had documented sightings all over the country,

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from farmlands to highly populated cities, with a recent spate of reported sightings

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in northern Argentina.

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The crew and I packed up our night vision cameras,

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bullard, and electromagnetic sensor to assist us in getting first-hand evidence of our creature,

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and jetted off to Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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What sets the Lobozone apart from the classic werewolf is that rather than transmogrifying

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into a wolf, it commutes into an oversized ferocious dog.

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Also, the Lobozone can't just be any shlub bitten by another werewolf.

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It is said that the creature can only be the seventh son in a family of just boys.

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The belief in the Lobozone is so strong in Argentina that the president of the country

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to this day has every reported seventh son baptized to try to stop any transformations.

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But just like its lupine counterpart, the Lobozone is victim to the lunar cycle,

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and with a bad moon rising in just a couple of days,

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this was perfect timing for our investigation in Argentina.

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To learn more about the Lobozone, we set up a meeting with Ramon Ferais,

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author and expert on Argentine folklore.

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The story of the Lobozone is very complicated to me.

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In some ways, it sounds similar to this European idea of a werewolf.

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But it has characteristics which are unique to this part of the world.

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Absolutely right. What is European about it is the fact that this all began right after the

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conquest of America. Yes, Tuesdays and Fridays, full moon.

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Man suffers this transformation.

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People here seem to believe that it is the seventh son in a family, correct?

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Exactly. That's exactly what they believe. It's got to be a family of all boys.

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So these are some drawings of the Lobozone.

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Almost this cartoony kind of image of a wolf up on its hind legs howling the moon.

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This is the Lobozone. And here you have a much more stylish werewolf.

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A very fancy belt buckle. Maybe some diesel jeans. Very fancy jeans.

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Yeah, he appears to have turned into a wolf but still enjoys a tight pair of jeans.

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Like most men in Argentina. You know what I mean?

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We wanted to make our way to the area where the sightings had occurred.

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But first, I had to stop at the zoo to meet with a man that had an alternate explanation for the

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Lobozone. All right, so we're here at the zoo. Home, of course, is a very dangerous giant twin squirrels

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of Buenos Aires.

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Which one of these animals attacked your son?

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No. Your son was attacked by an animal.

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It's a shame. The zoo is very, very dangerous.

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I caught up with zoologist Fernando Peralta to see if any of Argentina's indigenous animals

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could be linked to the Lobozone sightings. There is a similar animal, however.

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It's right here in the zoo. It's called...

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It's a similar animal to a werewolf in your zoo. You have the greatest zoo of all time.

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And it is a werewolf.

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Yeah, it's derived from that animal.

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I would like to see this animal.

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This is the Argentine Lobozone.

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It's the closest they have to a werewolf.

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People sometimes say that they've seen the Lobozone. Do you think maybe they've seen this animal?

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As fascinating as his theory of the Lobozone was, I wanted to hear directly from someone who actually

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claimed to have seen the mysterious creature. And for that, we needed to travel to Sonic Nacio,

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the hub of the recent sightings. But since it didn't have an airport, we first had a fly to

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Iguazu in northern Argentina, which also happens to be the home of the beautiful Iguazu Falls,

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where several famous American movies were shot, including The Mission,

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Miami Vice, and most notably, Leslie Nielsen's critically acclaimed performance in Mr. Magoo.

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We left the falls and drove to the nearby Sonic Nacio to meet with our first witness,

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Ramon Guimenez, a police officer sporting the official uniform of short shorts and an old Adidas

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T-shirt. This animal appeared at his home and it was a Lobozone. Describe what it looked like.

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Brilliant eyes. Are you sure it wasn't just a dog?

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You know a dog? When you know a dog, this wasn't a dog. And what happened when you saw the Lobozone?

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The Lobozone began to howl. Yes, two long howls. What did the howl sound like?

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Ramon led us to a local barmaid that had a similar experience, only she had seen the Lobozone in

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both its dog and human form. I understand you had an experience with the Lobozone. It's four in the

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morning, she walks to the bar, yes. And that's when the chicken started making a ton of sound,

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no? Yeah, lots of noise. It just happened so fast. She was running after her chicken,

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she didn't want them to escape, and then all of a sudden there was this dog. The next day she

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happened to see it there and a man came up. It's a horrible looking man and he told her.

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He said, did you see what I did to you last night? So he was the Lobozone.

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That was him. The woman was shaken by her experience and said that she never saw the

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man again, but she told me about another man nearby who claimed to be a Lobozone.

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She was too terrified to see the man herself, but for me it was a meeting I couldn't pass up.

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We are monitoring the area around the 7th Sun's house to see if there are any signs of a Lobozone.

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What is that right there? Where is that camera?

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Our first two Lobozone eyewitnesses intrigued me and I was really excited about our next one

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because we were told that he could actually turn into the Lobozone right before our eyes,

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but it being daytime and him not being a 7th Sun, I was a little skeptical. Once you turn into the

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Lobozone, do you become dangerous? Yes, yes. So I should be very careful once you transform.

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and see. Look at it. It's very good. I like how he turned into the Lobozone and then turned back

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and he'd lost a lot of time. This Lobozone transformation was more fit for dinner theater

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than howling at the moon. It might have something to do with the fact that he's the only son in

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a family of all girls, but I wanted to find out why 7th Sun's need to be baptized to prevent the

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Lobozone curse. So we went to an old Spanish mission to speak with a priest who over the years

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has performed hundreds of 7th Sun baptisms. What is the story of the Lobozone? The story is that

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the 7th Sun was of course baptized by the president of Argentina.

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To protect him from apparently becoming a Lobozone. To people in Argentina still believe in this

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legend? Not everybody, but many. To help us out in our investigation, Father Smolley told us that

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there had been many 7th Suns that had been baptized in his church and he gave us an idea on where to

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find them. He also led us to a local farmer that said he had actual Lobozone DNA evidence.

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So you had this experience with the Lobozone. What time of day was it?

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In the day or in the night? In the morning. He heard some the children were out there playing

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and they said uncle, uncle, come get and come. So take us take us to one next to another.

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Let's go look. So basically you see these bricks here? Actually the children grabbed up the bricks

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and started hitting with with the bricks. Hitting the Lobozone with the bricks? Hitting the Lobozone

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with the bricks? The the Lobozone actually went running up this way, jumped up on top of that

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cart and came down, ran up around the house and actually went inside the house. Okay.

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So he came into this room. Here's where the Lobozone came and he managed to lasso it here.

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Lassoed it in this room? So he dragged it out of the room? Drag it out. This is the lasso he used.

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That's where he started to hit it. Three big all hits. He hit it three times with a big stick.

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That's when you actually tied him up to the tree. He said no to the Lobozone.

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So that's when they just kind of eased up the road. He let the Lobozone go and it ran off.

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It sounds a lot to me like you beat the hell out of a dog. I mean it's just such a long encounter

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in so many different areas. You know, I mean it's like he took this Lobozone through a double

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there course. He said that the whip was covered in blood. Is that true?

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Yeah, it was covered in blood. It was covered in blood. Ask him if he'd be willing to sell us this whip.

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How about 50 pesos?

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With the rope now in our possession, we'd be able to send it back to the U.S. to have it tested.

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If it was indeed covered in the animal's blood, we should be able to determine what animal or human it belonged to.

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The day now ending in the full moon rising, we needed to meet with a seventh son right away

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to see if we could witness a transformation into a Lobozone. And of your nine boys, this is the seventh.

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When president manum was in office, he came here. We baptized him. It's custom from long ago

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the seventh son's always baptized by the president. Why does the custom exist? They said if he wasn't

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baptized, then the Lobozone would come out. Everything was going along fine until the

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father saw how late it was getting. Baptized or not, we could tell that he did not want his son

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outside that night, which was fine. We had an appointment to get to with another seventh son

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that lives in an area that has had multiple reported sightings of Lobozones. With this kid

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being treated as a pariah for not being baptized by the president, in an area being known for

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its large amount of Lobozone activity, this was the perfect place to set up our investigation

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and maybe, just maybe, catch ourselves a werewolf. Are you picking anything up on camera four?

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I thought I saw something on the edge of the road.

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What the hell was that?

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So we are here in a small village where we're going to conduct our investigation for the Lobozone.

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This town area has been known for its reported sightings of the Lobozone, so our first priority

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is to investigate throughout this village for signs of our creature. Witnesses claim that the

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Lobozone is a snarling wolf man with sharp claws and a deep growl. This house behind us where we're

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setting up our base camp tonight is the home of a seventh son. With any luck, maybe this kid

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will transform before our eyes. We also know that the Lobozone likes to eat raw meat, so we have a

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big side of beef which we're going to hang up as well and focus one of our cameras on that. Certainly

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if we're going to find a Lobozone, this is the time and the place to do it. So we're going to set up

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our gear and get to work. What we're going to do is take our seventh son, sit him down and monitor

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him throughout the night to see if he transforms into a Lobozone. Since there's been a lot of

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reported activity in the area, we're going to use our surveillance equipment to try to capture any

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evidence of an unusual creature. Tracking for footprints is out because it's way too dry and

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dense around the area, but we are going to use our thermal imager to see if we can pick up

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heat signals from anything warm-blooded around the camp. Also we'll have our four night vision

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cameras that feed directly to our laptop where Lindsay will be monitoring them. One of the cameras

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will be fixed on this point. Another one of the cameras will face out here towards the edge of

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this property. There's an animal pens out here. We've heard a lot of stories about the Lobozone

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coming and attacking animals. Another one of our cameras is going to be trained on our seventh son

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and the final camera will just sort of be a general one which will sweep out

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over the edge of the property and give us a nice broad view if anybody

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or anything walks into the yard. Meat hook, check. Sketchy warm beef.

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Check.

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Okay let's get the let's get the kid out here. Cheers going right out here. I want this kid

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isolated in case he turns into a freakish werewolf.

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In some areas the child's supposed to be named Benito. It's a benediction, a protective name

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which keeps the curse at bay. In this case this child wasn't in fact baptized by the

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president of Argentina and was not given the benedictive name so in many circles people would

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believe that he is susceptible to the curse. So you never know at any moment this kid could

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start howling of the moon and rip me to pieces.

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Not really much going on with the night vision cameras. You guys keep an eye on a kid. I'm

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going to go investigate the town area. No problem. I'll hold down the fort.

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I haven't seen a single person in this town.

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It's like I'm in a George Romero movie right now. This place is completely abandoned.

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What's really weird is that I haven't seen or heard any dogs or animals around here at all.

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We have to remember that even though we are monitoring the seventh sun in our camp there

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are other seventh suns in this area so I still have to keep my eye out for anything.

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We just did a survey through the town. Didn't find anything. It's almost totally abandoned though.

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All right we're headed back to you now.

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All right well I went through the whole town. There's no sign of life out there. There's no

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dogs. There's no people. It's weird actually. I went block after block after block and it just

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feels abandoned. No sign of life at all. Yeah well there's nothing much back here either. I mean

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we were watching the cameras. The kid hasn't moved in a long time. He hasn't turned into a werewolf yet.

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I'm watching though. Yes so what's the plan of attack? We're going to continue to monitor this kid.

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Monitor the kid. Just look at the cameras for a little bit I think. That's it. That's all we

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can do for now. It's been pretty quiet around here so far.

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Not much going on with the night vision cameras.

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What is that right there on camera 2? It went that way. I'm going after it. Where did the kid go?

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Come here.

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Right there. Right there. Right there. Right there. Right there. Right there. Right there.

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There it goes.

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What is that right there on camera 2? Where did the kid go?

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I just saw it run this way. It darted into the bushes.

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Whatever it was it was large and fast.

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Not seen anything.

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What we're looking for is something larger than a dog. Something with bigger eyes. Something

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much more terrifying looking. It definitely came right through this area. I was looking for any

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signs of tracks. The ground is really hard and dry so it may not have left any tracks here. I'm

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barely leaving any tracks but it came right through here.

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Did he wolf out on you?

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I'm just going to walk down the road and see if I can see what was down here.

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I'm using the thermal imager to see if I can pick up any heat signatures on the ground or in a heavy

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brush. Are you picking anything up on camera 4?

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I thought I saw something on the edge of the road.

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What the hell was that?

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I just saw it go in there right there. That thing was definitely bigger than a dog.

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Right there, right there, right there, right there.

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Right there, right there.

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Nothing here.

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This is really frustrating. It's been a couple of hours since I lost track of whatever the hell

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that was. Better go ahead back to camp. So what happened? I tried to chase whatever was on the

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camera. I caught something on the imager a few times. It looked like it was on four legs whatever

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it was. It was a dog. It was a pretty good sized dog. I just saw it tear into the bushes on the

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imager and went into the bushes. I couldn't get up close to it. That's it. I don't know. Could

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it be a dog? Could it be a lobzone? In terms of this kid, I mean the moon is full and the moon is up.

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If he hasn't turned into a lobzone by now, I don't think he's going to. I think we should let him go

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to bed. All right guys, so here's where we stand. We got nothing going on in town. We definitely have

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some dog-like figures skulking around this area that we've seen on the cameras and on the imager.

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But nothing that we can get to up close. Kid has not turned into a lobzone and the sun's going to

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be up soon. And the lobzone is not on good terms with sunlight. So I think we've done the best we

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can do here and we need to pack it up. The next morning, I packed up the rope with the purported

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DNA evidence and sent it to Dr. Terry Coon, forensic specialist at UC Davis for analysis.

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Truthfully, it should be canine blood because it sounds like this guy just beat the crap out of a dog.

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But if any human DNA is found, that may prove his lobzone encounter. Also, we plan to take our

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thermal imager and night vision camera footage to the curator of the LA Zoo to see if he can

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identify what creature we encountered on our investigation. It would take a few days to get

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the rope results back from the lab. So in the meantime, we left San Ignacio and hightailed it

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to Corrientes to investigate documented eyewitness accounts of another creature,

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El Pombero, that has been terrorizing this region of Argentina. What we're looking for is something

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pygmy-like, covered in hair with extremely unusual powers. Reportedly, the creature has

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the ability to impregnate women simply by touching their stomachs. Local witnesses have described

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the Pombero as a short, hairy and grotesquely ugly creature that will pay you a late night visit

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if you leave rum, cigarettes and honey on your doorstep. It's sort of like trick-or-treating

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in Las Vegas. But before our search began, there was significantly more important business at hand.

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I am in a wacky sea of women. Hola! Hola! Hola!

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After a myriad of failed attempts to lure one of the Carnaval dancers to join our crew,

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we set out the next morning to meet with a local school teacher who actually teaches the subject

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of El Pombero in his classroom. What can you tell me about the Pombero?

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He said there's a very strong belief system here about the Pombero. He said, I believe in the Pombero,

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but I've never had an experience with him per se. It's just this is a belief that has been

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conserved within their culture. It's within their education here. You know, there's stories and

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there's legends and whatnot, but this is one that really exists. And where do you believe that the

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Pombero lives? We don't know, nobody knows where he lives, but you know, he's been seen by lots of people.

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The teacher then led us to a witness that said she'd come in direct contact with the Pombero.

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She was sleeping and she woke up. I mean, how could she not hurt? She felt this cold wind.

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And how did you know that the Pombero was in your room? Because he makes his whistle.

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Can she imitate the whistle?

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She's not willing to do that. If you were to imitate him, he would come after you.

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Since Dora was too terrified of the Pombero to whistle in her own house, we might just have to go

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whistle in his. Don't we try and whistle? Go for it.

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What was that? Let's go, let's go, let's go, move it, let's go.

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On our quest to find the small devilish creature known as El Pombero, we were led to the Warrani

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Indian Reservation, where many sightings have been reported. The Warrani sect has had the most

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recent run-ins with the Pombero, and I was anxious to hear their accounts. Unfortunately, our car had other plans.

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It's about 150,000 degrees here. We're in beautiful somewhere, Argentina, middle of nowhere.

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Eric tried his own solution, but nobody would pick him up, probably due to his abundance of

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outlaw facial hair. Yet another reason why we needed one of those carnival dancers.

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No AC. It's 100 degrees out, I have to drive around with the heat on.

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Assuming our car troubles were behind us, we finally got to our destination. So we're here in

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Hardin, America. There's a very large Warrani Indian population in this area of Northern

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Argentina. We found our first Warrani witness and local bar manager, sort of a combination of Rosie

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O'Donnell and Meatloaf. So you saw a guy. It looked like he was like, you know, seven years old.

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Completely naked. So Eric came walking and he stopped right in front of him.

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He stopped and just stared at him. He was calling him. The Pombero was calling him.

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When you saw the Pombero, how did you know that it was a Pombero and not just a man?

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He was like a black doll. Raul then referred us to a customer of his that had just recently had an

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encounter with a Pombero. But we had to go deep into the village to find this witness. But you

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know, there's no more truthful person than an old Argentine mountain man. I understand that you

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had an experience with the Pombero, yes? Yeah, it was on the mountain. He was there like in this

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hole in the mountain. He didn't have any clothes and he just a little something tapping, you know,

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covering him here. He has a cane. Do you believe that there are many Pombero or only this one?

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But it is possible that I could see the Pombero. Yes, of course. He told us of a house on the

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edge of the village that we had to check out because it had so many reported Pombero visits.

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So I set out looking for it and after searching for a few hours and just as the sun was setting,

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we finally found the abandoned house on the village lakeshore. As a family that vacated

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the premises claimed that the Pombero would take gifts right off their porch at night,

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this was an ideal place to set up our investigation.

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It's extremely dense out here in the forest and there's a house here which was recently

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abandoned by a Warrani family. But they swear that when they lived here, when they would put out food,

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honey, tobacco, rum for the Pombero, every night it would come and take these things.

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There's nobody around here. We're completely alone out here. We're going to set up here

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and see if we can't site this Pombero.

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We're looking to capture any evidence of this short, hairy, ugly,

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gnome-like figure with a whistle that many eyewitnesses claim to have heard before citing it.

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We have four cameras set up here, four night vision cameras,

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one of which is fixed on the food that we've set out. The other three are positioned in various

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spots looking out at the edge of the tree line. If anything comes out of the forest to take this

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food, we're going to be able to image it. We're also using what's called a dolphin ear.

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Develop primarily for listening to sounds in the ocean. It can also be buried in the ground

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and it's an extremely sensitive microphone. We should be able to pick up the sounds of anything

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moving around on the perimeter of the camp. While Lindsay is monitoring everything on the

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laptop, I'll be walking around the camp with the thermal imager that will help me see through this

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brush. This is going to help me pick up anything giving off heat that may look like a small goblin.

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How's it going with the cameras? Nothing came to strip the food yet?

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No, not yet.

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Well, they say that it whistles or if you whistle, you will make it come out of the forest.

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So we're all going to take a crack at how's your how's your whistling?

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I'm a top notch whistler. All right, well, it's good. So we're going to, um,

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we're going to just go lights out for a bit. We'll all take a crack at whistling and see what

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comes out and tries to kill us. Perfect. Eric, how's it going over there?

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No, nothing yet. Don't let me try and whistle.

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I read my mind to go for it.

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Good whistling, Eric. Solid whistling. I'm making a quick sweep around the perimeter to see if I

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can pick up anything moving through the brush with a thermal imager.

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What was that?

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Yeah, what's up?

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I don't know. I should try to rest like really, really close to me.

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What was that?

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Everybody heard that, right?

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Something big just made a noise over there. So I'm going to take the thermal imager. I'm going

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to walk up this way. Lindsay, you let me know if you see anything on the camera. Just keep in touch

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with the walkie-talkie and, uh, and I'll keep in touch and let you know if I, if I see anything up there.

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Carter, let's go.

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Shh.

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Nothing yet, but it definitely heard a big loud noise back here.

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There's been numerous sightings of the Pombaro in this area and not just on this property, so

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it's our hope that we'll get lucky tonight. Guys, if I'm another one of these traps up here,

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be very, very careful if you walk up behind the house on the left-hand side of the path.

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One of the really weird things about this part of the village is that there seem to be these

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traps everywhere in the ground. They're, they're almost like booby traps. They're holes that are

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covered over with sticks and, um, crossbeams sometimes that, that go fairly deep down. We've

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almost stepped into a couple of them while we were setting up equipment earlier, but I've just come

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across another one here. You should be very, very careful with your footing. There are these strange

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holes that go around everywhere. It's almost as though whoever was living here on this part of

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the land was trying to trap something. There's a creepy little ladder over here. It goes up into a tree.

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This whole property is really weird. How's it going? All right, I'm not getting much.

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Oh, yeah. Well, I don't know. I mean, the weird thing about this place are these pits everywhere.

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Did you come across the one over here? Yeah, almost stepped in it. I know, like these, these

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big covered pits, they're very, very strange. Linz, how's it going over there with the cameras?

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Not too much. We definitely heard something rustling around in the trees back there and

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they're definitely going to have these pits all for the property for some sort of animal or some

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sort of creature. So there's something roaming around out here for sure. Yeah, what's up?

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I don't know. I just heard the rustling really, really close to me. I can't see anything.

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All right, I'm headed back your way.

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You heard something over here? Where? I thought it was you over there.

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Well, whatever it is, it's moved away.

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I'll tell you one thing, though, this whole place gives you the creeps.

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Well, it's starting to get light in the sky, which means that morning is here.

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It's been a long night. We did a really thorough investigation for El Pombero.

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The criteria which we used to try to search for this creature was that we were hoping either

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with our thermal imager, with our night vision cameras or firsthand to have some sort of visual

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encounter with this creature. We left out its favorite foods, rum, tobacco, honey,

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and it was our hope to kind of coax it or something else out of the forest to take this food.

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But other than a groan caught on tape, no sign of the, no sign of the Pombero.

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As I said, it is getting light out and that doesn't make this place any less spooky.

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So we're going to pack it up and call it a night, which means we're going to have to drink

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all that rum and smoke those cigarettes ourselves, which is fine. We can certainly do that.

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We left Argentina and zipped back to Los Angeles to visit Michael D, the curator of the LA Zoo.

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We wanted him to listen to the groan-like sound we captured on tape to see if he could recognize

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it as animal or human. Hey, Mike, good to see you again. Good to see you. How are you, sir? I'm

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just fine. Good. Just take a listen and tell me if you can identify what you think this sound is.

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Wow.

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That is really an odd sound. I have no idea what it possibly could be other than some type of flying

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insect. So that noise is not characteristic to you of something, of some creature that you know?

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It's certainly not anything that I would be aware of mammal-wise. Based on what I'm hearing,

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I really don't know what it is. Without any substantial evidence to support the existence

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of a bad tempered dwarf terrorizing Argentina, it's hard to say that the Pombero is anything

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more than a good excuse to stop people from whistling and to explain missing liquor and

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cigarettes. Believe me, if you leave gifts like that laying around in my neighborhood sooner

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or later, something's going to walk away with it. And as for our loba zone investigation and the

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giant fur-covered beast plaguing Northern Argentina, well, we also had Michael try to identify the

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strange creature in the footage we captured on the thermal imager and night vision camera.

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So our night investigation, we have a thermal imager and also a fixed camera which runs an

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infrared, which picks up an image of an animal running by the camera. We just want to get your

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opinion as to whether you think you can identify the animal.

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Oh geez, that was fast.

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Interesting. And that's the second image it picks up moving by one of the cameras very quickly.

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Okay. Yeah, that looks...

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Oh, that's cool. That may have been a main wolf. And I don't know if main wolves, I know they're

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found in Brazil, but I don't know how far over they go into Argentina if they are. It's obviously a

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very relatively large canine. Now, one of the things that the locals talk about is how, you know,

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they say that there's lobosone as a man who's turned into a dog and so the natural question is,

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well, how do you know it's not just a dog? Yeah. So you think that, you think that

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characteristically this looks different than just an average dog? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, especially

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when it walks across the screen because you really have a good outline of it. And in that

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outline, I see the difference that it's not just a regular dog. Terrific. All right, well,

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thank you so much, Mike, for your time. I really appreciate it. Okay. We then travel to UC Davis

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in Northern California to get the DNA results of the blood found in our rope that an Argentinian

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family claimed they used to capture a lobosone. Terry. Hi. Hello. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet

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you as well. Go get you a lab coat. So you, uh, I get a lab coat? You get a lab coat. Very impressive.

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Is it going to fit me as the rope? So what I did was look on the rope, looking for possible

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points for blood and swab that. And so what we're going to look for is a color change. So the greener

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it gets, the better, the stronger the presence of the right. Okay. So then what I do is I take the

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swab that's got the sample on it, press it to the hemostic. That's telling me there's blood there is

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just a small amount. As you can see, it's getting greener right now. All right. So there's blood on

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the rope for sure. That's sure. Sure. Great. Okay. So these are the results. Right. Well, this was

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our machine that we used to do the sequencing on. And what you're seeing is a visualization of the

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results. And so in the case of our sample, did you get any sort of match from the database? Yes,

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we did. And what percentage was that match? It was 100%. Okay. So what was it? It was human.

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It's human. It's human. So 100% the blood on the rope is human blood. That's correct. What's

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interesting is that this family that had this experience that had this rope, they, they claimed to

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have this very dramatic, bloody kind of run in with this creature and they last sued it. They

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sort of hung it from a tree. They almost killed it. And eventually they released it at the end of

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the encounter. But you know, the loa bason is purported the sort of hybrid between a human and

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a dog really. And so we were maybe expecting to find canine blood. So whatever this last

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two went around, it had human blood. Right. Thanks very much for your help. I really appreciate it.

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You're welcome. And I'm sure there'll be more samples coming your way. Alrighty. Thanks a lot.

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Thanks. I appreciate it. I was surprised that human blood, not canine blood, was found on the rope.

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Does this mean that the farmer had an actual loa bason encounter?

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Not necessarily. But the evidence sure hasn't discounted his claim. The zoo curator thought

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that what we saw definitely looks bigger than a dog indigenous to Argentina. And this certainly

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opens up some interesting questions. What exactly did we encounter out there that night? I can't

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say for sure. If there's a darker side to this story, I guess we won't know until the next full

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moon. That is, unless there's a different explanation for men turning into big, uncontrollable salivating dogs.