Speaker 1: You're listening to the second and final part of Unexplained,
Speaker 1: Season eight, episode five, Islands of Fear. It was a
Speaker 1: sultry ninety two degrees fahrenheit one day in mid August
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety five in Canovanas, a town just east of
Speaker 1: San Juan, the capital of Puerto Rico. Thundery showers earlier
Speaker 1: in the day had given way to slight, overcast skies,
Speaker 1: leaving a heavy, muggy feeling in the air. In Barrio
Speaker 1: Campo Rico, a suburb of San Juan, Madeline Tolentino, was
Speaker 1: helping her elderly mother move into her home. After depositing
Speaker 1: some boxes in the living room, Madeleine glanced casually out
Speaker 1: at the front window as a car drew up in
Speaker 1: the street outside. She watched it carefully as it parked,
Speaker 1: concerned that it might block her driveway. Satisfied it hadn't,
Speaker 1: she was just about to turn back to the task
Speaker 1: at hand when she noticed that the driver had a
Speaker 1: strange look on his face. He seemed to be staring
Speaker 1: out at the windscreen at something in the distance. The
Speaker 1: look on his face was quite clearly one of fear.
Speaker 1: It was as though he were about to be attacked
Speaker 1: by something, thought Madeline. She drew closer to the window
Speaker 1: and scowned the street, trying to see what it was
Speaker 1: that had scared the man so much. And it was
Speaker 1: then she later claimed, that she saw the terrifying creature
Speaker 1: ambling down the street toward the car. Madeleine's description of
Speaker 1: the events that unfolded next in that sleepy Puerto Rican
Speaker 1: barrier would become headline news across the country, and soon
Speaker 1: after the world. The report would trigger similar sightings of
Speaker 1: the so called Tupa cabra across Latin America and beyond
Speaker 1: for decades to come. On March twentieth, nineteen ninety six,
Speaker 1: seven months after her claimed encounter with the Tupa Cabra,
Speaker 1: Madeline Tolentino gave an account of her apparent experience to
Speaker 1: two UFO enthusiasts, Lucy Pla and Jose Rodriguez. The account
Speaker 1: was astonishingly detailed. As she put it, she first became
Speaker 1: aware of some kind of creature walking down the street
Speaker 1: on two legs. Its eyes were dark gray, she said,
Speaker 1: with no whites to them, and they were elongated up
Speaker 1: woods towards its temples. Even from her vantage point, she
Speaker 1: could see that they were damp and protruding slightly. Its face,
Speaker 1: she said, was especially frightening. It had two little holes
Speaker 1: in the middle, which she presumed was a nose, while
Speaker 1: its mouth was described as just a slash above the chin.
Speaker 1: She estimated the creature to be around four feet tall,
Speaker 1: with long, skinny legs, each with three toes and webbing
Speaker 1: between them like a goose foot. As she described it.
Speaker 1: She added that the creature had short, well combed hair,
Speaker 1: and that its torso bore round it marks where the
Speaker 1: skin seemed to have been burnt by something. The center
Speaker 1: of one of the apparent burn marks revealed pinkish, purply skin.
Speaker 1: The arms were long and thin, with three long, skinny fingers,
Speaker 1: and they were drawn back into what Madeleine described as
Speaker 1: an attack position. Odd featherlike projections protruded from its lower back,
Speaker 1: joined by some sort of coppery brown membrane. Curious as
Speaker 1: to what its gender was, Madeleine bent down low to
Speaker 1: see if she could discern anything between its legs, only
Speaker 1: to find that it seemed to be completely smooth, as
Speaker 1: if its body had been sealed up. She cried out
Speaker 1: for her mother to come and see it too, and
Speaker 1: together they watched as it moved closer to the car
Speaker 1: in stiff, robotic movements, almost as though it were being
Speaker 1: guided by a remote control. At some point, it seemed
Speaker 1: to become aware of the car and the frightened driver
Speaker 1: in sight. For a few spined, hingling moments, Madelin watched
Speaker 1: on the creature halted, apparently unaware that Madeleine and her
Speaker 1: mother were watching it from the window, only for it
Speaker 1: to then slowly swivel its head and gazed directly at them.
Speaker 1: Madelene screamed in horror. This, she said, seemed to startle
Speaker 1: the creature, who then bounded off down the street in
Speaker 1: large hops like a kangaroo. It plunged into a wooded
Speaker 1: lot opposite next to a machine shop owned by Madeleine's husband,
Speaker 1: Jose Augusto, who happened to be away that day. Utterly
Speaker 1: confused by what she just witnessed, Madeleine then claimed she
Speaker 1: went outside to try and get a better look of
Speaker 1: where the creature went, but was too afraid to give chase.
Speaker 1: Her mother, however, seemingly made of sterner stuff, ran immediately
Speaker 1: towards the patch of trees where they'd last seen it,
Speaker 1: shouting to a neighbor to help her catch it. With
Speaker 1: the creature now nowhere to be seen, Madeleine eventually caught
Speaker 1: up with her mother across the street. They were apparently
Speaker 1: joined soon after by a young man who worked for
Speaker 1: Madeleine's husband. He'd come running out of the shop when
Speaker 1: he heard the commotion in the street. After Madeline quickly
Speaker 1: told him what had happened, the young man, who was
Speaker 1: said to be used to wrangling large animals, ran to
Speaker 1: his van and grabbed a pair of heavy duty gloves.
Speaker 1: He pulled them on, then plunged hastily into the wooded
Speaker 1: lot in search of the creature. A short time later,
Speaker 1: the strange thing re emerged onto the street further down
Speaker 1: the road before sprinting away and out of sight. The
Speaker 1: young man reappeared from the wooded patch, flustered and out
Speaker 1: of breath. According to Madeline, he managed to track down
Speaker 1: the creature, but when he tried to grab it, the
Speaker 1: feathers on its back suddenly sprang up, revealing themselves to
Speaker 1: in fact be long, sharp spines. They changed color under
Speaker 1: his hands as he tried to pin them down. The
Speaker 1: young man then apparently grabbed the creature's face and prised
Speaker 1: its mouth open. To reveal large fanglike teeth inside. The
Speaker 1: creature eventually wrestled itself free. Madeleine later told interviewers that
Speaker 1: she believed the creature had supernatural intelligence due to the
Speaker 1: strange way in which it supposedly moved. When her mother
Speaker 1: gave chase after it, Madeleine claimed that for a moment,
Speaker 1: it had levitated as it raced away from them. Later
Speaker 1: that evening, two men who drove the local church buses
Speaker 1: were said to have seen the creature in the barrio again,
Speaker 1: and in the darkness, its eyes had appeared to light up.
Speaker 1: When Madeleine's husband, Jose, returned home, Madelein hesitantly told him
Speaker 1: what she'd seen, but Jose wasn't as surprised or disbelieving
Speaker 1: as she'd expected. In fact, he apparently told her that
Speaker 1: he'd encountered the same creature earlier that very morning. It
Speaker 1: was around seven a m. And Jose was in its
Speaker 1: workshop fixing a truck. He turned on the ignition, but
Speaker 1: when the engine came to life, it didn't sound right.
Speaker 1: When he got out of the vehicle to investigate, Jose
Speaker 1: froze in shock at the sight of a weird looking
Speaker 1: creature emerging from underneath the truck. The creature that was
Speaker 1: apparently just as Madeleine had described hers to him, locked
Speaker 1: eyes with Jose for what seemed like minutes before darting
Speaker 1: off like a kangaroo at spectacular speed. Madeline Tolentino is
Speaker 1: said to have told her family to keep quiet about
Speaker 1: the encounters, fearing what people might say about them, But
Speaker 1: word soon leaked out, and before long it was national news. Then, incredibly,
Speaker 1: a number of similar reports about what people were now
Speaker 1: calling a tupa cabra began pouring in from across Puerto Rico.
Speaker 1: But now there was a new edge to the story.
Speaker 1: The tuoper cabra had apparently developed a taste for the
Speaker 1: blood of farm animals. About a month after her encounter,
Speaker 1: Madeline worked with Joge Martin, a journalist specialized in supposed
Speaker 1: UFO and alien phenomena occurring on the Caribbean Islands, to
Speaker 1: develop a drawing of the creature she'd apparently seen. The
Speaker 1: sketch was widely circulated and published on the front page
Speaker 1: of a local newspaper, and by November nineteen ninety five,
Speaker 1: it had gone global. Meanwhile, in the wake of his
Speaker 1: own apparent experience, Madeline's husband, Jose Augusto, was drawn deeper
Speaker 1: into the search for the so called Tupa cabra. He
Speaker 1: claimed repeatedly the creature was making surgical incisions in the
Speaker 1: animals it attacked, insisting that those incisions were much too
Speaker 1: precise and clean to have been made by a mongoose
Speaker 1: or a wild dog, as others speculated. He also believed
Speaker 1: that the Tupa cabra was partly or completely draining their blood,
Speaker 1: which he insisted it would neither flow or coagulate after
Speaker 1: an attack. It examined sheep and goats said to have
Speaker 1: been killed by the Cupa cabra that was still flexible,
Speaker 1: showing no signs of rigor mortars, a good twenty four
Speaker 1: hours after they died, he said. Augusto was one of
Speaker 1: the first people to suggest the creature might be the
Speaker 1: result of some kind of experiment by humans involving extraterrestrials,
Speaker 1: and this is when things get really weird. It was
Speaker 1: some time after August nineteen ninety five, according to Augusto,
Speaker 1: when one night one of his neighbors was drawn to
Speaker 1: an odd movement in the sky. Gazing up at the stars,
Speaker 1: he apparently saw a large saucer shaped object about ninety
Speaker 1: to one hundred and twenty feet wide, suspended in the
Speaker 1: air fifty feet above him. The saucer apparently hovered for
Speaker 1: about three minutes before shooting off into the night. Augusto
Speaker 1: said that he also saw a starlike thing, as he
Speaker 1: put it, shooting colored laser beams sideways in the sky
Speaker 1: over the l Jungk forest before it too vanished. Augusto
Speaker 1: then claimed he was contacted by residents of Dorado, a
Speaker 1: town just west of San Juan on the north coast
Speaker 1: of the island. They had apparently witnessed a spaceship landing
Speaker 1: in scrub just beyond the town. A ramp had then
Speaker 1: opened up from the vehicle, down which a number of
Speaker 1: Tupa cabras were apparently escorted by some other kind of
Speaker 1: extraterrestrial being. It was as if the Chupa cabreras was
Speaker 1: some kind of attack doc belonging to the other beings.
Speaker 1: The lagoons in the region were said to bubble strangely
Speaker 1: whenever the Tupa cabras were around. Another report from Jose
Speaker 1: Augusto concerned Dorado police officer Juan Colatso, after hearing his
Speaker 1: dog barking in distress outside Colatso ran out to investigate,
Speaker 1: where he apparently found the dog being attacked by a
Speaker 1: tupa cabra. Galazzo was said to have immediately grabbed his
Speaker 1: service revolver and fired at the creature. Having been struck
Speaker 1: by a few bullets, it bounced off the back wall,
Speaker 1: then disappeared into the darkness. The dog was apparently recovered alive,
Speaker 1: but strangely with a section of its coat seemingly shaved away,
Speaker 1: supposedly in preparation for a surgical incision. Puerto Rican veterinarian
Speaker 1: doctor Carlos Soto was reported to described wounds on slaughtered
Speaker 1: animals supposedly killed by the Tuba cabra as being small
Speaker 1: and perfectly circular, about a quarter to half an inch
Speaker 1: in diameter, and arranged in pairs, sometimes penetrating deep into
Speaker 1: the neck of the victims. Such wounds could have been
Speaker 1: made by a feral dog, mongoose, or rhesus monkeys. Others, however,
Speaker 1: claimed that in some cases the wounds went deeper and
Speaker 1: some of the animal's vital organs had been extracted. Up
Speaker 1: and down the country, concerned Puerto Ricans were making reports
Speaker 1: to the civil defense, the police, and fort a laser
Speaker 1: the governor's residence, but authorities remained reluctant to get involved.
Speaker 1: But as the numbers of dead livestock mounted, the pressure
Speaker 1: for some official action intensified. And so it was that
Speaker 1: on Sunday, October twenty ninth, nineteen ninety five, a man
Speaker 1: with a weather beaten face, Indiana Jones style felt hat
Speaker 1: and steely gray eyes stood on the steps of the
Speaker 1: town hall, sweating in military fatigues as lights and multiple
Speaker 1: camera lenses focused on him. Jose Kimo Soto was the
Speaker 1: mayor of CANOVANUS and for over a month his office
Speaker 1: had been flooded with frantic phone calls and visits from
Speaker 1: worried citizens. The carcasses were piling up, Many had mysterious
Speaker 1: puncture wounds, and, as the claims went, had been drained
Speaker 1: of their blood. Soto's requests to government agencies for men
Speaker 1: and material to help fund the search had either been
Speaker 1: ignored or turned down. Left with no other option, the mayor,
Speaker 1: who was a former police officer, finally decided to organize
Speaker 1: a hunt for the super Cabra himself. Brandishing a large
Speaker 1: knife under the media lights, Soto briefed the assembled crowd
Speaker 1: and expectant reporters on its plan. As well as enlisting
Speaker 1: the services of a spiritual adviser to help locate the
Speaker 1: strange creature, It also acquired the help of Papo Swing,
Speaker 1: a well known clown from Puerto Rican television played by
Speaker 1: actor and comedian Raoul Carbonel. As Soto explained to the
Speaker 1: slightly amused crowd, Papo Swing's scary clown face would be
Speaker 1: perfect for scaring the monster into a special trap involving
Speaker 1: a hidden net and a goat mannikin filled with fake blood,
Speaker 1: and just in case the Tuba Cabra was a real vampire,
Speaker 1: Mayor Soto would also be bringing a twelve inch crucifix
Speaker 1: and a water pistol filled with holy water on the
Speaker 1: hunt too. Mer Soto failed to find and trap the creature,
Speaker 1: despite organizing several expeditions to do so. However, his fervent
Speaker 1: belief in the creature and the clear desire to at
Speaker 1: least do something, always a winner with voters, did at
Speaker 1: least get him re elected. On January fourth, nineteen ninety six,
Speaker 1: five months since her first apparent encounter with the Tupa Cabra,
Speaker 1: Madeline Tolentino was driving home with her two year old
Speaker 1: son around seven o'clock in the evening when she apparently
Speaker 1: saw it again. She was just approaching the town of Arasibo,
Speaker 1: some thirty miles west of San Juan, when she apparently
Speaker 1: noticed a powerful odour reminiscent of battery acid inside her van.
Speaker 1: The smell apparently grew increasingly noxious until she began finding
Speaker 1: it hard to swallow and her throat became numb. Then
Speaker 1: her two year old son started gagging and coughing. Madeline
Speaker 1: immediately stopped the van just outside of Barrio Cambalatche, a
Speaker 1: tiny neighborhood of around forty people. It was then that
Speaker 1: she apparently saw the creature standing in front of her vehicle.
Speaker 1: Its eyes lit up like Christmas lights, blazing of fiery
Speaker 1: orange in color. Fearing for her life, Madeline sped home
Speaker 1: and told her husband Jose, what she'd seen. It was
Speaker 1: a short time later when Jose and Madeline's uncle pulled
Speaker 1: up just outside of Barrio Camberalatche. Finding no evidence of
Speaker 1: the creature there, the pair apparently decided to search a
Speaker 1: local wood where there'd been reports of rabbits being recent
Speaker 1: and mutilated with a bright full moon lighting the way,
Speaker 1: The pair walked cautiously into the woods, where they later
Speaker 1: claimed to see a silhouette of the creature. It was
Speaker 1: floating in the air they sat, suspended about twenty five
Speaker 1: feet above the ground. The men claimed to have been
Speaker 1: scared witless by the encounter, but there's no record of
Speaker 1: how it supposedly ended. While no hard evidence of the cupicabra,
Speaker 1: no clear photo corpse, or material from which DNA could
Speaker 1: be analyzed, was ever found on Puerto Rico, something was
Speaker 1: killing the livestock there. During nineteen ninety five and ninety
Speaker 1: six alone, there were over two thousand unexplained animal deaths
Speaker 1: in the country. Stories of the culprit were frequently bizarre
Speaker 1: and contradictory, often nothing more than a mixture of hearsay
Speaker 1: and local folklore, making it hard to tell fact from fiction.
Speaker 1: But gradually Puerto Rico's epidemic of alleged tuoper cabra attacks
Speaker 1: and sightings died down, and by two thousand and ten,
Speaker 1: Madeline Tolentino and her husband Jose's detailed reports of the
Speaker 1: creature had subsided in the public awareness. However, there was
Speaker 1: one tenacious investigator still very interested in the creature. American writer, investigator,
Speaker 1: and self proclaimed skeptic Benjamin Radford had been intrigued by
Speaker 1: mysterious and unexplained phenomena since childhood. In his career as
Speaker 1: an investigator and writer, he'd looked into incidents such as
Speaker 1: the Pokemon Panic, in which thousands of Japanese children seemingly
Speaker 1: suffered seizures while watching an episode of the Pokemon anime series,
Speaker 1: as well as the Santa Fe Courthouse ghost and the
Speaker 1: White Witch of Rose Hall, previously explored in Unexplained Season seven,
Speaker 1: episode seven, Mansion on the Hill. Since two thousand and five,
Speaker 1: Bradford had been on the trail of the Chupa Cabra
Speaker 1: for a book he was writing about it. He followed
Speaker 1: up on reports, sightings, and carcasses of the alleged creature
Speaker 1: across the US Mexican border region, and had even made
Speaker 1: an expedition to the Jungles of Nigeria to investigate a
Speaker 1: rash of reports of a Tuper Cabra like animal there. Now,
Speaker 1: in twenty ten, he had come to Ground Zero for
Speaker 1: Tupa Cabra Stories, Puerto Rico to interview Madeline Top and Tino.
Speaker 1: Bradford was troubled by a number of things he'd read
Speaker 1: in the transcript of her original interview, conducted a few
Speaker 1: months after her first supposed encounter with the tupacabra, and
Speaker 1: as he questioned her, he noted that some of the
Speaker 1: details of her story appeared to have changed with the
Speaker 1: passage of time. For instance, Madeline now said that the
Speaker 1: height of the creature had been exaggerated. It had been
Speaker 1: no more than three feet tall, with five fingers, not
Speaker 1: three on each hand, and they were fingers, not claws,
Speaker 1: she insisted. Bradford also found the incredible detail in Madeline's
Speaker 1: story a little suspicious. How could she have seen and
Speaker 1: remembered so much while looking through a window some distance away?
Speaker 1: And parts of her story seemed contradictory, he thought. At
Speaker 1: one point she said the creature walked or ran, while
Speaker 1: in other parts it hopped and even levitated. And why
Speaker 1: had Lucy Pla and Jose Rodriguez, who conducted the original
Speaker 1: interview with Madeline, not managed to corroborate her account with
Speaker 1: those of the man in the car, the young man
Speaker 1: who worked in her husband's shop, or even her own mother.
Speaker 1: When Radford asked Madelin how the worker had managed to
Speaker 1: grab the creature and prize its mouth open to see
Speaker 1: its teeth without sustaining any injuries. She dismissed the young
Speaker 1: man's story as either an exaggeration or a lie. Radford
Speaker 1: noted that Madeline and her husband Jose were part of
Speaker 1: a tightly knit Pentecostal Christian community. It's a brand of
Speaker 1: faith which shares beliefs with other Evangelical Protestants, but with
Speaker 1: more emphasis with the gifts of the Holy Spirit as
Speaker 1: they're called, such as speaking in tongues, faith healing, and prophesying.
Speaker 1: Radford wondered if perhaps stress from the many struggles that
Speaker 1: Puerto Ricans were facing at the time, an HIV crisis,
Speaker 1: dengey fever, drought, the over abundance of rats, and an
Speaker 1: impending hurricane, combined with the couple's religious beliefs, had in
Speaker 1: some way led them to manifest some kind of evil
Speaker 1: creature into being in addition to the many obvious terrible
Speaker 1: things affecting Puerto Rico in nineteen ninety five. Benjamin Radford
Speaker 1: decided to find out what other unusual things might have
Speaker 1: been happening at the same time, and there was one
Speaker 1: other possibly important event that had not been so high
Speaker 1: in the news cycle. Back in July nineteen ninety five,
Speaker 1: just a month before Madeline Tolentino and her husband Jose
Speaker 1: had their first alleged encounter with the Tuba Cabra, a
Speaker 1: major American science fiction film opened in theaters across the country.
Speaker 1: Although poorly received by critics, it was very popular with audiences,
Speaker 1: combining science fiction and horror to give MGM one of
Speaker 1: its biggest box office successes of the year. That movie
Speaker 1: was Species. It features the creature Sil. Initially appearing in
Speaker 1: human form, Sil morphs into a sexualized insectoid alien human
Speaker 1: hybrid with long claw like fingers, reddish, upward slanting eyes,
Speaker 1: and spikes on its back. Like some of the rumors
Speaker 1: surrounding the Syl also escapes from a laboratory before going
Speaker 1: on a voracious, murdering rampage. Sil can fly, leap, climb walls,
Speaker 1: and hop in non human ways. The opening scene of
Speaker 1: the film even puts Puerto Rico specifically very much at
Speaker 1: the epicentre of the action, with the movie's opening credits
Speaker 1: and subsequent plot linking the Puerto Ricans Arecibo observatories search
Speaker 1: for extraterrestrial intelligence to fictional research on merging human and
Speaker 1: alien DNA. Madeline Tolentino admitted to Radford that she'd seen
Speaker 1: Species in the cinema when it was released shortly before
Speaker 1: her Cuba Cabra encounter. Radford asked her if the film
Speaker 1: had possibly made her think that there might have been
Speaker 1: an experiment and an escaped human alien hybrid at large
Speaker 1: on Puerto Rico, to which she answered yes. She added
Speaker 1: that she'd also heard from a journalist whom she considered
Speaker 1: credible that an unknown experimental creature had indeed escaped from
Speaker 1: the El Janke forest. With that, for Benjamin Radford, at least,
Speaker 1: it seemed that all the strange apparent sightings of an
Speaker 1: unknown and terrifying predator had merely been conjured by over
Speaker 1: active imaginations triggered by the release of what was then
Speaker 1: Hollywood's biggest blockbuster. What then, of all the livestock that
Speaker 1: had very much been genuinely and mysteriously killed in vast
Speaker 1: numbers across large areas of Puerto Rico. One Puerto Rican
Speaker 1: zoologist Edwin Velasquez, who researched the killings of Puerto Rican
Speaker 1: livestock in the nineteen nineties, believed they were simply attributable
Speaker 1: to a combination of feral dogs, the over abundance of
Speaker 1: hungry mongoose and perhaps sometimes reeseus monkeys too, that had
Speaker 1: escaped from the search labs over the decades. But what
Speaker 1: then about the vampiric nature of the tupacabra reports. In
Speaker 1: his writings called Natural History from seventy seven to seventy
Speaker 1: nine CE, Pliny the Elder describes how night jar birds
Speaker 1: were often observed flying through goat pastures in the twilight hours,
Speaker 1: darting between the legs of cows and goats. The birds
Speaker 1: were wrongly assumed to be sucking the milk from the
Speaker 1: goats odds, causing them to shrivel away. They were given
Speaker 1: the name Caprimorgus, which in Latin means goat sucker, which
Speaker 1: ultimately became the genus name for that family of birds.
Speaker 1: During the Middle Ages, night jars were blamed for killing
Speaker 1: the goats they supposedly sucked at. As a result, in England,
Speaker 1: they even became associated with the evil spirit park and
Speaker 1: the devil. When Europeans discovered vampire bats in Latin America
Speaker 1: around the eighteen forties, the association between the bats and
Speaker 1: the supposedly goat sucking night jar was made, a connection
Speaker 1: likely strengthened because both animals are seen at twilight. But
Speaker 1: as it happened, stories of vampiric creatures were already well
Speaker 1: established in Puerto Rican folklore long before the arrival of
Speaker 1: colonial Europeans. Vampire stories are often considered Slavic in origin,
Speaker 1: but they are widespread in many cultures. Pedro Vidal, a
Speaker 1: professor of Spanish and Latin American studies, has researched the
Speaker 1: origins of Latin American vampire stories and found that they
Speaker 1: go back to the Mayans, who worshiped a vampire deity
Speaker 1: centuries before bram Stoker's Dracula story was conceived. Back in
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy five, some twenty years before the supposed Tuba
Speaker 1: cabra attacks, a number of mysterious livestock killings were two
Speaker 1: reported throughout Puerto Rico, beginning in the small town of
Speaker 1: Mocha in the northwest of the island. The deaths were
Speaker 1: initially attributed to something called El Vampiro de Moca before
Speaker 1: they began to occur elsewhere. Just as with the Tuba
Speaker 1: cabra reports of the mid nineties, the corpses were said
Speaker 1: to have been bled dry through a series of small
Speaker 1: circular incisions, and just like the nineties were reports, no
Speaker 1: absolute proof of the culprit was ever established. For now,
Speaker 1: what Madeline Tolentino and her husband Jose really saw during
Speaker 1: those strange months of ninety five to ninety six and
Speaker 1: what was really responsible for all those animal killings on
Speaker 1: Puerto Rico remains unexplained. Thank you as ever for listening
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