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A horrifying,
blood-sucking beast

is terrorizing Appalachia.

A canine like body...

It's like a wolf or a coyote,
but it's bigger.

...with razor-sharp teeth.

So is there anything other
than the vampire bat

that would suck blood
out of this animal?

Locals believe
it could be the chupacabra

first encountered
in the southwest 35 years ago.

As soon as we see it,
it's gone.

Recent sightings
are further east than ever before.

They're continuing to breed
and flow up here.

God, that thing was fast.

Can
one scientist's archive hold the clues

to solving this mystery?

Our next guest tonight
is one of the world's leading naturalists,

and he's been
accumulating material for some 30 years.

In the mid-20th century,

scientist Ivan Sanderson,

set out to separate fact
from fiction.

He investigated hundreds
of frightening encounters

with unexplained creatures
around the world.

There seemed to be
a lot of these creatures on our continent,

in South America and Africa,
and all of Eurasia.

As the founder
of cryptozoology,

he built
the most extensive archive

of unclassified creatures
on Earth.

But following his death
in the 1970s,

that archive disappeared...

until now.

Armed with modern tech
and Sanderson's lost research...

We need to take this
and compare it to what's in the archives.

...a team
of experts will reinvestigate his unexplained cases

using
up-to-the-minute research, and predator expertise.

I've never seen
wildlife do this.

There's nothing like that
that should be doing that here.

Holy!

Can Sanderson's files lead to an incredible new insight

and take another creature
from myth...

Did you see that?

...to reality?

Everything is here
from the origin of cryptozoology.

My name is Charlie Mewshaw.

I have multiple degrees
in science and tech.

My passion for cryptozoology
is a lifelong study.

And I use modern technology
to discover things that just weren't possible in the past.

Physical specimens here...

Yeah, we've got castings.
We've got skulls, bones.

That's the
Gigantopithecus skull.

I'm Brittany Barbieri,
and I'm a cryptozoologist.

I believe
that there are hidden animals

that have
not been discovered yet.

We have the Komodo dragon,

we have the snub-nosed monkey

and even the giant squid.

Something that was just a myth
is now a fact.

This is years and years
of work.

Sanderson
was absolutely brilliant.

He was a zoologist,

the first to bring
real science to the hunt for cryptids.

This is unbelievable.

Nobody has access to this.

He spent
five decades

proving and disproving
the existence of creatures.

But he has files
on hundreds of cases that were never solved.

That's where we come in.

Once Brittany and I
got access to the archive,

we spent weeks
combing through the binders.

We're gonna find some
of Sanderson's biggest files,

and we're gonna carry
that investigation forward.

Hold on, Charlie.

I got a call from a farmer.

- He's in North Carolina.
- Okay.

We literally have a carcass
to go examine.

He doesn't understand
how his animal died,

but it's been drained
of blood.

And there's been other farmers
in the area that are seeing things,

and this is happening
to the livestock as well.

This isn't just one account,

and it honestly sounds
a lot like a chupacabra.

The chupacabra
was first discovered

in Puerto Rico in 1995

as a bat-like creature
that mutilated livestock.

But in North America,
its name is synonymous

with a strange canine
known for nocturnal hunting

and draining
its victim's blood.

- So North Carolina?
- Yes.

- My backyard?
- Yes.

- We have all kinds of legends.
- I know.

We do not have chupacabra.

And Sanderson was actually,

long before the word
chupacabra was ever coined or, like entered pop culture

was looking
into hybrid canines

as a source
of cattle mutilations.

So he was looking
at different species

because this is a dire wolf.

And then
this is the canine genus, so-called dog genus.

The dire wolf
is not merely a wolf.

It is a monster
that roamed North America

for tens of thousands
of years,

with jaws that could demolish
the ten-ton long tusk mastodon

with evidence of its straying
in the Ozarks nearly 4,000 years ago.

I suspect there is a chance
this terrible dog interbred

with other canines
and continues to stalk us like its prey.

I mean, obviously,
Ivan was trying to figure out

the same thing at his time,
and it's still happening now.

But what is it that
we're dealing with?

And the fact that we have
an actual physical body to examine,

I might be able
to cross reference

our research
to Sanderson's files.

That actually reminds me
a big story that broke,

you know, in 2007,
out of Texas

was labeled the chupacabra.

- Right.
- The body was taxidermied

by a scientist
named Phyllis Canion.

And it was a canine.

I wanna go to Texas.

I'd like to take a 3D scan
of the specimen

and then compare that
to the skull

from Sanderson's research.

So if I get to the farm
and I have the body,

we can line it up
with whatever you find out in Texas

and see if we're dealing
with the same thing

or if it's a completely
different animal altogether.

These files give us
an opportunity to see

right into Ivan Sanderson's
frame of mind.

So we're going to try
to use his methods

and finally document
a new and deadly species.

We'll measure
the gathered evidence

against
his classification index.

That will help us determine
if this creature

is a known animal species,
a Lazarus species,

something formerly thought
to be extinct

or is an entirely
new species altogether.

I'll head to Texas
to examine the taxidermied specimen.

Meanwhile, Brittany will head
to Alexander, North Carolina,

where there's been
recent sightings and livestock mutilations.

Our job is to make
as much of the unknown known.

And finally document proof
of this elusive creature.

The Appalachian Mountains are the intersection

of two of the largest towns
in North America.

With large expanses

of the treacherous landscape,
uh, unexplored,

I'd say
the possible and improbable are lurking in the wilderness.

Ivan Sanderson
in his files,

he was looking at reports
of hybrid dogs,

and he was looking
into these weird, strange accounts

way before chupacabra
was even coined.

Twenty miles
out of Alexander, North Carolina,

Brittany, along
with predator expert Troy Lillie,

and tracking expert,
Justin Igualada,

head to a farm
that's been the site of recent attacks.

The farm is located
on the Blue Ridge Mountains,

a 615-mile highlands

that's a piece
of the larger Appalachian mountain range.

The region is home
to numerous predators,

including black bears
and coyote.

Whatever
is killing these animals, it isn't eating them.

It's just biting their necks
and draining their blood.

Like, main, two large holes
in the neck.

Also, we have
to take into consideration

there's a lot of predators
out here.

You know, you also have
venomous snakes

and venomous snakes
can really put you down.

Troy is my older brother.

He's extremely skilled
as an animal behavioralist

when it comes to cryptids.

He's one of those guys
that he has to see it to believe it.

My name is Troy Lillie,
and I'm an animal behaviorist

with over 30 years
of experience with wildlife,

from hoof stock
to large apex predators.

Spider monkey.

Every living thing
is a cryptid if it hasn't been seen yet.

Our job is to come out here
and isolate everything

that it could be
before we jump to that conclusion.

If it's a nasty bite,
what's gonna happen is if you get bit on the neck,

for one,
that's an extra vital organs.

If it hits the jugular...

...it doesn't take much.

My name is Justin Igualada.

A lot of people
call me Biteforce.

I've been working
with wildlife since I was a child.

I've tracked and captured alligators,

crocodiles, cougars,
leopards, jags.

I've got missing body parts.
Accidents can happen.

It's not a matter of "if,"
it's when.

And it's how you handle it.

I think
that's our guy right there.

Brittany,
Troy and Justin meet with a local farmer

who's had
some strange animal deaths on his property.

We have to walk away
from this with as much evidence as possible

for our best chance
of being able to document whatever this creature is.

- Hey.
- Hey, how you doing?

- Good.
- Nice to meet you, Jeff. I'm Brittany.

- Hi, Brittany.
- Pleasure to meet you.

- Nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you. Troy.

My name is Jeff. I'm a farmer.

I raise cattle and hay.

I got 65 acres.

There ain't no telling
what's out here.

But I know that
something's out here

because it's getting
after my animals.

I came out here one morning
to feed,

and I found
a 1,000-pound cow here in my cow enclosure

with two puncture wounds
on her neck.

So where exactly
was she sitting?

Was she, like,
behind the wall?

She's about 20 feet
from this wall right here

in between them two posts
just laying on that ground.

It's deader than hell.

And you looked it over,
no mutilation, no blood, nothing?

- Nope.
- And no disease, right?

Didn't affect
any of the other cattle.

I mean, you figure
if it was disease, they'd start falling off?

Absolutely.

So,
after talking to Jeff, he said that he's had

three separate incidences
where he's found dead animals.

Could that be coincidence?

Absolutely.
Could it be a trend?

Once we put some signs to it,

we can verify to really know
what's going on.

Down over there,
I don't know if you guys

can see that tree line
over there, past those power lines.

- Yeah.
- I do.

I found
a dead deer down there,

and it had
the same markings on it as my cow.

Of course, that's two.

This is my pigpen.

But I come out here.

And look what I found.

Oh, my God.

- Poor little buddy.
- Oh, man.

When we're looking
at a case like this,

something that really
baffles the mind is an abandoned kill.

Normally, when a predator
kills something, it's to eat it.

They're doing that
for a purpose.

They're wasting
a lot of energy to do that,

and they're gonna do that
to get more energy

by consuming the food
that they need.

So for something
to just leave the kill there,

it leaves this big mystery
of why.

Has the goat been in here
the whole time, too?

Yeah, that's Penny.
We don't eat Penny.

What we're gonna do
is we're gonna look at the whole area.

We're gonna find out
what possibly killed it.

Whether that'd be footprints,
tracks, hair,

any of that type
of stuff first,

that's a good indicator
of what did happen.

But I don't see
any tracks.

Bear prints would be
very relevant in here.

There's just parts of it
that doesn't make any sense logically.

But there is one thing
I just don't see, and that's blood.

So...

Guys, would you start looking
at the pig? - Yeah.

Can you look
and see

what kind of the bite wounds
it may or may not have?

And then I'm gonna talk
to Jeff and get a little more information

on what he remembers seeing
when we talked about encounters he had.

I feel like going
in the shade and maybe grabbing a seat.

- All right, cool.
- Yeah, absolutely.

So a lot of times
when I'm investigating and I'm interviewing somebody,

it's really important
that I hear their account.

This
is a little dusty. - Nah, I don't-- No.

- Are you sure?
- Totally fine. Yep.

Sanderson's files
helped guide me.

I loved
his investigative tactics

because he did
his own sketches, much like myself.

So I just wanna get
more details,

as much as you can remember.

I was up on the hill
watching the sunset.

So, I mean,
it was starting to get dark.

But I can see something

on the backside of that hill
against the tree line.

I could see something moving.

And at first I thought
it was a coyote.

But it was bigger.

It was bigger.

It was thicker. Its head
and its nose were bigger.

I thought-- I thought,
"Man, that wasn't a coyote.

That must've been a wolf."
But there ain't no wolves around here.

- Right.
- It hasn't been for over 100 years.

Mm-hmm.

But what really got me
was the green eyes.

I didn't have a light
where it could be reflecting off its eyes.

It was like its eyes
was glowing on their own.

And the body color?

But like I said it was,
it was dark outside,

but it definitely
wasn't tan like a coyote. - Yeah.

It was a real dark,
like real dark gray, almost black.

Did it look like
it had hair on it?

Or did it look more skin-like?

It was almost like
it was kind of mangy-looking.

Okay. I'm gonna show you
what I sketched.

And you tell me
if this matches what you've seen.

- Whoa.
- Is that similar?

That's real similar.

Looking him
in the eyes,

I firmly believe
that he did see something out of place

for what he knows
for his farm.

I want nothing more
than to discover the chupacabra.

But have you talked
about your account with anybody else in the area?

Any of the other buddies
that are farmers around here?

The same thing has happened
to at least two or three farmers.

Do you think
I could talk to any of them? Would they be willing to talk?

I'm pretty sure that if a girl
with blond hair bought 'em a beer,

they might tell you
about a chupacabra or two. -

They probably would.

Let's get it up
on the table.

I'm sorry, dude.

So anytime we have a death
that's mysterious,

we'll do a necropsy.

The same way
that you would think of an autopsy for a person.

The coroner goes in,
they get the person.

They cut him up to see
what the cause of death was.

For us with the animals,
same thing.

It's to find out
why the animal died or how it died.

We're gonna be looking
for any punctures, damage,

damage to the body.

The feet look good.

When you first see Justin,

he looks like he's been thrown
through a meat grinder,

and then dressed up
and sent out to the street.

But once you really
understand him,

Justin has talents
that are way beyond

almost anybody I've ever met,
including a lot of vets.

He's very talented,
from husbandry to breeding, tracking.

His knowledge
goes really, really far.

I mean,
there's some lacerations on the arm.

Superficial, nothing deep.

There's a massive laceration
here on the snout,

so that could be
some defensive wounds right there, Troy.

What the
is that?

Oh.
Those are wounds.

yeah, they are.

That could be
a bite mark.

Oh, right inside
of the neck, huh?

Yeah.

You're looking
at a 2-inch bite gap, man.

Bottom punctures
are smaller.

Which is indigenous
to a dog bite.

So is there anything
other than the vampire bat

that would suck blood
out of this animal?

I mean,
the best way to find out,

we're gonna
have to open this up.

The tonsils
do look a little funky, to be honest with you.

And that's right next
to where the bite is.

But I am gonna take
the full tonsil.

So normally when
you're investigating an animal that's dead,

you want to know
if it was taken by a predator.

Generally, they're consumed.

And there are animals
that feed on blood.

Mosquitoes, vampire bats.

but they eat off the victim
while it's still alive.

The fact that
this animal is dead

and still fully intact
is weird.

The mosquitoes and, like,
vampire bats, they have,

like, I don't know
if you would call it...

I think it would be
an analgesic.

It's a painkiller.
It's a topical painkiller.

I got you.
So they don't feel it.

But this animal
clearly felt the wound,

like there's defensive wounds
all over this animal.

Yeah.

The broad analysis
that I can give

off of the necropsy.

I can pretty much cut out
any large cat.

Predatory cats,
when they go for the kill,

they have surgical knives
for hands.

They're gonna use that
to grab, subdue their prey,

they want to kill it
as quickly as possible.

Bear's a little bit different.

It's using the mouth
to pull up while using the claws

to kind of
shred the meat as it goes.

Based off what I'm looking at,
the animal looks okay.

The only thing we're seeing
is these bite marks.

- Ugh.
- See the bite right there?

And there's
another mark right there.

Yeah, that's what
we're talking about.

That's a bite underneath
and then two bites on top.

What we can put in
is canines.

I think that would be
the closest thing that I can assert

from the information
that I have in front of me right now.

What would you guys say is your best guess at this point?

Best educated guess
would be like a loner coyote.

A coyote taking out a cow
is pretty unlikely,

- I'm just saying.
- Right.

It didn't have
any blood everywhere,

and there was no big prints.

There's so many scenarios

that we just really
don't know much about - Mmm-hmm.

to pinpoint anything just yet.

The whole thing's perplexing.

With the account of his cow,
and now we got this pig.

I mean, you're talking about
some pretty weird

Okay, so I talked to Jeff about his encounter.

I went ahead
and sketched what he saw,

and basically this is
the best description

of the image of what he saw.

A lot of animals,
and in some cases large predators,

will only go
to a certain proximity away from their home

or their nesting
or their dens.

So we aren't really sure

what we're dealing with
at this point.

We don't know its behavior,

and it might stay
in a small proximity.

He mentioned to me today that

he has other people
in the area

that have had
similar sightings,

so I think it would
actually be beneficial

if we could get
with those individuals,

maybe locally in town,
and hear more of the reports,

and maybe try to make
some connections

of some type of animal

or what animal this might be.

Well, the more information
you get us,

the better we can do.

I personally want
to hear their accounts

to make sure and confirm

that what they're seeing
is the chupacabra.

It's easy to forget
that the domesticated canine

is the descendant
of many vicious predators.

In 1854,
remnants of a dire wolf were uncovered

from the bed
of the Ohio River.

Uh, this is an indication
that the ancient canine

may be in the southwestern
United States.

Now, one could speculate that
there was abundant opportunity

for stateside
canine inter-breeding.

Going straight
to the source on something like this

is super valuable.

I agree, especially from an investigative standpoint.

You have a body,
you have the actual witness who was there.

It really doesn't get
any better than that.

1,500 miles southwest of Alexander, North Carolina,

Charlie,
along with ex-CIA agent Tracy Walder,

approached
Dr. Phylis Canion's ranch.

Phylis has the only specimen
of chupacabra

that has ever been recovered.

And I brought Tracy along
to authenticate

Phylis and her research.

Dr. Canion has clearly done
her homework on this.

She biopsied the carcass
for mange,

she took DNA samples,

she looked at
all the possibilities of what it could be.

Hi, Phylis.

My name is Tracy Walder,

I'm one of the few women
to have served

as a CIA officer
and FBI special agent.

I served nine tours overseas

supporting the
counterterrorism mission.

Having a body here
gives us the ability

to provide basically
first-hand analysis,

to measure it, touch it,
do our own research,

and in all honesty,
that's what's gonna get us closer

to the answers that we need.

It's absolutely
beautiful here.

Thank you very much.

I am Dr. Phylis B. Canion,

and yes,
I have the only chupacabra anywhere in the world.

I've watched this animal
for about two years.

Once I started
losing the chickens,

then it was like,
"Well, what really is it?"

So I kept losing
so many chickens.

How many did you lose?

- Twenty-nine in total.
- Wow.

I thought it was amazing

that whatever
was killing the chickens

never hauled the chicken off,

and that's very unusual
for any predator

to come in and kill fresh meat
and leave it.

And if you look
in these pictures...

Oh, it's a puncture mark.

It's very clear
there are puncture marks.

The animal
has a different look.

The animal had no hair on it,
dog-like,

and eyes were so blue.

Then I got the call
that something had been hit

and killed
in front of our ranch.

As I'm driving
down the highway,

I can see it laying
in the middle of the road.

So I pulled over,
pulled it off the road,

and it...
that was the animal.

So if you want,
we can let you see it,

and we'll go from there.

I am really excited,
actually seeing the specimen.

I have followed this story

for almost two decades
at this point.

Wow.

Oh, my gosh.

Oh, my gosh.

Within the world
of cryptozoology,

having a witness
and hard evidence together

are the holy grail.

If we can take measurements
and connect those

with the other
team's findings,

we will be able to figure out

how this chupacabra
came to be.

Phylis, do you mind
if Charlie and I

do some analysis of this?

Absolutely not.

Yeah, whatever you guys would
like to do, you can do it.

We're going to use
high dynamic range imaging

on the suspected
chupa specimen.

The device generates
a three-dimensional representation

of the creature to scale.

We'll be able to zoom in,
maintain scale,

look at what
these teeth are like,

and then compare that
to any bite marks that are recovered.

With the 3D scans,
we can compare the body structure,

skull sizes,
and teeth measurements to the dire wolf.

The 3D model of the specimen
will never deteriorate,

and we can closely examine

every nook and cranny
of the body.

What's going on
with these haunches?

We don't really know
what they were.

In the beginning, it looks
like it's probably a gland.

But when I did
one of the DNAs, I scappled here,

and it was just pink,
fresh meat.

During my time at both
the CIA and the FBI,

I was really trained
to determine whether or not

someone is a credible witness.

I think Phylis
is extremely credible,

has done so much research,

and such a thorough
investigation herself.

So this was the first time that we did DNA.

We have done it
multiple times,

and it all
has come back identical.

Part of it matched
the Mexican wolf,

and the other part
matched the coyote.

What about the third one?

The DNA doesn't match anything
in the animal data bank

that we have in this country.

What you're saying is
this is a straight-up hybrid.

Yes, and we have
the DNA to prove it.

Based on the
experience with Phylis,

I am all in
on this hybrid dog creature

being what people are calling
the Chupacabra.

Species interbreed.

What I need to do now
is to determine

if that third
unknown DNA signature

could point to the dire wolf.

Oh, Charlie's calling.

- Hey, guys.
- What's up, dude?

I look forward to hearing
what the field team came up with.

Before I examine
the specimen further,

I want to share
relevant measurements.

Head size, body shape,
teeth size, and spacing

to see how that compares
with what's being encountered

in North Carolina.

We're on, um, Jeff's farm.

Yesterday, we were able
to dive into his latest kill,

which was a pig.

We did a necropsy
on the animal,

and we were able to discover
that it had the same type

of puncture wounds

that matched a lot
of the chupacabra cases

with the two fangs that make
the mark in the jugular.

That's interesting.

The specimen was
decidedly a canine.

The DNA analysis,
we were able to confirm

that it was Mexican wolf,
coyote, and partially unknown.

Can you elaborate
on partially unknown?

It just didn't match
anything in the system.

It's like fingerprints.

If you have a catalog
of fingerprints,

you can only match
what's in the catalog.

There's a high probability
that it could be related

to the dire wolf.

Charlie,
what's really interesting is that pig that died

has bite marks on its neck
that matches that of a canine.

When you were looking
at the specimen,

what kind of measurements
did you get from it?

From the front right tooth to the front left tooth,

so like the fangs,
essentially, of the canines, - Mmm-hmm.

uh, inch and a half.

Does that line up
with anything? - Yes.

That's what we got
right here, too.

That was the one
on the pig.

I can kind of hold this up
so you can look real quick.

It was an inch and a half.

Okay.
This is good stuff.

I have no doubt that
this is a hybrid animal,

the specimen that I've seen.

Where it starts to get weird,
where I'm really interested,

is what you are encountering
is the same kind of hybrid.

Or they're migrating
up more north,

and they're continuing
to breed,

and it's just continuing
to flow up here.

If we can match that specimen to the DNA from your site,

that would be awesome.

The most important part
of this investigation

right now is DNA.

We have got to collect DNA
in the field

and match it to Charlie's DNA

to see if we are dealing
with the exact same creature.

I'm going
to set some traps

and see if we can get it
inside a trap.

If not, I'll do my best
to get maybe a hair snag.

Something important
Jeff mentioned was the fact

that other farmers in the area

are having the same type
of sightings

of the same type of creature.

It's important that we go
and meet with these locals

and get their accounts,

because we could probably
triangulate a perfect location

and pinpoint where
we're going to be able

to find this creature.

Sounds like we have
a pretty good turnout in there actually.

It sounds like
a lot of people.

I have a profound respect for the local natives

simply due to their
real knowledge of the country.

and local accounts
are still ever more precise

and categoric reports
that these creatures really exist

and are not just old
wives' tales.

All right.

Hi, everybody.

Whoa, what's going on?

Hey, all right.

Where's Hammer?

- Right back here.
- Hi, buddy. How are you?

- Good.
- I'm Brittany. Nice to meet you.

- You too.
- We got to meet your buddy, Jeff.

- Okay.
- Troy. Nice to meet you.

I need to know
how you got that name, too.

Ah. That's a long story.

Thank you, sir.

Um, we're in the area
because obviously there's been

some really strange accounts
on a lot of the farms up here

of kind of like
animal mutilation.

Has anybody else had any kind
of strange accounts like that?

- Similar to that?
- Yeah.

- Yes.
- Yes.

So pretty much everybody.

It was like a vampire,
sucking blood,

making the puncture wounds.

And it didn't get its prey.

- It just got--
- It bit. It just sucked blood--

Yeah.
Got a bite of it and left.

A lot of the
accounts is very much like...

almost like
if they went to attack

and they got something
and then you scared it off.

- Right.
- Like the animal couldn't do what it needed to do.

We've also found
cats and foxes with one--

chickens, lots of something,
dug underneath one time.

And it took their heads and
the back ends, also as well.

Were there any blood of the
remains of the chicken death?

- No, actually, there wasn't.
- Or were they pretty dry?

It looked like a clean--

Yeah.

- From the back?
- Mmm-hmm.

I don't trust group witnesses

because a lot of the stories
are going to line up.

Everybody comes
to the watering hole,

they go, "Did you see that?
I saw that. Did you see that?"

And then over time,
the stories start to blend.

But each one of these people
have seen something,

so we have to take everyone
in consideration

and figure out where
this thing is hunting.

I want to pull out my map

because if I'm able
to figure out a pattern,

then we might be able
to hone in on them...

- Right.
- ...which would be amazing.

- So if I can get everybody...
- That would be.

...for Troy and I
to get names of locations

of the towns or areas
you've seen them in,

I'm gonna mark them on my map.

- You got it. Yes, ma'am.
- Okay?

All right.

All right, John.

I saw one of 'em over about
10 miles up the road.

How about you, Punk?

Um, right here in Oak Grove.

- Right here?
- Yeah.

Right here.

What about you, bud?

The beginning of Mill Creek. - From the beginning.

- So that'd be right-- Yup.
- That's up in the top right there.

I just had the cat encounter.

- Where was that?
- It was up on Mill Creek.

Oh, so same spot!

It's all circles
right through here.

There's a lot of things.

You don't know
what's out there, but...

but they are.

Now that we have
some pinpoints on the map,

it will allow us to kind of
triangulate the areas

and the patterns in which
these animals are being seen.

And having that information,
we might be able to pinpoint

the exact location
to find this creature.

We could be capturing
the Chupacabra tonight,

and that has
never been done before.

- Is this the light?
- Yeah, it's the UV light.

We need to test some gear to track this creature.

The phosphorus
within our blood

that actually
under a UV light will glow

like a bioluminescent
almost in color.

That's in all bodily fluid.

Well, is it all?
Is it all bodily--

- It's a lot of them.
- Hold on.

- All right, let's go.
- Hold on, hold on.

We'll test this theory
right now.

Are we doing this?
We're not doing this. - Shut up.

Just shut up for a second.

- Hold on. I got it.
- Oh, my God.

I got you covered.

This is going to help.

Is it lighting up?

- No.
- No.

All right. Well, now we know

- it only works for blood.
- Phosphorescence lets it glow.

So carry on.

Well, thank you for...

Ugh.

Guys, the cage is ready.
Let's get this goat.

The next morning in the foothills of Appalachia,

the team prepares the most
important step of the hunt,

to lure in and document
the mysterious killer canine.

You're okay, mama.

Want some Cheetos?

Using Farmer Jeff's
goat Penny as bait,

they will head to
a location they identified as ground zero,

based on local accounts.

All right. So, we've been
spending a lot of time

with Miss Penny over here.
And this is Jeff's goat.

We don't want anything bad
to happen to her.

We're gonna have her
in a separate enclosure

and keep her safe.

Here you go, mama.

Good girl.

It's okay, mama.

We really gotta
do whatever we can

to keep Penny safe tonight, J.

Using the map of
recent eyewitness sightings,

the team has determined
the best location

to encounter the creature.

Hey, is this the right spot?

Just, I think this is kind of
a game or cattle trail.

What do you want to do?

Well, we got
this hole right here.

This is obviously
heavily used.

We can tell because
the clay is packed so hard

that the shrubs and the grass
can't even grow.

So what's your plan?

I mean, I get it. I just--

We're running out of daylight,

and I want to get this up
before it gets dark.

Yeah, well,
it's a clear path.

Somebody's definitely
taking it.

And it's going
to take that corner.

So I think we just put it
as close to that corner as possible.

The game trail runs
along the fence

and turns a corner
at the tree line.

They plan to
surprise the creature

and set the trap
where the trail turns.

Are you ready, baby girl?

I'm gonna spin this way
and we'll walk that way. Okay? - Okay.

That way you ain't got
to spin too much, okay?

This is
an extremely big moment

for all of us out here.

We literally
could be capturing

the Chupacabra tonight
at any moment.

We're gonna go
right up yonder.

This is huge for cryptozoology
and even for zoology.

This is a new animal to study,
and this is massive.

If it works, whether it be
a coyote, a wolf or a chalupa,

what it's going to do is it's
gonna run into that enclosure,

there's a foot plate
down there,

the minute it goes through
to see to get to the goat,

if it touches that plate,
it'll just drop,

and then these two stoppers
will pin down in

and we have the animal safe.
It won't hurt the animal.

And, man, if we catch it...

Well, that gives us all the
information we'll ever need.

What I'm doing here is a makeshift type of hair snag.

And what hair snags are
is basically

a more humane way
of catching the hair.

Anybody on a farm knows that
when they use the barbed wire,

deers jumping over the fence,

coyotes coming
underneath there,

these little-- if you look...

You see these little metal
pieces coming out?

It'll catch the hair,
catch the skin.

And most the time, it just--
the animal just keeps on going

and left behind is just DNA.

So our goat is
in front of the trap.

We're all built. Next move,

Brittany and I are gonna go
down to the blind.

Justin's gonna go up
into the tree stand,

and we have infrared
and thermal cameras,

and we're gonna be watching,

waiting for anything
to come by this area.

Now, in a normal situation,

I'm gonna be over there
with Troy.

And if sis is with us,
she's coming with us, too.

So we usually stick together.

But in a scenario like this,

I think it's better that
we split up.

And I got a good vantage point

because I'm about... probably
20 feet up in the air.

They have a different line of,
uh, a line of sight...

on the the right opening.

And then, as far as I am,

I am dead-sight on that goat.

You got the good camera.

I'm over here
with the old-school infrared.

Remember we used to use these
when we were kids

and pretend we were ghosts?

I'm the ghost
from Christmas past,

and I'm here to tell you...

God, you kind of look like... - ...that that thing's gonna

take you.

- Ew, that looks--
- Can you see my real soul?

Ew-- No. Your eyes are white.

Like, everything's white,
but your beard.

You guys can't see it,

but I can put
my feet up over here

and kind of lean back
and just be real quiet

and wait for things
to come by.

So, I'm gravy.

I think I could live up here
for the rest of my life.

It's very rare
on these occasions

when we work together
like this with sis,

uh, for our theories
to kind of intersect.

I think we're kind of
all in agreement

that it is
some canine species.

If we can actually get
some DNA out of this,

it's gonna be the only way
to actually find out

exactly what the hell
we've got going on,

aside from us getting
that thing inside that trap.

Troy. Troy. Troy!

Do you hear it?

Troy. Troy!

What is that?

Justin, did you see that?
Go, go.

- It ran past the trap.
- It went all the way past it.

- Okay, okay. Let's go.
- Comin' down, Troy.

Penny!

Yo, get to the goat!
Get to the goat!

- Go, go, go!
- I got him.

Hi, sweet girl.
You're okay.

Justin's gone.
He's chasing it.

Shoot!

Holy hell, that's fast.

Damn!

I can't see.

It didn't even mess with this.

No, it didn't.

God, that thing was fast.

- Oh, my God. Troy I had that--
- Son of a bitch!

- I had that in view--
- I'm telling you,

that thing was moving quick.
It cut right through here.

, I was wondering why
this curve was here.

He's got to be
traveling this way.

He didn't even
set the trap off.

Where the is the post?

Troy, that means
it hooked it. - No, he hit it.

What do you got?
What do you got?

This
took some strides that I ain't never seen before.

No, he had, like, a...
like a, um...

You know how when an armadillo
runs really fast?

And you kind of see his legs?

He flew through here,
but I bet you it was about--

Man, like, you can't
judge the distance by looking.

But I would say his back was
probably right about here.

And he was screaming, dude.

Oh, my God, I found it!

I found it! I found it!
I found it! I found it!

- Hold on, hold on, hold on!
- Yeah.

- He never went here.
- Come on, there's got to be something.

It wouldn't have just
dragged on it for just--

Oh, I see it!
I got something!

That's actual skin.

I got skin, which means when
that thing dodged that pen,

it actually caught it
by the leg, most likely,

and that's when it hooked it
and actually ran out with it.

I don't actually have hair,
which would make sense

because in some cases,
these things are hairless.

This right here
could be the evidence

of the Chupacabra.
Right here.

And what's been
terrorizing this area,

it could literally be sitting

right here in the palm
of my hand right now.

Did we get the actual physical
body of the Chupacabra?

No.

But what we did get
was a piece of DNA.

I have tissue of this animal,
whatever it is.

But now I need to get
that sample tested

because Charlie is in Texas
with Tracy,

and I need to see
if we can cross reference

and see if we're dealing
with the same animal

in both places.

We've got a few
key pieces of evidence here

that I think we can
really work with.

Dr. Canion was able to give us
copies of her report

and verify the databases that
the DNA was sequenced against.

Using the 3D scanner,

I made a composite skull
of Phylis' Chupacabra.

It doesn't it look like
Sanderson's theorized hybrid skull sketch.

It's pretty darn close. - It is pretty darn close.

We actually got
something on camera

that very much looked
like a canine.

Okay.

And I have the report
right here from the lab.

Okay, big reveal.

What did you say
your sequence was again?

So I had part Mexican wolf,
part coyote

and another part
unidentifiable.

Charlie, we have a match.

This is saying "potential
coyote and Mexican wolf

and an unknown hit."

I think we have our culprit.

Based on the evidence
we've collected,

we have a link in DNA
and the predatory patterns

between the creatures
from Texas and North Carolina.

The dire wolf
skull similarities

could indicate
a Lazarus result.

But it is highly likely,

according to
Ivans Classification Index,

that this is a new species.

I don't like calling it
the Chupacabra.

I think this
is something special.

We need to completely
give it its own file.

Let's do "lykos" for wolf,
in Greek term.

- I like that.
- And...

Sphynx.

Ooh, a lykos sphynx.

This furthers
Sanderson's research

in a meaningful way.

But we won't stop searching

until we can document
the Chupacabra definitively.

That means the research
has to continue,

hopefully, before it
migrates further north.

Let's make a new folder.

Individuals
believe that science

is simply a list of what
the collective already knows.

Uh, I believe that science

is a set of tools to uncover
what we do not know.