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"Why is the boy dying of fright such an anomaly?" Mulder asked Scully on their way back to the hotel that night. "Because, Mulder it's highly unusual for a perfectly healthy eight year old to die of something that usually kills the very elderly & persons with heart & circulatory diseases." "Unusual, but not impossible… right?" Mulder replied as they pulled into a parking space in front of their rooms. "I suppose it could be possible, the human body is a wondrous & complicated machine." Scully replied thoughtfully as her phone rang. "Another child death has just been reported." She said.
"Same MO, death caused by extreme fright." Scully said into her portable tape recorder as she frustratedly looked over the girl's body. She started as Mulder suddenly burst through the lab doors. "Jesus, Mulder!" She said, Mulder however didn't notice, his excitement had taken pretense. "I've just come from the library, I've been doing research." He said as he handed her a print-outs from the internet. "Yama-Ubu?" Scully said skeptically as she read it over:
"A kind of mountain witch that lives at the border between this life & the next. It is said that she visits children who have lost their last tooth, leaving money in exchange. Children are warned not to peek, for instant death awaits any who gaze upon this witch's face."
Scully gave Mulder an exasperated look when she had finished reading the excerpt aloud. "Mulder what makes you think this applies here? This is Japanese mythology." She said. "Who's to say there isn't a North American version?" Mulder replied, Scully merely rolled her eyes at him as she pushed the girl's body back into the storage unit. "Well I don't see you coming up with a theory about what's killing the kids around here, & doesn't it seem the least bit odd to you that every one that has lost their last tooth?" He challenged. "Two children killed the night they lost their last baby tooth doesn't create a pattern, Mulder." Scully argued as Mulder's cell phone rang. "Would three count as a pattern?" He replied.