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This was the real-life Dora the Explorer, and what happened was far darker than a children's story. In 1985, near El Paso, Texas, eight-year-old Dora Martinez found a small capuchin monkey tied behind an abandoned trailer in the desert. However, the monkey didn't look wild. However, the monkey didn't look wild. Around its neck was a thick leather collar. There were numbers pressed into the leather, so her parents assumed someone had kept it illegally and abandoned it. Dora begged to bring it home. They named him boots. At first, he was quiet, too quiet. Within days, Dora's father noticed something wasn't normal. In the mornings, he stared at the newspaper spread across the table. He opened simple door latches without trial and error. Then Dora began to change. She became tense, not playful. She avoided eye contact with her parents. She flinched when boots touched her. However, she never pushed him away. At dinner one night, her father noticed something disturbing. Dora would begin answering a question. Then stop. Boots would make a soft clicking sound. Then she would continue. Two weeks later, her father decided the monkey had to go. They drove back to the canyon. Dora ran ahead. Moments later, she screamed. When he reached her, Boots was gripping her shoulders, holding her still. When her father stepped closer, the monkey lunged directly at him. He fell backward down the rocky slope. The report ruled it an accidental fall, involving an animal. Months later, a university confirmed that a primate involved in advanced cognitive human behavioral experiments had escaped earlier that year. Boots had disappeared from that lab weeks before Dora found him. Investigators later suggested something unsettling. The monkey had not attacked out of fear. It had attacked the only adult male in the household, as if removing him.