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Apr 2023
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44. Tallulah asks: What if cats could tu...

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Have you ever heard the tale of the “Guy Who Cried Vampire”? Well, neither has hard-nosed detective Alabaster Zero. Can he and Fair Elise get to the bottom of this vampire mystery? And what's the deal with that cat?

Lessons include: a dream come true may not be all you imagined, and your brain is better at solving mysteries than your gut.

This remastered episode originally aired on August 28th, 2017.

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