他说：“这次的事件并没有模型，所以没有人可以说赫尔夫妇是拷贝了另外一个故事，因为在他们的事件之前我们还没有听说过有一个这样的故事。”

"There was no model for this case, so nobody could say the Hills were copying another story, because there hadn't been one that we'd heard about prior to their case," he said.

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但是这篇报道中的故事没有确切的信息来源，引用的也是不明来历的媒体信息，可以说这故事只是个谣传。

So we have a story built on rumor, with no named sources, quoting a media source of unknown origin.

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