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Cattle Mutilations

24/2/2014

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Cattle mutilation is the apparently mysterious killing and (surgically precise) mutilation of cattle and other animals.

With a number of theories, earthly and un-earthly, having been put forward to answer this phenomenon, why are cattle mutilations still shrouded in mystery?

Bizarre Mutilation

PictureThe remains of 'Lady' being checked out.
In September, 1967, a horse by the name of Lady brought world-wide attention to a phenomenon that had already been recorded for decades, and considered by many to be, although strange, natural. Mostly documented to have occurred in the United Kingdom, farms and ranches in the American states of Pennsylvania and Kansas in the 1960’s were also the sites of strange deaths, happening to livestock (mainly cows and bulls), with the mutilated corpses left to be found. This has puzzled many locals, law enforcement officials and scientists up to this day.

Bizarre mutilations of cattle have since been reported throughout Northern America and Canada, and other parts of the planet, including Australia.

Lady was a three year old mare who one night did not return to drink on a ranch near Alamosa, Colorado. Two days later the ranch-owner and her son found Lady's body. Her head and neck had been skinned and de-fleshed, and a medicinal odour was smelt. It was noted that cuts to the corpse appeared to be precise and surgical, and no blood was found at the scene.

The U.S. Forest Service was contacted and a ranger appeared and investigated. Almost a month later the media got wind of the story and Lady (re-named Snippy) and her bizarre death were splashed all over newspapers across the United States, and soon similar cases began surfacing and being reported all over the continent.

Natural Deaths, Government Testing.... UFOs?

PictureMutilation showing 'clean' cut lines.
Cattle mutilations are bizarre and puzzling for a number of reasons. Firstly, most attacks are quick, and usually take place at night. The bodies are found with surgically precise cuts, clean wounds with no blood in or around those wounds. The body is exsanguinated (drained of all of its blood), and no blood is left at the scene. Major organs are taken, as well as sex organs, and in some cases anal coring is exhibited. Eyes, tongues, lips, ears and sometimes tails and legs are missing. Flesh is cut to the bone in an immaculate manner, and bodies are often found dumped in an area with no tracks, human or otherwise, found leading to or moving away from the corpse.

Sometimes bodies or body parts are found draped over fences or up in trees, and sometimes appear to have been dropped from a height. And, even more bizarrely, scenes are sometimes found with scorch marks in grass similar to "crop circles", and some, like the case of Lady, have been near areas where radio-activity levels are found.

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This has lead, of course, to many believing that UFOs and their inhabitants (if grey aliens or not) are behind the deaths, and are collecting specimens for whatever reason or motive. There have been reports of strange lights being seen in regions before or after these murders, but the jury is still out in regards to extra-terrestrial organ harvesting and blood-letting.

Many scientists attribute the "mutilations" to naturally occurring deaths of livestock, and the end result is usually the behaviour of predators, such as vultures, crows, coyotes, wolves and foxes. It has been proven in experiments that scavengers can replicate the precise cuts and wounds found while tearing at the body, and can be responsible for the removal of organs. However, there are some cases that can't be easily explained away to natural acts by other animals, and the extraordinary amount of blood missing would not be carnivorous predators at play.

The F.B.I. and the A.T.F. (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) both have launched costly investigations into the phenomenon over the years, and have failed to come up with anything concrete in the way of motive or responsible culprit/s. Many have speculated that it may be Satanic cults moving about, performing ritual sacrifices, and there is evidence to support this, there are a small number of cases that appear to be the result of "possible" cult behaviour.

There are also people who suspect the slaughters are the result of Military experimentation, possibly in regards to cattle diseases and their possible effect on humans. Organs are taken for specimens and bodies are left to be found. It has been alleged that trace amounts of medications usually prescribed to humans have shown up in the bodies of slaughtered animals.

Are cattle being tested on with vaccines, anti-depressants and the evidence of such tests being destroyed?

Maybe it was the 'Goat Sucker'?

PictureAnother theory has the 'Chupacabra' as the culprit..
The Chupacabra is a legendary creature that has been reported for years, being seen in the Americas, and due to its Spanish given name meaning "goat sucker", has been blamed for killing (in most cases) cattle that have been mutilated. It has varied depictions, sometimes reptilian, sometimes canine-like, and it has been claimed it may either be an alien creature or the result of a genetic experiment that went wrong, conducted by Area 51 scientists. Many cryptozoologists believe the creature, or creatures like it, exist, but others believe reported sightings to have been of dogs or coyotes with severe mange, a skin disease in animals caused by mites.

Whatever is behind these so-called mutilations, it or they have yet to be seen in the act or entering and leaving the scene, eluding eyewitnesses who only see the carnage afterwards.

Could these mutilations be entwined with UFO activity like alien abductions?
Is the Government or Military conducting experiments on cattle?
Or are sick, depraved humans at work for cheap thrills and fame?

A number of theories, earthly and un-earthly, have been put forward to explain this phenomenon, so why are cattle mutilations still shrouded in mystery?


By Matty Sweeney 2014
Put together by Ashley Hall 2014
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