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This is Connective Tissue. I'm Darren Marlar. In 1967, a
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horse named Lady was found on her side near Alamosa, Colorado,
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with the flesh stripped from her head and neck and
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no blood on the ground. In Montana, ranchers kept finding
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cattle dead with their organs missing and no tracks leading
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in or out. On a ranch in Utah, a wolf
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took six shots and walked off into the trees In
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this series, I'm taking you through my book, Connective Tissue,
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one chapter at a time, following the dead cattle to Bigfoot,
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alien abductions, mind control, and the Men in Black. The
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cases come from government records, police and court files, published accounts,
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and the people who were there. A word of warning
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before I begin. Several chapters do describe real violence against animals,
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household pets included, and against people. and now, Connective Tissue,
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How Cattle Mutilations Link Bigfoot, Alien Abductions, Mind Control, and
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The Men in Black. On August 14th, 2005, the Davidson
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family was out harvesting peas near Aneroid, Saskatchewan, roughly 70
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kilometers southeast of Swift Current. In the middle of the
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pea field, they found two circles of flattened plants, each
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about 39 feet across, spaced roughly one-eighth of a mile apart.
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The plants inside the circles weren't torn or broken. They
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were bent, low and even, in a pattern too clean
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for wind and too large for anything they could explain
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by machinery passing through. Even worse, since the stems weren't
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torn or broken, it means the kids in the family
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were still stuck eating peas. Four days later, on August 18th,
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one of the Davidson brothers found a bull calf dead
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in a pasture 18 miles from the pea field. By
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the family's account, the four-month-old calf's ear was gone, one
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eye was gone, the flesh had been stripped from its jaw,
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and its tongue had been pulled out through the throat
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rather than the mouth. The genitals and the rectal tissue
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had been cut away, neat and bloodless. There were no
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tracks leading to or from the body. Sound familiar? It
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sure would for ranchers across three continents who had been
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describing this kind of thing for decades by that point.
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This is the point where I will once again complain
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that those using the word coincidence for events like this
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are either two peas short of a pod, one teat
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short of another, or are in cahoots with the aliens
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because a deal for our survival has been made by
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supplying the greys with a lifetime supply of free hamburger. Coincidence?
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is simply not going to suffice as a proper word
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to describe a mutilated calf and two crop circles turning
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up four days apart on property belonging to the same family.
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And even though no one has ever proved the two
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events on the Davidson land were connected, it wasn't the
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first time ranchers found a mutilated animal and strange ground
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markings sharing the same property. And it wouldn't be the last.
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Ask most people where crop circles come from, and the answer,
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if they have one at all aside from aliens did it,
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usually starts and ends with two men from Southampton, England,
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Doug Bower and Dave Chorley. In September 1991, the pair
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walked into the offices of the British tabloid Today and
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told reporters that they, not extraterrestrials, were responsible for the
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wheat field patterns that had been turning up across South
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England since the late 1970s. They said they'd gotten the
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idea from a 1966 newspaper account of a UFO that
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supposedly left behind a flattened patch of reeds in Australia,
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and that they had started small, using nothing more than
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a plank of wood, a length of rope, and a
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loop of wire worn on a baseball cap to keep
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their lines straight. Accounts differ on exactly where and when
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they made their very first circle, somewhere in southern England
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sometime in the mid to late 1970s, but by their
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own account, they'd made more than 200 formations over roughly
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13 years. That's humans for you. Thirteen years of pretending
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you're something you're not, taking someone else's thing and making
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everyone think it's yours. To prove it, the two men
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let a crowd of journalists watch them build one from
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scratch in a Kent field. A few hours later, there
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was a crop circled on the ground. today brought in
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Pat Delgado, a well-known crop circle researcher, to inspect it
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without telling him who had made it, and he pronounced
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it genuine. Once Delgado learned it was Bauer and Chorley's work,
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he reversed himself. Fellow researcher Colin Andrews dismissed the formation
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as rough and unlike the circles they considered unexplained. That
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should have been the end of crop circles, but they
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kept appearing in England and eventually around the world. some
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of them far more geometrically intricate than anything Bauer and
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Chorley had described building with two boards and a rope.
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Researchers who'd spent countless hours in those fields, who took
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to calling themselves seriologists with a straight face, argued that
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Doug and Dave's confession accounted for only a portion of
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the English circles and nothing else. Not the scale, not
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the complexity, and not the fact that circles kept turning
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up on farms an ocean away from southern England. And
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not the fact that researchers took on the sound of
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a breakfast item as their job title. Kellogg's missed a
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huge opportunity here. Long before Bower and Shirley ever picked
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up a plank, ranchers were finding a different kind of
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circle in their fields. In formations researchers regard as anomalous,
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the kind studied by seriologists, I still can't help giggling
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every time I type that, the stalks are often reported
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as bent near the base rather than broken, with the
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crop still able to grow and be harvested. The circles
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and rings that turn up around cattle mutilation sites behave
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nothing like that. Reports from some mutilation sites describe vegetation
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dying outright rather than merely being flattened. as though something
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were acting on the plant tissue itself rather than just
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pressing it to the ground. Even when both kinds of
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circles turned up near each other, they didn't behave the
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same way. But one scientist spent decades studying both, and
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what he found tied them together in a way neither
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Doug Bauer nor any UFO researcher had predicted. W.C. Levengood
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was a Michigan biophysicist who began examining crop circle plants
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in the early 1990s, comparing stalks pulled from inside a
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formation against control samples taken from the same field just
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outside the ring. Working with researchers John Burke and Nancy
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Talbot under the name BLT Research Team, he eventually analyzed
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samples from close to 300 crop formations across seven countries.
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BLT later claimed that more than 90% of the formations
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showed one or more recurring abnormalities. Some stocks had elongated
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or swollen nodes. Others had tiny ruptures the team called
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expulsion cavities. Levengood thought rapid heating was responsible, possibly microwave-range
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electromagnetic energy, something he believed fit the damage better than
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simple mechanical flattening. Here's where it gets interesting. We have
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a guy studying cooked wheat named Levengood working with a
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team named BLT. Did anybody put that together at the time?
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Here's where it gets even more interesting. Levengood didn't stop
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at crop circles. He was also the biophysicist called in
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to test grass samples pulled from cattle mutilation sites in
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Chacon and Mora, New Mexico, in Garnet, Kansas, and in
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La Veda, Colorado. In each case, Levengood reported the same
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kind of cellular change he'd been finding in crop circle
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plants for years. Damage consistent with exposure to microwave frequencies,
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concentrated most heavily in the grass directly beneath or in
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front of the mutilated animal. The New Mexico sample Levengood
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examined came out of a case that had already put
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the region on edge that autumn. During the week of
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September 10, 1994, residents around Chacon, New Mexico, an hour's
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drive northeast of Las Vegas, New Mexico, reported an object
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carrying multiple lights moving low over the pastures. Three days later,
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on September 13, a local man named Larry Gardia, who
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was hunting in Lujan Canyon, found a cow dead at
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the base of the canyon, close to the fence line
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where he believed the animal had come through or over
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the wire. The tongue had been pulled out through the throat.
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A neat ring of hide had been removed from around
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the front of the jaw. The rectal and vaginal tissue
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was gone as well, taken out in a dry, bloodless
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circular cut. It was the grass at that scene, three
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feet in front of the fence, where the cow appeared
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to have come through, that showed the strongest cellular changes
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when Levengood examined it. By the middle of November that year,
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researchers following the wave reported more than 60 livestock mutilations
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across northern New Mexico and southern Colorado in the same style.
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Most of them never entered into any official record. Crop
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circles turn up in one more place we will return
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to later, the Sherman family's ranch in Utah, the property
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that would come to be known worldwide as Skinwalker Ranch.
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Alongside the wolf that wouldn't die, orange spheres and the
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mutilated cattle the Shermans documented through the mid-1990s, Terry and
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Gwen Sherman also found patterns of flattened grass on their
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land that they could not account for. One area held
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three circles roughly eight feet across, arranged in a triangle
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with about 30 feet between each one. Perhaps a giant
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triple-head rotary razor accidentally dropped by an alien in a
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flying saucer while shaving. Nearby, in a different pasture, investigators
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found circular soil impressions about three feet wide and a
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foot or two deep, their centers flattened smooth. Maybe the
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alien's kids came along, or Doug and Dave got tired
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and went with smaller circles because they wanted to get
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home in time for Jeopardy. No laboratory analysis of those
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circles is known to have been conducted, so there's no
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evidence that they shared Leavengood's reported plant abnormalities. That doesn't
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prove crop circles and cattle mutilations share the same cause,
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but there they were anyway, both on the same property,
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witnessed by the same people with neither one doing much
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to explain the other. And it just keeps getting weirder
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from here. And significantly hairier. Thanks for listening. I've been
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reading from my book, Connective Tissue, how cattle mutilations link Bigfoot,
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alien abductions, mind control, and the men in black. The
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