CATTLE MUTILATIONS: The Connection To Bigfoot, Alien Abductions, and Mind Control

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We've had several episodes before about mysterious locations that are
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host to strange paranormal activity Skinwalker Ranch, for example, or
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the Bennington Triangle, or even the harsh terrain of Alaska.
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Perhaps one of the locations that appears to persistently slip
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under the radar, though, is the San Luis Valley in Colorado.
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The region is home to very much the same variety
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of paranormal activity as other apparent hotspots. UFO sidings here
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are in abundance, for example, as are cases of cattle mutilation,
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sightings of strange creatures, and even alien abduction. In short,
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the San Luis Valley could be one of the most
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interesting locations in the world. I'm Darren Marler and this
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is Weird Darkness. Welcome weirdos. I'm Darren Marler and this
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is Weird Darkness. Here you'll find stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore,
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the strange and bizarre, crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, unsolved and unexplained.
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Coming up in this episode, the paranormal, extraterrestrial Bigfoot, and
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other worldly connections to cattle mutilations. Now bult your doors,
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lock your windows, turn off your lights, and come with
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me into the weird darkness. Although part of the San
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Luis Valley crosses over into New Mexico, the vast majority
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resides in the south central region of Colorado. Once owned
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by Mexico, it became part of the United States after
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the Mexican American War of eighteen forty six to eighteen
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forty eight. Since then, the region has enjoyed a multicultural existence, and,
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perhaps because of this, shares a rich history of legends, myths,
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and very real shilling accounts. While we will shortly examine
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some of the cases of UFOs and other strange goings
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on in the San Luis Valley region, as well as
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one of the most well known, if grim encounters of
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the region, cattle mutilation, as well as sightings of many
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strange creatures, will first turn our attention to the myths
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of the Native Americans of the region. As you might imagine,
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knowing the history of the San Luis Valley and the
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surrounding areas, there are a plethora of legends and myths
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of the Native Americans that are of immense interest to us.
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Here around a dozen different Native American tribes have called
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the area home for centuries. With some research suggesting that
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the San Luis Valley has been home to humans for
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around seven thousand years. Some such tribes refer to the region,
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or more specifically, the mountains that surround the valley, as
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the location of the sipapu or the place of creation
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or emergence. Perhaps the Blanc Massif is one of the
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most mysterious mountains of the San Luis Valley. According to
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the Navajo, this is the location where star people enter
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our world, and they do so on flying seed pods.
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This is a particularly interesting legend for several reasons. Firstly,
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what exactly are seed pods? Might this be a description
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of the flying saucer type UFO that we're all familiar
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with today, if only in concept. Most interesting, though, especially
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when we consider theories surrounding similarly mysterious locations such as
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Skinwalker Ranch, is the concept that portals and the use
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thereof might lay at the heart of many of the
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bizarre incidents and events witnessed in the area. If the
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star people did use the block of massive to enter
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our world, does this mean that some kind of portal
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or interdimensional gateway exists there? As well? As such creation
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myths are the many legends of beastlike shape shifters that
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seemingly roam the vast regions of the San Luis Valley.
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Many of these, as we will examine shortly, might well
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be ancient accounts of the Bigfoot encounters that are witnessed
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there regularly. Still today, the San Luise Valley has seen
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hundreds of cases of cattle mutilation over the decades. In fact,
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the first case of such mutilations to bring the issue
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into the wider public consciousness is largely agreed to have
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happened to a horse in the region named Lady, although
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most referred to as Snippy, on September twenty seve seventh,
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nineteen sixty seven. Some sources state other dates, even as
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early as the ninth of September. The mutilated three year
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old Appellusa horse was discovered by Harry King, who cared
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for the horse with his sister Nellie Lewis and his
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mother Agnes. They had gone to feed the animal and
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became immediately alarmed that she wasn't waiting at the fence
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for her usual treats. Upon going to look for her,
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they discovered Lady on her side, with the flesh from
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her head stripped completely and cleanly. To the bone. There
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were also cuts to the body that were so precise
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anyone who saw them knew they could not have been
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made by a natural predator. Even stranger. There was no
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sign of any blood anywhere at the scene. Given the
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nature of ladies wounds, this should not have been the case.
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And what's more, a strong chemical smell was prevalent in
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the air around where the dead horse lay. There were
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further anomalies. For example, given that it appeared the horse
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had been dead for several days, there was no bloating
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or any signs of decomposition. Also of interest was the
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fact that no scavengers had attempted to take their fill
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from the carcass. This could be pure coincidence, but perhaps
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suggests that whatever was done to Lady made her dead
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body on appealing to such predators, who would normally have
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feasted happily on the gift meal. They made further intriguing
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discoveries at the scene around the horse. For example, the
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footprints of the dead horse stopped suddenly around one hundred
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feet from where her dead body now lay. Just how
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had she come from that point to her final resting place.
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Perhaps strangest of all was the burn marks on the
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ground near the dead horse, as well as some which
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appeared to form a distinct circular object. Of course, such
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discoveries would suggest to those in UFO circles that such
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circular scorch marks were the sign of an extraterrestrial involvement
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and the markings were from their circular craft. These claims
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were perhaps taken even more seriously when Agnes King recalled
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seeing an unknown object go over her house in the
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day's leading to the grim find. In fact, so seriously
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was the possible connection taken that the Aerial Phenomenon Research
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Organization or APRO, one of the biggest UFO investigation groups
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at the time, would investigate the case. One person who
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examined the body of Lady was doctor John Altschuler, who
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also had an interest in UFOs. When he examined the
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animal's remains, he would discover that heart, lungs, and thyroid
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had been removed, and like the cuts to Lady's body,
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these cuts were medically precise. He would find the same
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had been done to the brain and abdominal organs. He
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would also discover that the body had seemingly been drained
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of all its blood. Remember, there was no blood anywhere
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at the scene. Was this unfortunate horse the victim of
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an alien experiment? Might that explain the advanced and surgically
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precise nature of the wounds. If that's the case, then
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we have to ask why is it merely to study
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such animals? Or might there be an altogether more chilling
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endgame to such experiments, one that might one day place
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humans in the unfortunate position of Lady the horse. There were,
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of course, many theories as to what might have happened
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to lady aside from that she fell victim to the
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experiments of visitors from outer space, and as we mentioned earlier,
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whether we believe in UFOs and aliens or not, it's
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easy to see why such a suggestion would be made
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in such a serious tone. Some, though, put to blame
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at the feet of such groups as Satanic cults or
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devil worshipers, and many still believe this to be the
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case today. However, this would mean cults whose members had
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advanced knowledge in medical procedures, as well as being able
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to leave no tracks of their presence at the scene whatsoever.
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Perhaps not impossible, but still highly unlikely. As the case
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was investigated over the decades and perhaps, as cases of
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cattle mutilations began appearing all over the United States and
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South America, some investigators and researchers began to wonder if
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these brutal experiments might be the responsibility of intelligence agencies
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or a top secret department of the government themselves. These
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claims perhaps took on a little more credence when some
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local residents claimed to have witnessed military fighter jets seemingly
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patrolling the area in the days after. Some would even
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suggest an intertwining of the UFO and secret government theories
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by stating that the government was working in conjunction with
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apparent extraterrestrial entities who had a discreet, permanent presence here
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on Earth. As we might imagine, most claims of this
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nature were dismissed by most. Whatever the truth might be
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and what might have happened to Lady, it was seemingly
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clear to all that something out of the ordinary had
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taken place, perhaps unbelievably. Then, when the Wandsworth Air for
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the Condon Committee concluded their investigation, they would state that
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there was no evidence to support the ascertation that the
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horse's death was associated in any way to abnormal causes.
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They did not, however, offer an explanation for the lack
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of blood at the scene or in the carcass itself.
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Even more dismissive was the response to the Lewis family
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by Alamosa County Sheriff Ben Phillips, who, despite never visiting
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the location himself, claimed that it was likely a lightning
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strike that had killed the horse. Incidentally, during early press
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coverage of the case, Lady was misnamed in reports as Snippy,
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who was actually her sire. Consequently, as such press coverage
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was picked up around the country and ultimately the world,
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the name stuck and continued to do so over the years.
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As I meant, there are many other cases of cattle
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mutilation in the San Luis Valley, and while we don't
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have time nor space here to examine each and every
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one of them, it's perhaps worth examining the sheer number
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of cases, although we should note that the vast majority
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of these cases involved cows, not horses, Much like elsewhere
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around the US and at other locations around the world.
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As the nineteen seventies unfolded, cases of cattle mutilation began
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to increase dramatically, and this continued in most places for
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the decades that followed, researcher and investigator Christopher O'Brien discovered
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that over two hundred reports had been made by multiple
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ranchers in the San Luis Valley region. However, O'Brien believes that,
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much like UFO reports, the majority of these incidents go unreported,
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and because of this the real total is much more
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likely to be around one thousand. We will turn our
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attention to some of the UFO sidings in the San
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Luis Valley shortly. However, it's perhaps worth the time examining
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some of the many sightings and encounters with mysterious and
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strange creatures and entities at this most interesting location. And
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as much as there are UFO connections to the above
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case of cattle mutilations that we've examined, it might prove
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one day to be the case that there is a
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connection to the many strange beings that appear to inhabit
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this stretch of land. For example, one of the strangest
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sightings in the San Luis Valley region is known at
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least loosely as the woman in Red. According to the
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Internet forum user, an incident in the spring of nineteen
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ninety two was reported by the uncle of one of
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the towns of the San Luis Valley's police chiefs. The
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witness claimed that one evening, while he was driving into town,
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he noticed a strange woman dressed all in red, walking
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calmly by the roadside. He pulled up his pickup truck
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and asked the woman if she needed a ride. Without
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saying a word, the woman climbed into the passenger seat.
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It was only when the witness turned toward her to
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act where she'd like to go, that he noticed she
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had goat like legs, complete with hoofs for feet. Then,
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before he could truly contemplate what he was seeing, the
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woman disappeared into thin air. When the police chief in
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question received the report, as bizarre as it was undoubtedly was,
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he would state that his uncle was a devout stable man,
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and therefore he accepted that he most definitely saw something
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strange that evening. Even so, he attempted to convince his
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uncle from filing the report, but he insisted on making
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it official and having the incident placed on record. As
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strange as this incident was, without a doubt, one of
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the most persistent sightings of strange creatures in this region
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of the Western United States is that of Bigfoot, and
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it is there where we will turn our attention next
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when weird darkness returns. There have been hundreds, if not thousands,
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of Bigfoot reports from the San Luis Valley, and while
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those reports could make up an entire book in their
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own right, some are worth examining here. Perhaps not surprisingly,
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researcher Christopher O'Brien has documented many of these sightings during
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his time researching the strange activity in the region, and
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these sightings, much like UFO encounters, often come in waves.
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For example, in late December nineteen ninety three, stretching into
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the first week of January nineteen ninety four, seven encounters
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were officially reported to the local police department. What's more,
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according to O'Brien, each of these encounters in the same
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seven square mile radius within the San Luis Valley. We
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might wonder how many other sightings and encounters occurred during
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this time that was simply not reported. One of the reports,
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which occurred on December thirty first, featured several definite tracts
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of huge footprints, some of which were so distinguished even
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the toenail could be made out. The local police would
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even manage to capture part of the track on video.
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They went on for several hundred yards, negotiating various different
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terrains as they did so. One of the most intriguing
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bigfoot encounters during this wave of sightings in late ninety
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three early ninety four came from a mother and son.
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According to their account, they had spent the day in
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the mountains and with night approaching, decided to set off
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back home. However, during the drive they witnessed a huge, dark,
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hairy creature with large pointed ears and large glowing eyes.
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The creature definitely stood upright like a person before it
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dropped down on all fours and ran away like a dog.
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Whether this was a bigfoot or some other bizarre monstrous
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beast is unknown. The sightings even included a white bigfoot,
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which are usually sited in the Siberian regions. Might this
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be yet another sign that portals and gateways are at work,
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interestingly or not. During the same approximate time frame, the
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San Luis Valley region, as well as the wider Colorado area,
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experienced a flurry of UFO sidings. Whether or not there
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is a connection remains open for debate. One of the
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most intriguing is also to be found in the files
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of Christopher O'Brien. The case in question occurred in August
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two thousand and was originally filed with the Bigfoot Research
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Organization database. The incident was witnessed by two ATV alterrain
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vehicle operators while on the Blanc of Peaks. As they
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were riding on the slope, they witnessed what they think
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thought was a man ahead of them. However, they soon
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realized that the man was all the same color from
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head to toe. They slowed their vehicles and watched the
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figure walk and disappear into the trees at the side
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of the slope. They continued down the roadway for another
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three hundred yards before bringing their vehicles to a stop.
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They decided to go looking for the strange creature. They
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walked into the trees and began their cautious search. After
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walking around two hundred yards, they emerged into a meadow.
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Before they could fully take in their surroundings, one of
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the men witnessed it running toward trees on the other
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side of a small field. He immediately called out that
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he could see the figures, causing the other witness to turn.
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They would later describe the strange creature as being a
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light to a medium brown with shaggy long hair. What's more,
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it was around seven feet in height and moved at
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a considerable pace. Although they would continue their pursuit, they
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soon lost sight of the creature and returned to their vehicle.
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Yet another bizarre encounter also comes to us from the
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research files of the previously mentioned Christopher O'Brien. According to
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the witness, he was camping near Winchell Lake at some
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time in the early nineteen eighties when they encountered something
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truly bizarre. The witness would tell O'Brien that he was
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fishing at the lake he noticed a huge white buffalo
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that had seemed to appear out of nowhere even stranger,
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after staring at him for several moments, the huge white
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beast appeared to vanish into thin air. When the witness
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walked over to where these suddenly appearing beast had stood,
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there were no tracks or markings anywhere to be found.
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On another occasion in the same area near Winchell Lake
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in late nineteen ninety three, which also coincided with other
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paranormal type incidents in the region at the same time,
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such as UFOs and bigfoot encounters. Came a wave of
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prairie dragon sightings. These strange creatures are described by researchers
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as flat slugs and peer in groups moving their way
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across the floor. They have no legs, however, and leave
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no tracks of any kind. Some people have even reported
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them as coming out of sealed walls. On yet another occasion,
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a local resident witnessed what appeared to be a suddenly
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appearing platypus, an animal that simply should not have been
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in this part of the world. Indeed, there are numerous
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other reports of strange creatures, deformed type fish in all manner.
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Of strange creatures that appear in the San Luis Valley
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will turn our attention now, though, to examine one of
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the most intriguing and disturbing legends of the area. Perhaps
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some of the strangest encounters involve an entity referred to
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locally as Old Scratch, a being that some believe to
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be the Devil himself. The sightings are perhaps more urban
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legend than anything else. However, given the truly strange nature
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of the San Luis Valley, combined with the notion that
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most legends may harbor at least partial truths, we should
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most certainly examine them here. The basic story usually unfolds
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in a canteena when a tall, handsome, well dressed stranger
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walks into the premises and makes a move toward whoever
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the prettiest girl might be on the premises wants nearer
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to her. He mesmerizes her and appears to put her
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in a zombie like state where she simply can't take
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her attention away from him. The story then normally states
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that other locals begin to notice something out of the
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ordinary and untoward taking place and turn their attention to
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this well dressed stranger. The accounts, depending on who is
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telling them, then go along differing routes. Some state that
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when the locals approach the man, he morphs into a
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devil like creature with claws and cloven hoofs. Some reports
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even state that a devil's tale emerges on his lower back.
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Realizing he's outnumbered, though the devil creature usually makes a
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quick getaway out the door and disappears into the night
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just as fast as he emerged. Legends of the alleged
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appearances go back over a century and tend to occur
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incidentally or not during the season of lent. The last
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officially recorded encounter with this apparent demonic entity occurred as
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recently as nineteen eighty four. I've covered before in the
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podcast Legends of the Jin, and some researchers believe encounters
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such as these are most likely encounters with such mysterious entities.
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Might this be the case? After all? Many legends of
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the Jin speak of them appearing in forms so as
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to confuse and trick their victims. They also speak of
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them attempting to take control of our minds. It's certainly
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intriguing speculation. As mentioned, along with all the strange creatures
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and entities in the San Luis Valley, there is an
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abundance of u UFO sidings and encounters on record, And
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what's more, these sightings continue not only in the San
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Luis Valley, but throughout the state of Colorado today. One
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of the most intriguing claims to come out of the
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San Luis Valley region surfaced in the mid nineteen sixties
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when a local resident, Robert Whitting, claimed to have been
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contacted by aliens in the area. According to his account,
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he was driving along the highway when a strange and
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bizarre vehicle suddenly appeared alongside his car. At the same time,
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telepathic communication began between whatever intelligence was on board the
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craft and the witness. The voice told him that a
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dead animal was lying in the road ahead of him
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and would cause him to crash if he didn't slow down.
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He took the advice seriously slowed his vehicle and did
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indeed see a dead black dog laying in the road. Furthermore,
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after this initial incident, Whitting claimed that he had several
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more telepathic communications over the coming months. While it would
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be impossible to document each and every UFO siding in
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the San Luis Valley region, which perhaps tells us just
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how many of them there are, it is sufficient to
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say that sightings of all manner of crafts and glowing
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lights are witnessed there and have been for some time.
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Whether it's glowing orbs and strangely dancing lights to triangular
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black crafts and disc shaped vehicles that move with breathtaking speed,
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all manner of UFOs are on record as having been
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witnessed in this region of the United States. Now in
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the twenty first century, a dedicated hangar known as the
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UFO Watchtower receives thousands of UFO enthusiasts and researchers every year,
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and there's perhaps a good reason for that, as many
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many UFO sidings are witnessed there every year. That might
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be because when stood on the artificial platform, viewers have
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a three hundred and sixty degree view of the entire
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San Luis Valley. Like many others similarly intriguing and paranormally
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active locations around the world, the big question remains, just
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why do so many strange incidents unfold here? Just what
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makes the San Luis Valley so special? Might it be
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the elements and geomagnetic conditions of the valley itself, Might
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the fact that mystical mountains surround it have anything to
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do with this? And might this be why UFOs have
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an apparent connection to not only the mountains of the
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San Luiz Valley, but of many other mountains equally mysterious
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all around the world. And if this was the case,
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and some kind of magnetic anomaly was causing portals or
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gateways to open to other dimensions, does that suggest there's
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a connection between seemingly different aspects of the paranormal or
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does it simply mean that such conditions are what these
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differing anomalies require for us to see them, might, for example,
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the rate of vibration somehow merge, if only temporarily, and
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so allowing both realms of existence to share the same space.
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There are, of course, more questions than adequate answers about
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why the San Luis Valley is so rife with strange
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activity and goings on, and because of this, researchers and
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investigators will continue to study the region and its legends
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for some time to come. When weird darkness returns, will
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look more closely at one particular mystery of the San
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Luis Valley, but not confined to that location. It's the
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mystery and possible explanations and strange theories of cattle mutilations
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up next. Although there is a mountain of theories and
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claims to explain them, cases of cattle mutilation have perplexed researchers, investigators,
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and law enforcement for decades. Indeed, the phenomenon remains as
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unexplained today as it did when cases began to pile
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up during the nineteen seventies. The fact is, though cattle
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mutilation is very real. After all, we have the remains
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of these unfortunate animals as a grim testament to just
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how real and often it occurs. And while a great
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many of these mutilations involve cows or bulls, sheep, goats, horses,
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and deer, even cats, dogs and rabbits have been discovered
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in a similar state of medically precise mutilation. But what
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might be behind them? Are they the victims of an
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unknown alien experiment or research program. If so, how might
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our collective exist distance fit into such speculative extraterrestrial experiments,
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and will they prove to be beneficial or drastically detrimental
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to us? Or is a top secret government department responsible
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for these brutally medically precise acts, Whether it's one of
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the above, random acts of Satanic groups, or simply some
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kind of sophisticated, if questionable hoax, cases of cattle mutilations
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continue to leave those who investigate and research them largely
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at a loss as to why they're taking place. Before
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we examine some of the most intriguing and disturbing cases
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of cattle mutilation, however, we'll examine, albeit briefly, how the
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phenomenon introduced itself to the consciousness of the world's populace.
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We've examined what is arguably the first case of cattle
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mutilation previously that of Snippy the horse, who was actually
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named Lady. So while will not go over that case here,
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will most certainly examine some of the many other accounts
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on rectred from across the world. It's perhaps though, worth
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mentioning what could very well be the first case of
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cattle mutilation on record from London in sixteen oh six,
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as noted in the official court records of James the First.
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The records note that whole slaughters of sheep had occurred,
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where nothing's taken from the sheep but their tallow and
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some inward parts. There were other similar cases in the
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late eighteen hundreds and early nineteen hundreds, as recorded by
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Charles Forts while in Texas, a horse was discovered dead
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with surgically precise cuts carried out in order to remove
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its entire nervous system. Its face had also been completely
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stripped to the bone. What is particularly interesting about this
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mutilation is that it occurred in the exact same territory
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as a wave of sheep mutilations over a century later
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in twenty thirteen. As we can see, while the notion
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of cattle mutilation as we understand it today didn't seep
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into the public consciousness into the late nineteen sixties and
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nineteen seventies. It's still a phenomenon that has likely been
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with us for centuries without a doubt, though, following the
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Snippy Slash Lady Horse case, not only with the wider
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population very much aware of these bizarre and chilling animal mutilations.
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As the nineteen seventies unfolded, they began to happen all
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over the country. While such mutilations occur around the United
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States and indeed the world, certain locations appear to be
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much more active in this grim phenomenon than others. For example,
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according to the FBI report carried out in the late
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nineteen seventies, there were as many as eight thousand mutilations
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that had occurred in the state of Colorado alone, and
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as we will examine shortly, Colorado is one of the
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hottest spots of all for cattle mutilation. They continue to
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occur around the world today, often in short waves, although
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not exclusively and often defy reasonable explanations. It might also
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be appropriate to examine some of the recurring and grisly
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details of these harrowing incidents, as well as some of
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the most popular theories as to what might be behind them.
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For example, these unfortunate animals are often found with every
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drop of blood drained from the body, something that has
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been carried out to such a standard that most often
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there are no signs of blood anywhere in the region
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where the animals are discovered. Furthermore, there are very often
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a series of precise medical cuts to the animals, with
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certain body parts in some cases having been equally precisely
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removed as if by a person with advanced medical knowledge
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of such procedures. In other cases, the animal's internal organs
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have either been removed or reduced to a strange mush,
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and in other cases the skin, muscle and tissue around
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the face has been completely stripped to the bone. Furthermore,
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and once more toward the involvement of highly advanced technology,
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chemicals not often discovered in animals are often found, as
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well as increased levels of others. So just what is
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behind such terrifying attacks. Perhaps one of the most recurring
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assertions is that extraterrestrials are behind the cattle mutilation phenomena,
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maybe as part of some kind of monitoring experiment regarding
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life on Earth. Some suggest those behind the attacks could
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indeed be human, but as outrageous as it might sound
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to some, they are time travelers from the future. Of course,
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if this is true, and we assume that time travel
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has become possible in the decades or centuries that are
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yet to unfold, then we have to ask what has
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taking place in the future that requires such drastic and
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specific action. Others believe that a top secret government program
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is likely behind the mutilations, and there's a small plethora
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of reasons offered for why this might be. For example,
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perhaps the motivation would be nothing more than monitoring food
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supplies in an attempt to prevent the spread of disease,
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or perhaps the reasons are much darker and might have
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connections to cloning the world's food. There are also those
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who believe these cases contain a satanic element to them
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and could possibly be a part of rituals or sacrifices.
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And while these suggestions are perhaps more easily dismissed than others,
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they deserve to remain on the collective back burner of
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our minds. Perhaps a good place to start examining these
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bizarre and monstrous mutilation cases is in Canic Chase, Staffordshire
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and the United Kingdom, where in nineteen eighty five, an
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apparent interrupted cattle mutilation incident occurred. The account comes to
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us from the files of veteran UFO and paranormal researcher
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and author Nick Redfurn. According to the report, a father
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and son were driving home one evening in the Canic
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Chase area at around eight thirty pm when they noticed
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somethinge ahead of them. The youngster saw, at first a
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triangular shaped object hovering over one of the fields that
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lined the roadside. The ground below the bizarre craft was
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lit up brightly by three lights on the underside of
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the vehicle. Realizing they were seeing something out of the norm,
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they brought their car to the side of the road
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and exited the vehicle. They each moved a little closer
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to the edge of the road, continuing to keep the
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strange object in sight. They watched the craft for several minutes,
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noticing how it didn't make a single sound. Then, without
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any warning, the craft zipped away at breakneck speed. The
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pair jumped back into their car, eager to get home
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so they could contact the local police and report what
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they had seen. However, that was when an already strange
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incident turned even stranger. Thinking they would merely record what
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he saw and then that would be the end of it.
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The pair were rather surprised that two police officers were
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sent to their home to take statements from them in person,
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even stranger. During the course of those interviews, the pair
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were told it had been a mistake for them to
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get out of the car. Whatever the reason for this
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was not given, nor was any kind of explanation for
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what they might have seen. The two officers simply left,
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leaving the witnesses with even more unanswered questions than they
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had before they made their report. It was two days
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later when another incident unfolded, involving an almost identical craft,
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and more importantly for our purposes here might suggest an
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attempted cattle mutilation. On this occasion, the main witness was
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in the countryside of Canock Chase at a little after
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four a m. With friends who were hunting ducks. During
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this hunting trip, he noticed a strange light moving with
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significant pace overhead, that was until it brought itself to
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an apparent controlled stop over several cows that were in
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a field underneath. Enthralled with what he was seeing, witness
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moved closer to the field. When he did so, however,
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it appeared that whatever intelligence was behind the craft noticed
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his movements. Within seconds, several bizarre and futuristic light beams
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shot out from the object. Now a little more frightened
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than he was only seconds earlier, the witness turned and
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ran back to the cover of the woodland. By the
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time he had the courage to return to the scene,
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the object was gone. Was this a case of a
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cattle mutilation that was interrupted? Was that also the purpose
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of the UFO siding only two days earlier? And if so,
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why would the presence of someone powerless to stop the
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abduction of a lone cow cause the perpetrators to stop?
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Perhaps most crucial of all, if the purpose of these
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sightings was to abduct and mutilate cattle, does that confirm
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an extraterrestrial involvement in such cases? Of course? That is,
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if we assume that the intelligence behind these strange aerial
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objects is of an extra terrestrial nature, they might, as
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some people believe, be top secret vehicles of the world's militaries.
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And if that is the case, what's the purpose and
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end goal of these brutal mutilation cases? Coming up? A
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spate of mutilations that took place in twenty ten, but
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this time it was sheep. That's up next on Weird Darkness.
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We will stay in the United Kingdom and mainland Europe
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for a little while longer, as such cattle mutilations that
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we might more readily associate with ranches across the United
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States also take place there. We'll start, though, with a
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spate of mutilations that occurred during the summer of twenty ten,
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when several sheep were discovered mutilated. During the opening months
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of twenty ten in Shrewsbury, England, various farmers would make
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the grim discovery of the mutilated corpses of their respective sheep,
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and these corpses contained many of the same injuries and
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evidence of precise procedures as the more traditional cow and
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bull mutilations. For example, some of these unfortunate sheep were
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discovered with their faces completely stripped of flesh, and rather
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than simply having been torn away in a rage, it
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was removed with the utmost skill and precision. Even more disturbing,
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some of the sheep were discovered with a hole in
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their heads seemingly neatly drilled, and with their brains completely removed.
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Other harrowing discoveries where the clean and precise removal of
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various internal organs and other medically precise sample like cuts.
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Perhaps strangest of all were the claims from some that
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they even witnessed laser type beams aimed at sheep below
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coming from strange aerial crafts above them. Other witnesses to
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these strange events would state that they witnessed orange spheres
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in the skies over the fields the sheep called home.
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The events seemed to reach a culmination of sorts in
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March twenty ten, while a team of on site investigators
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were in the middle of their investigation. On the night
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in question, the investigators, sixteen in total, witnessed many of
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the strange UFOs that farmers and local residents had claimed
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to have seen over the previous weeks. Even more amazing,
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several of those investigators even witnessed what appeared to be
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actual attacks on the sheep, seemingly using Star Wars type technology.
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The morning following these events, it was discovered that many
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of the farms in the area were missing sheep, with
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some reporting the discoveries of further carcasses from their flocks.
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The events then died down as quickly as they had
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begun and remained unexplained to this day. Around a year
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after the strange sheep mutilations in and around the Shrewsbury area,
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another wave of attacks unfolded, this time involving horses in
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various parts of the UK, and while the events in
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Shrewbury certainly suggest some kind of UFO connection, the horse
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attacks of twenty eleven, which continued into twenty twelve, lent
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themselves to other dark possibilities Satanic rituals. The main reasons
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for this was that many of the mutilated horses were
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discovered around key dates in the Satanic calendar, specifically Saint
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Weinbaud Day. However, while investigators were bound to follow up
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such possibilities, it was thought the injuries were of two
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precise and medically advanced nature as to be the work
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of such cults on this occasion, though there were other
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explanations offered that might have much more credibility. Some researchers
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and interested parties suggested that the mutilations were carried out
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as part of a top secret experiment in light of
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a recent equine herpes virus type one EHB one outbreak,
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and this outbreak had seemingly spread quickly through equestrian environments
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around the world, from the United States to Canada and
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as far as Europe. Whether these particular spate of horse
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attacks were a one off and unique to whatever program
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was behind it, or whether they are the consequences of
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the same intelligence behind other such animal mutilations around the
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world remains open to debate. Without a doubt, one of
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the most intriguing and unnerving cases of cattle mutilation took
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place in Wales and went on for over a decade.
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What's more, after studying these attacks for almost twelve years,
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the Animal Pathology Field Unit APFU would announce that their
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strongest conclusion was that extraterrestrial intelligence was behind them. Not
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only did investigators point to the laser like precision of
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the cuts, as well as the draining of every last
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bit of blood on the bodies of the sheep, they
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also noted that many of the farmers whose sheep had
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been attacked had also noted strange lights on the evenings
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the respective attacks were carried out. Furthermore, when investigators spoke
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to other local residents of the areas the attacks took place,
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they would seemingly corroborate their respective farmers by declaring their
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own sightings of bizarre light. Overhead investigator Phil Hoyle would
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elaborate that they were looking into the UFO connection and
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things people are describing as unconventional things entering the sea
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and leaving the sea. Wales was investigators would determine an
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apparent hotspot for animal mutilations of the precise kind witnessed
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between two thousand and one and twenty thirteen and were
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very sophisticated to the point where hopes are or satanic
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cults had to be ruled out as reasonable possibilities. Of course,
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it's perhaps also interesting to note that whales, at least
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parts of it along the coast is also a hotspot
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for UFO sightings. Some of the injuries discovered on the
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dead sheep were almost identical to those found during the
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sheep attacks in Shrewbury in twenty ten that we examined earlier,
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with very precise holes discovered drilled into their bodies. Others
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had skin and other samples of body parts removed, while
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some had their faces completely stripped to the bone. The
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mutilations remain largely unexplained. There are many other animal mutilation
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cases that have unfolded in the United Kingdom. Many of
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these have been documented by veteran paranormal researcher and author
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Nick Redfern, and it is to his research files that
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we turned to examine our next case, one that took
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place in the spring of nineteen seventy seven in Cherrybrook
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Valley and Dartmoor, England. On the day in question, a
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local resident, Alan Hicks, was walking across his stretch of
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land when he, along with his children who were accompanying him,
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discovered fifteen dead wild ponies, all of which, according to
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a newspaper article on the find, several months after the discovery,
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had their bodies mangled and torn. Those with interests in
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the UFO phenomenon immediately made their way to the area
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in order to find proof of extraterrestrial involvement. At the
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same time, other investigators suggested the herd might have been
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poisoned or simply suffered from a lack of food before
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dying and becoming victims of scavengers. The Dartmoor Pony Society
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even suggested that the unfortunate horses had likely succumbed to
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disease and the former unknown owner of them had likely
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brought their corpses here to discard of them. Things became
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very quiet regarding the case for almost a decade and
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a half until the early nineteen nineties, when the director
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of the Center for Fortian Zoology, Jonathan Downes, began to
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examine the details of the case. During his investigation, he
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managed to locate and speak with several of the people
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who had been involved in the incident at the time. Interestingly,
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and frustratingly for Downs, many of them appeared to be
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guarded with what they said regarding the grim discoveries of
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April nineteen seventy seven, so much so that Downs began
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to suspect the possibility of some kind of interference In
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the years since the incident by a shadowy agency similar
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to the Men in Black Even stranger, the investigator and
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journalist began to receive all manner of crank phone calls
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and even sent on elaborate wild goose chases. In fact,
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these were so detailed and thought out the downs would
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state that they could not be the work of a
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solitary nut harassing UFO believers, and that it was much
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more likely to be the work of paranormal forces or
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a large and well financed operation with motives that evade me.
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That is certainly a serious conclusion, and one that sits
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very nicely alongside other researchers' findings, perhaps most notably Christopher O'Brien. Ultimately,
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the case remains unsolved over four decades later. Just what
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did take place in the spring of nineteen seventy seven
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on the lonely and often brutal moors of the Dartmoor region.
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Was there an extraterrestrial involvement or was the entire episode
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part of a top secret government program that went out
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of its way to blur and muddy any future investigations.
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We'll stay with Redfern's research for a moment longer, as
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we examine another case of animal mutilation in the United Kingdom.
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The accounts came to Redfern directly from the person involved,
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Rob Lee, who in the summer of two thousand would
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relay accounts that had occurred in the Newport area of
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England and stretched back to the late nineteen eighties. And
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these accounts certainly contained details that suggest the work of
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some kind of ritual cult. According to Rob one Morning,
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in the late nineteen eighties, his father made the grim
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discovery that five of a sheep had seemingly been attacked
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and killed during the night. In Whatever had carried out
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the act had seemingly done so with an intelligence in mind.
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The sheep were all discovered with their throats slid open
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and had seemingly been purposely laid out in a circle
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in the field that they were found in. Even more disturbing,
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several of their internal organs had also been purposely removed
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and then placed in a purposeful pile in the middle
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of the circle of dead bodies. It didn't take Rob's
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father long to rush back inside and report the find
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to the local police, immediately thinking that some kind of
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satanic ritual had taken place outside his property, involving his sheep,
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no less during the night. When the police arrived, however,
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not only could they apparently find no clues as to
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what had taken place, but they appeared to Warren, Rob's
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father that he should not speak about the incident, certainly
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not to any press or media outlets. Although nothing else
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on toured occurred on the family's land after that grim discovery,
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the incident never left Rob's mind. In fact, he'd even
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managed to take several photographs of the scene, which he
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duly presented to Redfern. Over the course of the next decade,
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Rob would conduct his own investigations on such things as
719
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ritual sacrifices carried out by secretive cults, and he would
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begin watching one organization in particular, an apparent group that
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he would tell Redfern he had dubbed the Cult of
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the Moonbeast. He claimed this group used ancient rights and
723
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carried out animal sacrifice using all manner of animals, including
724
00:47:38.360 --> 00:47:41.639
cats and dogs, and even more chilling, the purpose of
725
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these rights and rituals was to summon up other worldly
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entities that they could then use to their own ends.
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He further claimed that there were around fifteen individuals of
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this group and that they came from all over the
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United Kingdom, although he believed they were based in the
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Bristol area in terms of a headquarters of sorts. He
731
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would then reveal to Redfern that he had followed the
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group for over half a decade and even managed to
733
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view three of the ancient rituals personally, although obviously discreetly
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and without their knowledge. When Redfern pressed Rob into what
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more he knew of the group's rituals, he responded that
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the entities they were attempting to summon through their rituals
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came from a realm or dimension that coexisted with ours.
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This is an interesting detail that we've examined before when
739
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looking at such areas as Skinwalker Ranch, the Hudson Valley,
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the San Luis Valley, as well as when we've examined
741
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accounts of reptilians and the Jinn. With that last thought
742
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in mind, it's further intriguing that Rob would claim to
743
00:48:42.719 --> 00:48:46.159
Redfern that across the planet there are certain locations that
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are ripe for the opening of portals or gateways, although
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strict rules and rituals must be followed correctly in order
746
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to open them, and this was the purpose of the
747
00:48:55.960 --> 00:49:00.000
animal sacrifice. Perhaps with a further nod of the head
748
00:49:00.239 --> 00:49:02.719
to the legends of the gen Rob would describe these
749
00:49:02.880 --> 00:49:07.199
entities as being a non physical intelligence that could take
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on the appearance of what was in the mind's eye.
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This description very much sounds like the Gin. He would
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then reveal to Redfern that these entities did not use
753
00:49:17.079 --> 00:49:20.159
physical means to kill their victims, but rather they killed
754
00:49:20.199 --> 00:49:25.599
them through mind power, fright, and suggestion. Essentially, they used
755
00:49:25.679 --> 00:49:31.400
fear and scared their victims to death. Furthermore, and something
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that also sits in well with other conspiracy claims, this
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00:49:34.920 --> 00:49:39.000
group had connections to rich, elite and influential members of
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00:49:39.039 --> 00:49:43.159
society who would often hire them for their services, and
759
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through this certain well connected individuals controlled the world's events.
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Such claims have been made by several researchers of an
761
00:49:52.239 --> 00:49:56.320
elite group of individuals whose influence controls almost every aspect
762
00:49:56.360 --> 00:50:00.559
of our collective reality. While many dismiss such non as
763
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nothing other than conspiracy nonsense, perhaps we should think twice.
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When a high ranking politician or influential industry leader suddenly
765
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commits suicide or suddenly drops dead of a heart attack.
766
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Might they have done so simply due to fright, as
767
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asserted by Rob Lee, or because the sightings of strange
768
00:50:22.039 --> 00:50:24.760
creatures appearing in front of them were making them question
769
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their own sanity. It's certainly an intriguing notion, and one
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that loans an altogether new perspective on at least some
771
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of the cattle mutilation cases that have occurred over the years.
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Up next, we'll look at the abundance of animal mutilation
773
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cases that have taken place in North America when weird
774
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Darkness returns. As we've seen, then, while cases of cattle
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00:51:12.079 --> 00:51:15.559
mutilation occur outside of the North American continent, there's no
776
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doubt that this particular part of the world experiences more
777
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than its fair share of such cases. And while these
778
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mutilations take place all over the North American continent, certain
779
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hot spot areas in the United States see an unusually
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high number of such cases, such states as Colorado, for example,
781
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or Arizona. What's perhaps interesting is that both of these
782
00:51:38.440 --> 00:51:43.000
locations is also extremely active in terms of UFO sidings
783
00:51:43.039 --> 00:51:47.719
and encounters. Might the two be linked, it's certainly the
784
00:51:47.760 --> 00:51:51.400
belief of some researchers that they are. It perhaps is
785
00:51:51.440 --> 00:51:54.519
appropriate that we start with the seemingly regular cases of
786
00:51:54.559 --> 00:51:57.920
cattle mutilation that come out of Colorado, which, as we
787
00:51:58.000 --> 00:52:01.719
examined earlier, is a seemingly discreetly important part of the
788
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United States, not only in terms of cattle mutilation, but
789
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of other mysterious activity such as UFOs and even bigfoot sightings. Indeed,
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some researchers point to Colorado as being the all important
791
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state in terms of unlocking the secrets to such mysteries.
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Although cases of cattle mutilation and the centennial state date
793
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back to the late nineteen sixties, with a wave of
794
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such incidents unfolding in the nineteen seventies. Since the end
795
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of the twentieth century, regular incidents have still occurred there.
796
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It's perhaps worth our time examining the Manuel Sanchez case
797
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from late two thousand and nine. At the time that
798
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he spoke with the Denver Post in December of that year,
799
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he had just discovered the fourth calf seemingly killed during
800
00:52:46.679 --> 00:52:50.280
the night by unknown assailants on his ranch. All of
801
00:52:50.320 --> 00:52:55.000
them had the same precise injuries. Their tongues and utters
802
00:52:55.159 --> 00:52:59.320
surgically removed, the skin from the face peeled completely away,
803
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as well as their eyes removed. What's more, there was
804
00:53:03.320 --> 00:53:07.440
never any blood anywhere around the mutilated body, nor any
805
00:53:07.519 --> 00:53:10.239
tracks revealing who might have been there and carried out
806
00:53:10.239 --> 00:53:14.880
the attack. Sanchez, who has spent decades on such ranches,
807
00:53:15.119 --> 00:53:18.199
felt sure the attacks were not down to lions or
808
00:53:18.320 --> 00:53:22.440
coyotes who drag their kills and rip and tear flesh respectively.
809
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He could claim that these were perfect cuts, as if
810
00:53:26.039 --> 00:53:28.639
they'd been carried out by a laser or a scalpel.
811
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He would continue that whoever carried out the attack left
812
00:53:32.239 --> 00:53:37.760
no tracks, no blood, no nothing, They don't leave no trace,
813
00:53:37.800 --> 00:53:41.719
he said. A little over a half a year earlier,
814
00:53:41.760 --> 00:53:45.760
in the Trinidad region of Colorado, another rancher, Tom Miller,
815
00:53:46.039 --> 00:53:50.639
discovered one of his cattle in similarly grim circumstances. When
816
00:53:50.639 --> 00:53:53.320
Miller arrived to feed his cattle one morning in March
817
00:53:53.360 --> 00:53:56.079
of two thousand and nine, he found his herd raising
818
00:53:56.199 --> 00:54:01.079
all kinds of devil and extremely disturbed. Then, however, as
819
00:54:01.079 --> 00:54:04.199
he approached the feeding area could see the dead calf
820
00:54:04.280 --> 00:54:07.400
by one of the troughs. He'd recall how the front
821
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legs and the torso had been completely removed, leaving a
822
00:54:11.000 --> 00:54:14.840
meatless backbone that connected to its hide. By the time
823
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he'd turned his attention to the unfortunate animal's face, he
824
00:54:17.880 --> 00:54:20.559
could see how the ears had been completely sliced off
825
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using surgical precision. When he looked around the calf, he
826
00:54:24.559 --> 00:54:26.960
could see that not only were there no tracks to
827
00:54:27.000 --> 00:54:29.719
suggest who might have carried out the attack, but there
828
00:54:29.800 --> 00:54:34.239
was no blood anywhere on the ground either. Although Miller
829
00:54:34.280 --> 00:54:37.039
didn't make any suggestions as to who or what might
830
00:54:37.079 --> 00:54:39.559
have attacked the animal, he was certain that it was
831
00:54:39.639 --> 00:54:42.039
not a natural predator and had to at the very
832
00:54:42.119 --> 00:54:46.360
least be the work of medically knowledgeable humans. The grim
833
00:54:46.400 --> 00:54:49.400
discovery is just one of many that Miller had been
834
00:54:49.400 --> 00:54:53.679
making on his land since nineteen ninety nine. Another hotspot
835
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for cattle mutilations is the nearby state of Arizona. One
836
00:54:58.559 --> 00:55:01.920
researcher who documented mel any of these is Kit Metzger,
837
00:55:02.239 --> 00:55:04.960
who discovered dead cattle on her land at the Flying
838
00:55:05.159 --> 00:55:08.920
m Ranch for years, and the injuries are very much
839
00:55:08.920 --> 00:55:12.280
in line with the other cases that we've examined. Internal
840
00:55:12.400 --> 00:55:17.239
organs were often cleanly removed, as were sexual organs. Furthermore,
841
00:55:17.559 --> 00:55:20.800
on most occasions, parts of the face were removed to
842
00:55:20.960 --> 00:55:25.519
the bone and the blood was seemingly emptied completely. One
843
00:55:25.559 --> 00:55:28.480
of the things that Metzgers noted during her time experiencing
844
00:55:28.519 --> 00:55:31.519
these mutilations, which date back for her to the late
845
00:55:31.639 --> 00:55:35.039
nineteen seventies, is that they often occur in waves from
846
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June to October, and this is often the case in
847
00:55:38.199 --> 00:55:42.199
other locations as well. She also notes that the Easter holiday,
848
00:55:42.239 --> 00:55:47.159
for unknown reasons, also often sees increased cases of cattle mutilation.
849
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Metzger's also suggested that whoever's behind the cattle attacks, they
850
00:55:53.000 --> 00:55:56.079
most likely use some kind of muscle relaxant in order
851
00:55:56.119 --> 00:55:58.599
to carry out the draining of blood and other procedures,
852
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this would essentially paralyzed the animal. In the FBI document
853
00:56:04.039 --> 00:56:07.199
mentioned earlier, there contains the case of a mutilated bull
854
00:56:07.280 --> 00:56:10.599
of Manuel Gomez, who in nineteen seventy eight discovered the
855
00:56:10.599 --> 00:56:14.480
dead animal on his land in Dulce, New Mexico. Gomez
856
00:56:14.480 --> 00:56:17.920
would discover the animal with precise cuts to remove tissues
857
00:56:17.960 --> 00:56:22.159
and genitals, essentially almost identical injuries to many of the
858
00:56:22.159 --> 00:56:26.599
cattle mutilation cases of that decade and since. However, upon
859
00:56:26.679 --> 00:56:31.039
examination police officer Gabriel Valdez, Gomez's bull was found to
860
00:56:31.079 --> 00:56:33.840
have a heart and liver that were now white and
861
00:56:34.199 --> 00:56:38.960
mushy with the consistency of peanut butter. Further testing revealed
862
00:56:39.000 --> 00:56:43.880
extremely high levels of zinc, phosphorus, and potassium, as well
863
00:56:43.920 --> 00:56:48.320
as no copper whatsoever. Those who examined the liver were
864
00:56:48.400 --> 00:56:52.559
not able to explain these results. Further examination would reveal
865
00:56:52.599 --> 00:56:55.039
that the body of the animal was weaker than would
866
00:56:55.039 --> 00:56:58.079
be expected for a death that occurred only hours earlier.
867
00:56:58.519 --> 00:57:02.679
While the blood that was left did not clut, general
868
00:57:02.679 --> 00:57:06.599
tissue damage and discolouration was also discovered. While it was
869
00:57:06.719 --> 00:57:11.159
speculation that was later officially dismissed. Initial thoughts of investigators
870
00:57:11.199 --> 00:57:14.559
and scientists involved in the examination leaned toward the death
871
00:57:14.599 --> 00:57:17.719
of the animal being caused by a concentrated wave of radiation.
872
00:57:18.679 --> 00:57:21.239
This is a detail that would also sit comfortably with
873
00:57:21.360 --> 00:57:25.639
many close proximity UFO sightings, which often feature claims of
874
00:57:25.719 --> 00:57:29.920
increased radiation. Of course, we should perhaps also mention that
875
00:57:30.199 --> 00:57:34.760
Dulce is another location that is surrounded in mystery and conspiracy,
876
00:57:35.199 --> 00:57:39.400
including an increased UFO presence and top secret government activities.
877
00:57:40.119 --> 00:57:46.239
Coincidence surely not. During the summer of nineteen ninety and Vancouver, Washington,
878
00:57:46.599 --> 00:57:50.440
local farmers and residents would experience an entire summer of
879
00:57:50.559 --> 00:57:55.239
bizarre activity and cattle mutilations. One of the farmers most
880
00:57:55.239 --> 00:57:58.920
affected was Richard Fozzio, who would discover five of his
881
00:57:59.039 --> 00:58:03.199
cattle dead mutilated between June and October of that year.
882
00:58:04.039 --> 00:58:07.639
Each time they had injuries that Oregon State University would
883
00:58:07.639 --> 00:58:12.079
conclude were identical to an electrosurgical excision or a laser
884
00:58:12.119 --> 00:58:17.159
type heat induced injury. Even more chilling, these unfortunate animals
885
00:58:17.159 --> 00:58:21.719
were found with eyes, tongues, and even internal organs cleanly removed,
886
00:58:22.360 --> 00:58:25.960
so much so that it was extremely unlikely that predatory
887
00:58:26.000 --> 00:58:30.320
animals were the culprits. There were also intriguing reports from
888
00:58:30.360 --> 00:58:33.960
Fozzio's neighbors of strange sounds that could be heard at
889
00:58:34.000 --> 00:58:37.880
seemingly random times during the time of the cattle mutilations.
890
00:58:38.840 --> 00:58:41.360
Perhaps the strangest of all was a report from a
891
00:58:41.400 --> 00:58:44.880
local woman who claimed to see a little man who
892
00:58:45.000 --> 00:58:47.719
was running through a field along the roadside and who
893
00:58:47.760 --> 00:58:52.239
appeared to be carrying something akin to a flashlight. So
894
00:58:52.599 --> 00:58:57.400
these details would perhaps suggest an extraterrestrial involvement at least
895
00:58:57.400 --> 00:59:01.440
as far as the Vancouver mutilations of nineteen ninety to go. However,
896
00:59:01.599 --> 00:59:06.800
not everyone is as convinced. Veteran paranormal researcher Christopher O'Brien,
897
00:59:06.960 --> 00:59:10.199
who's carried out extensive research in cattle mutilation that can
898
00:59:10.239 --> 00:59:13.760
be appreciated in the book Stalking the Herd Unraveling the
899
00:59:13.800 --> 00:59:17.599
Cattle Mutilation Mystery, we comment to Oregon Life that cattle
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00:59:17.639 --> 00:59:21.800
mutilations were more complicated than aliens. While he would offer
901
00:59:21.920 --> 00:59:25.000
that one in ten of such cases might have suggestions
902
00:59:25.000 --> 00:59:29.480
of extraterrestrial involvement, although generally there is very little evidence
903
00:59:29.559 --> 00:59:33.800
to support that it is. O'Brien's thoughts that a covert
904
00:59:34.079 --> 00:59:38.239
environmental monitoring process might be involved that was connected to
905
00:59:38.320 --> 00:59:42.760
a shadow type government using advanced technology. He go on
906
00:59:42.880 --> 00:59:46.760
to describe it as possibly being the greatest unsolved serial
907
00:59:46.880 --> 00:59:50.480
crime spree in history and that there could be multiple
908
00:59:50.480 --> 00:59:54.800
groups involved. We should perhaps remind ourselves of the strange
909
00:59:54.840 --> 00:59:57.679
incident that occurred just short of a decade later in
910
00:59:57.719 --> 01:00:01.679
February nineteen ninety nine, when federal forest workers witnessed a
911
01:00:01.719 --> 01:00:05.519
saucer like craft stalking and lifting an elk into the air.
912
01:00:06.480 --> 01:00:08.960
Might this have been connected to the incidents during the
913
01:00:09.000 --> 01:00:13.199
summer of nineteen ninety We mentioned earlier that, according to
914
01:00:13.360 --> 01:00:17.039
kit Mesker, many cattle mutilations take place between the months
915
01:00:17.039 --> 01:00:20.159
of June and October, and that was very much the
916
01:00:20.199 --> 01:00:23.199
case in Texas during that time period. In twenty thirteen,
917
01:00:23.639 --> 01:00:28.079
when multiple sheep mutilations occurred, not only did law enforce
918
01:00:28.159 --> 01:00:32.280
but investigate the grim cases, but the UFO organization MOUFON
919
01:00:32.679 --> 01:00:36.920
also conducted their own investigation, and what's more, upon doing so,
920
01:00:37.000 --> 01:00:40.480
it became clear that the mutilations were too clean to
921
01:00:40.519 --> 01:00:43.559
be an animal, with the local sheriff adding that whoever
922
01:00:43.599 --> 01:00:47.280
did this knew what they were doing. However, the two
923
01:00:47.320 --> 01:00:50.960
investigative teams differed somewhat in who they believed to be
924
01:00:51.039 --> 01:00:55.320
responsible for the mutilations. While law enforcement believed firmly that
925
01:00:55.360 --> 01:00:57.760
the work was that of humans, most likely in the
926
01:00:57.760 --> 01:01:02.000
form of a Satanic group, move On perhaps understandably believed
927
01:01:02.039 --> 01:01:07.400
there to be a possibly extraterrestrial connection, whatever or whoever
928
01:01:07.559 --> 01:01:11.079
was responsible for the attacks. Those whose animals fell victim
929
01:01:11.119 --> 01:01:15.760
to them suffered the consequences. One particular family, the DAGs,
930
01:01:15.960 --> 01:01:19.039
would see over twenty of their herd mutilated during the
931
01:01:19.079 --> 01:01:22.920
apparent wave of attacks, and each was almost identical, with
932
01:01:23.000 --> 01:01:26.239
the unfortunate sheep having been drained of blood while also
933
01:01:26.239 --> 01:01:30.400
suffering very medical type cuts to the face area. Like
934
01:01:30.519 --> 01:01:34.280
many other cases, no blood was ever present on the ground,
935
01:01:34.760 --> 01:01:38.760
and no footprints or other markings were discovered either. A
936
01:01:38.840 --> 01:01:44.000
particularly intriguing and bizarre case unfolded in twenty thirteen when
937
01:01:44.039 --> 01:01:47.440
a rancher in Nebraska, Alex Peterson, discovered one of his
938
01:01:47.519 --> 01:01:51.039
cattle dead with its head firmly wedged into the ground.
939
01:01:51.840 --> 01:01:54.360
When he examined the cow, he discovered that there was
940
01:01:54.400 --> 01:01:57.199
a distinct lack of earth in its mouth and nostrils,
941
01:01:57.559 --> 01:01:59.719
which the animal have forced its head into the ground
942
01:01:59.719 --> 01:02:03.280
of its own accord should have been there. Combined with
943
01:02:03.320 --> 01:02:06.320
the depth of the indent, Peterson concluded that the cow
944
01:02:06.480 --> 01:02:09.400
must have been dropped to the ground from a vehicle unknown.
945
01:02:10.119 --> 01:02:13.280
And while many would automatically jump to a UFO connection,
946
01:02:13.519 --> 01:02:16.360
which there very well could be, we should perhaps remind
947
01:02:16.400 --> 01:02:20.199
ourselves that black military helicopters are often seen in the
948
01:02:20.280 --> 01:02:24.960
same location and the same time as such mutilations. This
949
01:02:25.039 --> 01:02:28.960
could also be a possibility here. This wasn't the first
950
01:02:28.960 --> 01:02:31.719
of his cattle that Peterson had discovered on his ranch,
951
01:02:31.960 --> 01:02:35.519
having discovered three of his cows with extremely medically precise
952
01:02:35.559 --> 01:02:38.920
cuts to their bodies. The third cow was actually still
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alive when he found it, and while he would ultimately
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have to euthanize it, he did attempt to perform tests
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01:02:44.760 --> 01:02:47.239
on it to see if any details or chemicals were
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01:02:47.280 --> 01:02:50.440
left behind from an attack that had seemingly only just
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01:02:50.559 --> 01:02:54.960
taken place. Unfortunately, those tests did not yield any results.
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In more recent times, in the fall of twenty nineteen,
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another shilling case of cattle mutilation unfolded, one that left
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01:03:03.920 --> 01:03:08.119
not one drop of blood in the unfortunate bovine. In
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October of that year, on the Sylvie's Valley ranch in Oregon,
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the vice president of the establishment, Colby Marshall, discovered one
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01:03:15.119 --> 01:03:18.800
of his cattle dead, with body parts precisely removed and
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01:03:18.960 --> 01:03:23.039
completely drained of blood. This was the fifth of his
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01:03:23.119 --> 01:03:26.719
bulls to fall victim to whatever brute but surgically precise
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01:03:26.800 --> 01:03:29.599
forces that were behind these attacks in less than half
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01:03:29.639 --> 01:03:33.199
a year. On this occasion, when showing the remains of
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01:03:33.239 --> 01:03:35.599
the most recent victim of his herd to a local
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01:03:35.639 --> 01:03:39.119
media platform, the unfortunate bulb was reported to look like
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01:03:39.199 --> 01:03:43.039
a giant deflated plush toy. Once more. As well as
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01:03:43.079 --> 01:03:45.440
having been drained of all its blood, the tongue and
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01:03:45.559 --> 01:03:49.679
genitals were surgically cut out. What was also noticed was
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01:03:49.719 --> 01:03:53.400
there was a distinct lack of predatory scavengers anywhere near
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01:03:53.480 --> 01:03:57.559
the carcass. This is an intriguing detail that often surfaces
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01:03:57.639 --> 01:04:01.559
in other reports of cattle mutilation. Just what are buzzards
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01:04:01.599 --> 01:04:04.639
and coyotes, for example, that would happily feed on almost
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01:04:04.679 --> 01:04:08.639
any carcass they happen upon picking up from these mutilated cattle.
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01:04:08.920 --> 01:04:11.920
That makes them keep their distance and decline the chance
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of a free meal. Although Marshall, the ranch workers, and
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the local County Sheriff are at a loss as to
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01:04:18.199 --> 01:04:21.599
what might be systematically snaring and killing cattle from their herd.
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They have eliminated many possibilities. For example, they are certain
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01:04:26.400 --> 01:04:32.119
that it's not bears, wolves, cougars, or poisonous plants. Furthermore,
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there were no signs that the cattle had been shocked
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01:04:34.280 --> 01:04:37.639
to death before the precise medical procedures were carried out.
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Whatever is behind the attacks, it is very much a
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concern for those of the ranch in question. Indeed, the
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01:04:44.639 --> 01:04:47.320
problem appears to be so concerning to those who work
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01:04:47.360 --> 01:04:50.039
the ranch that they began to patrol the region in
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pairs and always ensure that they're armed. It's easy to
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01:04:54.119 --> 01:04:58.159
understand that concern is Marshal himself stated, whatever could take
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01:04:58.199 --> 01:05:01.679
down a two thousand pound bull would have no problems
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01:05:01.800 --> 01:05:05.559
dealing with a one hundred and eighty pound cowboy. And
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we're not even close to covering mutilations that have happened
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01:05:09.079 --> 01:05:13.360
across the globe. Our next stop is Australia that has
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01:05:13.440 --> 01:05:45.519
seen many up next on Weird Darkness. While the locations
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01:05:45.559 --> 01:05:50.440
we've already covered certainly experienced the majority of cattle mutilation cases,
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01:05:50.880 --> 01:05:54.039
the fact is that almost anywhere where cattle are kept
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01:05:54.480 --> 01:05:58.119
there are mutilation cases to examine. We know, for example,
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01:05:58.159 --> 01:06:02.639
that Australia sees many, many cases of cattle mutilations. In
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01:06:02.679 --> 01:06:06.679
September twenty eighteen, for example, in Queensland, farmers Make and
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01:06:06.760 --> 01:06:09.639
Judy Cook would make the grim discovery of a dead
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01:06:09.719 --> 01:06:13.920
cow that had quite obviously been subject to mutilation. Not
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01:06:13.960 --> 01:06:16.960
only were its ears and tongue cleanly removed, but its
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01:06:17.119 --> 01:06:21.039
entire utter was also missing. Mick Cook would state to
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01:06:21.119 --> 01:06:23.440
ABC News that it was like the tongue had been
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01:06:23.480 --> 01:06:26.760
surgically removed, adding that he would struggle to do as
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01:06:26.880 --> 01:06:31.280
meet a job with a very sharp knife. Furthermore, despite
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01:06:31.320 --> 01:06:34.440
the obvious injuries, there was no sign of blood anywhere
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01:06:34.440 --> 01:06:37.800
at the scene, nor any sign of a struggle. What
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01:06:37.920 --> 01:06:40.679
further perplexed the Cooks was that the parts that had
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01:06:40.719 --> 01:06:45.239
been removed were just not something you would use, perhaps
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01:06:45.280 --> 01:06:48.320
making the situation even more unnerving. When he and his
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01:06:48.360 --> 01:06:51.480
wife traveled a little further onto his land, they discovered
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01:06:51.599 --> 01:06:54.480
another dead cow, although this one appeared to have been
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01:06:54.519 --> 01:06:57.760
dead for some time. However, it still appeared to have
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01:06:57.800 --> 01:07:01.840
the same bizarre injuries as the first, more recently killed cow.
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01:07:02.920 --> 01:07:06.320
The Cooks would further reveal that they made similar discoveries
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01:07:06.360 --> 01:07:09.400
of mutilated cattle in the same area and in the
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01:07:09.440 --> 01:07:13.639
same manner around ten years previously. Although they thought that
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01:07:13.679 --> 01:07:16.400
it was a truly bizarre discovery, they kept the incident
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01:07:16.440 --> 01:07:20.159
to themselves. However, when they made their most recent discoveries,
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01:07:20.599 --> 01:07:25.760
they decided to make an official report. While skeptical investigators
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01:07:25.800 --> 01:07:29.679
into Australian cattle mutilations often point to coyotes and even
1025
01:07:29.719 --> 01:07:33.800
Tasmanian devils as likely being responsible for the attacks, other
1026
01:07:33.840 --> 01:07:37.239
researchers correctly point out that this doesn't explain the medically
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01:07:37.280 --> 01:07:40.239
precise cuts, as well as the lack of blood at
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01:07:40.280 --> 01:07:45.280
the respective scenes. In May twenty fourteen, in Argentina, during
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01:07:45.280 --> 01:07:48.880
the space of one weekend, a spate of cattle mutilations
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01:07:48.880 --> 01:07:51.800
occurred and then stopped again as quickly as they had started.
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Each of the cases were remarkably similar to each other
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01:07:55.199 --> 01:07:57.920
in detail, and they are much the same as many
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01:07:57.960 --> 01:08:01.760
cases that we've already highlighted. Cattle were discovered with medically
1034
01:08:01.840 --> 01:08:05.559
precise cuts, particularly around the face and jaw, which in
1035
01:08:05.599 --> 01:08:09.079
some cases were stripped to the bone. Other precise cuts
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and incisions were also recorded. One of the farmers in
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01:08:13.079 --> 01:08:16.199
Reconquista in Santa Fe reported that the animal he would
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01:08:16.199 --> 01:08:19.760
eventually discover dead on his land had begun acting strangely
1039
01:08:19.920 --> 01:08:22.920
in the days leading up to its untimely death. He
1040
01:08:22.960 --> 01:08:25.319
would claim that it appeared as though it was scared
1041
01:08:25.359 --> 01:08:29.960
and unnerved. Whether this was purely coincidence or not is unknown.
1042
01:08:30.600 --> 01:08:33.680
Might it be, though, that whatever eventually carried out the
1043
01:08:33.720 --> 01:08:36.840
attack had made its presence known to the animal in question.
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01:08:38.039 --> 01:08:42.159
Although these reports received much media attention, many other reports
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01:08:42.159 --> 01:08:45.479
of cattle mutilation can be found in Argentina, both before
1046
01:08:45.560 --> 01:08:50.039
and after May twenty fourteen incidents. An intriguing case of
1047
01:08:50.079 --> 01:08:53.399
animal mutilation occurred in May two thousand and one in Indonesia,
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01:08:53.720 --> 01:08:57.560
when around two hundred goats were discovered mutilated. Most of
1049
01:08:57.600 --> 01:09:00.720
these goats were discovered completely drained of blood and with
1050
01:09:00.760 --> 01:09:04.439
their hearts removed. In some extreme occasions, only the head
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01:09:04.479 --> 01:09:07.600
and the legs were left. Much like the cattle mutilations
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01:09:07.640 --> 01:09:10.439
in North America and Europe, there was no sign of
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01:09:10.439 --> 01:09:14.840
blood anywhere around where the dead goats were discovered. One
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01:09:14.920 --> 01:09:18.239
researcher who has perhaps shined more light on the subject
1055
01:09:18.279 --> 01:09:22.119
of cattle mutilations than most is Award winning investigative journalist
1056
01:09:22.399 --> 01:09:26.039
Linda Moulton Howe, who produced the regional Emmy Award winning
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01:09:26.039 --> 01:09:31.039
television documentary A Strange Harvest in nineteen eighty. How a
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01:09:31.159 --> 01:09:35.239
serious minded and thorough researcher and investigator, would suggest that
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01:09:35.279 --> 01:09:38.439
the wounds and markings discovered on mutilated cattle and other
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01:09:38.520 --> 01:09:42.560
animals were the work of extraterrestrials. The reason for these
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01:09:42.600 --> 01:09:45.720
macab attacks was likely the need to harvest body parts,
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01:09:46.119 --> 01:09:48.960
either for research or even for the survival of the
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01:09:49.000 --> 01:09:53.319
alien civilization. What's more, how would suggest that the United
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01:09:53.319 --> 01:09:58.359
States government was almost certainly complicit in these mutilations. How
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01:09:58.399 --> 01:10:01.039
would visit the San Luis region in Colorado as part
1066
01:10:01.039 --> 01:10:04.000
of the documentary following the discovery of a steer on
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01:10:04.039 --> 01:10:07.960
the land on September twenty ninth, nineteen seventy nine. Its
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01:10:08.000 --> 01:10:10.920
tongue had been cleanly cut away and the lower jaw
1069
01:10:10.960 --> 01:10:14.920
had been completely stripped of its flesh. Even More harrowing
1070
01:10:14.960 --> 01:10:17.800
were the perfectly oval cuts that were made around the
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01:10:17.840 --> 01:10:22.399
eye sockets and its hide. She would ultimately visit Arlen Myers,
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01:10:22.720 --> 01:10:25.439
a laser surgeon at the Rose Medical Center in Denver,
1073
01:10:25.680 --> 01:10:29.319
in order to learn more about these seemingly medically precise cuts.
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01:10:29.840 --> 01:10:32.560
As part of this, Myers would attempt to recreate the
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01:10:32.560 --> 01:10:36.119
wounds using two dead chickens. On one he used a
1076
01:10:36.279 --> 01:10:38.600
laser beam and on the other he used a scalpel.
1077
01:10:39.319 --> 01:10:42.000
While the laser beam was the closest match, it was
1078
01:10:42.079 --> 01:10:45.239
far from perfect. Myers would claim it would be near
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01:10:45.279 --> 01:10:49.479
impossible to transport the laser type technology to each mutilation
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01:10:49.680 --> 01:10:53.760
location without being noticed at some stage. However, we might
1081
01:10:53.800 --> 01:10:57.159
expect if the mutilations are the work of extraterrestrial beings,
1082
01:10:57.560 --> 01:11:01.039
they likely have highly more advanced technology than we have
1083
01:11:01.720 --> 01:11:06.920
both then forty years ago and now. Interestingly, how would
1084
01:11:06.960 --> 01:11:09.760
state that the surge in cattle mutilations began in the
1085
01:11:09.760 --> 01:11:12.960
winter of nineteen seventy four into the spring of nineteen
1086
01:11:13.000 --> 01:11:17.239
seventy five. Between that time and the nineteen eighty documentary,
1087
01:11:17.560 --> 01:11:22.079
over twenty thousand mutilations had taken place. At least twenty thousand.
1088
01:11:23.000 --> 01:11:25.600
What's perhaps interesting here is that the previous year, in
1089
01:11:25.680 --> 01:11:28.760
nineteen seventy three, the United States and other parts of
1090
01:11:28.760 --> 01:11:32.840
the world experienced a wave of UFO sightings that often
1091
01:11:32.880 --> 01:11:36.800
featured apparent humanoid occupants of the futuristic craft being seen.
1092
01:11:37.840 --> 01:11:41.920
Were these sightings a reconnaissance type mission before the regular
1093
01:11:42.000 --> 01:11:46.720
cattle mutilations began. What is also interesting, one of the
1094
01:11:46.760 --> 01:11:49.960
incidents during this nineteen seventy three wave of UFO and
1095
01:11:50.039 --> 01:11:53.680
humanoid sightings was that of Judy Doherty, whose account is
1096
01:11:53.720 --> 01:11:56.479
featured in the documentary and who might have been one
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01:11:56.479 --> 01:12:00.399
of the first people to seemingly witness cattle mutilation taking place.
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01:12:01.560 --> 01:12:05.399
In May nineteen seventy three, Doherty was driving with her mother, sister,
1099
01:12:05.520 --> 01:12:07.600
and brother in law in the car with her when
1100
01:12:07.640 --> 01:12:10.880
they noticed a strange light overhead. They watched the light
1101
01:12:10.960 --> 01:12:13.920
for some time, right until she pulled onto the drive
1102
01:12:13.960 --> 01:12:17.079
of her home. As they exited the vehicle, they were
1103
01:12:17.119 --> 01:12:21.079
shocked to see a huge, disc shaped object hovering over
1104
01:12:21.119 --> 01:12:24.840
a field nearby. Then it suddenly shot into the sky
1105
01:12:25.279 --> 01:12:30.399
and vanished. Doherty, though, would begin suffering intense nightmares and
1106
01:12:30.399 --> 01:12:33.520
would eventually see hypnotic regression in order to find out
1107
01:12:33.600 --> 01:12:37.399
just what happened that night. While under hypnosis, it was
1108
01:12:37.439 --> 01:12:40.119
revealed that after they climbed out of the car, the
1109
01:12:40.159 --> 01:12:45.079
strange glowing object approached the women, specifically Doherty. During an
1110
01:12:45.119 --> 01:12:48.039
interview on twenty first Century Radio in nineteen eighty nine.
1111
01:12:48.439 --> 01:12:51.600
Howe would speak of the Doherty incident and what was
1112
01:12:51.640 --> 01:12:55.439
revealed during the hypnotic regression sessions. She would recall seeing
1113
01:12:55.439 --> 01:12:58.199
a small calf being taken up toward the craft in
1114
01:12:58.279 --> 01:13:01.600
a pale beam of yellow light. The next thing she knew,
1115
01:13:01.800 --> 01:13:04.520
it was as though she was inside the craft, viewing
1116
01:13:04.560 --> 01:13:07.520
the events as they were taking place. She would claim
1117
01:13:07.600 --> 01:13:10.560
that she could see the calf have pieces of it excised,
1118
01:13:10.880 --> 01:13:15.000
the tongue, the sex organs, the eyes. Even more harrowing
1119
01:13:15.000 --> 01:13:17.800
for Doherty was that she would soon see her daughter
1120
01:13:17.960 --> 01:13:21.680
Cindy on a similar operating type table. And what's more,
1121
01:13:22.039 --> 01:13:25.039
these gray alien figures, as per her description of them,
1122
01:13:25.199 --> 01:13:29.760
were carrying out similar experiments and taking similar samples from
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01:13:29.800 --> 01:13:33.760
her daughter. What was also intriguing about this particular case
1124
01:13:34.159 --> 01:13:37.479
was that Doherty remained near her vehicle, trapped in a light,
1125
01:13:37.880 --> 01:13:41.119
while her mind was seemingly on board the ship Viewing
1126
01:13:41.159 --> 01:13:44.720
the events that she later described. Might the suggest that
1127
01:13:44.880 --> 01:13:48.000
alien abduction encounters, at least some of them, are more
1128
01:13:48.039 --> 01:13:51.600
akin to an out of body experience. It would certainly
1129
01:13:51.640 --> 01:13:55.399
appear to suggest a definite link between cattle mutilations and
1130
01:13:55.600 --> 01:14:00.960
extraterrestrial entities. Moltenhowe would continue her research into both UFO
1131
01:14:01.039 --> 01:14:05.159
phenomena and cattle mutilations. A decade after the release of
1132
01:14:05.199 --> 01:14:09.079
a Strange Harvest, how would speak at the MUFON Symposium.
1133
01:14:09.479 --> 01:14:12.159
During her talk, she would reveal details of a case
1134
01:14:12.159 --> 01:14:16.039
of cattle mutilation that had occurred in Hempstead County, Arkansas.
1135
01:14:16.720 --> 01:14:20.920
On March tenth, nineteen eighty nine, a rancher L. C. Wyatt,
1136
01:14:21.000 --> 01:14:25.239
would discover five of his pregnant cows dead, all laid
1137
01:14:25.279 --> 01:14:28.760
out in a straight line on his ranch. Only two
1138
01:14:28.800 --> 01:14:32.079
days previously, each of them had been alive and unharmed.
1139
01:14:32.760 --> 01:14:35.560
According to a report in the Little River News, one
1140
01:14:35.560 --> 01:14:38.399
of the cows was positioned with its legs up as
1141
01:14:38.479 --> 01:14:42.119
if it had been running and was zapped by something. Indeed,
1142
01:14:42.279 --> 01:14:44.640
as how would state, the initial assessment of the grim
1143
01:14:44.720 --> 01:14:48.359
scene was that the cows were dropped dead in their tracks.
1144
01:14:48.920 --> 01:14:53.359
Examination of the carcasses was no less grim. Three of
1145
01:14:53.399 --> 01:14:56.920
the cows, for example, had a bloodless cookie cutter oval
1146
01:14:56.960 --> 01:15:00.159
piece of tissue removed from the rectum, while another had
1147
01:15:00.159 --> 01:15:04.800
an eye completely and cleanly removed. Perhaps the worst discovery
1148
01:15:04.880 --> 01:15:06.960
was that of a huge cut across the belly of
1149
01:15:06.960 --> 01:15:09.800
one of the cows, out of which was her unborn
1150
01:15:09.880 --> 01:15:14.079
calf that remained in the unbroken embryo sac. Bizarrely, there
1151
01:15:14.119 --> 01:15:16.880
was no blood or any other substance that one might
1152
01:15:16.920 --> 01:15:20.760
associate with such a seemingly savage but medically precise attack.
1153
01:15:21.920 --> 01:15:25.800
Perhaps even more intriguing and certainly something suggestive once more
1154
01:15:25.840 --> 01:15:29.520
of a connection between UFOs and these truly horrific scenes,
1155
01:15:29.960 --> 01:15:32.600
was the recollections of the editor of Little River News,
1156
01:15:32.920 --> 01:15:36.760
Jim Williamson. He would recall that on the night before
1157
01:15:36.800 --> 01:15:39.239
the cows were discovered dead in the field, he had
1158
01:15:39.239 --> 01:15:42.399
seen a golden glow in the skies over the Rural
1159
01:15:42.479 --> 01:15:47.319
Electric Association substation. Williamson would watch the glow for around
1160
01:15:47.359 --> 01:15:50.800
three minutes before it disappeared. How would state that the
1161
01:15:50.920 --> 01:15:54.159
distance between the substation and where the cows were discovered
1162
01:15:54.479 --> 01:15:58.880
is between forty to fifty aerial miles. How also drew
1163
01:15:58.920 --> 01:16:01.399
attention to the fact that later in the evening on
1164
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the day the cows were discovered, under the cover of darkness,
1165
01:16:05.000 --> 01:16:09.239
Arkansas and Hempstead County Sheriff Don Worthy, along with veterinarian
1166
01:16:09.319 --> 01:16:12.479
doctor James Powell, went to the site to examine the
1167
01:16:12.520 --> 01:16:16.880
dead cows. They would even take samples using flashlights to see.
1168
01:16:17.359 --> 01:16:19.600
Not only is it strange that the men chose to
1169
01:16:19.640 --> 01:16:21.920
work in such a way in the dark, but neither
1170
01:16:22.039 --> 01:16:25.760
has offered any kind of explanation for their decision. This
1171
01:16:25.880 --> 01:16:29.319
certainly raises eyebrows of suspicion among many with an interest
1172
01:16:29.359 --> 01:16:32.640
in seeking the truth behind the cattle mutilations, and perhaps
1173
01:16:32.760 --> 01:16:36.359
rightly so. During the days after the discovery of the
1174
01:16:36.399 --> 01:16:41.720
dead cows, Williamson would contact pathologist and hematologist doctor John Altschuller,
1175
01:16:42.199 --> 01:16:45.239
the same alt Schuler who'd examined and taken samples of
1176
01:16:45.319 --> 01:16:48.359
one of the first mutilated animals, the horse known as
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Snippy or Lady we spoke of earlier. Alt Schuller would
1178
01:16:52.640 --> 01:16:55.640
issue instructions to Williamson to get a new straight raiser
1179
01:16:55.800 --> 01:16:57.840
and to cut a rectangle of cow hide with the
1180
01:16:57.880 --> 01:17:00.159
discovered cut in the hide included in it for the
1181
01:17:00.239 --> 01:17:02.520
cow that had been discovered with the huge cut across
1182
01:17:02.560 --> 01:17:05.600
its belly. He would also cut tissue samples from the
1183
01:17:05.640 --> 01:17:08.159
belly and what remained of the eye before sending them
1184
01:17:08.159 --> 01:17:11.640
in a formaldehyde solution fast tracked to Denver, Colorado, for
1185
01:17:11.720 --> 01:17:15.960
Altschuler to examine. He would ultimately conclude that the cutting
1186
01:17:16.199 --> 01:17:18.880
was done quickly, with a hot instrument of some kind
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01:17:19.319 --> 01:17:23.399
and with pinpoint accuracy and minimal dissipation of heat at
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01:17:23.399 --> 01:17:25.960
the cut line. There was also the discovery of a
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01:17:26.119 --> 01:17:29.119
string beam at the edge of the tissues, suggesting something
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01:17:29.159 --> 01:17:33.359
along the lines of laser or hot needle surgery. Examination
1191
01:17:33.479 --> 01:17:35.640
of the precise oval cut to the hide of the
1192
01:17:35.640 --> 01:17:38.920
cow revealed changes to the tissue that suggested it had
1193
01:17:38.960 --> 01:17:44.000
been exposed to temperatures as high as three hundred degrees fahrenheit. Overall,
1194
01:17:44.359 --> 01:17:47.359
it was the conclusions of doctor Altschuler that the surgical
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01:17:47.399 --> 01:17:51.319
procedure performed would have very likely took place quickly, probably
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01:17:51.359 --> 01:17:54.479
in a minute or two, and utilized high temperature heat.
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01:17:55.239 --> 01:17:57.760
He would conclude that the source of this high heat
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01:17:57.880 --> 01:18:00.840
would likely have been a fine probe or cutting instrument.
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01:18:01.960 --> 01:18:05.520
How would highlight other cattle mutilation cases that had similar
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01:18:05.560 --> 01:18:09.439
details and conclusions. For example, the case of the Grass
1201
01:18:09.439 --> 01:18:12.920
family who discovered mutilated animals on their land Pine Ranch
1202
01:18:12.960 --> 01:18:17.039
in South Dakota had similar suggestions of a pinpoint heat source.
1203
01:18:17.920 --> 01:18:20.680
According to a letter sent to Howe from Charlene Grass,
1204
01:18:20.880 --> 01:18:23.560
they discovered some of their horse's tail here near the
1205
01:18:23.640 --> 01:18:27.279
mutilated animal, which she had also sent to how for analysis.
1206
01:18:27.880 --> 01:18:31.159
Upon examination, it appeared very likely that it had been
1207
01:18:31.199 --> 01:18:35.600
subjected to particularly high heat. Perhaps of even more interest
1208
01:18:35.680 --> 01:18:38.039
is that a neighbor of the Grass family claimed to
1209
01:18:38.079 --> 01:18:41.359
have seen a strange light over the ranch. Even more
1210
01:18:41.439 --> 01:18:44.239
harrowing for the Grass family was they would suffer five
1211
01:18:44.439 --> 01:18:49.640
mutilations throughout nineteen eighty four. Three years later. Another case
1212
01:18:49.680 --> 01:18:53.000
that Howe states to demonstrate a connection between animal mutilations
1213
01:18:53.039 --> 01:18:56.680
and alien activity is that of a rancher from Waco, Texas,
1214
01:18:57.000 --> 01:19:00.119
who noticed one of his cows missing one April morning
1215
01:19:00.159 --> 01:19:03.319
in nineteen eighty As he was searching for it, having
1216
01:19:03.399 --> 01:19:05.439
left his truck in order to climb up a small
1217
01:19:05.520 --> 01:19:10.119
hill on his land, he witnessed two creatures approximately four
1218
01:19:10.159 --> 01:19:13.520
to five feet high, a short distance ahead. He would
1219
01:19:13.600 --> 01:19:16.039
later state that the creatures were wearing some kind of
1220
01:19:16.159 --> 01:19:19.960
tight fitting green clothes, further describing the color like that
1221
01:19:20.039 --> 01:19:23.600
of mesquite leaves in the spring. He would continue that
1222
01:19:23.720 --> 01:19:26.479
this clothing even covered the feet, and that they had
1223
01:19:26.520 --> 01:19:30.520
heads shaped like eggs. Some people have described gray alien
1224
01:19:30.560 --> 01:19:33.760
creatures as having oval shaped heads. They had a build
1225
01:19:33.880 --> 01:19:36.960
similar to that of a small adult. It was when
1226
01:19:37.000 --> 01:19:39.960
the creatures turned toward him. However, that the rancher and
1227
01:19:40.000 --> 01:19:43.319
noticed perhaps one of the most chilling aspects of their appearance.
1228
01:19:44.079 --> 01:19:48.920
He would describe the creatures as having eyes that angled upward, pointed,
1229
01:19:49.239 --> 01:19:53.720
and were like big, dark almonds. Of most interest to
1230
01:19:53.800 --> 01:19:56.119
us here, though, was the detail that the two creatures
1231
01:19:56.119 --> 01:19:59.920
were carrying a calf with them. The missing cow was pregnant.
1232
01:20:00.640 --> 01:20:03.640
At this point, Being familiar with accounts of alien abductions,
1233
01:20:03.760 --> 01:20:06.199
the rancher turned and ran back down the hill toward
1234
01:20:06.239 --> 01:20:08.800
his vehicle. When he got there, he climbed in and
1235
01:20:08.840 --> 01:20:12.119
headed for home as fast as he could. According to
1236
01:20:12.159 --> 01:20:14.880
what he told how the incident had alarmed him to
1237
01:20:14.880 --> 01:20:17.399
such an extent that it was two days before he
1238
01:20:17.439 --> 01:20:20.079
told his family about it. They'd make the decision to
1239
01:20:20.199 --> 01:20:22.760
return to the location where he had seen the two creatures.
1240
01:20:23.319 --> 01:20:26.000
When they did, they discovered the hide of a calf,
1241
01:20:26.520 --> 01:20:28.760
one that the rancher believed was that of the calf
1242
01:20:28.800 --> 01:20:31.760
that he had seen the two creatures carrying. Short distance
1243
01:20:31.800 --> 01:20:35.760
from the hide, the calf's backbone, without ribs was discovered.
1244
01:20:37.039 --> 01:20:40.159
What's interesting, and indeed something we have seen in other cases.
1245
01:20:40.520 --> 01:20:43.760
Despite there being plenty of predators who should have claimed
1246
01:20:43.800 --> 01:20:46.840
this free meal for itself. There were no signs that
1247
01:20:46.960 --> 01:20:51.000
any animal had even contemplated taking it. There were certainly
1248
01:20:51.039 --> 01:20:54.960
no buzzards flying overhead, which he would have expected. He
1249
01:20:55.039 --> 01:21:00.800
also noticed there was a distinct lack of blood. What
1250
01:21:00.800 --> 01:21:06.279
connection is there between cattle mutilations and alien abduction? We'll
1251
01:21:06.279 --> 01:21:32.680
find out when Weird Darkness returns. How further highlights a
1252
01:21:32.760 --> 01:21:35.880
case of alien abduction that appears to show connections to
1253
01:21:36.039 --> 01:21:39.640
animal mutilations that took place in May nineteen eighty near
1254
01:21:39.760 --> 01:21:43.560
Cimarron in New Mexico. In fact, she'd state that it
1255
01:21:43.640 --> 01:21:46.840
was this case that first made her contemplate if alien
1256
01:21:46.920 --> 01:21:50.479
life forms might be using creatures from Earth for sustenance
1257
01:21:50.680 --> 01:21:54.319
and to create other life forms. On the night in question,
1258
01:21:54.720 --> 01:21:57.199
a mother and her six year old son witnessed two
1259
01:21:57.279 --> 01:21:59.680
beings in a field that appeared to be beside a
1260
01:21:59.720 --> 01:22:04.359
crying cow. What's more, these strange entities were plunging a
1261
01:22:04.479 --> 01:22:09.479
long silver instrument into the unfortunate creature. Several years later,
1262
01:22:09.600 --> 01:22:11.800
in the spring of nineteen eighty eight, the pair would
1263
01:22:11.880 --> 01:22:15.600
undergo hypnotic regression in order to unlock any other details
1264
01:22:15.640 --> 01:22:19.640
of the bizarre incident, which it duly did. According to
1265
01:22:19.640 --> 01:22:22.520
the details of the session, not only did the mother
1266
01:22:22.640 --> 01:22:26.600
undergo examinations and have bodily samples taken, she also recalled
1267
01:22:26.640 --> 01:22:30.239
details of the mutilation of the calf. Perhaps one of
1268
01:22:30.279 --> 01:22:33.359
the most alarming details that emerged from the mother's session
1269
01:22:33.760 --> 01:22:37.039
was that she witnessed a humanoid body floating in a
1270
01:22:37.119 --> 01:22:40.159
tank of a dark red liquid filled with large organs.
1271
01:22:40.800 --> 01:22:45.079
She believed that these were animal organs. According to the
1272
01:22:45.119 --> 01:22:48.560
regression sessions, the mother and her son were driving home
1273
01:22:48.640 --> 01:22:50.960
on the night in question along a quiet road just
1274
01:22:51.039 --> 01:22:54.560
outside of Cimarron. They expected to arrive at their destination
1275
01:22:54.680 --> 01:22:58.560
around nine pm. By the time they finally did arrive home,
1276
01:22:58.880 --> 01:23:02.800
it was after midnight, around one am. According to the mother.
1277
01:23:02.960 --> 01:23:06.359
As they were driving along, a blinding light suddenly filled
1278
01:23:06.399 --> 01:23:09.640
the inside of the car. The regression notes state that
1279
01:23:09.680 --> 01:23:12.640
the mother stated, while under hypnosis, how can it fly
1280
01:23:12.880 --> 01:23:16.239
like that? What is it? It's incredible? This is real. Oh,
1281
01:23:16.279 --> 01:23:18.680
I'm scared. How can they be doing that to that cow?
1282
01:23:19.920 --> 01:23:22.920
She would continue that the cow was crying or in
1283
01:23:22.960 --> 01:23:26.520
her words, bawling, and was clearly in pain. It was
1284
01:23:26.560 --> 01:23:28.800
then that she realized that the cow was still alive.
1285
01:23:28.920 --> 01:23:32.359
While these unknown procedures were being carried out, procedures she
1286
01:23:32.439 --> 01:23:37.319
described as pulling it apart. She would further describe how
1287
01:23:37.359 --> 01:23:41.239
these apparent alien entities cut in a circular motion, as
1288
01:23:41.279 --> 01:23:43.479
well as saying one of them take what appeared to
1289
01:23:43.479 --> 01:23:46.960
be a wide, silver tapered knife, although it was an
1290
01:23:47.000 --> 01:23:50.119
instrument as opposed to a weapon, It would insert this
1291
01:23:50.319 --> 01:23:52.520
into the chest of the cow before pulling it back
1292
01:23:52.520 --> 01:23:57.000
out again. Suddenly, she realized that they themselves were captured
1293
01:23:57.000 --> 01:24:00.279
by the alien technology. She would recall that she was
1294
01:24:00.520 --> 01:24:03.359
going in one ship while her son headed toward another.
1295
01:24:04.279 --> 01:24:07.359
The mother would continue during her hypnosis session that she
1296
01:24:07.439 --> 01:24:11.159
suddenly found herself inside one of the craft. What's more,
1297
01:24:11.239 --> 01:24:14.039
it appeared the creatures were stripping her of her clothes
1298
01:24:14.279 --> 01:24:17.560
despite her attempts to stop them. The next thing she knew,
1299
01:24:17.600 --> 01:24:19.920
she was laying on a large table before the creatures
1300
01:24:19.920 --> 01:24:25.239
began to take samples from her, including reproductive samples. She
1301
01:24:25.279 --> 01:24:28.920
would recall how the creatures had huge eyes which easily
1302
01:24:29.000 --> 01:24:31.600
filled more than one half of their face and were
1303
01:24:31.680 --> 01:24:35.560
like empty holes. She would also recall now they appeared
1304
01:24:35.560 --> 01:24:38.840
to be different types of creatures around her, elaborating that
1305
01:24:39.119 --> 01:24:42.119
some were more repulsive and that some have evil eyes
1306
01:24:42.159 --> 01:24:45.439
with no pupils, black but with a reddish color that
1307
01:24:45.520 --> 01:24:48.520
reminded her of the devil. Then she went on to
1308
01:24:48.560 --> 01:24:52.520
describe another apparent alien entity. This one was dressed in
1309
01:24:52.560 --> 01:24:56.279
white and had clearly long fingers. The creature had a
1310
01:24:56.359 --> 01:24:59.479
round head with no hair and had a greenish color
1311
01:24:59.520 --> 01:25:03.359
about it, similar to jaundice. The creature had a general
1312
01:25:03.520 --> 01:25:07.279
skeletal appearance to it, but also had big eyes. She
1313
01:25:07.399 --> 01:25:10.319
noticed there appeared to be three of these types of creatures.
1314
01:25:11.199 --> 01:25:13.760
She recalled how one of them spoke to her. It's
1315
01:25:13.800 --> 01:25:17.840
not clear if this was physically or telepathically. They apologized
1316
01:25:17.880 --> 01:25:21.319
and said that it was unfortunate, but it was necessary
1317
01:25:21.479 --> 01:25:25.479
what we do, they said. Following the examination, the mother
1318
01:25:25.640 --> 01:25:28.920
was taken to another location. While this was happening, she
1319
01:25:28.960 --> 01:25:33.039
saw several other different looking alien creatures. She would describe
1320
01:25:33.079 --> 01:25:36.560
them as being all kinds of sizes, with different uniforms
1321
01:25:36.640 --> 01:25:40.600
and patches. Some of these creatures had ruffled collars, whilst
1322
01:25:40.640 --> 01:25:44.239
others appeared to wear long robes. She also recalled seeing
1323
01:25:44.279 --> 01:25:48.840
figures wearing military type boots. She would continue that she
1324
01:25:48.880 --> 01:25:52.479
could recall creatures that had appeared to be mindless robots,
1325
01:25:52.840 --> 01:25:56.039
while there were others that were monstrous, so monstrous, in fact,
1326
01:25:56.119 --> 01:25:58.600
that she attempted to run. When she did so, she
1327
01:25:58.640 --> 01:26:02.399
found herself in an even more alarming environment. After taking
1328
01:26:02.439 --> 01:26:04.760
to her feet, she suddenly realized she was in a
1329
01:26:04.840 --> 01:26:07.920
room that was dimly lit and had a sickly sweet smell.
1330
01:26:08.920 --> 01:26:11.199
She also noticed that there was a large vat of
1331
01:26:11.279 --> 01:26:14.520
liquid in the room. She was shocked to see the
1332
01:26:14.520 --> 01:26:17.479
top of a bald head in the liquid. She would
1333
01:26:17.479 --> 01:26:21.119
claim under hypnosis that there were huge tongues, hearts, and
1334
01:26:21.319 --> 01:26:23.800
other body parts in the tank. They appeared to be
1335
01:26:23.880 --> 01:26:27.119
from an animal, possibly a cow, all except for the
1336
01:26:27.159 --> 01:26:31.560
top of a bald head, maybe one of theirs. As
1337
01:26:31.600 --> 01:26:35.000
outrageous as these statements might be, there are several cases
1338
01:26:35.000 --> 01:26:38.000
of people who have claimed to have witnessed similar tanks
1339
01:26:38.159 --> 01:26:42.159
or vats during alien encounters. Perhaps some of the most
1340
01:26:42.319 --> 01:26:45.439
intriguing details of the incident would come from the mother,
1341
01:26:45.720 --> 01:26:49.920
while fully conscious, in normal recollection after the sessions, she
1342
01:26:49.920 --> 01:26:52.800
would assert that the incidents she had witnessed and indeed
1343
01:26:52.880 --> 01:26:56.279
been a part of, were part of a treatment or experiment,
1344
01:26:56.680 --> 01:26:59.680
and furthermore, she believed the end goal of these experiments
1345
01:26:59.880 --> 01:27:04.680
was to assert mind control over humanity. Maybe most alarming
1346
01:27:04.720 --> 01:27:07.600
were her feelings that although some of the entities were
1347
01:27:07.680 --> 01:27:12.199
kinder than others, generally they don't like us. They are monstrous.
1348
01:27:13.720 --> 01:27:17.399
The abduction encounter is indeed one of the most intriguing
1349
01:27:17.520 --> 01:27:21.239
on record, perhaps not least as it suggests that several
1350
01:27:21.279 --> 01:27:25.239
alien races are seemingly working together. And if we assume
1351
01:27:25.279 --> 01:27:27.720
the claims to be accurate, if the feelings of the
1352
01:27:27.720 --> 01:27:30.560
mother in this case are even partially correct, and these
1353
01:27:30.560 --> 01:27:34.560
apparent alien creatures do have a certain disdain for humanity
1354
01:27:34.560 --> 01:27:36.920
as a whole, it should be something that is of
1355
01:27:37.000 --> 01:27:40.720
concern to all of us. While we've touched on the
1356
01:27:40.760 --> 01:27:44.319
idea of top secret government or intelligence involvement in at
1357
01:27:44.399 --> 01:27:47.399
least some of these cases of cattle mutilation, in his
1358
01:27:47.439 --> 01:27:51.039
book Underground Bases and Tunnels, What Is the Government Trying
1359
01:27:51.079 --> 01:27:54.720
to Hide? Richard Sawder puts across a very compelling argument
1360
01:27:54.960 --> 01:27:58.680
for such a potential involvement. And what's more, he points
1361
01:27:58.680 --> 01:28:02.680
to the possible technology that's used. He draws our attention
1362
01:28:02.800 --> 01:28:06.359
to the laser medical pack developed by the Phillips Laboratory
1363
01:28:06.399 --> 01:28:09.640
at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico. This very
1364
01:28:09.800 --> 01:28:14.119
compact device, according to Sawder's writing, provides the field paramedic
1365
01:28:14.239 --> 01:28:18.720
or physician a unique portable and battery operated laser capability.
1366
01:28:19.479 --> 01:28:23.199
What's more, this device is completely self contained and even
1367
01:28:23.239 --> 01:28:26.840
fits inside a belt pack. Solder would continue that this
1368
01:28:26.920 --> 01:28:30.039
device could run for twenty minutes using two two vault
1369
01:28:30.079 --> 01:28:32.880
batteries for the laser and one nine vault battery for
1370
01:28:32.920 --> 01:28:37.039
the electronics. Perhaps of even more interest to us here
1371
01:28:37.399 --> 01:28:39.840
is the information that the instrument can cut like a
1372
01:28:39.920 --> 01:28:44.920
scalpel and even coagulate bleeding and close wounds. Even more
1373
01:28:44.920 --> 01:28:48.000
intriguing is that the output wavelength can be designed to
1374
01:28:48.039 --> 01:28:53.159
provide different tissue interactions. Was being described here very much
1375
01:28:53.319 --> 01:28:56.079
sounds like the kind of technology that could be needed
1376
01:28:56.119 --> 01:28:59.439
to perform the kinds of medically precise cuts witnessed on
1377
01:28:59.479 --> 01:29:04.039
the bodies mutilated cattle. However, while this piece of battery
1378
01:29:04.079 --> 01:29:06.760
powered technology may or may not be used in at
1379
01:29:06.840 --> 01:29:10.039
least some of the cattle mutilations, how would that explain
1380
01:29:10.119 --> 01:29:13.159
the lack of tracks or even footprints around where the
1381
01:29:13.199 --> 01:29:17.800
cattle were seemingly mutilated. In our recent episode of Weird Darkness,
1382
01:29:18.000 --> 01:29:20.720
we looked at the repeated hints and suggestions of a
1383
01:29:20.800 --> 01:29:24.479
human presence in at least some alien abduction and close
1384
01:29:24.560 --> 01:29:28.520
encounter incidents. We examined the notion that mind altering drugs
1385
01:29:28.560 --> 01:29:32.680
and mind control techniques could have been employed by human perpetrators,
1386
01:29:33.399 --> 01:29:36.520
and as Sawder also points out, if there is a
1387
01:29:36.640 --> 01:29:39.720
human element behind at least some of the cattle mutilations,
1388
01:29:40.039 --> 01:29:43.760
then that could perhaps be the case here. Also, before
1389
01:29:43.800 --> 01:29:46.079
we get to that, though, we'll trin our attention to
1390
01:29:46.279 --> 01:29:50.680
another observation of Sawders. Along with the increase in alien
1391
01:29:50.720 --> 01:29:54.119
abductions throughout the nineteen seventies, at the same time cattle
1392
01:29:54.159 --> 01:29:57.920
mutilations began to unfold, monitoring programs under the charge of
1393
01:29:57.920 --> 01:30:03.000
the Environmental Protection Agency ep began to unfold put into
1394
01:30:03.039 --> 01:30:07.399
being in nineteen seventy, these monitoring programs might, according to Sowder,
1395
01:30:07.760 --> 01:30:10.680
be of interest to researchers. It was the aim of
1396
01:30:10.720 --> 01:30:14.640
this monitoring program to regularly test cattle in the region
1397
01:30:14.920 --> 01:30:19.039
to detect abnormal levels of radioactive isotopes. Of course, if
1398
01:30:19.079 --> 01:30:21.199
this was present and the cattle, not only might it
1399
01:30:21.319 --> 01:30:23.800
enter the food chain, but it might be causing adverse
1400
01:30:23.800 --> 01:30:29.039
effects in humans and the wider environment. What's interesting, though,
1401
01:30:29.159 --> 01:30:32.119
especially given the technology that we know is available now
1402
01:30:32.439 --> 01:30:35.279
is that many of the apparent procedures and tests appear
1403
01:30:35.399 --> 01:30:38.199
similar to what are carried out in cases of cattle mutilation.
1404
01:30:39.439 --> 01:30:43.399
Regarding the human monitoring program, around forty families that lived
1405
01:30:43.479 --> 01:30:47.000
near nuclear test sites are monitored twice a year to
1406
01:30:47.039 --> 01:30:50.560
spot any signs of radiation poisoning. And while this is
1407
01:30:50.680 --> 01:30:54.560
no bad thing, it is, as Sounder writes, most interesting
1408
01:30:54.640 --> 01:31:00.039
for ufologists, particularly the details of these examinations. Just some
1409
01:31:00.159 --> 01:31:03.880
of the processes include, for example, having their bodies scanned
1410
01:31:03.920 --> 01:31:07.359
by a whole body counter, a detail that often comes
1411
01:31:07.399 --> 01:31:10.760
up in alien abduction accounts. Then there's the room in
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01:31:10.800 --> 01:31:14.520
which these examinations take place, a relatively small room in
1413
01:31:14.560 --> 01:31:18.039
which the person being examined lies back in a reclining chair.
1414
01:31:18.760 --> 01:31:21.399
Even more intriguing, many of the instruments used in these
1415
01:31:21.399 --> 01:31:25.520
examinations come down from the ceiling and hover over the person.
1416
01:31:26.399 --> 01:31:31.399
Solterer even points out the detail of entire families being examined. If,
1417
01:31:31.439 --> 01:31:34.159
for example, at least some of these tests are carried
1418
01:31:34.159 --> 01:31:37.399
out against a family's knowledge or will, might they occur
1419
01:31:37.520 --> 01:31:42.159
under some bizarre alien abduction smoke screen. We should note
1420
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these programs were put into motion for legitimate reasons, and
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we're not suggesting that there is any direct connection to
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some widespread cover up of discrete activities being undertaken under
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the guise of UFO and alien activity. The fact is, though,
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that the technology and the means are very much available
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should any discreete government or intelligence agency decide to do so.
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And it's with that element of mind control and false
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memories in mind that we will turn our attention back
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to cattle mutilations specifically and how similar techniques might be
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used there. Up next on Weird Darkness, how mind altering
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states might be a part of the cattle mutilation mystery.
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In the famous Antonio VLAs Boas case in nineteen fifty seven,
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recently revealed information suggests that the abduction was nothing more
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than a case of the young farmer being subjected to
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chemicals that drastically altered his sense of reality and forced
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him to mistake a very terrestrial flying vehicle for a
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flying saucer, in this case, a black, unmarked helicopter. Interestingly enough,
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these black helicopters are often seen in the vicinity of
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cattle mutilation cases before and after the discoveries, and particularly
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during waves of mutilation cases. Might it be the case
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that these black helicopters are not only used to airlift
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their targeted cattle, for the samples to be taken either
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on the helicopter itself or to a discrete location elsewhere,
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and then returned somewhere near where they were taken from.
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Might this explain the lack of markings and the lack
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of blood, And in cases where the animals been discovered
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seemingly drained of blood, might it be the case that
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this blood has been intentionally siphoned, perhaps in another location.
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And then we come to the UFO an alien aspect
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of cattle mutilations. While we're not suggesting that some or
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even all of these strange cases are not the work
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of potential work of extraterrestrials, but if there was a
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discrete government agency involved, might they use similar techniques as
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is claimed were used in the boas case. Might the
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region where the cattle are targeted be sprayed by some
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kind of mind altering chemical in the unlikely event that
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there are witnesses to the incident, Or might the use
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of specifically sequenced lights or even hypnotic sounds or hums
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have a similar effect. Of course, we would be required
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to ask just what kind of chemical or procedure would
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result in each person specifically mistaking a helicopter for a UFO.
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It is perhaps one thing to have a person under
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such drugs or trances hallucinate something, but to have them
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hallucinate something specific is perhaps something else entirely, Or might
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these memories be implanted after the fact, that any witnesses
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would be taken into custody and then have false memories
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implanted afterward to have them remember in a specific way.
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If this was the case, though, we might expect that
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at least some people who might have stumbled on to
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such procedures would not have been noticed and would have
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recalled a black helicopter lifting an unsuspecting cow and would
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have subsequently reported it. Indeed, perhaps, rather than bringing forth answers,
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contemplating a human involvement in the cattle mutilation cases simply
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brings more questions bubbling to the already bubbling surface. Whether
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or not there is a human element behind the cattle mutilations,
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and indeed, the UFO and alien question remains to be
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seen and will remain a topic of conversation in the
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UFO community. However, if this does prove to be the case, then,
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perhaps above all else, we need to ask the reasons why.
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While we might understand the need to test families and
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animals near nuclear test sites for their own and everyone
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else's safety, if there is any truth to similar experiments
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and monitoring programs taking place under the guise of alien abduction,
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then we have to ask why this particular smokescreen. Might
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it just be that it is so obscure a claim
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to most people's thinking that it puts a further buffer
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zone between those making such claims and the discrete agency
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speculatively behind the abductions. Furthermore, does this mean that all
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claims of alien abduction are nothing but secret government projects
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and programs, or might there speculative use in their own
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activities have another advantage of being able to dismiss such
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genuine claims, And perhaps above all else, are these claims
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of mutilated cattle, tested families, and strange examinations just the
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tip of the iceberg? Might these activities be happening in
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a much more widespread manner and to many more people
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that most of us would want to even imagine. It
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would appear that there is is an undoubted connection somewhere
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and somehow between UFO and alien encounters and cases of
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cattle mutilation, and if we can collectively find that connection,
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it will likely shine a bright light onto the as
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yet unknown elements of such issues, and most likely many others.
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As we can see, then, whatever is behind those most
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brutal and harrowing events cattle mutilation is a very real phenomenon,
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and one that not only disturbs and unnerves the owners
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of the respective cattle that have fallen victim to such
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a chilling and untimely death, the one that hurts most financially.
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And with this thought in mind, should there be revealed
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a government involvement, not only would it be a public
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relations disaster, but it would also likely lead to lengthy
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and complicated lawsuits. So might that potential consequence suggest that
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the perpetrators are indeed extraterrestrial in nature who simply don't
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have such concerns of any potential blowback from their actions, Or,
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as we mentioned earlier, if such an outrageous explanation as
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time travel did prove to be accurate, then might such
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consequences simply be outweighed by the need of the mission.
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While the idea of aliens, secret government programs and even
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Satanic cults tend to be the first explanations offered to
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explain these bizarre animal mutilations. There are a number of
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other more grounded possibilities that we should at least go
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over briefly, not least the claims of a clandestine operation
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connected to the food supply or disease. However, many researchers,
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despite the nature of the medically precise cuts and apparent
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knowledge of extracting internal organs, still maintain that natural causes
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is the most likely explanation for these morose and bizarre deaths.
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And while there is perhaps understandable resistance to these explanations
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of natural causes from those who've studied the phenomenon extensively,
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we should still examine some of them briefly here. For example,
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some believe that precise cuts to the mouth, lips, or
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genitals are simply down to contraction due to dehydration, or
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even parasites that burrow into the soft parts of the body.
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Other details such as eyes that are completely missing, as
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well as some internal organs that are explained as being
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the responsibility of blowflies or even vultures. Even the lack
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of blood is put to the fact it will move
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to the lowest point and begin to break down as
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well as it could be completely consumed by various insects.
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Of course, one of the possibilities for natural causes in
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regard to cattle mutilation is that they could be down
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to a very terrestrial but unknown creature, one that would
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have apparent knowledge of medical type procedures and organ extraction.
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Far fetched, yeah, possibly, but certainly not impossible. Very much
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like almost all areas of the paranormal, come away from
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such examinations with many more questions than answers. However, like
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such events as UFOs and ghostly encounters from entities from
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the other side, there are simply too many accounts to
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draw on to simply dismiss the phenomenon outright. Whether it's
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the work of extraterrestrial visitors, top secret government agencies, or
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even time travelers, the details of these horrific cases suggest
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a professionalism and advanced knowledge that there almost certainly is
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a purposeful agenda and end goal to which they are
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carried out. We might wonder, then, what might that end
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goal be and where do we as a collective fit
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into this long drawn out plan. Will it be beneficial
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for us or one that might spell the end of
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our civilization. The fact that cattle mutilations are still a
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part of our lives and collective culture is something that
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cannot be denied. But what we do about them, how
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far we research them in a serious scientific way, will
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undoubtedly have consequences on our ultimate understanding and, if possible,
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reaction to them. Thanks for listening. If you like the show,
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paranormal or strange stories, true crime, monsters, or unsolved mysteries
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like you do. Content in this episode was written by
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Marcus Louth for UFO Insight dot com. You can find
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a link to the stories used in the show. Notes.
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Weird Darkness is a production and trademark of Marler House Productions.
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Copyright Weird Darkness. And now that we're coming out of
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the dark, I'll leave you with a little light. Ecclesiastes seven,
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verse nine. Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit,
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for anger resides in the lap of fools. And a
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final thought from Abraham Joshua Heshel the test of love
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is in how one relates not to saints and scholars,
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but to rascals. I'm Darren Marler. Thanks for joining me
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in the weird darkness,