CATTLE MUTILATIONS

There is fear these days, fear of a modern day Jack the Ripper, whose victims are not people but livestock, who mutilates them cutting out an ear or tongue, or heart or sex organ with such surgical precision, investigators can't tell what instrument was used.

The cattle were being killed in mysterious ways, no struggle, no tracks.

Her tongue was removed. What are they doing with her tongue?

Witnesses claimed UFOs, satanic cults, and secret government experiments were linked to some of the mutilations. The Missouri farm couple claimed they witnessed a spacecraft landed a pasture and aliens operating on a cow.

There's no rhyme or reason for it. Why somebody would do that to a cow?

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Did that do it for you, kind of did it for me. Not gonna lie anyways. So moving on to the topic of the hour. Like I said, Netflix is doing this reviving of the Unsolved Mysteries, and they covered an episode on cattle mutilations. I've screen recorded my favorite snippets that I'm gonna share with you today in case you don't have Netflix. You know, I probably bootleg this shit. I could get in trouble, ask if I care. Anyways, A screener recorded the best parts and I'm gonna include

There is fear these days, fear of a modern day Jack the ripper, whose victims are not people but livestock, who mutilates them cutting out an ear or tongue, or heart or sex organ with such surgical precision, investigators can't tell what instrument was used.

The cattle were being killed in mysterious ways.

No struggle, no tracks. Her tongue was removed. What are they doing with her tongue?

Witnesses claimed UFOs, satanic cults, and secret government experiments were linked to some of the mutilations. The Missouri farm couple claimed they witnessed a spacecraft landed a pasture and aliens operating on a cow.

There's no rhyme or reason for it. Why somebody would do that to a cow.

I've been ranching in the cow business since I got out of school, so twenty five years.

That's a hard way to make a living, but I like the freedom.

You know.

We live in a really remote spot, not a lot of people around here, and we like it that way. I think the first time that I ever heard about cattle mutilations was way back in high school or something. When you hear that kind of stuff, you just you kind of just ride it off. You don't really believe it. You just don't think that's gonna really happen to us. It was early June of twenty twenty one.

We had the heifer.

She wasn't acting right, and we trailed her two miles, but she was acting odd. As they were gathering heifers, she was falling to the back and she was the last one through the gate. So I figured we'd go check on her in a day or two and see what's going on. Next morning, I got to pick up drove over the hill to that part of the ranch to go look at the heifer. That heifer was laying right up here, dead and mutilated, literally.

Right here.

In the middle of where this green patch is. In fact, it's still a few bones in here. The heifer was laying right here on her right side, and her face was skinned back, her tongue was removed, and she had a large straight cut, probably a couple of feet right behind her shoulder here, and the hide was pulled back. I was taken aback. I've never seen anything like that ever. There was zero tracks anywhere, there was no noticeable blood anywhere around the animal, and no sign of a struggle

Have been on it.

But this Heffer, the was mutilated. Nothing would eat her, nothing wanted to touch her. And it just got the wheels turning a little bit like maybe she'd been darted or something. I don't know what kind of drug or whatever else you maybe would have to have in that dart, but that Heffer was acting strange. One of the most troubling things about that mutilation is where it happened. I mean,

How did anybody even know there were going to be cattle there that day?

Nobody knew that, so did they follow our cowboys?

That was strange.

We know she was alive at twelve thirty in the afternoon, and we know she was dead at six o'clock the next morning, and what happened in between, I don't know. It was odd enough that I called our county sheriff. They performed their investigation and called me that evening and said, we've determined that Heffer was killed by a bear. And I said a bear. I mean, we've never had anything

So this is an organ rancher. And he's a good old boy, you know, and probably I think by the end of the documentary he said like he doesn't believe that it otherworldly, that he thinks it's probably people doing this. But it's like it's like he don't even understand what it's coming out of his own mouth. There's no tracks, no four wheeler tracks, no footprints, no nothing, no blood,

My name's Matt Carter, my rancher in eastern Oregon. The first time I heard about cattle relations was from an old friend of mine who had told me that he'd heard about him even back in the seventies, And I thought that's kind of odd.

But not too worried about it.

Then in August to twenty twenty, I went down to the south side of the ranch and I saw this cat land over by water trough and just from afar.

It didn't look natural.

Right here is where that cow was dead, mutilated. Her upper lip was cut off and her tongue was gone, and her intestines were sticking out between her hind legs.

The scene was odd because there were no signs of any struggle of any sort. When I was sure myself that it was a mutilated cow, I thought, well, it's pretty close to home now it's happened to me, which and everything it's going to you know, until it does. In the winter of twenty twenty two, we had another mutilation.

It's just less than a half mile from the house. That bull was dead right here, no sign of struggle or anything. There was next to no.

Blood on the ground here, No sign of foul play other than it was mutilated. At the scene of the crime, we had probably over two feet of snow on the ground. Then I looked for tracks, you know. I walked out in the snow all the way around. Couldn't see any tracks of any sort. There was no way anybody could have got in here without leaving tracks. I called the state police and they came out. Walked around out there, made a big circle out around, and he didn't find

My name is Jeremiah Holmes. I worked for the Walla County Sheriff's office. We've had five confirmed mutilations in the county since twenty nineteen. One of them was in July of twenty twenty. I got a phone call from a rancher. He was baffled by what he saw, much like most people are. He didn't want people to think he was weird or strange or something for calling it in. There was a cow laying underneath a juniper tree, and her head was five six inches off the ground. From a distance,

And she's dead.

Tongue was gone, the reproductive tracks that they could get to were gone.

It was eerie.

I have never seen a cow with his head off the ground in a rick and mortars type stage like that ever. I took a few photos and wrote it up and documented it as well, but I have no way to explain it. I'm absolutely convinced that's not predators. Predators are going to go to the soft tissue, but they're not going to do with precision. And so when

My name is Steven Allen.

I'm the publisher and editor of the Times Journal newspaper here in Condon, Oregon. When I heard about the first cattle meta related in Wheeler County and December of twenty nineteen, honestly, I didn't know what to think.

I'm not a cattle guy. But it was really when I.

First talked to Deputy Jeremiah Holmes that I started to feel like something was going on here, that something was happening to the livestock in the area. There were some people who were scared, and people who I think normally aren't aren't scared.

They were shook, and they told me, don't stop. You got to keep asking questions. You got to find out what's going on.

It was March twenty second, twenty twenty. Our grandson and I went out. It was last week of the elk season, and I grove up on this bull.

Bull was laying on each side.

He just proof he was over at mood, which that was immediately strange.

A chunk of skin removed from.

His belly all the way back up to his rectum. I've seen a lot of stuff, I never seen anything like it really had. There were just some really strange about the whole deal. When I really started looking at the situation, the creeps kind of got to me. Still, my hair will stand up on the back of my neck when I drive by that spot.

The first time I heard about a cattle mutilation was in the late seventies. My dad works for the Department of Agriculture. I can remember Dad talking about him. Everybody was don't shit what happened?

You know what I mean? It was a big deal.

I can remember him in his head and I wanted to know why somebody would do that a cow. The first one that I found was really something.

I see her laying there.

So when I walked up there and I just kind of stood in her shock because she was mutilated. Actually couldn't believe it first one i'd actually seen. There's no reason she should be dead. She is a perfectly healthy cow. They had taken her lips and her tongue, her cheeks, The volga was cut out of her in a perfect circle, straight lines, no jagged, ragged. I mean just to a tea.

My name is Julie Sperry.

I am a veterinarian based out of Gardner, Colorado. As a bovine veterinarian, I work with cattle ranchers to keep all of the cows, calves, and bulls healthy. When I had seen reports of cattle mutilation on the news before, I had at first poop pooed it because the genitalia and the rectums is kind of a predatory scavenger type thing. But then you add in the tongue and predators won't touch that. I got to think and that maybe there really was something to the cattle mutilations and that it

It's easy to use.

That for leverage, and there wasn't much tongue left. There was no way any predator could have gotten in there to get to it because rigor had set in and her jaw was clamp shut. All of my medical training cannot point to why this cow died, and no amount of research tissue blood is going to tell us anything other than what I saw with my naked eye, which was nothing. As far as what are who are mutilating these cows, I honestly have no idea because it's like

My name is Christopher O'Brien.

I've been a unexplained livestock death investigator for over thirty years and I've investigated over two hundred cases.

It's horrifying what I've seen.

The cattle eulation mystery is by far the scariest phenomenon, and very very few people take it upon themselves to investigate cases of this type. Okay, this is a pretty precise triangular cut.

That cut does a little suspect.

Okay, we see obvious cookie cutter incisions.

I mean phenomenal.

Go ahead, tell me that coyotes did that.

We have cases for mutilating livestock that have been documented to go back to the reign of James the first in England in sixteen oh six, but all these prior cases really did not gain any sort of international notoriety. These were all local curiosities, but when Snippy happened in nineteen sixty seven, this became an international news story. Snippy was a horse living in the San Luis Valley in Colorado,

Channel from either of the top or the bottom.

The brain was gone without a break into the cranium, and the upper respiratory organs were gone.

The family, of course, was very freaked out by this.

Laying on its side like it had just dropped over while it was ready. Except for the fact that from here up all of the skin, tissue, everything was stripped from that horse's head.

The Snippy crime scene was highly unusual. Normally, if a horse is found denuded to flesh from its shoulders to its neck, you'd have tissue and blood and body fluids around, and none of this is present at the site. When they did a really intensive survey of the area there, they found that she had pranced around in two or three circles before then being found one hundred feet away from where her tracks were.

That gave the appearance of maybe something in.

The area have been stalking her.

My mother turned around to me and she said, Nellie's horse got killed by a flying saucer last night.

We do have a well documented wave of UFO activity that was going on at the time of the Sippy case, the late summer fall of nineteen sixty seven. Do you have a bunch of sightings that are occurring in Colorado? People lining up the roadways would pick the clunches waiting for the UFOs to come out.

I mean, it was a big deal.

And then to have the Snippy case occur, it's almost impossible not to equate one with the other. And from then on the mulations jumped into high gear. In nineteen seventy three, all hell broke loose relations occurred and by the end of the year, I think it was fourteen states at that point that had reported mulation cases.

Lying in a straight line one hundred and fifty yards apart, their eyes, tongs, and sex organs cut out with laser like precision.

New Mexico was one of the states that was really hit the hardest, and there was over one hundred and fifty I think mutilations in a four or five year period in the late seventies, and by this point thousands of animals had been reported mutilated.

I think a number that's.

Commonly used and referred to as in the United States. In Canada there have been about ten thousand cases. We're probably only seen the tip of the iceberg. Probably many more cases occurred. My personal feeling is only one in ten mulations actually get reported to law enforcement.

Ranchers are typically pretty private people. They also take their work very seriously, so when they start to lose animals, it's also a bit of a source of pride, and so I don't think they like a lot of people knowing that they've had a death in they're heard, so you don't know how many are not reported.

A classic mutilation, by investigator's definition, would be the flesh taken off their jaw with a job unpolished white. Usually the tongue is taken out. It's very very difficult to do surgically. Oftentimes an ear is missing, an eye, the animal's reproductive organs are popped out. But if the blood is missing, that's the telltale sign for a classic mutilation.

I couldn't find any blood anywhere.

No pedal of blood, no nothing, Just a dead cow there was no blood.

Typically, when there's a dead animal, it's a bit of a scene. I mean, it looks like a crime scene. There's blood everywhere, and we're talking about a cow or bull that's up to thirteen gallons of blood that could be lost and there's nothing on the ground.

It'd be a bloody many absolutely, and there was no blood where our heifer was laying there dead.

The most puzzling aspect of this case was I couldn't figure out why there wasn't more blood from the mutilation. There would have been blood all over the place.

It's just bizarre. I mean, it's so bizarre this stuff. It's hard to wrap your head around. It doesn't make sense to me, and I don't understand it.

No Rasher has been harder hit than Eli Ronnich. Fourteen of his cows have been mutilated. A pathologist concluded the cups were made by quote the application of high temperature as a dissecting process.

When it comes to investigating, we're literally looking for anything, but tracks are number one trying to find evidence of how somebody got in there.

I found absolutely no tracks at all.

The fact that there was lack of tracks stuff just really made my hair stand upon him, and that takes a lot for me.

The fences aren't cat crasses and trumped over where somebody walks right, nothing.

Nothing, no footprints, no four wheeler tracks, no pickup tracks. And then I'd say the other thing, whoever's doing the mutilation. I don't know how they get the cattle incapacitated to where they can work on them.

They've been a lot of discrepancies and thoughts of how these animals are getting killed. You know, we're not finding them ning gunshots, any bullet holes.

I know how powerful cattle are. They're strong.

I mean, we had a bow weighed over two thousand pounds. There's just no way five or six people can even think and take them one down. It's a lot of animal to just PLoP over on your side. I'll leave it mark anywhere.

Cattle are a prey animal. You rarely can sneak up on one.

You don't just walk up to a big, healthy animal like this and tell it to lay down.

You know, you've got to do something to it.

So it'd have to have been some kind of a dark or sleeping thing to make it fall.

There's dark guns out there today that that individuals use for doctor and animals. Are you dealing with some kind of a coagulant that you know the blood coagulates in an instant and that animal freezes in its tracks.

Somebody had to have tranquilized her and didn't give her a shot of that step to colligate your blood because there was no bulletholes.

No.

Not.

One of the ingenious elements of this whole mystery is the animal usually lazing the environment for at least three or four days before it's even discovered.

When you have an animal that's been dead for four or five six days, any attempt for like blood draws or anything like that or are done. You don't have to find anything in the blood or tissue samples. Any drugs in the system would have been long gone.

I honestly didn't know what to sample. It's not something that is probably going to be worth anything than anymore because the blood has already started to degrade.

We took some tissue samples, but by the time the samples get there, they're rotten, and so they can't find anything about Confidad.

The reasonable person can sit here and.

Comprehend why someone or some group of individuals would want these body parts from these animals. It's just a senseless crime, and you know, it's just something that isn't conduce to the common reason.

I would have a clue what a motive would be.

In the days that when the buffalo roamed the country, the buffalo hiders. One of the things that they did, they took the tongues. The tongues were kind of delicacy on the buffalo.

There's no value to any of the parts.

You don't mean market and you can buy a tongue, but it's a ten or fifteen dollars item. Maybe the reproductive organs have no real value. Why would anybody want those kind of things other than it's for some kind of ritual or something.

Roving bands of shadowy Satan worshipers are frequently mentioned as possible culprits and the mutilations.

There's a lot of folks that believe it's a cult.

There's a lot of them days getting ready to make a sacrifice. I think to the devil over that red moon.

I think there's ritualists and blood sacrifice written all over this mystery. It's the only blood based paranormal phenomenon, and it's the one that leaves behind the most physical evidence, So that fact alone gives it a veneer of almost an evil sort of predatory, occultish kind of feel to it.

Okay, just a little date id checkets May fourth, nineteen ninety eight, eleven fifty five in the morning, got this call from June Walkley and her husband Virgil, and they spotted this animal that they said looked like it had been dropped on the fence.

Another thing that's interesting as well is sometimes there's evidence of the animal being dropped from a height, horns broken off, heads twisted in an unnatural way, clamp marks on the back like it had been picked up and dropped, Spines with all the ribs broken off right on the spine like it had been dropped from great height and snapped

House.

Investigations have found an unusually high correlation between utilations and UFO sightings.

I've had two ranchers tell me off the record that the only thing they can think of is UFOs. I've also had people who live in these very remote places tell me that they have seen UFOs.

One thing that you know you hear about this stuff is aliens. I personally don't believe that. I believe this is being done by people. It kisses me off. You're stealing. It's theft in any other business, when you steal from somebody, there's consequences for that.

In a state where cattle are a billion dollar industry, theories about the mutilations almost outnumber the ranchers who talk about them. Some think the criminals come by helicopter flying through the night, descending on herds, helicopters bearing men with poisoned darts, or perhaps military men trying out a new chemical.

In the seventies, we have sightings in Colorado where groups of as many as seven helicopters are seeing harassing cattle herds. These helicopter sidings, when you start adding them up, there's at least one hunred and fifty four hundred of them documented sightings of helicopters in and a emulation sites mostly afterwards. The fact that these government helicopters were assuming are being seen suggests that there may be some sort of official, sanctioned government program going on.

What are they doing?

The possibility of a group of people doing this seems to be the one that law enforcement has taken the most seriously. I wonder if it's a serial killer group or some kind of group that's capable of doing something like this.

Some of the greatest rail children in the world have bventually made a mistake, they left something and they were discovered. I think if it was two or three guys were pulled, I think that something would be found by now.

It's got to be multi generational because we've been dealing with this now for forty to fifty sixty years, so it's not just one group of people that we are doing this.

That's always been one of the stumbling.

Blocks for this.

How come they have it opened up? And why don't we have a whistle blow? Why don't we have somebody that's come forward. A mulation of a cower of bull is a crime.

It is something that's serious and it's an animal this time, Well, what happens if rancher's kids are out there on the four wheeler or something and they run across somebody that's causing this. Are they going to take somebody's life. In addition to.

That, our bull got mutilated within a half mile of our house. It's really troubling to think that somebody would come.

Within that close to the house and kill something.

And who knows if somebody's demented enough to come on the ranch and kill and mutilate a bull or a cow, what's going to keep them from in the house and killing somebody.

That night, my daughter was home alone.

You know, you think you're safe living way out of town, way out here at the end of the road, and you just don't know that you are.

I think there is a real concern of what might be out there. The mystery just kind of continues to grow well.

Tonight, authorities north of Houston or investigating the mysterious death of six cattle found with their tongues removed but no blood spilled.

I know that there's a lot of cases happening in Texas right now.

Investigators say the cows remains.

Weren't even scavenged by other animals. An expert we spoke to says that's just unusual.

The Oregon cases that happened in twenty eighteen through twenty twenty one were maybe just a presage to a new wave that we have developing in light of these new Texas cases that have been reported, which may number around a dozen now. The Texas cases, they all have been described as being classic mulations, and they've all appeared to

The nature of these cases. It is frustrating because I want answers. If we start looking at collaborating and coming up with some kind of a group idea on how to investigate these, get some sort of a data system or something where we can see what's going on in other counties and see their reports, I think that there's a better chance of getting some kind.

Of closure authorities in it.

At least four counties across southeast Texas investigating.

These cases all very similar. So far, no arrest have been made.

If you have any information, called police.

The things that get me are no blood. Did you see the picture of the one cow with its head still up in the air, Like, what is going on? They're cutting the utter titties off, They're cutting the puss lips off, They're cutting the they're cutting the bee holes in the intestines and the rectums and the like, the lips off, the tongues out, the jawbone is sticking out, and it's all with surgical precision, okay. And no blood, no none blood, no blood, not a drop of blood

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You see a woman and the kids and the dogs and me.

I got a shotgun or rifle and a bull wheel drive.

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