Posted on 12/14/2009 9:52:32 PM PST by BlueDragon
Reporting from Denver - Manuel A. Sanchez has ruled out every logical explanation for the fate that has befallen the calves on his ranch in southern Colorado.
Over the past month, he's found four calves dead in a way that he cannot reconcile with anything in his 50 years of raising cattle: eyes and ears missing, tongues and genitals excised in what appeared to be a series of fine cuts.
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I read the article - interesting. Thanks. BHO gets elected, gun arms sales climb!
That’s a good idea on your part—to look for more work by such writers.
I just jumped on YOUR idea. LOL!
This rancher has been raising cattle for 50 years. Don't you think he would recognize normal predation if he saw it?
From the article:
"...he's found four calves dead in a way that he cannot reconcile with anything in his 50 years of raising cattle: eyes and ears missing, tongues and genitals excised in what appeared to be a series of fine cuts.
Mountain lions, bears or coyotes would leave messier marks, he said. And Sanchez found no tire tracks or footprints that would suggest a human invader -- nor even bloodstains he'd expect to find around the carcasses if someone had butchered them."
I'm not advancing any theories as to who or what did this, but it's definitely not four-legged critters chowing down.
It’s aliens.
You’re welcome. And yes, Obama and the Democrats getting into office probably contributed more than anything else to the trend toward fear of more regulations, stocking-up on ammunition for some and hoarding for others. The outrageous prices are tough for rural people except for those of us who handload. Our more immediate concerns are for livestock, pets and the like. Over the past couple of decades, animal predator/pest populations have really grown.
LOL!
Did you see the link at post #44?
The mutilations never really stopped, and the number that occurred during the 70’s, just in Colorado, is mind boggling. The carcasses have often been excised, having pinking shear looking cuts, and all blood gone from the body. In snow, mud, dirt, no tracks, either human or predator are found. They don’t decay or decompose normally, and scavengers avoid the bodies.
During the height of the problem, ranchers stopped even reporting them to the authorities, because nothing came of it. Most blamed predators. A lot of ranchers just took to burying them quickly and going about their own business. Despite law conferences involving officers from multiple states, rewards offered, watches, and armed farmers and ranchers staking out their own livestock, no one has ever been brought to justice over it.
In some cases, the animals show leg fractures, like they’d been dropped from height. Tests on some show that sharp implements have been used, or during laboratory testing, that the cauterized looking edges of the wounds showed cooked hemoglobin. At the time when such wounds started to appear, any laser capable of creating them, would have been huge, and certainly not portable.
Some cattle were found to be marked with a fluorescing paint or marker of some kind, that only showed up under certain light. A few had a gel like substance on them that had a strange smell, irritated the skin, and quickly evaporated.
Captain Keith Wolverton of the Cascade County Sheriff’s Department, was just one of the people who thoroughly investigated the reports, expecting to find a rational answer or culprit, but after 30 years, still has no answers.
Whether you buy into Linda Moulton Howe’s theories or not, she did some outstanding stuff on it. Christopher O’Brien collected stories of all kinds of odd happenings in the San Luis Valley, investigated them, and wrote a few books on all the weird goings on there, including the history of cattle mutilations.
Another read that’ll curl your toenails, is Hunt for the Skinwalker, by Colm Kelleher. The stuff that Bigelow and NIDS encountered while investigating that ranch in Utah, will give you the creeping jeebies. There’s pics floating around of the calf that was mutilated there, and it’s bones and hide. Within minutes, within sight of the people not 300 yards away, something butchered and took most of the flesh from a calf, leaving no blood, no organs and nothing but mostly hide and bones splayed out in the yard.
I don’t know what the hell is doing it, or who, but if you really start to read all the stuff related to it, the investigations, eyewitness and rancher accounts, it’s really weird stuff.
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It looks like it’s a cook who is not getting what he needs at the butcher. Eyeballs and ears—mmm! mmm! mmm!
I thought this mutilation businesses had all been put to sleep when they discovered it was due to flies and their tiny mouths taking tiny bites, hence the “fine cuts.”
Cow preparation:
Cow dissemination:
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