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This article was originally written for a paranormal magazine called The Paranormal Journal, it became known as The Underground Files covering ghosts, ufos, cryptozoology, and government conspiracies amongst others. I no longer write for the magazine and it is no longer in existence.
Argentina –
Cattle Mutilations
July 24th, 2003 – Choele
Choel – while some officials supposedly closed the case of the strange cattle
mutilations with the cause being a red nose rodent, inevitably the attacks
continue, causing bewilderment in an area known as Valle Medio, stupefying the
vet involved with the case.
In a rural locale some 60km
from the city, personnel from the Sociedad Rural, a vet and a farmhand from a
local ranch found a cow showing incisions similar to the ones seen last
year.
It was missing an eye, its
udders and its reproductive organs.
These had been removed with
surgical precision.
There were no tracks
anywhere near the animal to decipher what may have attacked it.
“As a whole, whenever an
animal dies a natural death there is much kicking, or rigor mortis shortly
afterward, but there’s nothing like that here,” astonished Enrique Sanchez of
the Sociedad Rural.
“Another surprising factor
was that it was a young animal that was with calf, but the calf did not approach
the carcass.”
Veterinarian Carlos
Montobbio pointed out “the animal was found in the El Gualeguay ranch belonging
to Arsenio Ferrarino, a rural cattleman with years of experience.
Like his farmhand, who found
the dead animal, he has never seen anything like it.
July 16th – three calves and
a cow were found mutilated in fields adjacent to the city of La
Pampa.
“Until one sees it, or it
happens to (ones animals), one doesn’t believe it,” said a cattleman whose
property is located some 30 kilometres from Genera Acha. He asked for his
identity to be kept secret.
He said, “two calves and a
‘masked’ calf, weighing some 200 kg each, were found mutilated some 500 metres
away from his house in a flat open field. The males were missing an eye, an ear
and their tongues, while the female had its nipples sheared off with surgical
precision,” he went on to explain in shock “when we found them, they were still
issuing some sort of smoke or vapour from the carcasses, as though recently
dead.”
“All of the animals had
their heads pointed southward,” he pointed out, noting that “he was certain the
animals were alive the previous evening.
We did not dare
to get close to them or touch them, but on the fourth day, no animal, no
predator, fox or chimago (vulture) came close.”
Finally, “We plucked up
courage, got them together and burned them.”
Another cattleman who told a
similar story explained that the very same Wednesday, “a very docile cow that
was near the house vanished, and was later found two sections away from where it
normally grazed.”
The livestock farmer went on
to explain “these are 200 hectare pastures” and the mutilations on the cow were
similar to those which have been reported on so many occasions.
He added, “The cow was very
docile and would never have jumped over the barbed wire fences that divide the
three sections, because the gates were properly closed and no fence was
broken.”
In both case the livestock
farmers did not report the incidents to the police, knowing they do not take
such cases seriously…
Argentina -
Cattle Mutilations written by Bill Barber
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