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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.
Back to Mice
But Maybe Not
So, the cattle
mutilations have been explained, according to Linda Howe on Dreamland, plus
other sources, by a species of mouse that can only be found in parts of South
America.
We can still think
again…
In April, Argentinean
veterinarian Daniel Belot was contacted by a rancher who found a 1,000 pound
Aberdeen Angus steer lying dead on its belly with the left side of its face
around the jaw gone and its hide cut away in two straight lines meeting at a 90
degree angle.
Its tongue, pharynx and
larynx were missing and muscles and ligaments had been clearly removed from the
jawbones.
There was no blood on the
animal or nearby and no signs of scavengers or predators as to the cause of the
attack.
“I had never seen anything
like it before,” Belot said, who works for Argentina’s agency, SENSA. “How were
these cuts were made? When? Why?”
Hundreds of cattle in
Argentina are turning up dead and mutilated in ways that baffle
ranchers.
Since Belot saw that first
mutilation in April, nearly 200 hundred more have been reported in the same
area, as well as mutilations from as far as Patagonia and Uruguay.
All of them are the same in
as much as the organs, flesh and skin have been removed in angular or neatly
curved cuts that leave no blood and clean, dry bones.
“The type of incisions do
not coincide with any infectious disease or contagious disease that we know,”
says Alberto Pariani, a veterinarian at the University of La Pampa, who has
examined 40 cows. “When animals eat, they rip, they tear. They don’t cut.
Everyone who has experience working on the ranch says the same thing: No animal
can do this.”
Yeah, the mutilations have
been accompanied by UFO sightings, making people wonder if the culprits are from
another ‘world’ but this still does not answer the reason as to why this is
being done to the animals.
Since the 1960s, hundreds of
mutilated animals have been found in the United States as well, with identical
characteristics, the removal of organs in what appears to be a surgical manner,
leaving no trace of blood, no tracks of human or animals to be found around the
area and often along with reports of UFO sightings.
A team of, yeah,
Argentinean university veterinarians say they’ve come up with an answer, that of
Oxymycterus, the red nosed mouse, the theory being the cows die from disease and
the mice come along and have their fill in such an ordinate manner.
Yet, to prove this, they
left dead cows in areas where some of the mutilations took place, and, yes, they
were found a few days later with the same lesions.
But experts and local
veterinarians remain unconvinced by the theory.
The argument, however,
there’s been an ecology change, though it’s not too certain what this is but the
mice are having a very good chew just the same.
It has been rumoured that
some animals have been found dead just hours after being seen, the impetus of
this scenario is that the mice wouldn’t have had enough time to cause the tell
tale damage to the carcasses, plus the beasts had to die of a disease long
before they would insert there incisors into the carcasses dead
flesh…
“We are totally
disorientated,” says Oscar Raul Arce, the chief of police in northern La Pampa.
“What’s going on here is perhaps beyond our ability to understand.”
Most ranchers do not buy the
mice theory, “I’d always heard stories of people who had seen lights and strange
things,” says Raul Vargas, who has found mutilated calves at his ranch. “But if
I hadn’t seen this with my own eyes, I wouldn’t have believed it.”
Back To Mice
But Maybe Not written by Bill Barber.
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