Phantoms and Monsters

Skinwalker Chronicles IV
Just the Facts? - Jodie 'Contact' Foster Helps Fund SETI, Mystery Tree and Nanu Nanu!
Entre Rios, Argentina Cattle Mutilation Investigation

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 03:42 PM PDT

This past December, I posted Skinwalker Chronicles that referenced stories of the infamous malevolent witch capable of transforming itself into a wolf, coyote, bear, bird, or any other animal. Since that time, I have received several anecdotes and inquiries about Skinwalkers. A few weeks ago, I compiled a few anecdotes and posted Skinwalker Chronicles II and Skinwalker Chronicles III. The following are several more anecdotes that were forwarded or referred to me:

My grandpa lived in Myton, Utah. He always told stories about skinwalkers and how they could take the form of any animal or anyone you knew. I asked him one day "Did you ever meet one?"

He told me "Yes - a very long time ago before you were even born - before your mother was born, when I was still so young and foolish. I went to the Skinwalker Valley. It is a valley where life never wanders to, not even the crows the very guardians of death will never go. They fear the evil that lives out there."

".....you went out there didn't you'" I asked.

He nodded, "yes...to show them nothing existed out there - nothing but they're fears. But I was wrong."

He continued to say that he had gone up to Skinwalker Valley in his old truck to prove to everyone that everything they though they knew were just stories to scare them. He remembered the grass was black as if it had been burned. The trees dead but still alive. He he had seen a house - it was old and the roof was caved in the door gone. He walked to it. There were marks on the sides of the house. Animal skeletons were everywhere around the house as if it were a sacred buriel ground. He then heard her. His grandmother she died long ago but he heard her. They were calling for him, for his life, for his skin, for his blood and for his soul. They were the lost souls they could change form, from man to beast. They chased him, they had scared him but they never forgot him. Whenever I visited him he would have something of his that was brand new broken the next day - crushed or killed. He finally stopped keeping his dogs outside.

"Its just another story" I finally told him after awhile. My curiosity was no longer there. I was just bored by this time.

"Its true" he said, but he wasn't angry.

"Prove it" I snapped at him. He turned around and pulled his shirt up. All I could do was gasp - his back was torn here and there. Not one part of it unmarked. The width of the claw marks looked too straight and too far apart to be human.

I was scared. I started to cry. I remember my mother running to see what was the matter. She screamed and yelled at grandpa as she held me but he didn't do anything but stare at the field across the road from his house. She finally gave up and carried me in but as I looked over my ma's shoulder. I saw a black dog with white eyes, it was watching him and he was watching it as if waiting for it to come to him. It never did.

I never saw that dog again. My grandpa died 2 months later. They said his heart gave out but I knew that was a lie. His arm had fresh marks and his dog died from loneliness - it was still a pup.

Never look into a skinwalker's eyes, for it will never forget you - sooner or later it'll have your soul.

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My grandpa would tell me this story when I was little. He said that he was in the field on his horse one day, when he saw a badger walk by. Then he got his rope, got off his horse and put it around the neck of the badger. He said it was so strong that it was dragging him so he let go. He watched it go behind some bushes and then saw the rope sort of poking out from the bushes. But the rope wasn't moving, so he thought it might of gotten loose and left. When he went to get his rope he saw an old man with no clothes hunched behind the bush. They looked at each other for a few seconds and my grandpa got scared. So he got back on his horse as fast as he could. When he looked back he saw the old man climbing over the hill.

Then one time it happened to me. I was in school at the time and I used to live in the mountains so the bus would drop me off and I would have to walk for half a mile to get to my house. I was walking down the hill and I heard something walking on leaves, so I looked down the hill and I saw a guy with no clothes crawling - but he was like an animal too. He had white feathers in his hair. When I saw his face he looked like a wolf mixed with a human. It eventually took off in the other direction.

That night I was laying down and it was so quiet and I heard drums playing outside my window. Then I got up, looked outside and I saw a pack of wolves in the field running around. I don't know what to make of it - really weird, but I'll never forget it.

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There are some people with bad intentions because they are motivated by jealousy. That's why I say to be humble. They're actions have effected a few people I personally know. It's hard to believe that what has happen to them is their fault.

Our relatives and family have always been close and loving. We have had good fortune. What a lot of people should have and what we wish everyone should have... Loving relatives with nice big trucks, nice homes, lots of sheep and horses. THEN BAM, out of nowhere we've kind of lost our family.

We are starting to experience mischievous behavior out of nowhere (drugs, alcohol, sickness, death). As a result our family has been torn apart. Our minds have been poisoned. I know, for sure, that we have been good. But as we continue to go through these situations, that we believe someone wished upon us, we will not wish the same to anyone else (I'm alluding to witchcraft). Whatever you do to someone, it will happen ten times worse to yourself.

But then sometimes I'm not sure. Is this some crap that's been fed to us? I don't mean to offend anyone, but by medicine men? Because you never know with people, whether they are telling the truth or not. They could've just told us this because they have to tell us something....

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Some ask if there are a few things you can do to protect yourself from a skinwalker. If it gets inside your house, there are two things that happened prior. You have invited it in, they are not allowed to enter your house without your permission. You may have met them before, while not in the skinwalker form. Cedar ash around the house, a prayer and a visit to the medicine man will need to take place to find out its intentions. Dogs are a good thing to keep around and if something is near they bark or cry. Nothing will protect from the frozen fear they cause and how hard seeing something like that shakes your brain, even if you're a hardened combat veteran. This is something that I have heard in all cases with these encounters - I'm speaking of face to face encounters. These encounters usually happen either because of jealousy from another family/person and even hate. Usually of negative intentions. If you kill a skinwalker you kill the person. Something you should also know, long ago skinwalkers were of good intentions but were used more as a defense. They weren't bad to start with. I have been told this by some medicine men as a young child. Watch for family members and how they act. Say you move and no one knows where you live and someone you know knocks on your door - might be a sign that they're something else. All I know is that to become one, its like selling your soul to the devil. Ha'go'ne

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One night I woke up feeling thirsty and laid in bed looking up at the ceiling thinking if I should get up to get a drink. All I could hear is silence and the clock ticking. The buzzing sound in my ear, which was a sign it was just too quiet. I reached for my cell phone to check the time. I flipped it open and it was 3:26 a.m. Without making a sound I quietly sat up and walked to exit the bedroom. As I got to the doorway I looked straight ahead at the front door entrance, with plenty of light from the fish aquarium, I saw a man standing there with his face interchanging from an animal and a human. I didn't know what to think, I wasn't scared of it but I froze, couldn't move at all, and couldn't speak. As I was struggling for some kind of movement we stared at each other face to face. My eyes wandered looking at his every feature. The white and black paint on his face. Black paint ran in a thick stripe across his eyes. The feather tied to the top of his head. How he looked young, like he is in his early 20's. You can see his muscles, his chest painted in white and he had a pair of black sports shorts. His wrist both had furry buck skin with something on them as were his ankles too. As I stood frozen, still looked at him with such wonder and struggle to say something or to move but still I couldn't. Yes I was startled at first, but all that grew more into curiosity of this soul who was also startled by my appearance. He seemed to try to erase my seeing him from my mind, I could sense that from his piercing eyes. But as I just prayed to God as I do in my everyday life. As I stood there I prayed in my mind to God to shield me of this being I have crossed paths with. I don't know why he was in my home or if he was just taking a short cut to get somewhere. But as he was still staring at me I begun to regain my physical strength and slowly begun to have control of my body and was able to move. I begun pushing numbers on my phone as he stood still looking at me. Then he smiled at me right then I knew he was only as human as I was. He vanished threw the door which was still locked. Then I heard a loud sound, as if there was a horse running. I regained all power of my movements and ran to the window to look where he went. He had someone waiting for him across the street. He jumped in and the vehicle drove off. I again said a prayer. Then I called a close friend and the police. I told them that someone was in my house but not comfortable about describing his appearance. The police told me that I shouldn't be ashamed to say it was a skinwalker, because they to themselves on the job encounter strange things as that.

Just the Facts? - Jodie 'Contact' Foster Helps Fund SETI, Mystery Tree and Nanu Nanu!

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 01:04 PM PDT

Jodie Foster helped bail out SETI

S.R. Hadden from 'Contact': "They still want an American to go, Doctor. Wanna take a ride?"

The Oscar winning actress, who appeared in the sci-fi film 'Contact', was among those who donated over $200,000 to the SETI institute.

Budget cuts had forced the Californian-based science programme, which has been searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, to switch off their high powered antenna scanning the skies for radio transmission.

The $50m Allen Telescope Array had to be put into 'hibernation' effectively ending the quest to make contact with alien life forms.

But following a public appeal, donations to get the telescope back on-line began flooding in and within a matter of weeks over $200,000 was raised.

Foster, who played a SETI researcher in the film 'Contact', was among those who contributed.

Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders, who flew around the moon in 1968, also donated.

'It is absolutely irresponsible of the human race not to be searching for evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence,' Mr Anders wrote in a note accompanying his contribution.

'Thank you to everyone who helped us reach our goal of getting the ATA back online!' read a note posted to the SETI website.

'Stay tuned for updates. We are discovering more Earth-like planets every day, so now is more critical than ever to look for extraterrestrial life.'

The 42 radio dishes that make up the Allen telescope have scanned deep space since 2007 for signals from alien civilisations.

It has also conducted research into the structure and origin of the universe.

The $50million array was built by SETI and University of California with the help of a $30 million donation from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.

Officials at the SETI Institute said the donations will get the antenna up and running, but the quest for funding isn't over.

Operating the dishes costs about $1.5million a year, mostly to pay for the staff of eight to 10 researchers and technicians to operate the facility.

An additional $1million a year was needed to collect and sift the data from the dishes.

The Institute is looking for other sources of money for the $2.5million it requires annually to operate.

The SETI Institute was founded in 1984 and has received funding from NASA, the National Science Foundation and several other federal programs and private foundations.

It uses other tools in the quest for alien life, such as a dish at Arecibo in Puerto Rico, the largest radio telescope in the world. - dailymail

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UK X-Files: Nanu Nanu! - 'Mork and Mindy' investigate UFO sighting

It was a claim that was handled with a certain amount of scepticism - that two men dressed as TV's Mork and Mindy had come to investigate a UFO.

A woman complained to police that the mystery pair came to her door after she saw 'worm-shaped' UFOs 'wriggling around in the sky' over East Dulwich in London in 2003.

Revealed in the latest release of the Government's 'X-Files' today, the unidentified mother and her daughter reported it to the police but the constables who attended the scene were joined by two men dressed in 'space suits and dark glasses who called themselves Mork and Mindy'.

The woman complained of being made 'to look foolish'. In a letter dated January 21 2003, the woman says 'your men have fed us with a lot of rubbish, presumably to make us look foolish and our story unbelievable, which they have succeeded in doing'.

Police told the MoD they sent two ordinary PCs to the address but 'they could not see anything in the sky and concluded it was possibly a reflection of a star and a street light in her window.'

Other files reveal claims of sightings of extraterrestrial activity at the Glastonbury Festival and a flying saucer outside Retford town hall.

They also tell of how the RAF was secretly mobilised to intercept a UFO near a military base in 1956.

The files contain first-hand testimony on the famous 1956 UFO incident at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk.

Retired RAF fighter controller Freddie Wimbledon remembers the air force scrambling fighter planes to intercept a UFO seen on radar and by observers on the ground.

The UFO reportedly latched onto to a fighter plane, 'following its every move' before speeding off at 'terrific speed'.

Staff involved were sworn to secrecy, but one official recalls being shown gun camera footage of the UFOs taken from aboard the aircraft at a special MoD screening in 1970.

The new files also reveal that defence experts were called in to examine a 2004 photo of a 'flying saucer' taken outside the town hall of Retford in Nottinghamshire.

The series of images were captured by Alex Birch and having ruled out lens flares and aircraft, he contacted the Ministry of Defence, who sent them to the Defence Geographic and Imagery Intelligence Agency (DGIA) in July 2004.

The photograph was digitally enhanced and the DGIA report stated: 'No definitive conclusions can be gathered from evidence submitted, however it may be coincidental that the illuminated plane of the object passes through the centre of the frame, indicating a possible lens anomaly, eg a droplet of moisture.'

Another report describes mysterious lights seen moving 300ft above the Pyramid stage at the Glastonbury Festival on June 28 2003.

A file also contains a number of sightings reported to the MoD during the summer of 2006, that describe formations of orange lights in the sky.

These appear to be observations of Chinese lanterns, released at parties and public events, the experts concluded.

Other incidents include UFOs spotted by the pilot and passengers of an aircraft over the Channel Islands in 2007 and F-16s scrambled to intercept UFOs over Belgium in 1990. - dailymail

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Experts Say Belief in Paranormal Common in US

Surveys show that more than two thirds of Americans accept the existence of ghosts, visitors from outer space, astrology and other paranormal phenomena. While the more sophisticated might think of these people as crazy, social scientists take a different view.

A horse-drawn carriage takes tourists through the streets of historic Jefferson, Texas as the sun begins to set. Many tourists come here to take part in ghosts walks in which guides tell the stories about various buildings and houses thought to be haunted.

A visitor from the nearby city of Shreveport, Louisiana named Jamie says ghosts could provide evidence of an afterlife she believes in. "I have always believed that there is something after, I do not know if we are stuck here on earth or if there is something more, but I do know there is something," she said.

Some people might regard belief in ghosts as loony. But it is not, according to psychologist Brian Cronk at Missouri Western State University in St. Joseph, Missouri. "This is not abnormal in any way, shape or form," he said.

Cronk, who has guided students doing research on people who profess belief in the paranormal, says humans are driven to seek answers to profound questions. "One of the things the human brain does that, as far as we know, other animals do not do, is we are always trying to predict the future and explain why the past has happened and that leads us to always trying to come up with reasons for things," he said.

Another researcher taking a scientific look at paranormal belief is Sociology Professor Carson Mencken, at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He and his colleagues have found that those who believe in these phenomena are usually ordinary, solid citizens. "They hold normal jobs, they have families, they pay bills. They are otherwise upstanding people who have what we consider to be a deviant or odd hobby," he said.

Mencken and two colleagues at Baylor published a book last year called "Paranormal America" that examines data about people with various paranormal beliefs.

They found, for example, that men tend to believe in space aliens more than women do, but that women are more inclined to believe in fortune telling and spiritual encounters.

They found that those who dropped out of high school are more likely to believe in ghosts and psychics, but they also found that people with higher education levels were involved in other paranormal pursuits.

Mencken says those drawn to the paranormal are sometimes seeking discovery, such as evidence that UFOs or ghosts exist, but he says many others simply seek enlightenment. "They are looking for some revelation, a deeper understanding about how the universe works, about what happens to you after you die," he said.

Religion provides the answer to those questions for many people. Among churchgoers, Mencken says liberal, mainstream religions are more likely to tolerate members with paranormal beliefs than are Protestant evangelicals and others with a stricter interpretation of the Bible.

"They are likely to see the paranormal as one of two things, one is yes, it exists, but it is part of an evil plot by Satan or, you know, it is heresy," said Mencken.

Mencken says today, belief in the paranormal is fed by the many movies and television programs about ghosts and UFOs. "Look at how many paranormal shows there are. There are paranormal reality shows. There are television networks devoted only to the paranormal now, so it has become an interesting part of our culture," he said.

Mencken says the United States has drawn on other nations and cultures for much of its paranormal beliefs and that immigrants from Latin America, Asia and elsewhere are contributing their ghosts and spirits to the mix. - VOA

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'Mystery Tree' survives fires

A tree north of the Valley is getting renewed attention this week after surviving another of our state's wildfires.

"It's a special tree," said Arizona Department of Transportation worker Randy Skinner.

After 16 years on the job, Skinner knows the tree well.

"I think the tree gives people hope. They see it decorated every year and enjoy it."

The tree sits just this side of the Badger Springs exit past Sunset Point; a 20-foot-high, bushy juniper tree that is different than most.

Every year it's decorated for Christmas and Independence Day. Right now, it's covered with several American flags and yellow ribbons. It also has its own water system set up underneath, with several large drums and a pipe to feed it water.

That's where the tree gets its name -- the mystery tree. A mystery person or people decorate it every year, but it's also a mystery because it manages to have survived several wildfires over the years.

"It's survived wildfire after wildfire" says ADOT engineer Greg Gentsch. "We're just happy it's still here."

Just last week, another wildfire sparked about 200 yards to the south of the tree. It shut down the highway and quickly crept toward the tree.

When it was over, everything around it burned but the tree survived again without a scratch on it.

Maybe it's the rock formations around the tree, a strange wind current or someone, or something, watching out for it.

"It's a mystery," said Skinner. "But I hope it stays for a long time to come." - abc15

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Bats on Planes

A bat got loose on an Atlanta-bound flight, forcing horrified passengers to duck for cover.

The flying mammal appeared about 15 minutes after Delta flight 5121, operated by Atlantic Southeast Airlines, took off from Madison, Wis., on Friday, and cruised around the cabin above passengers' heads.

"The captain called the control tower to say the plane was returning to the airport to remove a winged animal," said Brent McHenry, spokesperson for the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison.

A passenger near the rear of the plane shooed the bat into the restroom and shut the door, to the cheers of fellow riders, according to the Wisconsin State Journal. But McHenry said that by the time the plane landed and all passengers got off, it seemed to have vanished. As airport maintenance staff searched the plane, however, a bat flew out and into the terminal, he said. From there, workers coaxed it out to freedom.

"Our terminal has high ceilings, and it's not unusual to have a bird flying around inside," said McHenry. "But the bat created a bit of entertainment for our early morning passengers as maintenance crew members with a large net ushered it outside."

After a delay of a few hours, passengers were able to re-board continue on to Atlanta.

Jarek Beem, spokesperson for Atlantic Southeast Airlines, said the airline was "confident in the maintenance search and that the animal was no longer on the aircraft at the time of the next departure."

Entre Rios, Argentina Cattle Mutilation Investigation

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 11:17 AM PDT

Our friend Scott Corrales of Inexplicata - The Journal of Hispanic Ufology has been reporting on recent animal mutilations and and investigations in Argentina. If you are familiar with Scott's prior reports then you'll know that Argentina has been a hotbed for anomalous activity for quite some time:

Cattle Mutilation Investigation in Entre Rios, Argentina
By Andrea Pérez Simondini, Visión OVNI

Place: Puerto Curtiembre, Cerritos (Entre Rios)
Cattleman: José Estrada
Date of Animal Deaths: 24 June 2011
Number of Dead Animals: 2
Animals Witnessed: Male and female, approximately 2 years old.

Research Team: Oscar Mendoza, Luis Brussa, Ariel Maderna

The Investigation:

Given its proximity to the scene of the events, a team was organized on June 29th, formed by Luis Brussa, Oscar Mendoza and Ariel Maderna. We reported quickly to the scene, initially visiting the Sheriff's Office at Cerrito. Having advised the police of our presence in the area, we were escorted by a unit to the location where the remains of 2 of the 5 animals could be found.

At the site we were welcomed by Sgt. Juan Ramon Muller of the Puerto Curtiembre barracks, accompanied by cattleman Jose Luis Estrada. We went to inspect the animal remains, which displayed advanced signs of decomposition due to the time that elapsed between the moment we learned of the story and our arrival at the site.

José Estrada told us that his animals stampeded on the night of the event. He had locked them in a pen, protected by tall poles and wiring, but something or someone had frightened a total of 100 animals, causing them break into a frantic run, bursting through the fencing and entering a narrow trail some 50 meters long that leads into an open field, fleeing in every direction and even crossing three rows of electrified fence. One of the animals fell 1000 meters from the pasture and the second 500 meters ahead, as it sought to find the exit gate.

So we began by taking photos of the animal remains from several angles while Oscar Mendoza and Luis Brussa made Geiger counter checks to dismiss the possibility of any radioactive traces whatsoever in the area surrounding the animals. This was done pursuant to the hypothesis that the agent of factor behind this mutilation is unknown to man, whether terrestrial or not, and because such alterations had already been reported in the United States.

The dead animals presented a series of incisions on their left sides, on the front of their heads, with the type of anal damage produced by carrion animals. Their eyes were also missing.

According to Jose Estrada, the owner of the field, when he found the animals they only presented incisions over the left front shoulder bone, as well as signs of tearing produced by an alleged animal attack. One of them had bites on its muzzle, while another – still alive – showed signs of similar bite marks on the same location.

This was further confirmed by an examination performed by a veterinarian from the town of Maria Grande, who reported to the scene a few hours after the finds. She had been contacted by the Cerrito police department, as a professional examination is requested after such discoveries are made. The veterinarian made the incisions we can see in the photographs, in an effort to see if any organs or viscera were missing. This veterinarian both specializes in, and has followed, the various animal deaths in Entre Rios, whether mutilated or not.

We were able to ascertain the deaths of two of the five animals reported in the area. The other three were found in a neighboring field, belonging to Mr. Franco Lorenzutti.

After being invited by the sergeant back to the Puerto Curtiembre barracks to examine the photos he'd taken the day after the event. While reviewing the images, we were startled by the visibility of the blood spilled in the area where the 5 dead bovines were found. This was presumably the work of some predator between the 18th and the 24th of June. None of these bovines, from what we could see, had been devoured.

This prompted us to contact veterinarian Gladys Uzman, who conducted the initial work at the site, to glean her first observations. "Out of all the examined animals, and after having made incisions to see if any organs were missing and subsequently thrown out, only torn tissue and muscle was found, as one would expect from a predator attack. Hence the presence of blood at the site. Another animal presented a strong bite on its muzzle, made by some not-very-small animal, which had broken and crushed the bones.

When asked if she had seen any bite marks on the necks of these animals, the veterinarian said yes, that she had found one such bite on one animal, leading us to suppose that these bovines (all of them calves) had been attacked by a wild feline from the area (the possibility of a puma is not dismissed).

The puma hypothesis was also mentioned by the veterinarian, as well as the possibility that wild or feral canines had been responsible for the deaths, as these had been seen at the scene of the events in Mr. Lorenzutti's field, some 15 kilometers distant from Mr. Estrada's property, according to the police sergeant. Whether the animals displayed bites on their legs has yet to be established. This is where dogs tend to inflict injuries to bring the bovine down and then kill it on the ground. One of the characteristics we have mentioned in the foregoing paragraph is the bite on the upper part of the muzzle, as shown in the photo. This can indeed be done by canines and not by felines, who only eat the flesh. These feral dogs do not belong to any species in particular, but its possible that some larger ones survived, and when they attack, they do so at night and in packs.

In recent years, the progress of cultivation, particularly soy, due to the extraordinary prices on the international market, led to a clearing of the wilderness to have greater cultivation surfaces. This caused many native wild animals (birds, foxes, felines, hares, guazunchos, etc.) and dogs often abandoned by their owners in the wilderness, to migrate from one field to the next in search of food and shelter.

Conclusion:

By looking at these photos, there is no question that these 5 animal deaths were due to the attack of one or more predators migrating through the area.

The photos display the prints of the assailants. The prints suggest dogs, but there is one in particular that does not match these, and may perhaps be a feline looking for food, which occurs in the winter season when food is at its most scarce. The feline hypothesis would be ascribed to a puma or even a yaguareté.

The case is not closed, and we shall return in coming days to complement the visit to Mr. Lorenzutti's field and determine and work on some points with the veterinarian with regard to the most affected areas on the bovines during the attacks, such as the necks and legs. The mystery remains, of course, as the five animals were attacked on the same side (left), 15 km distant from each other and with a week's difference.

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Source: CEUFO (La Pampa, Argentina)
Date: 07.28.11

Argentina: Mysterious Mutilations Continue
By Quique Mario, CEUFO

Animal mutilations remind us of the strange events that rocked the province nearly ten years ago. Pratt, 51, owns a locker manufacturing facility in Alta Italia. He told the El Diario newspaper that "animals mutilated in a similar fashion" were found on his fields just like they did back then.

At the time, the phenomenon was ascribed to extraterrestrial beings and served to nurture peasant superstitions like the "Chupacabras". SENASA advised at the time that mutilations in over a hundred of these cases could be blamed on the "red-muzzled mouse". However, this species does not exist in the region and the mystery was never explained.

Pratt did not make his discovery widely known; some friends discouraged him because "they say that these are just fantasies that people make up." However, the story became known and Alta Italia's FM radio station broadcasted it this Wednesday morning.

German Schreiber, the officer-in-charge of the Sheriff's office, traveled on Wednesday noon to the "El Iman" ranch, belonging to the Pratt family. It is located 13 kilometers from town, and he was accompanied by the town's veterinarian.

"He was unable to determine the cause of death. It's just like the cases that occurred at that time," noted the policeman.

In an interview with El Diario, Pratt says that his foreman found two Aberdeen Angus calves, each weighing 350 kilograms, mutilated in a very strange way and without any traces of blood around them. All this in a 60 hectare spread.

"One was missing its scalp completely, all the way from the muzzle to the left. The bone has been peeled away at the carretilla, and the tongue is missing along with skin from its throat. There isn't a single drop of blood anywhere; the incision of the skin is perfect, as if done with a razor," he says, astonished.

The other animal is missing its upper teeth. It's upper lip is burned to a dark blue, and half of its tongue is missing. No other signs are visible."

The discovery stupefied the employee who came across the animals as he toured the property, and even Pratt himself. "The man has been working in the field for forty years and is used to seeing dead animals, yet he never saw anything like it. I've also seen many dead animals, but never under these circumstances," he added.

"Carrion animals aren't involved. No way. It isn't a puma, or a wild boar, or even a carancho," he noted.

Aside from the dead animals, two gates along the ranch fences were found with their chains broken, and the ox cart was disconnected.

Pratt did not inform the police, nor did he make the case known to any other agency, since he is well aware of the reply offered by SENASA at the time. "They determined that it was either a mouse or a carancho (vulture). I know that. But if you ask me, I'll say no. This is something that I've never seen, something that really attracts attention."

Along with his son Mauricio, 18, he took photos of the animals, which were left on the field in a state of decomposition.

Pratt is 51 and he is known in town as "an earnest man." "I know the subject. I was raised in the countryside. I'm not crazy. I'm normal, like any other local," he jokes, as he recreates the circumstances of time and space in which the surprising animal mutilation occurred. "The kid who surveys the fields left at one o'clock and returned the next day at noon. [The mutilation] must have occurred during the course of that afternoon, night and the morning of the next day. We found no signs or traces that suggested that the death had been brought about by a bullet or something. We don't know what killed them."

"The incision is perfect. Completely so. It's very strange. That's my definition. I can't say what it is, but it's no carrion eater, vulture or puma," he adds.

The field where the animals appeared is not close to any rural road or route. "I know about livestock, and I've seen many dead animals, but never anything like this," he insists. "I would like to have someone study this so that the matter can be cleared up someday. At the time they blamed carrion animals, and that's why no progress was ever made. I find that odd."

"Did you feel fear when you found this?" asks the El Diario interviewer.

"No, bewilderment. The foreman's been a cattleman for over 40 years. All the more so, it isn't normal. He's a man used to seeing all sorts of animals."

Yet he admits having allowed paranormal phenomena enter his mind: "Some talk about flying saucers because they must be mentioned, if only to say something. The same goes with witches. I say I don't believe in them, but they exist, they really do. How can I not believe? But I think its something else. Otherwise those weird things would turn un. I'm not saying that a flying saucer is going to come to my house, but this is weird. It's surprising. It's not lightning from a storm or anything customary. This is surprising."

NOTE: some readers have requested a link for Dr Michael E. Salla's The Dulce Report - Investigating Alleged Human Rights Abuses at a Joint US Government-Extraterrestrial Base at Dulce, New Mexico after reading Dulce Base: What Are We Seeing?...Lon

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