Cattle that have been slaughtered surgically removed for parts and found in pastures with no blood or evidence have baffled ranchers and law enforcement in quiet farming communities across the country since the 1970s, and perhaps for more than a century.
These animals are found in unnatural habitats and have been bloodied by frustrated hunters in Minnesota, Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Oregon and elsewhere.
Sgt. Jeremiah Holmes of the Wheeler County Sheriff’s Office in Oregon, who has handled five such cases in the past six years, told Fox News Digital that “there are more questions in this matter than answers.”
It is a crime to kill a farmer’s livestock, said Holmes. But there hasn’t been any concrete steps to follow in these cases. The first time a law enforcement officer saw an animal die in these conditions, he said, there was a lack of tracks or blood in the snow that had just fallen.
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Colby Marshall is pictured in front of one of the five bulls slaughtered on the farm he managed in 2017. Usually, he said, the vendors would take the carcasses of the animals, but they would not touch the bulls, leaving the carcasses to “melt” in the ground.
He spoke to a number of journalists, researchers and writers on the incident, hoping to solve the mysterious mystery.
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“Why would someone take a reproductive organ unless it’s a ritual or a test? I guess I don’t know,” Holmes said.
“People come and give their theory. Some think it’s foreigners, some think it’s the government doing the test, some think it’s a rancher trying to get even – there are many theories,” said Holmes. “The only thing I’ve ever underestimated is predators – I grew up in the country… and I’m in the livestock industry, I’ve seen firsthand what bears, coyotes, wild dogs, whatever Man will do
Reports of the incident — usually involving cattle, but sometimes involving other livestock — began making headlines in the 1970s, with the Colorado Associated Press voting the cut the No. 1 story in the state. But records of cattle mutilation based on similar practices date back to 1869, according to “Stalking the Herd: Unraveling the Cattle Mutilation Mystery,” by Chris O’Brien.
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“Investigation Alien,” a Netflix documentary released this month that follows UFO reporter George Knapp through his investigation into extraterrestrial influence, suggests aliens are to blame.
“At first, I grew up conservative — foreigners were something my family and friends hated,” Holmes told Fox News Digital. “Automatically, I thought they weren’t there.”
“But what is an alien? If people believe that there is bigfoot or sasquatch, there are people who believe in life in another world,” Holmes said. “There may be some who say, ‘if bigfoot is a possibility, then maybe there are unknown creatures, even on earth, that are doing this that we don’t know about yet.’
Former ranch manager Colby Marshall of Burns, Oregon, found five injured bulls in a two-day period in September 2017.
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“One of the cowboys called me on one of our radios that we had and said, ‘I got a dead bull,’ which was a different situation, because it wasn’t unusual for a healthy little bull that weighed 2,000 pounds to just be found dead,” Marshall recalled.
The Hereford bull was lying on its side, its front legs sticking out at an odd angle. Its tongue and all its reproductive organs had been carefully removed – but there was not a “drop” of blood.
“They didn’t pierce the abdomen. . . . I’ve personally harvested many animals over the years and pierced many cattle to process the meat, and I’ve never seen anything like that,” Marshall said.
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A second cow was found with the same limbs missing, as were three other bulls found the next day.
“I’ve seen a lot of animals die in various situations from injuries or diseases or what have you,” Marshall said. “It was just the most surreal, strange animal situation I had ever seen.”
Holmes told Fox News Digital that, because farms are expanding, and cattle slaughter often occurs in remote areas, necropsies and other investigative methods are no longer effective, because the carcasses are already decomposing by the time they are found. But in Marshall’s case, the corpse was fresh.
“We tried to gather as much evidence as we could, and we got rid of the bull,” Marshall said. “There were no signs of liver damage or heart damage or lung damage. There were no internal organs missing. [stomach] of animals was full. They were eating. They had been drinking. There was no stress on them at all.”
Bulls that weren’t transported to the lab “melted to the ground” — doctors wouldn’t touch them, Marshall said.
“During every day, thugs, coyotes, wolves, you know, they would tear the animals apart, dragging them everywhere. The bones were scattered, the skins were missing, the heads were gone,” he said.
A $25,000 reward was offered for any information that led to the arrest of someone or people who cut down the bulls — but no information has ever come forward, Marshall said.
Like Holmes, Marshall wants to talk to anyone about the case in the hopes that “the longest murder mystery in the history of the world” is solved, including some haunted farms across the country.
Instead of the outside world, Marshall thinks that a special network of people – perhaps worshipers or a group that uses animal parts for ritual – is to blame.
“I believe there is a great group of stars out there. . . . And there is a very high probability that we are not the only sentient beings in the galaxy. I believe that, yes, there are probably aliens out there. And, you know, they might have visited Earth,” Marshall told Fox News Digital. “Now, do I think they’re using their technology to come after free bulls in eastern Oregon? No, I’m not – I think they could be using their technology better than that. “
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“But hey, if they’re coming across the galaxy to come get beef in eastern Oregon, that means we’ve got good beef and maybe the best beef in the galaxy,” Marshall said.
“I don’t mind talking about it and telling stories,” Marshall said. “I just want people to know that … there are other people out there who have been through this. And the thing we need to do is talk about it because maybe it will bring some light to it, and maybe. we can find answers.”
The FBI investigated the animal mutilation incident between 1974 and 1978, according to its website, but was unable to find any answers.
“I’ve been urging the federal government to take a closer look at the tools we have now,” Holmes said. “We have some materials from the 1980s to investigate … the reason I’m talking a little bit about this is because I want it to be solved … and I know we’re not going to be able to solve it on our own.”
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