Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning.
In this episode, we're talking about the Ozark cattle
mutilations. That's correct, the Ozark cattle
mutilations. Some really strange occurrences
here happening back in the 70s and 80s, even in into the 90s.
I found this article over at Encyclopedia arkansas.net
talking about these strange cattle mutilations.
It says although accounts of livestock mutilations date back
as far as the 17th century, globally, the reports from the
United States in the 1970s are the most famous.
During this period, Midwestern cattle ranchers provided
substantially similar reports of livestock with ears, eyes,
udders, sex organs, and anuses removed with apparent surgical
precision. Frequently, it appeared that the
animal's blood had been drained. Reports of cattle mutilation
emerged throughout Arkansas, peaking in the late 1970s, and
drew serious attention from state and local law enforcement
agencies, including the Washington County Sheriff's
Office. The supposed mutilations were
eventually explained as a as typical cattle deaths,
decomposition, and scavenger activity.
Now that's kind of the narrative that they like to use.
Sometimes they'll throw in the satanic cattle tippers there
too. Given the significant role of
livestock in the state economy, the deaths of cattle under
seemingly strange circumstances concerned Arkansas ranchers and
garnered substantial media attention.
In Arkansas, the first calamulation was reported in the
fall of 1977. State police records indicate
that from April 1978 to September 1979, there were 39
reports of unexplained cattle deaths in the state, 23 in
northwestern Arkansas and 16 in North Central Arkansas.
Between 1978 and 1991, Carroll County farmer James Thorn lost 5
cows under mysterious circumstances, all being found
with precise cuts, no blood and missing organs.
Now think about that. No blood.
We've talked about these things before.
They've got gallons and gallons of blood in them.
How do you, how do you kill an animal like that, drain all the
blood out of it and not have any of the blood left on the ground?
In 1991, news about Thorn's fifth dead cow spread quickly in
the sheriff. A local veterinarian and two
unidentified flying object investigators from Missouri
inspected the cow. The farmer remarked that the UFO
investigators were professional and thorough, posting that the
animal had been killed by aliens that used a laser to remove the
organs with extreme precision. Now, I have to kind of disagree
with this a little bit because they're jumping to conclusions.
They could say that it appeared like that or, you know, that
that maybe somehow these are the kind of injuries they would
expect from a laser. But you just can't say, well,
this is what happened unless you're right there.
As an eyewitness goes on and says.
From May to August 1979, reports of mutilations emerged from
Herber Springs. That's in Cleburne County,
Mulberry, which in Crawford County and Ozark in Franklin
County, Moulton in Conway County and Ashton in Little River
County and Van Buren in Crawford County.
The guy? These things are just popping up
all over the place. Some reports, like those in
Herbert Springs and Moulton, were dismissed as shootings or
the work of scavengers. Others remained unexplained,
prompting 75 cattle ranchers to offer $1200 rewards for the
arrest and convictions of any cattle mutilators.
Of course, these never have been collected, at least to my
knowledge. The Humane Society called on
Governor Bill Clinton to appoint a task force to study the
mutilation. In the summer of 1979,
Lieutenant Don Reystrom with the Benton County Sheriff's
Department and Sergeant Doug Foley with the Arkansas State
Police joined law enforcement officials from 13 states to
discuss cattle mutilations. At the meeting, Reystrom and
Fogley presented data from a mutilation event near
Bentonville in Benton County that showed PCP, mescaline and
santinin, A discontinued worming agent in the cow's bloodstream.
PCP, or phenocyclodyne, is a disassociative anesthetic that
was developed in the 1950s for veterinary surgery.
The drug became popular for recreational use in the 1970s.
Mescaline is the active ingredient in a small cactus
called peyote that causes hallucinations.
Now that's weird. Why would you be giving these
animals drugs that induce hallucinations?
Rystrom and Fogley also showed photos of crude stone altars and
a cow skull found near the animals, insinuating some real
ritualistic aspects to the Bentonville killings. 1 stone
was inscribed with the words zytose.
Wrath is wrath is upon you. Physical anthropologist Jerome
Rose at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville,
Washington County, claimed the animal sacrifices were an
assistant with somebody trying to practice witchcraft.
Now you almost have to wonder here if we're having some kind
of a copycat, copycat cattle mutilation going on.
UA anthropology professor Paul Hooks was skeptical of the
Satanic connection commonly theorized by the media.
He knew of no active, organized cults in the state.
He proposed, however, that Arkansas may tend to entertain a
Satanic explanation due to the strong Christian fundamentalist
influence throughout the state. Some in the Ozark Mountains
blamed local cattle relations on Momo.
That's AKA the Missouri Monster or Bigfoot, a tall, hairy
creature that supposedly lurks in the Ozarks and leaves behind
a horrible stench. None of these explanations
explain why the cattle were left there with no blood, though,
even the satanic cow tippers. In September 1979, Nancy Owen,
an anthropologist at UA, received a grant from the
Arkansas Endowment for Humanities, now Humanities, AR,
to research the state's cattle relations.
Owen concluded that the events were consistent with scavenger
activity. Well, imagine that.
The Washington County Sheriff's Department conducted an
experiment to prove that the reports were consistent with
decomposition and scavenger activity.
And the experiment? A local rancher donated a heifer
that was euthanized and placed in a ravine.
Officers watched the corpse and took notes and photographs
showing typical scavenger activity.
After 30 hours, officers recovered the carcass and found
the exact conditions reported mutilations.
They also had proof that only scavengers touched the cow.
Despite this evidence, reports that mutilations across the
state continued well into the 1980s and beyond, including
reports in Berryville, Carroll County and Hope, Hempstead
County. The problem I have with that is
did they test for blood? Was the blood removed from the
carcass? See, this is something we see
repeatedly in these types of stories.
They can't explain it, so they kind of do one of these half
hearted replications where they claim that they've replicated
the event and really they haven't.
And then the article just kind of, you know, finishes up right
there. This is written by Kylie Taylor,
Cole Favor or Arkansas. Well, I did bring out some good
historical facts. I think they just kind of
glossed over some of the real questions that come up here.
I did find this article here from the Daily American
Republic, May 5th, 1978 talking about these.
Mutilated stock may indicate witchcraft in Northwest Arkansas
Mutilated animal carcasses and crude altars found in the woods
of Northwest Arkansas may be evidence of witchcraft
ceremonies and offerings, authorities say.
Now see, this is kind of strange.
It's almost like it feels like someone's trying to create a
secondary narrative here. They've been talking about these
things being witchcraft related for a long time and and then all
of a sudden, lo and behold, you find a satanic altar.
Mutilated animal carcasses and crude altars found in the woods
of northwest Arkansas may be evidence of witchcraft
ceremonies and offerings, authorities say.
Between April 8th and May 1st, 5 calves, a cow and a horse work
mysteriously slaughtered in three separate locations by
religious cultists, said Benton County Sheriff's Office.
Now here again, jumping to conclusions, Officials say the
animals were killed in an unusual way but will not
elaborate. So this is not being
transparent. This is not telling people what
we need to know in order to make up our own mind.
This is called narrative control.
They were killed in an unusual way.
We just can't tell you how they were killed because if we told
you how they were killed, then you might ask questions and you
might find out that our theory on how they were killed doesn't
hold water. They say the strange mode of
death is a key to their investigation.
No arrests have been made. Of course, no arrests have ever
been made after the, as far as I know.
After the animals were killed, their eyes and sexual and
internal organs were removed with surgical precision and
their blood was drained and taken away, Sheriff's Don Don
Dyerson said. Really.
So you've got these hillbilly Satan is out there.
Somehow managed to drain all the blood out of that cow without
spilling any of it on the ground and took it all away.
We're talking gallons and gallons.
This. This is just utter nonsense. 2
dead calves were found April 8th on a ranch near the Missouri
border. Three more calves and a cow
believed killed sometime before April 20th were found on a
different property. The slaughtered horse was found
May 1st. During their investigation of
the animal mutilations, officials stumbled across a
flagstone altar in the woods littered with animal skulls and
candles. Symbols painted in white were
emblazoned on the crude altars, and anthropologists consulted
when the ritualistic aspects emerge, called the slayings
witchcraft in the European tradition, you can call it a
religion if you want, said Doctor Jerome Rose, an assistant
professor at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.
It's based on the worship of nature.
Since one of the major aspects of nature is reproduction, their
ceremonies would involve reproduction in a simulated
form. Rose successfully predicted the
May 1st emulation of the horse and further predicted that no
more deaths would occur after May 3rd.
He told the police the ceremonies appeared to be linked
to the vernal equinox and the cycle of planning and
reproduction, and that the influence of the equinox
diminishes by May 3rd. OK, well that's your mouthful
there. It just almost seems like this
is a planted story just tossed in with the rest of this stuff
to add confusion. I mean, if the Sheriff's Office
would be forthcoming and tell us, hey, what exactly happened
with these things, we might be a little bit more likely to
believe them and believe their theory that these all these
cattle mutilations are somehow tied in with Satanism.
Still doesn't explain how the blood was drained from these
things without spilling any of it on the ground.
So here's this article from the New York Times dated June 30th,
1978, written by John M Kristen, Spatial to the New York Times,
it says. Bentonville, AR June 27th Steve
Ferguson was hauling rocks off Doc Compton's farm on the
outskirts of town when he spotted what looked like some
kind of altar. Native fill stones piled up one
upon the other, peeking through the briar and Bramble amid the
Hickory and Sycamore trees. Well, that sounds to me like
these things are covered up. I mean, if they're covered up
with briar, how could they have been used to sacrifice cattle?
Mr. Ferguson took a closer look, then ran to call the landlord,
Doctor Neil Compton. Together, the two men stood and
stared at the discovery. It was built up like a fireplace
would be, Doctor Compton recalled, And the center was the
skull of a cow, and then all around it these rocks had been
painted. The markings on the rocks, which
seemed to him like hieroglyphs or something, made no sense, he
said, but it looked ominous, so he telephoned the Benton County
Sheriff's Department. Then he told Mr. Ferguson to
tear the thing down. The markings on the rocks, which
seemed to him like hieroglyphs or something, made no sense, he
said, But it looked ominous, so he telephoned the Benton County
Sheriff's Department. He then told Mr. Ferguson to
tear the thing down. Sergeant John Green and his
partner, Lieutenant John Rystrom, had been preoccupied
with another bizarre case, a series of animal mutilations in
the Bentonville area. But they went out to look at the
strangely painted rocks anyway. They too came away puzzled.
Now this is signing more and more suspect all the time to me.
And I'm not even sure that this so-called makeshift satanic
altar is related to these cattle mutilations.
A second altar says that was two months ago, and nobody in this
pleasant Ozerite village of 7000 people thought much more about
it. Until a few weeks later, when
Mr. Ferguson, still hauling rocks, found a second altar near
the site of the first. This time the message was clear.
In addition to a plastic human skull, some candles, a large
knife and more of the peculiar symbols someone had left, a
message scrolled in paint and painted white letters.
Sido's wrath is upon you, them, Doctor Compton said, and said
the power of the Lord is greater.
Steve wrote a little note back to Steve's.
A very religious fellow. OK?
After examining the second batch of rocks, Sergeant Green said he
thought that he had an idea of what was going on.
On a hunt, she asked a bookstore in town to get him a book on
witchcraft and demonology. When it arrived, he found that
it contained 2 items of particular interest.
The first was a copy of the Theban alphabet, the magical
ciphers used by modern riches, whose characters were matched by
some of the symbols on the rocks.
Feeling a bit like the man who discovered the Rosetta Stone,
Sergeant Green translated these strange descriptions into good
and had he also found a reference to an ancient sorcerer
named Xytho. The second discovery was a
chapter recounting some of the superstitions and traditions
that were brought to these Green Mountains by settlers in the
last century and have persisted among the hill folk.
These included a strain of witchcraft with an initiation
ceremony wearing a perspective, fires 7 bullets at the moon and
repeats the Lord's Prayer backwards in front of a satanic
altar at midnight. The ceremony, according to the
legend, occurs in the dark phase of the moon, so Sergeant Green
calculated when the next event was likely to occur, and late on
the appointed night, he and Lieutenant Reystrom crept out to
the Compton farm and waited. Nothing happened.
Dubious about connection, Sergeant Green then consulted
Jerome Rose, a professor of physical anthropology at the
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.
Doctor Rose suggested that the animal mutilations that had been
taking place where, as he put it, the other clay, consistent
with somebody trying to practice witchcraft.
And all four cows and a horse have been killed this year in an
apparently ritualistic fashion that involved cutting out the
eyes, tongues and reproductive organs.
Some of the carcasses were found within 5 miles of Doctor
Compton's farm. OK, well, if you were going to
have to hold these things somewhere to sacrifice them,
what, you want the altar to be near the victims?
So now I guess we're to believe that these animals were
mutilated and then carried up to 5 miles to these satanic altars?
The Sheriff's Office was dubious about a connection.
So to buttress this point, this point, Dr. Rose consulted some
astrological test and predicted the next mutilation would occur
on the first day of May It did. In the meantime, Dr. Compton was
making arrangements to sell the property to his next door
neighbor. Sam Walton might have heard that
name before. It was not just the altars that
bothered him. Doctor Compton said he had
gotten too old to work the property and there had been
other strange goings on, like the gunfire the neighbors had
been hearing around midnight. The Sheriff's Office remained
puzzled. For one thing, it was unusual in
a small town like Bentonville that no one had come forward
with any information and there were the reports of unidentified
flying objects. So, yeah, we do have UFOs when
these things are being going on, with these mutilations are
happening. We had a bunch of those about
the same time this was going on. Lieutenant Rystrom said the land
belongs to Mr. Walton. Now.
Two weeks ago today, 1/3 altar was discovered in the field
where the other two had been found.
I'm glad I don't own it anymore. That's all Doctor Compton had to
say. The New York Times, Mike Tyler,
this is stones found on a farm near the Arkansas bare symbols
of the thebid alphabet used by modern witches.
Yeah, it's kind of one of these things I think we're remembering
that correlation does not apply causation, it seems like.
Yeah, maybe you did have an active cult going on down there
putting up these crazy satanic altars.
And yeah, they did have one cattle skull on there.
But as I recall, the cattle mutilation, the mutilated bodies
of the cattle they found all had the heads intact.
They were missing eyes and tongues and all their blood.
But that doesn't explain how a bunch of people engaging in this
Ozark kind of hillbilly satanic sacrifice would have got the
blood out of any of these cattle without spilling any of it.
It's just technology beyond what the normal person's going to
have. If you've ever, if you've ever
feel dressed a deer or, you know, butchered any kind of
animal at all, you'll know that there's just blood all over the
place. And so this doesn't make sense.
I want to finish up with this article from only in Arkansas.
It's onlyinyourstate.com. This is a single craziest thing
you never knew happened in Arkansas.
Of course you've been listening to this program.
You've do know that it happened and it's really quite
unexplainable, says Unusual. Cattle emulations in Arkansas
during the summer of 1979 were eventually explaining why
natural causes and common cattle tranquilizers written by Tiffany
Livingston. Of course, we know that's
absolutely not the case. They've got one, they've got one
site where they have found these strange chemicals in an animal's
blood. Still doesn't explain why the
blood was drained from the cattle.
Doesn't explain a lot of things. And and then of course you have
the three satanic alters that were up to 5 miles away from
these various calamulation sites.
And also doesn't make any sense. A string of calamulations in
Arkansas around the summer of 1979 began a wild media frenzy
covering the possible 'cause of the madness, questions started
circling about satanic rituals and possible alien activity.
But the truth may be a let a bit less strange.
So right there, they're trying to set the tone for this false
narrative that they're pushing. I can see that right now.
My opinion As the story continued, people were demanding
A conclusion to these cattle mutilations in Arkansas.
This is a strange tale as what we drive into this strange
history in Arkansas. Be warned, some of the images
and descriptions in the story are graphic in nature.
Something strange was going on with cows all around Arkansas
During the summer of 1979, farmers from various locations
began reporting unusual cattle mutilations.
The story was not new to the state, though.
Just two years before, in the in the autumn of 1977, there were
sporadic accounts of cows being found dead and birchard by
unknown means. From June to September of 1979,
however, the killings increased and sparked a media frenzy.
Every unusual cattle death was reported in local newspapers and
Arkansas authorities took a closer look at what was going
on. By closer look, if you mean an
attempt to control the narrative, then they certainly
did do that. Before the summer began,
investigators discovered that drugs, including mescaline and
PCP, were detected in the blood of cows who appeared to be
killed in a ritual. Investigators also determined
that the deaths all happened near water.
Now, they've done something here I think is possibly some pretty
sloppy reporting detected in the blood of cows.
And I do not believe that all of these cows that were found
mutilated had these, this PCP of mescaline in the blood.
I think that was just one case. And if it's not, they need to,
they need to show us the receipts that goes on down here.
It says the mutilations before and after the summer were said
to have been conducted with expert medical precision, much
like that of a surgeon. Very little blood evidence was
able to be collected at the crime scenes, which was highly
unusual for such gruesome killings.
The kind of just gloss over that.
You think this thing's got what, between 5 and 10 gallons of
blood in it? You're not going to kill one of
these things and drain all the blood out without spilling some
of it on the ground. This is Arkansas residents and
even some authorities began to speculate about satanic worship
and aliens being involved with these strange cases.
After all, UFO sightings in Arkansas have happened before
and there were no concrete ties to visitors from another planet
being involved. Well, they certainly had a UFO
sightings around the time of these things.
By October 1979, the theories about alien visitors and satanic
ritual killings were debunked by local investigators.
This is just simply not true. I mean, that's a false
statement. They might have refuted the
theories, but they absolutely did not debunk them.
An experiment had been conducted a month before and a cow was put
to death by tranquilizers and a location much like where the
cattle mutilations took place. The carcass was kept under
surveillance for 18 hours. By noon the following day, flies
and buzzards had eaten away the soft tissue of the carcass, and
its state was very similar to that of the mutilated cattle
found in the months prior to the experiment.
Now that they leave out one huge fact, though, what happened to
the blood? So this, this is very deceptive,
what they've done here. The most plausible explanation
behind the dead kettle would be severe weather.
Now, here's another false assumption.
This is some really shoddy reporting.
A terrible This is a shoddy reporting masquerading as
investigative reporting. From what I can see.
Lightning, to be more specific, strikes and kills a cow standing
near the water. The body is cauterized as a
result, and scavenger insects and birds would be responsible
for eating away the soft flesh with natural precision.
Why? There's some big jumps there.
We don't know how close to the water all these things are, and
just because something is near the water doesn't mean that it's
going to be hit by lightning. The drugs found in what little
blood evidence was taken can be explained too.
Fenocycline, or PCP is a common cattle tranquilizer that would
be used in the event of severe weather.
What in the world are you talking about?
The chemical compounds in mescaline are resembled in
nature, and it's not unusual for grazing cows to eat mushrooms.
Thankfully, there's a less disturbing explanation for these
strange situations. Wow.
I mean, really? That's considered a theory for
what's happened. This is we've gotten, we've gone
clear into crazy time here. The brutality of nature is quite
jarring at times. These cattle mutilations in
Arkansas are no exception. But as strange as it is to have
so many of them dying in a short time, we do have answers now.
The real question still remains, do you believe these plausible
answers or is something far more sinister?
Well, to me, these these causes are not plausible.
They're the opposite of plausible.
OK, happening under the the cover darkness.
This coverage from the sci-fi channel show may help to shine
light on this historical context.
And it's got a little video links to wow.
This kind of gives you the range of media and talking about these
cattle mutilations that happened to the Ozarks.
I mean, you have the facts and the animals are there.
The blood's been drained, the eyes cut out, the tongue's cut
out. Just ritualistic mutilation, it
seems the blood drained and no blood on the ground.
Animals just seem to, they seem, I mean by all common sense, it
seems like they've just been picked up, taken somewhere.
Had the blood drained out, had all these terrible things done
to them and they just dropped back somewhere near where they
were at. That's what it looks like.
That's, that's a common sense explanation.
And then you have of course people get upset about that
prospect. So then you have the sheriff
comes along and says, well, turns out we found some satanic
ulcers, you know, somewhere between 1:00 to 5:00 miles away.
So are there any cow parts around them?
Well, there's one cow head. But here's the problem.
Was there any blood on those altars?
Because why build an altar 5 miles from where you killed the
cow? If the cows being sacrificed,
why is it being left where it was dropped off dead at?
Are they burning up the eyes there?
I don't know. Was there any?
Was there any kind of evidence that there been charred remains
there? Didn't talk about it.
So you see they take 2 completely unrelated things.
So far it appears unrelated and tie them into this homespun
narrative. And then later on, of course,
this is 1979 and then later on you have people like the the
author of this last article putting forth what I would
consider just preposterous theories that these cows are
eating mushrooms. And This is why the PCP shows
up. And Oh well, of course they had
set is in their in their systems because it was lightning out.
So farmers are running out and giving their cattle sedatives.
Every time it lightnings news to me, you have to ask yourself at
some point, why do people go to such an extent to create these
false narratives to explain what can't be explained?
Why can't they just say, wow, this is strange.
This this cattle was found mutilated, which, OK, possibly
the critters came along and ate out the eyes and tongue, but
where's the blood? Where are the gallons and
gallons of blood at? Anybody's ever skinned a deer
knows that you're not going to field dress that animal without
having some blood on the ground. All right?
That's just a kill site. If you're tracking wild animals
and there's a big predator in the area, you can tell because
they leave kill sites. And that means the blood is
saturated with ground where the animals taken down at really
wild stuff. Well, I think it just goes to
show the more things change, the more they stay the same.
We have a certain group of people that are able to just be
mentally OK with understanding that there's certain things that
we can't understand. And that thought of a UFO coming
down and snatching up one of these cows and mutilating it and
dropping it back off where where it picked it up from makes a lot
more sense than the cow falling over dead from eating mushrooms
or being dispatched by the local hillbilly Satanic Cow Tipper
Association, which by the way, takes all the blood and carts it
off, but doesn't leave a single drop there on the ground.
It's kind of knock and raise them.
The most simple explanation is usually the correct one.
And right now, to me, the most simple explanation for these
things is some kind of alien abduction of these animals.
They're taking on board of crafts somewhere where they are
mutilated, and they return to somewhere in the vicinity of
where they were snatched up. That's what makes the most
sense, and no amount of creating parallel narratives will ever
convince me otherwise. Until next time, this is your
point. Warning over and out.