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INTO THE OCCURRENCE OF ANIMAL lfUTILATIONS Project Stigma represents an on-going p~be into the relentless wave of animal (primarily livestock) mutilations and mutilation-deaths. We have no pet theories to promote. We would prefer that the overall emphasis of this newsletter be placed on th~ presenta

The following listing can in no way cl~im to be complete. As ~1w~ys, we suspect that we ~re unaware of many mutilation incidents. Some are reported to law enforcement agencies, but do not surface in the press; othens are not reported "officially" at ul. We are fortunate to have learned of ~ few

This summary is presented as a preliminary working model. It is conceivable that additional 1977 reports will come to our attention later, at which time this list will be accordingly supp~e mented. All of the ·tabove incidents

Colorado - Costilla County Colorado - Logan County; 3 or 4 reportl5 Missouri - Cass County Texas - Tarrant County; cow,

PARIS, TEXAS 75460 IS THERE A "LINK" BETWEEN MUTILATIONS AND UFOs? STIGMATA will hopefully be utilized as a

Woodstock, N. Y. 12498 STIGMATA o

We once hoped that sociologists and social psychologists would examine the mutilations and its effect on the populace from their professional perspective. Now we're beginning to wonder if that's such a great idea. An interesting if inherently faulted paper (21 pp.) has been authored by Mr. James R.

still be available from Mr. Stewart. You might send him five 13¢ stamps to cover his postage costs. It should be noted that the pages of STIGMATA will not be enthusiastically open to debate on the question of whether there actually ~

INVESTIGATION INTO THE OCCURRENCE OFANIMAL MUTILATIONS One Issue · One Dollar Earlier in this century, the redoubtable Charles Fort reported that livestock mutilations of a

apparently apprehended. Attempts to gain details regarding Eastern Canadian mutes have been less Paris, Texas 75460 than fruitful. Mutilation reporting forms are still avail It is said that an interesting incident occurred

minus their uterus and left eye ("surgical"reANSWERS TO QUESTIONS FROM READERS AND moval). The only tracks or marks nearby resemINTERESTED PARTIES · bled "duck prints", but they were three times the size of normal duck tracks. The Royal CanQUESTION: Are mutilations confined to the adian Mounted Poli

ANSWER: Since the initial publication of STIGMATA, these have been among the more frequently-asked questions. The "research teams" do not exist as a formal investigative unit. Project Stigma represents an informal network of researchers and investigators - both "civilian" and "official" individuals

Project Stigma represents an on-going probe into the relentless wave of animal mutilations and mutilat ion-deaths, and is an attempt to coordinate and assist in information-gathering activities on the part of the pertinent and responsible investigative agencies and individuals.

Two classic, definitive cattle mutilations occurred on the weekend of April 22-23, 1978 - in Natrona County, Wyoming and Rio Arriba County, New Mexico. We can report on these incidents in more detail than most, as they were subject to more scrutiny and examination than is usual. Natrona County, Wyom

(2) Albuquerque (New Mex.) JOURNAL; April 25, 1978 (3) Albuquerque (New Mex.) JOURNAL; June 16, 1978 Additional credit (and immense thanks) go to: Lonnie Johnson of Salt Lake City, for his thorough report; Larry Peters of Rock Springs, Wyoming, who suggests that he may have on hand potentially mutil

In STIG~~TA #3 mention was made of several incidents in which witnesses have reportedly come upon mutilations-in-progress. Some of these tales bear no small similarity to the Men-In-Black accounts of UFO lore. Perhaps they are intended to appear that way, depending on the manner and

Can anyone take seriously the findings of certain veterinary diagnostic laboratories where possibly-mutilated carcasses or parts thereof have (supposedly) been examined? Sheriff C. Arthur Lee of Apache County, Arizona knows of one investigator who became so frustrated and disgruntled at the findings

A pilot who grew up in the area around Nara Visa, in northeastern New Mexico. told Project Stigma of the time in 1975 when he and three friends took infrared cameras in the pilot~s personal airplane to the Nara Visa vicinity. As livestock mutilations plagued

ENFORCEMENT TO COVER--UP LIVESTOCK MUTILATION INFORMATION. IF YOU KNOW SOMEONE IN YOUR COUNTY WHO HAS HAD STOCK J.-1UTILATED, URGE THEM TO REPORT rr TO THE SHERIFF - AND TO PRoJECT STIGMA. ENCOURAGE YOUR SHERIFF TO INVESTIGATE MUTILATIONS OBJECTIVELY AND TO CONFER wrrH OTHER SHERIFFS AND INVESTIGATO

INVESTIGATION INTO THE OCCURRENCE OF ANIMAL MUTILATIONS ABOVE: THE MUTILATIONS - JULY-OCTOBER 1978 ------------------------------------------

There will be another edition o! STIGMATA. It will appear-no-later than July 1, 1979 (barring un!orseen developments) and it could be published much sooner. I! publication is to be continued it will be announced at that time. To receive STIGMATA #6 send 11.00 (cash or checks payable to ''Project Sti

JOURNAL, 10-8-78; Howard Burgess, Gabe Valdez, TAL Levesque, . TAOS (NM) NEWS, 9-21-78. Texas - AMARILLO (TX) DAILY NEWS, 7-2,7-5, 8-3-78; LUBBOCK (TX) AVALANCHE-JOURNAL, 7-23-78; SAN .ANTONIO (i'X)· NEWS, 7-11-78; CANYON (TX) NEWS, 7-6-78; Tommy Roy Bl~n, Larry Statser, Deaf Smith County Deputy Art

Davidson, Jerry Phillips, Tommy Roy Blann. Also: Regarding .New .Mexico - "Night Mutilators of the Southwest" by Ray Nelson; UFO REPORT (Web Offset Industries, Ltd.; 333 Johnson Avenue; New York, NY 11206); November 1978; price: S1.25 plus 35c postage.

One must not be confined to seeking answers where one expects them to be found. If necessary, all extant knowledge must be approached and sifted through, as we await serendipity. As unjustified and indiscriminate conceptual boundaries fall away from the topic at hand, we can feel free to flow guiltl

We've learned of an incident in the western u.s. wherein 2 people came upon a UFO and one was abducted, examined and returned. During the turmoil a calf was levitated into the craft along a beam of some sort, tcf~' be dismembered as the human abductee watched. An investigation, to include hypnotic r

A PRELIMINARY REPORT Psychics and sensitives have been utilized for years in crime investigations by police agencies. Sometimes such practitioners

FROM THE VICTIMS Above left and right: Natrona Co., Wyoming, April 1978. Credit: Lonnie Johnson; Salt Lake City, Utah.

In the space allotted we will be unable to explore these accounts in detail. We'll refer the reader to the source material in Flying Saucer Review, the excellent

23 1 No. 6, April 1978) (3) Wendelle c. Stevens, report dated May 21, 1977 ANIMAL REACTIONS

Widely circulated are the accounts of peculiar reactions on the part of both predators and domestic animals in the vicinity of mutilated carcasses. The speculation, of course, has been. that there is "something" about such carcasses that these "lower" aniDIB.l.s can detect but humans cannot. It has

Nebr.), 8-28-75; (2) IDAHO STATESMAN. (BOI$~., ·i6- l-7.5; (2) . Twin Falls (Ida.) TIMES.~ws, 10-21-75; Fort Wort~ (Tex.) STAR-TELEGRAM, 1-25-75; (8) Hastings (Nebr.) DAI 11-8-75; (,2) Grand Junction (Colo.) DAILY , l.f-20-76;

2-75; (!!i) Twin Falls (Ida.) TIMEs-NEws, lD-31-75; (!,2) Mrs Don s. Richmond, personal communication; (16)0roville ( alit.) MERCURY-REGISTER, 1.0-25-75; Report by inves gator Jerry Phillips o·f Everett, Washington; provided

INVESTIGATION INTO THE OCCURRENCE 0 F ANI~IAL ~IUTILA TIONS ANNOUNCING ANOTHER STIGMATA- SOON! Due to the proliferation of events regarding the mutilation

Project Stigma is currently preparing a special report to consist largely of a catalog of reports ot unidentified helicopters at or near mutilation sites. We have knowledge of over 200 such sightings and we are seeking data regarding those which have yet to be reported. For those who have doubted th

u.s. Senator Harrison Schmitt {R-New Mexico) and • s. Attorney R. E. Thompson of Albuquerque sponsored a confere ce on the topic of livestock mutilations on Friday, April 20, 1979. The meeting in Albuquerque was attended by a number o law enforcement officials, the media, independent investigat rs {

Logically some of the cultist phenomena is financed, stimulated, simulated 8iid so on as part ot counter-intelligence misdi.rec-. tion and mis-information. rrhia is what I would do. i.f charged with counter-intelligence regarding mutilation studies. In tact one may anticipate increased efforts of th

For those who have been wondering whatever became of ABC-TV's mutilation report that was to have appeared on "20-20": After the "20-20" crew spent three months and untold thousands of doliars gathering information, the project has been cancelled (most seasoned mutilation investigators were not surpr

In May of 1979, the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration provided a grant of over $40, 000 for the establishment of an animal mutilation investigation under the auspices of the District Attorney's office in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Kenneth M. Rommel assumed the role of director of the inquiry in M

TXT JEAN COUNTRY HEADLIGHT (Morrilton), THE GRAPHIC (Clarksville), 6/13/79: BAXTER Home), June(undated): LITTLE RIVER NEWS VAN BUREN COUNTY DEMOCRAT (Clinton) , 8/2/79: CITIZEN, 6/8/79; MORRILTON DEMOCRAT, 8/2/79; DEMOCRAT (Little Rock), 6/1/79, 6/3/79, 6/4/79, 7/28/79,

DEMOCRAT (Little Rock), 6/1/79, 6/3/79, 6/4/79, 7/28/79, 8/2/79: ARKANSAS GAZETTE (Little Rock), 6/1/7 , 6/2/79, 6/8/79, 6/28/79, 8/ll/79, 8/15/79. Bexar County - A young bull was killed and mu ilated south of San Antonio on July 15th. The genitals and anus were intact - except that the tail had bee

El ~ Countv - Information here comes from a type of source that is often overlooked: livestock removal services that pick up dead animals for butchering or rendering. Drexel Lawson, who runs such a service in Colorado

Washington County - The mutilated carcass of a cow was discovered on the Oscar King ranch near Dewey on July 9, 1979. Both eyes were missing and the udder had been removed •in an almost perfect circle". No blood was in eviden~e. Source: TULSA WORLD, 7/17/79, from Ed Vieth,Jr. v1a Steve

PRESS reported that Sheriff Granger's office investigating the discovery of three mutilated goats a dozen dead hens in the general area of the January horse In .Auqust 1979, Project Stigma interviewed J

Taos County - On January 12, a 5-year-old heifer was discovered near Ranchitos - less that a quarter-mile from the site of a controversial UFO sighting and residue-dropping in July of 1978. One eye, the tongue, anus and reproductive organs were removed. It used to be thought that most or all mutilat

Guadelupe County - (Adjoining Torrance Co. on the east) A cow, which was expected to give birth in three weeks, was found dead, with the udder neatly sliced off, near Dilia. It was also revealed that a similar mutilation had occurred in the nearby Dahlia area in the fall of 1978. Around the time of

LATE NEWS: A controversial mutilation was reported in July near Truchas, in SERio Arriba Co. (Credit: Neil Bockman).

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namely, "Whe~e else could a red-blooded American boy steal, rape and pillage with the sanction and blessing of Highest?" (p. 101). Hougan's book illustrates further the personnel who are trained in a Techno-spy background government service for other sectors.

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The classic animal mutilations have not only been, for the most part, a phenonmenon of the 1970's; but, with a few exceptions, they have been restricted to - and at least concentrated in - the 48 contiguous United States. As the decade of the 1970's waned, reports coming from such places as the Cana

In STIGMATA No. 3, we briefly dis cussed the follow reports: rumors of mutilations in Ontario in 1975 and horse slashings in Ontario (Mt. Forest area) in 1976; lation of t\vo horses near Wildwood, Alberta in the

The areas in which confirmed or suspected animal mutilat.ions have occrirred in 1979.

on three events occurring in April of 1978. A streak of bright light descended from the sky in Newfoundland, Canada; a strange beam of light flooded a kitchen (causing a radio to "glow") in Victoria, British Columbia; and a beam of light dePcended on a barn containing six horses in Prince George, Br

ford cow - genitals, rectum, teats missing. SEPTEMBER 9 - SASKATCHEWAN - Cut Knife - cow SEPTEMBER 13 - SASKATCHEWAN - Eastend - sixford cow - tongue, udder missing perhaps ~vo weeks. SEPTEMBER 16 - ALBERTA - Sangudo - bull (no

• •• our special report and catalog on the subject of unidentified "myst- ·. ery helicopters" .and animal mutilations. Only a few of these special reports were published; and when they're gone, they're gone. THE CHOPPERS ••• AND THE CHOPPERS may be ordered at a postpaid cost of $4.00 each before Jun

WORST FEARS REALIZED In May 1979 a Law Enforcement Assistance Administration grant of near- $50, 000 established a year-long mutilation probe under the auspices of the District Attorney's office in Santa Fe, New Mexico,

, a few sample {1) Alamosa County, Colorado - September 1967 In the fabled "Snippy" horse mutilation case from the mutilated carcass, one of two chico have been crushed and flattened as though by

(3) Saunders, David R. and Harkins, R. Roger, UFOs? YESl; Signet Dooks (New American Library); 1968 (2) Lake County, South Dakota - October 1974 A mutilated cow, whose jawbones had been "cut out and crossed", was discovered within sight of' a house near Chester, SD. Ten feet from the carcass were th

(3) Garden Hills sector of' San Juan, Puerto Rico - January 1975. l'Jot a mutilation case (though animal mutilations and strange deaths plagued Puerto Rico beginning in spring of' 1975) but included for comparison with indentations at mute sites: One night a bright multi-colored UFO was seen and mys

Reporter: Bill Jackson (2) COLORADO SPRINGS GAZETTE-TELEGRAPH, 4-24-77; Reporter: Dorothy Aldridge (6} Logan County, Colorado, north of Iliff, approx. ~ At the site of the sixty-first Logan County mute, mined number of indentations - 4" (10.15 em.} in ~arn1e'ter

· (7} Logan County, Colorado, near Atwood; Discovered ·~-~v "Strange pod marks made by an unknown vehicle" tilated carcass were described as similar to the tion in case no. 8. (1} STERLING (Colo.} JOURNAL-ADVOCATE,

(8) Logan County, Colorado, near Atwood; Discovered (Continued - next page)

{9) Logan County, Colorado, near Proctor, Discovered 11-24-76. "Rectangular-shaped impressions" were found near the carcass of the 69th Logan County mutilation. The marks were "not clear enough to determine size or a pattern". On Tuesday night, Nov. 23rd, strange lights were observed in the sky over

In order to get an idea of how the mute site indentations correlate with imprint patterns found at "conventional" UFO landing sites, we referred to the following paper:

**Re: UFO TERMS by Robert S. Somerville, reviewed in STIGMATA #7: Because o£ needed corpections and revisions, Mr. Somerville has wi thdra'lm his book £rom publication. We regret that such a s i tuation-has arisen; but we \dsh Bob luck in securing a publisher and getting the book re-issued. **Correc

The night of Wednesday, August 21, 1975 provided an e ample of a possible deliberate deception maneuver by cattle mutila ors near Logan County, Colorado. The incident involved possible d coy men disguised as Air Force officers who may have been used o confuse and to throw off course a concerted land

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We have sought to discern the difference between the overall attitude toward the mutilation problem now and that prevalent back in 1974 or 1975. One trend that is apparent is an unfortunate one and bodes ill for the prospect of prompt meaningful progress in the mutilation investigation, at least whe

Over the years several reporters who have become familiar with the mutilation topic and everything that attends it have asked how it is possible that the national media has not "latched onto" the mutilations with more fervor or at least given the matter more attention. And we have long wondered why

that a very "active" UFO ' group in Salvadore, State very concerned 'lrith cattle mutilation cases. Efforts to contact this group by writing in both English and Portugese with success. The following summary of accounts was

Fevr reports originate from here. One i tern of interest was passed along by adventurer-lecturer-radio personality Danhy Liska of Medellin, Colombia. Liska has learned o£ a series o£ "vampire" at-

PUERTO RICO A case might be made f'or the irrelevance of' the inc Puerto Rico in this survey. Since Puerto Rico is a there might

A chapter of' Robiou 1 s book b~NIF!ESTO OVNI deals wi tilations, and Robiou has accumulated many interesti Also, Salvador Freixedo, in his "Tribute de Sangre" MUNDO DESCONOCIDO (see "Mexico") , ref'ers to the

THE CANARY ISLANDS

These Spanish possessions (comprising, in fact, two Spanish provinces) are situated rather inconspicuously off the northwest coast of Africa. The largest islands in the group of Tenerife, Gran Canaria (Grand Canary) and Fuerteventu • The Canaries are blessed with a mild climate and a substanti 1 amo

The crew of an aurcra.f't on a flight from a ll"''n eErn. city unexplainto Tenerife registered a surprising and able action of the aircraft's radar, which, gave strange signals in regard to something the vicinity of the aircra:f't. Although the astonishment of the crew have not yet been

In a small corral, a plastic bag covers the sheep. The bodies present the same syptoms that victims {there have been a total of' eight} did: c holes in the sides, no blood inside the bodies o£ violence around. The account o£ Antonio bias: "My £ather was alerted by the sheep bellowi

fourth Quarter - 1980 'DIE PROJECT STIGMA REPORT ON THE CONTINUING

On The Attack Rommel, Kenneth M. ,Jr. (Project Director), OPERATION ANIMAL MUfiLATION - Report of the District Attorney, First Judicial District, State of New Mexico (Santa Fe), June 1980. Rorvik, David; "Cattle Mutilations: The Truth At last" in PENfHOUSE magazine, September 1980.

On page 220 of his OPERATION ANIMAL MUTILATION report, Kenneth Rommel quotes (or misquotes) from what he claims to be the "January issue of Stigma.ta"(sic). Actually, the quote is from the one-page January 1980 "Stigmata Supplement Number One", not from a regula.r issue

Anthropologist Dr. Nancy H. Owen of the University of Arkansas (her husband, Dr. Jerome Rose, is associated with the same department of anthropology) was awarded a grant by the Arkansas Endowment For the Humanities(University Tower Building;Suite 1019; Uttle Rock, Arkansas 72204). As a result of her

Two motion pictures in various stages of production will dealing .to some degree with livestock mutilations. One, is being produced by World Amusement Company of SN~•'I"ri,$ll lifornla. According to company spokesman Curtis Burch, ready been completed on "Earthright", and it could be

There is a definite possibility that the cattle mutilations which have been occurring recently may be the work of members of one or more "satanic" cults. In fact, there now seems to be only two viable theories: (a) they are the work of several mentally-deranged individuals; perhaps one such person b

Correction: Re: "A Mutilation Documentary" in STIGMATA No. 10 On page 5, in discussing the case of Judy Doraty, featured in the documentary, "A Straa.ge Harvest", we stated that Mrs. Doraty and her family all observed a calf being "sucked" up through a beam of light into: a UFO. As far as was known,

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1979 through February 1980 KANSAS - Atchison Co. - 25 reported mutes during this period.

night of 24th-25th, Thursday-Friday WASHINGTON - Pierce - near Graham - Bulldis - horse, 1fr..A·n Ar•R penis removed with "sharp instrument"; horse survived found on ground at site - PIERCE COUNTY HERALD ( Puyal ton) , 4-29-80. 25th, Friday

26th, Saturday COLORADO - El Paso - south of Simla - Blake horse stud, "Skip Easy Cash" - seen alive on April ear, lower lip~ strips of skin, scrotuu. - mucous and rounding right eye cut a"IBY, with eyeball itself .L~IUG.llf'u.u~ also involved: helicopter; trees, one twisted, one aec~rtmll!l:d norma

April 1980 (cont.)

26th-; . Monday. (approximate) COLORADO - Elbert - NE of Simla - Richardson - ·

29th, Thursday (approximate) COLORADO - Elbert - NE of Simla - Hamacher - one-year-old heifer right ear, right eye, rectum, tail - :fifth mute suffered by rancher since 1975(Sept.)- 4 miles east of Richardson mute site (see previous page ) - Linda Howe, KMGH-TV, Denver. 31st, Saturday COLORADO - Rio

7th, Thursday CANADA - SASKATCHEWAN - Neudor:f area - Mass - .lYz-year-old bull left ear, testicles, tongue - "internal carcas bloodless". 11th, Nonday NE\11 YORK - Yates - near Potter - La:f:fler, Castner - 6 lambs :found dead - well over 100 sheep similarly killed on two :farms in 1980 some of the

16th, Tuesday COLORADO - Weld - NW o£ Briggsdale - Ball - classically mutilated steer cal£ and, 1.5 miles fUrther west, another cal£, possibly mutilated - £irst cal£: tongue, circle o£ hide on belly, tail tassle, part o£ rectum; 2 pencil-sized holes in neck; unidenti£ied white substance £ound at sit

22nd, Monday \IJYOMING - Albany - 14 miles S\11 o£ Laramie - 800-lb, lU-yr.-old pregnant hei£er - £lesh/hide on jaw and nose removed, also 4 teats; rectum cored - microscopic examination o£ hairs showed sharply-severed ends - evidence o£ some predation £ollowing mutilation - LARAMIE DAILY BOOMERANG,

David Brewer, Bureau o£ Indian A:f':f'airs, Pine Ridge, SD. September, date unknown TEXAS - Bexar - :farm in SE Bexar County - Snell - 50-lb. white Yorkshire shoat - heart, genitale removed - SAN ANTONIO LIGHT, 11-12-80; DALLAS MORNING NEWS, 11-13-80. 29th, M:mday

29th, M:mday COLORADO - Weld - south of' Grover - McKinley - 4-year-old cow right eye, right ear, half' o£ ear-tag, hide around nose & jaw, tonooue, udder, rectum, tail tassle, patch of' hide under right front armpit - on Saturday night, the 27th, neighbor heard sound like helicopter, went out to lo

On Tuesday, September 16, 1980, two 350-400-pound steer calves were discovered dead. More mutilations ••• at least in the case o£ one, which had been dead no more than one to two days. The carcasses were found about a mile and a half apart northwest pf Briggsdale, Weld County, Colorado, in rancher R

North of Briggsdale - On Tuesday, on the Eagle Rock Ranch, south of the Wyoming border Hereford, ranch-hand Jessie Frazier rode out to maining bull from a herd of cows. He found the

COLORADO: Obviously, our Colorado summary of representative reports been possible vdthout the diligent investigative work performed by Linda f,I oulton Howe, Director of Special Projects at KMGH-TV in Denver and, as. many readers know, the \'II'iter, editor, producer and director of the mutilatj,on

Serious researchers should buy it, and read it! solicit feedback and new information. If' anything here rings a bell ~nth you sophisticated STIGMATA readers, please contact AMP immediately (if' not before).· We'll attempt to respond accordingly.

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If you should learn of a potential "classic" mutilation in your area (especially a "fresh" one), you can notify us by telephone at (A.C. 214) 784-5922. Unfortunately, such a call would not be toll-free. An answering device will take your message if we're away, and we'll get back to you to acknowledg

Of pertinence to us and to the readers of STIGMATA is that GRUDGE 13 contained information regarding humans victims of "classic" mutilation-attacks. The rumors of ""-·~~,.-..a..~. . ymutilated humans have been with us throughout the mute-madness of the past several years. We have shied away fr

is a widely known report #14; in fact, an entire book about it (FLYING SAUCERS: AN ANALYSIS OF PROJECT BLUE BOOK SPECIAL REPORT N:>. 14 by son; the Fifth Hdttion published 1976 by mue-Book ; 64 Prospect St·. ; White Plains, New York 10606). The "Col. R-r1..., . , .. whose

Kern County - In an arti c le on " bigfoot " activity in the area, the BAKERSFIELD CAIJFORNIAN (October 31, 1980) reported that a Kern County fireman examined , two cattle carcasses from YhiDh the mammary systems "were neatly, surgically cut off - not as if wild animals had done it". The sheriff's d

Gould: Oldest known English-language book. Excellent an..._.A cases which combine human mass murder with animal '"""'".uo'"'".."''" THE WEREWOLF DELUSION by Ian Woodward: terlal, but updated to about the 1940's. - ALIVE by des plane crash; story of survivors who ate the bodies THE HISTORY OF THE DON

Pass cannabalism-to-survive episode. - FLESH AND by Reay Tannahlll. History of cannaballsm, fountainhead of cult which needs to · be iDdexed to bring up j;)osslhle cults in current matter.

The following article appeared in the Edmonton, Alberta JOURNAL on June 13, 1980: A protest against Calgary RCMP handling of information on animal mutilations in Alberta has been filed by Thompson MacDonald, vice-president of news and public affairs for CFCN Communications Ud. of Calgary. In a Telex

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In the city of Omaha, Diane Mueller lcept a pet goat in her backyard. She bad nursed the goat through a difficult period following birth and now, several months later, she even took the pet to work with her on occasion. On the morning of January 10, 1980, it was windy and sleeting a little and she d

(A regular STIGMATA reader, wr1t1ng tmder the ~ de plume "X-9", has allowed us to pri.Dt the following letter in critique of the allegations by the pseudononymous "Toullnet" regarding "Project Grudge Report Number 13", as described in STIGMATA #14): I think I can safely say that the "Toullnet Memo"

Expanding upon our coverage of potentially and seemingly-related animal mutilations (now co include humans?) on a global scale, we present the following up-date on reports that have reached us from outside the United States and Canada. After presenting this data and that in STIGMATA #10, we still ca

REPORT FROM EDWIN AUSTIN OF THE MUTILATION DATA .CENTER

CLASSIC VS' NON.:CLASSlC Mtn'ES I stick: to the "clAssics" because they lend themselves to personal examiDation and my own investigative methods. I have actually examined over 200 allegedly mutilated ani• mals and found only three which satisfied me as to authenticity. Non-classics de• terio rate so

There are growing numbers of "vampire investigators" who have collected large numbers of near-classic human mutes. The tabloid WEEKLY WORlD NEWS (12•2-80) describes two. In one, a couple was found with their hearts cut out, blood drained, in New York City. In another, a 7-year-old Hispanic boy was f

My basic method is an extensive cross-referenced card file which into specific, chronologically-filed master folders. At the moment, I only index ._,".."''"· and am waiting to see what other information needs to be included. It is becoming that a subject and geograpblcal index are needed. What else

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And here we go again. As we said ln last year's first issue, the mtJtqlatjlons continue to be no flash-in-the-pan phenomenon. The m\Jtes - and the m\JtUators staying power. And what do we have? Understanding? Revelation? Answers? No, what have is a lot of historical perspective, for whatever that's

JANUARY 1981 3rd, Saturday COLORADO - El Paso County - near Ramah - 3-year-old Hereford heifer - missing hide and flesh on right side of jaw; also, right eye and rectal area removed - a blue nylon rope was tied around the right rear leg - throat had been cut - investigating deputy theorized that som

NEWS, 2-28-81, credit: Robert E. Morgan. (late February or early March) WASHINGTON - Pierce County - 4 miles south of Bald Hills area - owner unidentified bull - mutilation described as "classic" - BIGFOOT CO-OP(Whittier, CA), June 1981 (letter); credit: Constance Cameron. (sometime during first qua

13th, Monday bull - "partially OKLAHOMA - Sequoyah County - south of Muldrow - O'Bryan ranch castrated" and no evidence of bleeding; blood thought drained - no .... a,......,. no disturbance by dogs or predators - sheriff says shot nine times (see April 11) Y OKLAHOMAN ~kla. City), 4-18-81.

(Iowa), 7-28-81; William L. Moore; Mrs. Robert Snodgrass. MAY 1981 (cont. )

covered with its calf standing nearby - half of udder missing - "anal area was cut" the dewclaws on a leg were neatly snipped off - Salazar also suffered mutilations around this time in 1979 and 1980 --- ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL, 9-2-81; F. Hudson via UFO Newscllpping Service. 23rd, Sunday IOWA - Howard

26th, Wednesday COLORAOO - Huerfano County - 7 miles west of Walsenburg - Gomez - 3-year-old heifer - tongue removed - rectum remov~ as if a "stovepipe" had been shoved up the rear of the animal and the "core" removed - at least some additional damage on this carcass is thought to have been caused b

14th, Monday CANADA • ALBERTA - Falun, between Edmouton and Red Deer calf - penis, testicles, anus and half of taU "cut out with surgical liA'-"II:~....,,JUu !-mile north of house - no tracks - herd was c~ked on 9-11-81 was nothing on the site where the calf was found on the 14th - a corpse (killed

28th, MoDday CANADA - AlBERTA • Balzac, just north of Calgary - Stan .}ones • 600-kg., purebred Hereford bull, 1! years old - circular hole, 30 centimeters in diameter' in abdomen where testicles bad been removed; sharp-edged wound, some dripping blood .; ptmcture mark in :oeck - 3 triangular patche

OCTOBER 1981

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Most of our readers are already familiar with reports regarding an extraordinary UFO incident which occurred northeast of 1-buston, Texas on the night of December 29, 1980. Three ~eople were involved - two women: Betty Cash and Vickie Landrum and Mrs. Landrum's 7 - year - old grandson, Colby. We'll

1981) - plus these more-or-less in-depth newspaper articles: Corpus hristi , Texas CALLER-TIMES (Sept. 13, 1981); Conroe, Texas DAILY COURIER (F b. 22- 23, 1981); HOUSTON CHRONICLE (Sept. 25, 1981); DALLAS TIMES HERALD • 21, 1981); Liberty, Texas VINDICATOR (Sept. 16, 1981). The nationally-distribut

sister publication. Deviating from the approach taken by so many of s peers, Donovan s article is most credible and minus unnecessary sensationalizing. Th NATIONAL ENQUIRER itself later published a full - page article on the subject - yet str gely and incredibly the article did not mention the helic

Subject: Cat mutilations in Orange County, California pet mutilations Beginning in 1979 Orange County, ' California has been through a series that bear similarities to the "cattle mutilations". First - chickens, IUl.lLQ.lM~:::u voodoo-style, left on the yard of a church school in Anaheim Hills. Next

Fernie, British Columbia On Saturday, May 16, 1981 at around 8:00 PM, it was light enough for =a motorist passing the White Spruce Ranch near Fernie to see what appeared to be a cow down on the ground near Highway 3. Tile next morning another motorist saw the same animal. He notified the

the rear end and the neck and shoulder appeared to be hR.1·1ll'~te1rfstfti of damage inflicted by carniverous animals, with irregular edges, shredding of the and what appeared to be tooth marks". Then, Dr. Lawson concludes with this significant remark: "The w"''""u'" on the head appeared to have bee

Before describing in detail the 1981 mutilation incident which in New Hampshire, we'll delve into a case from 1978, thereby summing up the known htl1'11'n1'"1T of classic animal mutilations in that state (at least, to our knowledge). We first informed of the October 1978 case, near Piermont, NH, upo

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As we reported in STIGMA'D\ No. 14, a veteran ufologist (well-known but anonymous he.r e) investigated the claims and beckgrotmd of the man we called "Toulinet", who cla1med intimate knowledge, not only of the fantastic-if-true "Project Grudge Report No. 13" (aka "Grudge 13"), but of a series of hum

He wrote in a recent letter: For the life of me, I can't understand your desire to continue to comment on (Toulinet's) "Grudge 13" garbage. As I have told you, (Toulinet) is totally un-

The world's armies possess a bewildering array of chemical/biological weapons. Using them is severely hampered by the wgaries of wind, temperature, humidity, sunlight, trees and buildings, individual resistance and other imponderables. Since the 40's, experimentation bas been almost exdusively with

CharacteriZed by a frenzy which produces multiple identical trauma. The weapon is normally crude and found nearby. Some go on to attack humans, bringing them into murder trials (SACRAMENI'O BEE, Sacramento, California, beginning January 29, 1978: copies of official court exhibl.ts; all from multiple

Based on the Valdez and Blake cases, I suggest that attention be given to examination of nearby living animals with ultra-violet and infrared light. Blood samples of nearby living animals should be taken and examined for anomalous substances, cell disturbances and the like. In the area where the ani

I have discovered a grave danger to the Vampire Information Network and numerous unusual religions, usually called "cults". Basically, the u.s. military is using these groups as sca)!legoats for chemical/biological warfare experiments on livestock. 'The world's armies

''THE RETURN' Outside of the "Haunted Billabong", the supposed 19ll Australian mutilation/UFO flick that we

Formerly titled "Cows", this film stars Robert Urich ~g to make the Big leap from TV), JoBeth Wllliams(starring in this summer's sparkling Spielberg spooker, ":A>ltergeist"), and character folks like Hoyt Axton, Paul Dooley, Gene Evans and none other than Harry Carey, Jr.; directed by Alan Rudolph a

Now there's INFO JOURNAL and FORTEAN TIMES, the British publication that is pre-eminent in the field. We believe that, in our rather modest fashion, we have our own niche We will be loosely-organiZed (nothing new there) and will hope to accurately reflect the chaos of civilization as we know it and

FOURTH QUARTER -1982

persuasive••• well laced with humor, tension and action." CINEFANTASTIQUE (David Hogan): "The true-life rash of cattle m111~tim1s that has

In making "Endangered Species", Alive Enterprises hired a livestock mutilation consultant, George C. Erianne of Colorado Springs, Colorado - where, until recently, he worked as "The Detective", a private eye specializing in (from his business card} "exclusive private investigations, national & inter

The recent death of Landaluce, the multi -million -dollar race horse who was favored to win Santa Anita, spawned an absolute Pandora's Box. Local vets could not determine the cause of death, so the carcass was shipped to the University of California's veterinary school at Davis. Dr. Bennie Osborn co

(April 17, 1982). Credit: Bill Banks, Jerome Clark, Dwight Whalen. In 1980 New Jersey Fortean researcher Peter A. Jordan published a monograph, GLIMPSES THROUGH A LOOKING GLASS, in which be reported on the use of psychometry (psychic analysis) in his mutilation-related investigations. GLIMPSES was &

Highly recommended for its text (tor Spanish-readers) and for its pictorial content ([or anyone into mute research) is a new Spanish-language publication by adventurer-investigator Dlnny Liska, who divides his time between his Nebraska homeland and Colombia, South America. Send $5. OO(U. S.) and ask

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will be our next publication, to appear before the end Of 1983 (we' hind, folks). Cost for the single issue of CRUX is $3. OO(U. S., Can. 1982 - A SUMMARY

In assessing the 1982 mutilation situation, we've elected to present our summary on a state-by-state basis. 1bere were some interesting cases - some exhibiting new, additional quirks and characteristics - with a surfeit of reports mirroring past mutilation events virtually ad nauseam. Increasingly -

"There has been an alert put out for a religious cult coming down from Oregon or Northern California. There have been problems in Oregon with people killing animals and removing testicles and internal organs". Lapham said members of a cult in the Montara and Granada areas further north of Half Moon

bltmt-instrument where the two horses were killed and two WO\Dlded. Compared to removal of the horses' tails, the paws were sliced off with sotnet•lltiDLg sharp. The paws were thought to be from the same dog, about the siZe of a t,.,.,.;,~>rL The University of California at Davis autopsied the two d

CHRONICLE (July lo, 1982;July 14,1982), SAN JOSE NEWS (July 14,1 ), and numerous RVICE;Route 1, wire service articles. Credit: l.ncius Farish(UFO NEWSCUPPING Box 220; Plumerville,Arlcansas 72127), Bill Dlnks, Michael noJ:rmaJl, Henry Rosenthal,

NOVEMBER-DECEMBER - Solano County - City of Fairfield Two incidents occurred in which slaughtered animals and apparent cult-paraphernalia were found in city parks. According to the Vallejo TIMES HE The most recent discovery came the day after Christmas: back riders came upon the carcasses of a Germa

We cannot recommend the Los Angeles area to felines, judging ring in the La8UJl4 Hills area of Orange Co\Dlty (southeast of Los jnUJ(l:'.u::o

the Agoura area west of Los Angeles proper. We will begin our 1982 survey of this area with a look at a series of reports from the Laguna Hills region in December of Six cats were killed and partially eaten in December, 1981, by what was thought to be a coyote or dog. The killings occurred in the mi

also learned of a report of a classic cow mutilation in the Tehachap Mountains (north of Los Angeles) in 1981; but, again, no details available. The cat killings and mutilations became increasingly hard-to-ignore, and on September 8, 1982, they finally made the print media. On that date the LOS Al G

**Actually, bizarre cat k:illlngs in the Los Angeles area go back as far as 1974, as indicated in the following Associated Press release of October 16, 1 A series of cat killings in the wealthy suburb of Brentwood - no"·..h••na hands of devil worshippers - has stirred the anger of residents and puzz

CONTRA COSTA TIMESOanuary 27, 1983). Credits: D. Scott Rogo, A. LeVesque, Ginny Cooney(Alive Enterprises), Peter Guttilla via Lucius In 1982, mutilation reports from across the country did not come of 1975 - or even 1980. However, reports persisted in some areas

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Many readers - the majority, in fact - have not been with us since STIGMATA's i .n ception back in 1978, Also, the publication did not begin as "primer" material, but was directed at an audience which already possessed a basic knowledge of the mutilation phenomenon, Continued requests for basic info

Some of these helicopter sightings are mere flyovers - and some innocent coincidence may well be involved. But the are altogether too many reports of helicopters that harrass herds of livestock, spotlighting cattle, chasing ground observers and even landing in pastures; and some incidents have featu

Ever-accelerating efforts on the part of scientists worldwide, civilian and military, have been directed toward research in recombinant DNA, gene -splicing - tampering with the very nature of physical life itself. This research is becoming increasingly sophisticated and much is cloaked in secrecy. S

A minor controversy has developed over the years over whether a was actually mutilated and discovered "at the NORAD gate" or on NORAD n.,.,.,,_.t+tu near Colorado Springs in 1975. The reportedly-mutilated animal, in fact, was near the road to NORAD. According to the Colorado Springs

Where our separate publication, CRUX, is concerned: No one has missed an issue because the first edition has yet to be published. Now we're working on being two years behind schedule. We apologiZe (as always). The delay is primarily due to slow progress into investigations concerning the major mater

INVESfiCATION INTO THE OCCURRENCE OF ANIMAL MUfiLATIONS STIGMATA SUBSCRIPTIONS: This issue - Nuaber 22 - is the only edition to appear in 1985. Barring the unforseen, we will publish a sin~le issue in 1986, most likely in late summer or fall. The subscription cost per issue is $3.00 (United States,

- 1983 &1984 Our last full-fledged summary of mutilation repo'r ts covered the events of 1982 and appeared in STIGMATA No. 20 in !983, so ~e have some catching up to do. Since the "up" year of 1980, mutilation reports have been sporadically consistent - mostly isolated reports wit~ nothing remotely

Farmer Claude Lowery of the Langley area in northern Pike County found the carcass of one of his cows under a patch of trees (Pike County is best known as the site of the "'Crater of Diamonds" in the southern part of the county). The cow was missing its left eye and the uterus, and the tongue had be

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In the. Ramah area, a rancher discovered the carcass of a 3-year-old heifer. Seeing the carcass from a distance, he tough.t . it was a steer because he was unable to see an udder • . The udder had been cleanly removed. MID-AUGUST - ELBERT/EL PASO COUNTY The same Ramah-area rancher who was struck in

The same Ramah-area rancher who was struck in June lost another cow in August. The animal was seen alive and well on a Saturday afternoon and it's carcass was discovered the following Monday. ·rt was suspected tha the 2-year· old cow had died on Saturday night-Sunday ·morning. As in June, the udderh

On a ranch southwest of the South-central Nebraska town of Campbell, a 10year-old pregnant cow was seen alive and well on Saturday after, April 16th. That night, as ·the family was watching "Saturday Night J.ivc", their doc;s began raising a ruckus . Unaccountably to the rancher, the family continue

Near Hobbs in the southeastern corner of New Mexico, a livestock inspector for the State Livestock Board lost a bull or steer to mutilators. The penis and anus were missing, with no further details forthcoming. The inspector made it a point to call Gabe Valdez in Dulce. He explained that he had prev

Another female bovine was discovered 3! miles north ~f the town of Cuba, which lies near the southern extremity of th~ Jicarilla Apache Indian Reservation (Dulce, in Rio Arriba County, sits near the northern end of the same reservation). State Police Officer Mike Avilucea investigated. The cow's udd

S'I'IC.IIll'l'll No. 2:1 NOTE TO READERS: STIGMATA and CRUX, heretofore separate publications, are being combined in this one issue for thi s year only. In 1987, each will again be published separately (see additional note on back page).

to watch for:(l) A startling account of the personal UFO-related experiences of a best-selling novelist, (2) EXTRA-TERRESTRIALS AMONG US byGeorge Andrews ($11.45 from Llewellyn Publications;P.O.Box 64383-LFOlO; St. Paul, MN 55164), (3) LEGRANDE CARNAGE by French researcher Michel Granger, the French

In response to his Freedom of Information Act request for information on UFOs, Ray W. Boeche of the Fortean Research Center in Lincoln, Nebraska, received a selection of documents from the Defense Intelligence Agency in

For several years ufologists have been scrambling for clues and definitive information regarding "Project Aquarius" which, it has been suggested, is a very crucial UFO-related operation, possible involving "official" contact and relations with extraterrestrial ufonauts. Rumors abound. Hard factsare

A one-page document has been circulating among ufologists for severalmonths. Our copy is too poor for reproduction here but, as it is not lengthy, we will describe it here . The page, at top and bottom, has been stamped "Top Secret" in large letters, but then stamped "Unclassified" in smaller letter

Harlingen, Texas- Wednesday, August 21,1985 & Friday , Aug st 23 , 1985: A woman & her two boys were walking around the Harlingen Cit Lake Wed . night . They saw a triangular-shaped object hanging silently over he lake. It began following them , and they ran. The woman tripped over r cks, banging up

We are interested in the possibility that ~ aspects of the UFO phenomenon may be explained by terrestrially-originated technology (like remotely-piloted vehicles - RPV's - for instance). An Ohio correspondent writes: I ~oes privileged once to get in en the observance of a real, genuine, solid, tangi

The following are events variously reminiscent of the "Gallup Incident" and similar events that we reported on in CRUX 111 in 1985: Kansas City, Missouri - Sunday, November 4, 1984 Two loud booming sounds blasted across several counties in the Kansas City Metropolitan area. They occurred seconds apa

Serious students of the political assassinations of the 1960's and the researchers of Forteana {"the strange and the unknown") have begun to see a surprising number of overlaps between their two fields. Perhaps assassination research is becoming such a mature artform it is allowing the reverberation

ile know "Samuel", Coleman's source for the New Orleans "coven" story. We,in fact were Coleman's immediate source for the tale . Unfortunately, nothing more is known, as we lost track of "Samuel" many years ago. We are very interested in the intriguing life story of Fred Lee Crisman. We have delved

Loren Coleman's two latest books are highly recommended and are, in fact, essential reading for serious Forteans: MYSTERIOUS AMERICA (1983) and CURIOUS ENCOUNTERS (1985), both published by Faber & Faber,Inc.; 39 Thompson Street; Winchester, MA 01890. "Coincidence, if traced far enough back, becomes

The Amazing Kreskin has a standing offer of $100,000 to anyone who can prove the existence of a hypnotic state. In 1985 (United Press International; 3-6-85) he spoke out against a bill that would license hypnotechnicians in New Jersey. He asked: "How can they license somebody to do something that ha

Galesburg, Illinois The descriptions below were from our log of UFO sightings that my wife and I started on May 3, 1967. The following is an account of how we happened to see these giant "bird-like" creatures and the events that followed. On 5/10/68, 10:05 P.M., with a thin cloud cover, the ceiling

Plug a bigfoot for science. Grover Krantz and John Lowenstein would seem to agree on that aim. Krantz is the Washington State University anthropology

THE CAPROCK WOLFPACK The "caprock" is an escarpment that runs roughly north-south through a sizeable portion of West Texas, separating the High Plains of Lubbock andSeminole to the west from the lower plains to the east. In February of 1877,an unusual occurrence - for Texas anyway - occurred in Yell

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interest to us. We hope to publish several in the next and subsequent editions, but we would like to see more of your comments and opinions. If you write to us be sure to· specify whether your letter or parts thereof is for publication and whether you want us to withhold your name and address.

that, since the publication of STIGMATA No. 7, most of the interest in the mutilation phenomenon has been emanating from, and directed toward, the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan, where at least 30 livestock mutilations have been reported. With few exceptions,

lations occur in the 1880's, in 1910 and in 1911?7 We have very few details at pre sent but we hope to learn more and rep• ort on them in the near future. ------------Among items that are rumored to be in the works, however tentatively: an anthology of commentary on the mutilation phenomenon; a bibl