Bizarre cases of cattle, horses, and other livestock being killed and mutilated under highly unusual - usually bloodless - circumstances have been reported all over the United States since at least the 1970s.

But mysterious mutilations of livestock aren't confined to the 1970s, or to the United States for that matter. Similar cases involving sheep, cows, and horses have been reported as far back as the early 17th century and as recently as 2022.

The problem is so pervasive that there have been TWO independent federal investigations into the phenomena by the FBI and ATF. Both investigations failed to identify the culprit... or culprits?

While we don't know who (or what) is responsible, we do know that this is a Spooky Season episode for the books!

Sources:

• FBI Records: Animal Mutilation
• History.com: The Mysterious History of Cattle Mutilation
• Wikipedia.com: Cattle Mutilation