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Valdatomis didn't sleep well on the night of Tuesday, April 25, 1978. That evening, her

husband Bill and his brother, Rupert, had returned from a day of foraging for mushrooms

in the bush near Churo. A small south Australian township 90km northeast of

the city of Adelaide. During their hunt, they had found something that Valdat couldn't

stop thinking about. Partially buried under some light scrub was what appeared to be the

leg bone of a cow. Although the brothers noted it as strange, they carried on mushrooming

without giving it too much thought. When Valdat heard about the bone, she was rattled.

The bushland surrounding Churo was dry and brittle, and definitely wasn't suitable

for cattle grazing. It was an inhospitable area for anything other than rabbits and a native

wildlife, and Valdat couldn't recall ever seeing cows during her previous visits out

there. She went to bed thinking about the bone, and when she finally drifted off into a

restless sleep, a voice came to her in her dreams. It beckoned her to return to Churo, saying,

come, come.

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