A farmer rides out onto his range and finds a shocking sight.

It's the carcass of a dead livestock.

Only it appears to have been sliced and diced very carefully, surgically, strangely.

There's no blood and no evident predation.

Someone has done this deliberately, apparently.

Was it a satanic cult?

Was it a curious alien?

Today, we're going to learn the answer to cattle mutilation on Skeptoid.

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I'm Allison Hudson from Skeptoid.com.

Cattle Mutilations.

It's three in the morning on a cattle ranch somewhere in Texas.

Bessie the cow is half asleep, mindlessly chewing her cud.

Her ears twitching at flies as she does.

Suddenly, she's bathed in a cold, bright light from above.

She finds her hooves dangling beneath her, she's hoisted from the ground by an unknown force.

She lets out a plaintive moo as she disappears into the strange alien craft that has been

hoovering above her.

A week later, rancher Bob stumbles upon the remains of poor Bessie.

His prize cow has been skinned, her organs absconded with, and her remains discarded in

the very pasture where she once grazed.

For many, the above scenario is all too believable.

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