I have never told this story to anyone that wasn't a friend and new me. But
I guess this is a good place to tell about my experience.


Well to begin this happen about maybe 16-17 years ago in the country near a town named Exititer Ca. Not sure of the spelling of the town
anyway my husband, kids and I were in our station wagon headed home from a late night party at our friends house. My husband was driving. We cut through the country this way to stay off the main highway.
We always liked taking back roads because we had a saying (Just to see what we could see!)
Well this night we saw more then we wanted! This was a very small back country road there were farms along the way. We came a pond a couple
farms the kind were the houses were right up against the road rolling fields with cows roaming here and there. except this night we were horrified
we slowed down thinking someone or some kind of accident had happen because there was something in the road. when we got closer we saw three or four cows laying in the road and a few in the ditch. We looked at each other then looked out to the field and as far as we could see out into the field there were dead skinned cows. They lay it seemed like everywhere! We thought there may have been as many as 40 -50 out in the field.

Needless to say I said get us out of here! and my husband put the peddle to the medal!
We kept looking back to make sure there was nothing coming after us. We were scared. When we got home and put our three sleeping kids to bed, we talked about what we saw. We both new that there had been reports of farmers finding there cows skinned by Men for the hides. We had also herd stories
that it was aliens doing this to cows. Well we wondered if it was a case of men killing and steeling the hides. How did the cows get into the road with the fences still in tact? they were not 20 feet from the front door of the farm house door! Could someone have done this so quietly? There were lots of cows and the time was about 3am. We listened for news about it and never heard anything about it.
What do you think? Has anything like this ever happen to you ?

That's a bit crazy... Did it show up on the news or anything?

Weird experience...I would have gotten in touch with the local authorities...Made a report and see what they had to say...

Maybe the cows were just hot.

I think I woould have reported it to the nearest police office. Called the news or something. I sure wouldn't have done nothing. Sorry, but I can't buy your story.

lmao that was good.

If that happend,then is the Aliens who haved do that.Gov.let them do whatever they wont.

I didn't ask anyone to believe it or not I'm the one it happen to so thats all I need to know. If anyone wants to check to find out if there were any report from maybe the farmer they could. Feel free I have nothing to prove I was just sharing (believe it Or not makes no differents to me I know the truth!)
And We didn't report it at the time because there were reports on cattle steeling and killing going on then and we were scared!

So if you saw a person being killed on the side of the road, you wouldn't report it either? Your statement makes no sense.

Ditto. Sorry, but I just don't buy it either. Nice story though.

Yeah you think there would be some sort of local news report about so many cows being butchered in the street like that.

It makes sense to me. People don't always do things logically when they're scared. Maybe they thought since the cows were right in front of the farm house's front door the farmer would notice in the morning and call the police (a logical assumption, since the cows were most likely that farmer's property); maybe they were scared to report it and have the people who were doing this possibly find out and threaten them; maybe they started second guessing themselves and didn't know if they'd be believed. Who knows? Just because what she's saying doesn't make sense to you, doesn't mean other people don't understand.

Google results for cattle mutilations exeter:

Plenty of results for NH but none for Cali...
I can't hit most of those sites here from work though.

Was there a leather outfitter near this town?

From the small amount of reading I just did on cattle mutilations, I would say that what happened to you doesn't fit with what a typical cattle mutilation involves.

This is what wiki said happens with most cattle mutilations:

* The removal of eyes, udders and sexual organs
* The removal of the anus to a depth of around 12 inches
* The removal of the tongue and/or lips
* The removal of one ear
* The stripping of hide and flesh from the jaw and the area directly beneath the ear
* The removal of soft organs from the lower body
* The presence of incisions and cuts across the body that appear to have been made by a surgical instrument
* Unexplained damage to remaining organs, but no sign of damage to the surrounding area
* A lack of predation signs (including teethmarks, tearing of the skin or flesh, or animal footprints) on or around the carcass.
* Lack of scavenging
* Frequently loosening of the bowels

Since your cows were completely skinless, I would be more likely to assume that they were killed for their hides. I didn't find anything related to criminal cowhide theft really, but if you said you knew something about that at the time, then that was probably it.

I don't know why cows were on the wrong side of the fence, but it was most likely that there was a gate you didnt see, or that the fence was broken somewhere.

Still a pretty gruesome story.

i agree, mutilations normally involve the taking blood as well, for cult rituals, its a disturbing story either way, i would most likely freak out if i saw a group of cows like that.

I disagree. I know right from wrong scared or not. I would reoport it. I call BS.

Agree!

In my case, if i saw someone killed, laying on the road, I'll call the police, but if I saw cows I wouldn't. What for, "there's a lot of cows that have been murdered, this is a massacre, the worst one in the west coast !" nah. for all you know the farmer already knew and was just waiting until the day to pick the bodies up.

I wouldn't report it if I was scared enough to worry about the safety of my children.

Here's what I think:

1. The farmer did this for some reason, maybe the leather/hide industry offered more money than the farmer could get for the milk or the meat. And maybe he sold the meat the next day.
2. Some seriously twisted people are out there.
3. The farmer was also killed, but the murderer might have came the next day or even been hiding then, and cleaned up the mess and maybe no one even knew the farmer existed.

I know that last one would have to have the exact circumstances, and that is highly unlikely, but you never know.

And for how the cows got out, I'd say that somewhere you missed a gap in the fence or maybe they got an adrenaline rush from the farmer trying to skin them all and they managed to jump it. And maybe theri legs weren't up to it and they snapped.

That's right, I may only be 13 but I know what you mean (somehow or other).

You can't really expect that everyone would react the same way you would though can you?

Being a mother as well, I am a little perplexed by this statement. How would the safety of her children play any role in reporting this?
I'm trying to imagine the scenerio if it happened to myself. I'm driving down a country road with my husband and children. We drive into a huge mass of slaughtered cows. Then we high-tail it out of there and drive home and remain silent. Why?
Okay, I definitely would NOT get out of the car to investigate and I would definitely drive as fast as I could to get away from there. But, why didn't the original poster stop at a payphone or a gas station and report the incident? She could have most certainly remained anonymous if she wished.
She could have even called the police when she got home.
I just couldn't imagine witnessing a huge mass of slaughtered cows and not reporting it. But, maybe that is just me.
Take care,
Lorelei

I think you're being difficult. I also agree with Ins0mniac's statement ("You can't really expect that everyone would react the same way you would though can you?"), not everyone reacts the same way in situations--and as you put it "know right from wrong." Let's just put you in a car out in the middle of nowhere, surround you with a few slaughtered cows, and see if your first instinct isn't to run and get as far into safety as possible--especially since your own children are with you. I for one would be too intent on getting home safely to stop and contact someone.

Daniella had a good point, the farmer might have already known, and if he didn't, then he would have if he wasn't the one that had done it in the first place.

The only thing I find hard to believe about the story is the large number of cows that had been skinned, otherwise, it's quite plausible, especially if there had been other reports before it.

I haven't heard anything about mass numbers of cows being skinned, though. It sounds like an interesting story; gruesome, but interesting.

Ok so 50+ cows are slaughtered, skinned, and some are thrown into a road. This is 16 years ago. And yet no-one reports it. Not the farmer, not you, not anyone else who drives down that road. You say you have told people you know. Have they not said anyhting to the police? In 16 years no-one has reported it. Abd these 50+ cows have obviously just vanished never to be seen again in those 16 years. Sorry but I'm not buying it.

see i dont no what to belive but what if it was just some teenagers playing a rank that got out of hand its a little far fetched but you never now

I guess everyone has there opinion on how or what We should have done back then and thats fine but it was me and at the time being it was (Cows) not a person we didn't call anyone. We watched for reports and didn't hear of any. We thought because it was a smaller town maybe they kept it quiet. We really
though it was rustlers for the hides.

Many say they don't believe it happen, thats fine as I said before it happen to me and thats all I need to know.
As far as wrong or right I'd say don't judge so quickly. you didn't live there in those times. nor did you hear the stories going around then!

So you would be to scared to make a phone call to the police? Wow. Thats just silly.

I am not being difficult. I am being logical something this story is in short supply of.

It doesn't mean you can't phone in a report. Hello.

You really don't have to be so rude to people, you know. It doesn't quite give you a good image. And honestly, just because you would do something, doesn't mean someone else would. :/ Don't be so arrogant to think that. You weren't there, and I'm sure you wouldn't like to be, so you've no right to say such things. You can disagree, and be polite about it, but it isn't your place to say it happened or didn't.

I find it quite logical, given that she clearly stated there had been other reports--news reports even--of similar events happening around that time. The number of cattle is odd, agreed, but there are things to consider. She was scared, it was dark, and it's clear she was paying more attention on the prospect of leaving than anything else at the time. Numbers could easily be misinterpreted during that sort of situation. I myself would have been to scared to call someone. I've been in situations like that, and quite frankly, it's no fun being that afraid. My situation was entirely different, but I know what it's like to be too afraid to get help for yourself and for people who need it.

As for cows laying about in the road, it's not impossible either. There could have been a break in the fence some way down, or they could have come from a different location entirely.

I don't immediately believe everything I read, in fact, I find a lot of the things posted here quite ludicrous, but this is one of the few I choose to believe.

Well i beleive this story, it happens here in aussie, maybe not with cows but ive seen hundreds of kangaroos skinned and left in a paddock and on the road, i actually had to get off my bike and move a couple. I dont find this story hard to beleive at all.....

Eric, you must really like my story! Tell you what why don't you call whom ever you would call to find out if there were other reports. I don't know who it would be?
I told you the town except I spelled it wrong its Exeter Ca. it was between Lemon Cove and Ivanhoe Ca. around 1990-91 as close as I can remember. Y
You are a Skeptic. and I see you do very safe forum topics. I'm glad this story gave you what you needed!
I get it you don't believe my story and as I've said thats fine. I decided to try google on cow mutilations in Ca. I was surprised on what I found!
I don't see any holes in my story I didn't sit and count each cow so it could have been more or less cows,there were no holes in the fence that I could see in the very SHORT time we were there.We didn't want to call the police! You disbelieved this story! We thought about what we saw and what could happen if.. News police all sorts of stuff. and we didn't want any of it.
Next time I'll call ok LOL Oh and I've got stories from 3yr and on so don't go to far from your computer!

Just another thought!
The storms were pretty bad at times, maybe it was something as simple as Say Lighting striking the cows. I've heard of that happening before.
there was steam coming up from the cow I saw near our car. I just thought it was from it being newly dead and it was early morning. Its been a long time
so I don't remember if it rained that night before or not.

We don't beleive you because there is no way you could proove it. You could have taken the police to the site or told them where it was

so you dont believe half the stories posted on here then? She said this happened years ago and didnt stick around to take pictures for you..... If she had said that she had contacted the police to report it then would you have believed her? pffft.....

Who's "we"?

And I suppose that photographs can prove whether something really happened or not, too I guess. Whether or not she had said she told--or didn't tell--the police, would that have made the story any more believable? There's no evidence to support it. It's very likely that somone would lie, saying they'd contacted police just to make their story that much more believable to people like you.

I agree with Grissy 100%. You may not have to believe it, but you don't have to verbally bash her, or say its ludicrous. I've heard myself telling people on here some of the experiences I've had, they sound completely ridiculous to me. Once again, you don't have to be so verbally abusive. I believe her story, because anything is possible of happening.

Logical. Really? Wow. So you would have beem scared to make a phone call too? Unbelievable. Some people are willing to buy any story.

We don't believe people whose stories don't make sense. Hers does not. Sorry.
If she had filed a police report, like most people would, then she would have had a copy of it. EVIDENCE. Hmm.


I bashed no on. I just pointed out things that make no sense with her story.

oh it sounds like it was done by aliens but there is one part why did they need so many skins? And i would have thought that is it was robbers they would sell the bones too

It sounds like it never happened.

You know how many people are shot in Philadelphia every night and no one hears a thing and no one calls 911 about it? I hear it on the news every day.

People don't report things because they don't want to get involved. If there was some big criminal cattle skinning ring, you don't think maybe they'd silence people who snitch on them? Who could go against them in court?

I'd call... you'd call, but I can understand someone not calling too.

I have heard of alot of cases of this happening in south america and mexico

Thats called being a coward. Not getting involved is a BS excuse. Believe what you want and I will do the same.


A cattle skinning ring. How much sense does that make? None. This whole story makes no logical sense and smacks of fiction.


Really, give us links to all of them.
Thanks.

You hear about these unreported killings every day, even though no-one has reported them. A killing of this many cattle goes un-noticed? Give me a break. And I wasn't being rude to anyone, I was stating how I don't beleive this story. Sorry if I'm not allowed to be skepticle, I'll just go out and beleive every cock and bull story people tell me from now and shal I? That'll really be a good idea won't it?

Holy poop. I wasn't putting on the pleated skirt and cheering for the truth of the original story. I was just pointing out why some people (and yeah Eric, I do consider it cowardice as well) do not call and report crimes.



Okay... wrong word choice. Imagine this, a dark night in Philly. Fifty people living on a street. Gunfire erupts and three men go down in a barage of bullets. An hour later, a guy walking by on his way to the convenience store dials 911 and the cops show up to start taking polaroids of the cold bodies.

Then the news vans show up and people emerge from their homes and make statements like "Yeah, I heard it. Pop pop pop pop pop, like firecrackers. I knew it was shootin. Happens all the time 'round here."

Now that I've exercised my prose-skills.... tons of people do not call authorities when crimes take place, even though they witnessed it. Cowardice or apathy... who knows? I was just pointing out that it happens.

according to the book "mysteries of the explained" by readers digest

1st case was reported in 1967
it involved horse named "snippy"

This that all your going to give. Come on.

if there was about 40 to 50 of them skinned, it wouldve been easy to report it