In 1967 a three-year-old Appaloosa horse named Lady lived on the ranch of Harry King in the San Luis Valley of Colorado, maybe 150 miles south and east of Denver. This valley was first settled by Mormon pioneers who saw it would be a good place to farm and prosper. Lady was strong and healthy, since she was only three years old and now fully mature, and of the vigorous Appaloosa line, created by the Nez Perce Indians of Washington, Idaho and Oregon. Appaloosas provide some of the most enduring and impressive of horses. On September 8, 1967 Harry King noticed that Lady did not come in as usual near the end of the day. The next day he found this lovely white female, who weighed about 1000 pounds, sprawled dead on the ground a short distance out in his field. No bullet holes or typical wounds causing death. Her flesh was stripped off of her bones "from the neck up." The remaining exposed skeleton looked gruesome and like it had been cleaned days ago, but Harry knew he had seen her alive 48 hours before.
Around her carcass was a smell like incense. She lay not far, about a quarter of a mile, from the Kings' house, but they hadn't heard any noise from her being killed. Nor were there any signs of a struggle or an footprints of who killed her. Among the odd things was that her tracks did not lead to her still body. Clear tracks only came within 100 feet of where Lady lay. There, 100 feet away, she had "jumped around in a circle," apparently before being subdued. Whoever killed her took her heart, lungs and thyroid, an autopsy showed. Impossibly, there was no blood spilled at the scene. An MD who visited the site where she lay was so scared by how completely she had been subdued and how completely her neck and head were stripped and the organs removed that he couldn't eat for a time.
There were no tracks of a predator in that part of the field--not of coyotes nor wolves, bears, or humans. There were no vehicle tracks as would have been seen if poachers had decided to down Harry King's beautiful horse and remove her heart and lungs without spilling blood on the ground. The only explanation of what may have happened based on the physical evidence was that she had been surprised 100 feet away and had jumped around to evade whoever assailed her. But she had been "nabbed" and then, it would seem, picked up, carried for 100 feet, and then dropped to the place in the field where Harry found her.
What in the world could have done that to a strong, young, full-sized horse that could go from a dead stop to running 40 miles an hour in a few strides? It is not hard for a human with a rifle to overpower a horse, but she had not been hit by a bullet. Yet no human footprints were there.
This account comes from Linda Mouton Howe's book, An Alien Harvest, pp 1-8.
The only other clue--and it isn't much of a clue--in Lady's vicinity was many reports from neighboring farmers and ranchers of "strange sky lights that summer."
Thus we have an impossible killing. Let's go to an impossible escape from killing, reported on pages 30-31 of the same book. Near Great Falls, Montana, a man reported seeing a hairy, oversized "Bigfoot" six feet away. He shot it with his shotgun. The creature, in the shooter's words, "disappeared in a flash of light." There was no sign of the Bigfoot left at the scene.
There appears to have been some sort of supernatural force that performed Lady's killing.
There appears to have been some sort of supernatural force that allowed the Bigfoot to escape without dying of bullet wounds.
Many hundreds, probably thousands of other cows, deer, and horses have also died in mysterious, not unlike Lady, in the West and Midwest over several decades. Most have types of cut-marks not made by any known knives, surgical instruments, or predator teeth. One investigator quoted in an article in the Sept 30, 1974 edition of Newsweek said, "I've yet to see a coyote who could chew a straight edge," since some of the cut-marks he saw were straight as could be.
Near Council, Idaho in 1975 six cows, the Idaho Statesman reported, were found dead, without any sign of predators. Near Idaho City in July, 1975, deer were found mysteriously dead. No bullet holes, no signs of struggle, no predator tracks. Near Cascade Reservoir three animals were killed without any sign anyone had walked or driven in. They were not shot. In Sterling, in northeast Colorado, enough livestock was poached that owners began sitting out all-night vigils, waiting for the poachers to return. None were found. One night guards reported they saw "three figures glide over a fence at four a.m.," and they called the sheriff. No intruders were discovered and there were no tracks in wet mud where the "gliding" ones were spotted. LMH pp 10, 27-28,
These notes are from Linda Moulton Howe, An Alien Harvest, taken January 25, 2022 in the library of the Roswell Alien Museum. Lou Girodo, Trinidad, Colorado sheriff said to her, "Possibly [this is done by those] from outer space." Another witness did see a ship in the air over a place where animals were killed, shining lights down. Tim Good wrote, page xv of Harvest, "glowing lights [and] beams shining down . . . above pastures was a common theme among people I interviewed."
Isn't this as eerie and unsettling a set of deaths as could be imagined? These few cases could be multipled by hundreds. A Montana sheriff who investigated many cases wrote a book named Mystery Stalks The Prairie.
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