Mutilations In Sweden ?

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 * Originally dated 08-19-92 12:50

From: Nigel.Bamford@newcastle.ac.uk (Nigel.Bamford)

Date: 18 Aug 92 15:47:18 GMT

Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK NE1 7RU

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The following is taken from the "Fortean Times" a British publication

which deals in strange happenings from around the world.

Swedish horse ripping.

For two or three years, someone-or something-has been attacking and mutilating

horses and cows in western Sweeden. Around 200 horse attacks had been

reported to the police when the mystery was brought to national attention

by journalist Siewert Ohloms' TV programme "Svar direkt" on 25 Febuary

1992.

In the summer of 1989, the number of reports increased. In 90% of the

incidents, the victims were horses, almost always assaulted in the same

way. They were cut with a sharp, scalpel-like instrument,in or beside their

sexual organs. The wounds were often 30cm long, and five or six cm deep.

About 50% of the animals were so severely maimed that they had to be put

down.

Most of the attacks were near main roads, and the origional police

hypothesis was that a single madman or religious fanatic was motoring from

one enclosed pasture to another; then several horses seemed to have been

assaulted in different places at the same time, although this is not certain.

According to Marie Raden, police investigator in the Vanesborg district

it requires an astonishing knowledge of animals to be able to approach the

horses, and hurt them so badly, without causing them to offer resistance.

There were cases where watchdogs didn't react, even when they were only a

couple of yards away, nor was there any indication that the animals had

been drugged.

In August 1991, several horses were assaulted in the neighbourhood of

Fargelanda in Dalsland. It began when a mare, belonging to Marianne

Gothberg, was cut around the vagina. Another of Mrs Gothbergs' horses was

cut the following day, and a day after that a foal was found bleeding on a

neighbouring farm. More horses in the area succumbed, and some 40 farmers

formed a sort of equine "home guard". Pairs of farmers policed the roads

at night, armed with whatever weapons their farms could provide. They

caught a suspicious individual one evening, and turned him over to the

police; but he turned out to be a frightened bilberry picker who had lost

his way.

Tord Haraldsson from Alingas, who belongs to the investigating task force,

said that similar assaults in Denmark and the USA, have turned out to be

sectarian rituals, where fanatics have been drinking horses' blood to gain

strength. This is news to us; the widespread cattle mutilations accross

the American Midwest in the last two decades are variousley blamed on

cultists, aliens or government experimentation, but as far as we are aware

no actual proof has ever been found to back up any of these hypothesis.

Several farmers and horse breeders appeared on the TV program. They stressed

that several attacks had taken place almost in their presence, and couldn't

understand why their horses had submitted without offering resistance. The

perpetrator was like a phantomor a supernatural being. A vet said that the

attacker had a good knowledge, not only of animal behaviour, but also of

animal anatomy. Some of the wounds had been very professionally cut.

When the horses were turned out to pasture again after the winter, the

Fargelanda "home guard" were again mobilised, and others were organised

all over western Sweeden. The first mutilation of the year was reported

in "Expressen" on 14 April. A mare was found a t a place called Vitehall

near Kyrkekvarn, bleeding from wounds in her vagina and hind legs. A

"mysterious" red car driven by a young man sped away from the spot as the

mare was found; but it was not clear at the time of the report how the

wounds had been inflicted. The mare might have been kicked by another horse.

If anyone out there has any other info on animal mutilations, please e-mail

it to me, I am :

        Nigel.Bamford@newcastle.ac.uk

Thanks.

-Nige.

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