Calf found with surgical 'ball-shaped' injury baffles UK paranormal researchers

Original Source WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT BELOW Animal mutilation cases – often associated with UFO sightings – are commonplace in the US, but this one was reported in the picturesque British market town of Todmorden

A bizarre “animal mutilation” case has been reported in Yorkshire – and paranormal investigators say the dead animal could have been "dropped from above". Reports of livestock being skinned with surgical precision and drained of blood – often associated with UFO sightings – have been a regular part of paranormal lore for decades. But most of them come out of the American Midwest.


This strange story of a calf killed by some unknown force or predator comes from the Gaddings Dam Area of Todmorden,in Yorkshire. Paranormal researcher Deborah Hatswell was sent images of the extraordinary find by Albert Tyas ,who was out walking in the area on July 4. The corpse of the calf was found, somewhat unusually, in a field where sheep were grazing. “This kill has all the classic signs of animal mutilation,” Deborah told Daily Star Online. “Notice the very precise clean cuts,”she added, “there are no signs of attack or a chase of any kind.”

Deborah adds that the clean grass surrounding the calf, with no blood, makes it unlikely that this animal was killed by a dog or a cat. “It doesn't fit with the classic signs of any normal beast here in the UK.” It’s almost as if, she says, the animal had been “dropped from above.”

Sceptics, looking at the innumerable reports of animal mutilation which go at least as far back as the 1600s, will often blame humans for the “surgical” wounds on the animals, which are too neat to have been caused by natural predators. But, Debbie points out in this case, there are no signs of vehicle or tractor tracks in the area which makes it unlikely that the animal was killed elsewhere and dumped.

She adds: “The sheep also had like a perfectly cut sphere cut into its side, with no blood around the wound, the cut was tennis ball sized, it looked like when you use one of those melon ballers, very strange, as if the flesh had been scooped…” The owner of the calf has yet to be traced, another fact that Deborah says is unusual because deaths of livestock should always be reported to the British Cattle Movement Service. Researchers also found a dead white chicken in the same area, which also defied easy explanation.


Deborah says the area is steeped in paranormal lore – citing the case of Zigmund Adamski, a 56 year old miner who went missing from his home in Tingley, near Wakefield in June 1980. Adamski’s body was discovered five days later, 20 miles from his home at a coal yard in Todmorden. James Turnbull, the coroner who dealt with Zigmund’s death, described the case as the biggest mystery of his career. "The question of where he was before he died and what led to his death just could not be answered,”

This calf was investigated at the scene several days later by Lee Nicholson. Lee met with Albert Tyas and they took a number of samples and measurements from around the calf and the ground.


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