The tongues being gone is “a signature,” he told me. Zukowski, who is based in Colorado Springs, specializes in mutilation cases, or, as he calls them, mutes. The cow story piqued the interest of Chuck Zukowski, a longtime paranormal investigator. Alarmed Facebook commenters variously blamed “some cult,” “satanic rituals,” “chupacabras,” “a serial killer in the making,” and “aliens.” A seventh cow was discovered soon afterward, in a similar condition. “No predators or birds would scavenge the remains for several weeks after death,” the sheriff’s department wrote. Much of the coverage lingered on the unnerving details highlighted in the Facebook post: that the cows, found in six locations, had their tongues and part of the flesh of their cheeks precisely excised, with no apparent signs of struggle. The news travelled quickly, racking up seventeen thousand shares on Facebook within a week it had gone international. It was an unusual story for the farming community, a hundred miles north of Houston, where police reports tend more toward traffic violations and stray livestock.
The mutilation phenomenon also underscores the pronounced effects of the libertarian movement of the 1960s that gave rise to the New Right and gained adherents across the West and Midwest.On April 19th, the Madison County Sheriff’s Office published a Facebook post about “the death and mutilation” of six cows. The hostility ranchers showed toward the federal government during the mutilation scare presaged and helped provide the impetus for events such as the Sagebrush Rebellion. The turbulent economic conditions of the period paired with government interference in the cattle industry helped sustain the mutilation phenomenon as ranchers projected their fears and insecurities through the bizarre episode. These frustrations found a release in response to the mutilation phenomenon during which ranchers vented their anger by taking direct aim at the federal government. The episode, often dismissed as mass hysteria or sensationalized reporting, demonstrates the growing dissatisfaction of many ranchers concerning government intrusiveness and restrictive policies.
During the 1970s many small-scale cattle ranchers across the Midwest reported finding their cattle mutilated.
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