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July 31, 1994: Cattle Mutilations - Linda Moulton Howe

Jul 31, 1994
2h 4m
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Linda Moulton Howe, Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist, takes over the full Dreamland broadcast to deliver a sprawling investigation into cattle mutilations, UFO sightings, and the forces behind unexplained phenomena.

Howe reports from the front lines of an ongoing mutilation wave in northern New Mexico, where rancher Eli Horniach has found eleven mutilated cattle since 1993. She presents firsthand audio from Horniach, who describes surgically precise, bloodless excisions that no predator could produce. Pathologist Dr. John Altshuler confirms that tissue samples show hemoglobin cooked by high heat at the incision points. Howe connects these cases to a decades-long pattern stretching back to 1967, noting that no arrest has ever been made worldwide. The program expands into UFO sighting reports from a security officer at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, and a provocative quote from Neil Armstrong about truths hidden behind protective layers. Callers share encounters ranging from vehicle electromagnetic interference to mysterious military containers found near forest preserves.

A dense, evidence-driven broadcast that reveals why Howe remains one of the most relentless investigators in the field.

Key Moments

  1. Cooked hemoglobin under the microscope: Howe describes the work she and Denver pathologist Dr. John Altshuler have done: in 45 to 50 case studies, tissue from mutilation excisions shows hemoglobin that has been cooked - heat that rules out both predators and Satanic cults.

  2. Zero arrests in 27 years of mutilations: Asked if anyone has ever been caught, Howe states that since the first reported horse mutilation in southern Colorado in 1967, there has never been a single arrest or arraignment for animal mutilation anywhere in the world.

  3. Eli Horniach: 11 mutilations, all identical, no blood: Northern New Mexico rancher Eli Horniach, on tape, summarizes all 11 mutilations on his ranch since 1993: anus scored out, scrotum scored out, right eye gone, tongue gone, never any blood and never any tracks.

  4. Sheriff Girotto on camera: helicopters as alien camouflage: Howe recounts that Lou Girotto, then in the Trinidad, Colorado district attorney's office and now sheriff of Las Animas County, said on camera in A Strange Harvest that the silent helicopters around mutilations were 'camouflage' for an off-world intelligence.