Posted: 9/7/2026 8:52:01 AM EDT
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Cows found mutilated and drained of every drop of blood across remote Oregon... and baffled deputy has a chilling theory Linky "Cattle are being found dead across remote stretches of Oregon with their blood apparently drained and their udders, tongues or genitals removed through clean, scalpel-like cuts. There are no signs of a struggle, no tracks surrounding the carcasses and none of the torn flesh or tooth marks normally left by predators. More than 10,000 cattle mutilations are estimated to have been reported across the US over the past half-century, spawning theories involving cults, secret government experiments, UFOs and mythical creatures such as the chupacabra. Now a new documentary, Not One Drop of Blood, available to stream this week on Amazon Prime Video, investigates the enduring phenomenon and a recent cluster of cases in Oregon's remote Harney County. The mystery intensified in February 2021, when one mutilated cow was discovered on ranch land before six more were found across the county with body parts missing and reportedly no blood remaining. One local law enforcement officer admits in the film that the baffling evidence has pushed even him toward an extraordinary explanation: 'My personal opinion, it's aliens.' Authorities have found nothing pointing to predators, cattle thieves or poisonous plants, while local veterinarians said the wounds resembled scalpel cuts rather than animal bites. Yet filmmakers Jackson Devereux and Lachlan Hinton say the absence of answers has exposed a deeper crisis confronting overstretched authorities and a ranching community already fighting to preserve its way of life. Harney County is the ninth-largest county in the US by area, according to Devereux, and its cattle outnumber its people by approximately 14 to one. Its immense, isolated ranches can take officers hours to reach, giving investigators little hope of preserving evidence when another carcass is reported. Devereux, an Australian filmmaker based in New York, heard about the mutilations from friends in a touring rock band who caught an Oregon radio report about six dead cattle. He and Hinton contacted journalist Anna King, who had reported on the cases and joined the documentary as a producer. They interviewed police, ranchers, agricultural workers, young residents and Indigenous people. 'It just felt very cinematic and larger than just the simple viral element of the mystery,' Devereux said. 'It's these sprawling landscapes that kind of have this mystery that looms over them.' The documentary focuses on descriptions repeated across numerous cases: Animals appear to have simply collapsed, leaving no disturbed dirt or hoof marks indicating a violent struggle. Their tongues, udders or reproductive organs are missing, yet there is none of the ragged damage expected from scavengers. Rancher Clint Weaver initially believed one dead bull had been killed while fighting another animal. 'First, we thought it was just the bulls fighting, so we kind of chalked that up to a death,' Weaver said. 'And then we found another one. And then we started looking at them a lot closer, and noticed that their testicles and their reproductive organs were gone. Then we drove up the creek and found the rest of them.' 'And it was the same: the testicles, reproductive organs, sometimes the tongues were gone. And then we knew something was going on, so then we called the law enforcement in.' The apparent absence of blood from the animals is one of the most perplexing details and inspired the documentary's title. Investigators found no tracks or evidence that the cattle had eaten a deadly plant, Devereux said. Local veterinarians also rejected predator attacks as an explanation because an animal biting and tearing at flesh would leave visibly different damage. 'This looks like a scalpel,' Devereux said of the wounds. 'It's very precise.' He initially suspected that natural causes or insects could explain the deaths. But ranchers monitor their cattle daily and generally recognize signs that an animal is sick, he said, leaving him increasingly uncertain as each potential explanation encountered another conflicting detail. Similar mutilations have been reported across the US, Canada and Mexico since the late 1960s. Elk and deer have also reportedly been found with comparable injuries. The phenomenon has developed what Devereux described as a cult-like following within the paranormal community. Linda Moulton Howe's 1980 documentary Strange Harvest famously explored claims that extraterrestrials were responsible. Many Harney County residents nevertheless suspect human attackers. Their theories include people using poison darts to incapacitate cattle before draining their blood and removing organs for ritualistic or illicit purposes, although investigators have uncovered no evidence substantiating those ideas. Devereux believes UFO and paranormal theories persist because residents and investigators have spent approximately 50 years confronting the same disturbing details without finding a conventional answer. Harney County Sheriff's Department officer Matt Ellibee said he and the sheriff had considered explanations involving devil worshippers and the occult. But the seemingly impossible circumstances left him contemplating something even more extraordinary. 'My personal opinion, it's aliens,' Ellibee said. 'I don't know how else to explain it. 'Do I believe in aliens? I don't know. I don't believe we're the only intelligent species in our universe. But unless there's some super secret squirrel black op group out there able to do this stuff, I don't know what else it'd be.' He questioned whether an unknown clandestine operation could possess the ability to kill and mutilate the animals without leaving evidence, adding: 'Unless there's some super secret squirrel black op group out there able to do this stuff, I don't know what else it'd be.' The filmmakers found sheriff's office reports concerning cattle mutilations dating to the 1970s. Devereux said their descriptions were 'pretty much word for word' the same as reports being written more than 50 years later. Part of the problem is practical. Officers may travel two hours to examine a new case only to find no tracks, physical evidence or obvious cause of death. They must then turn their attention to more immediate crimes, leaving the cattle investigation unresolved until another animal is found. Attempts to coordinate investigations among different counties and agencies have also failed to produce a conclusive explanation. The documentary connects the mystery with a ranching culture that Devereux believes is approaching a crossroads. Families work around the clock across enormous properties while questioning whether younger generations, now connected to life outside the county through the internet, will continue operating the ranches. The directors approached the project skeptically, but Devereux admitted that the landscape could make even unlikely explanations feel possible. 'You stop, and you look around, and you can't see anything but cow's eyes and pitch black in the sky,' he said. 'At that point in time, you feel anything could happen out there in these landscapes.' " |
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What do people use the body parts for? China likes rhino horns, shark fins and such for medicinal and/ or culinary uses. Ritualistic might be a thing. Do any Native American shamanistic practices use the blood, genitalia of the cows? If there’s some ritualistic thing going on maybe the practitioners are doing it. Aliens? Unless they’re bovine by nature, what would they do with it? Eat it? So they’re not some superior race. They’re missing all the good ribeyes, sirloins, filets and roasts. Who the hell wants to eat a cow uterus if they could have a ribeye? I don’t think aliens. More flesh and blood sneaking around. Rituals, shaman witch doctor shit, etc. |
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The report failed to mention whether or not predators had fed on the dead carcasses. If they were untouched, it seems that would contribute to the "woo" factor. I seem to recall from decades past where the carcasses were untouched by scavenging animals. |
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Originally Posted By dukeofearl: The report failed to mention whether or not predators had fed on the dead carcasses. If they were untouched, it seems that would contribute to the "woo" factor. |
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Originally Posted By Philmore: What do people use the body parts for? China likes rhino horns, shark fins and such for medicinal and/ or culinary uses. Ritualistic might be a thing. Do any Native American shamanistic practices use the blood, genitalia of the cows? If there’s some ritualistic thing going on maybe the practitioners are doing it. Aliens? Unless they’re bovine by nature, what would they do with it? Eat it? So they’re not some superior race. They’re missing all the good ribeyes, sirloins, filets and roasts. Who the hell wants to eat a cow uterus if they could have a ribeye? I don’t think aliens. More flesh and blood sneaking around. Rituals, shaman witch doctor shit, etc. Seems it'd be easier to just buy the blood and genitals if you need it for whatever, can't imagine those parts of a cow are particularly desirable or expensive. ANd why go to the trouble of being THAT sneaky sneaky about it? Do cattle rustlers generally go to the trouble of wiping out their tracks and leaving a spotless scene besides a butchered, drained-out cow carcass? Just kill the cow, grab what you want, and leave. Not like anyone's gonna track you down just based off of tire tracks and footprints. Perhaps someone just genuinely fucking around trying to get everyone scratching their heads. But who's keeping a stupid prank going for decades now across multiple states and countries? That's dedication to the art. As for aliens? Maybe those cow bits are the only source they have found for the cure for Space AIDS. But they're eco-conscious aliens. They don't take the whole cow so as not to interfere in our food supply. They just take the bits they know we don't need anyway. |
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I've done a couple threads on cattle mutilations. Creeps me out. I don't believe the alien angle. I think the perps are much closer to home. I spend a lot of time outdoors and am a little worried about coming up on these creeps in the act, and how they might respond. https://unsolved.com/gallery/mysterious-mutilations/ Always carry. |
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Originally Posted By Promking: Ongoing black budget federal bio weapons program Makes no sense. Why wouldn't the black ops guys just pose as regular buyers, and buy the cattle, then take them to a secret site to be tested? No chance of discovery, & they can take their time and dispose of all evidence. You know, like they do with people. |
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Originally Posted By Sixtigers: Seems like an issue that could be easily solved if they wanted. Between NVGs, thermal, drone tech and bio telemetry, a dedicated investigative team should be able to put this to bed pretty quickly. Well, not really. The places where it happens are really, really, remote. It's hard to do a stake-out on 10 million acres. |
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25677199/ Scavengers tend to start at easy to eat sites, head, eyes, tongue. While this paper addresses canines & humans, it’s fairly common across species. I just can’t locate papers right now. Blood clots. I’m always amused when I read these “not a drop of blood…” claims because, blood clots. In humans, livor mortis is readily seen, but in an animal with fur, probably not. This makes higher points of a human more pale vs dependent areas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livor_mortis But interdimensional shape-shifting aliens is always the best bet when encountering anything. And anal probes. |
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Originally Posted By dukeofearl: The report failed to mention whether or not predators had fed on the dead carcasses. If they were untouched, it seems that would contribute to the "woo" factor. I seem to recall from decades past where the carcasses were untouched by scavenging animals. Predators normally won’t touch the “special” carcasses. |
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Originally Posted By Mike_314: Interesting and spooky. First time I've heard of this. https://assets.qz.com/media/ddc9765431134b50fcf13e1dda43773e.jpg Had it to occur locally when I was in high school. |
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Originally Posted By Lou_Daks: Makes no sense. Why wouldn't the black ops guys just pose as regular buyers, and buy the cattle, then take them to a secret site to be tested? No chance of discovery, & they can take their time and dispose of all evidence. You know, like they do with people. Originally Posted By Lou_Daks: Originally Posted By Promking: Ongoing black budget federal bio weapons program Makes no sense. Why wouldn't the black ops guys just pose as regular buyers, and buy the cattle, then take them to a secret site to be tested? No chance of discovery, & they can take their time and dispose of all evidence. You know, like they do with people. Makes as much sense as anything else that’s been purposed. |
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Originally Posted By HeavyLeadFoot: Everybody knows it's the chupocabra Definitely a Chupacabra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZUVYv3vuAk |
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Originally Posted By Lou_Daks: Well, not really. The places where it happens are really, really, remote. It's hard to do a stake-out on 10 million acres. Plus it happens across many states. Mostly in the Western States. Linda Moulton Howe has been reporting on this phenomenon for decades. The puzzling part is that they leave no sign. They have to get there in something large enough for equipment and to haul off what they take. Either helicopter or something more exotic. Lot of time, effort, and cost to obtain something you could get at a slaughterhouse. |
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Originally Posted By Mike_314: Interesting and spooky. First time I've heard of this. https://assets.qz.com/media/ddc9765431134b50fcf13e1dda43773e.jpg MIB was a documentary. Especially the part about the post office. |
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