MUTILACION SECTOR LA CUCHILLA
SOURCE: www.ovni.net
DATE: February 25, 2003
PUERTO RICO: MUTILATIONS ARE EVERYWHERE
On Friday, February 21st, a Channel 4 broadcast reported on the slaying
of animals in Barrio La Cuchilla de Candelero Debajo in the
municipality of Humacao (on Puerto Rico's eastern shore). The television report
states that an unknown animal killed all of the pigs in their pens and
ripped apart nine male rabbits, leaving one female alive. It was also
noted that a duck survived the assault. Eyewitnesses were only able to see
a shadowy form that ran away. At the scene of the incident it was
possible to recover a plaster cast of a feline paw-print. This print is
under the custody of the Department of Natural Resources. The video
documentary also shows scratches on the pens' wooden posts which were
apparently made by the animnal in question.
The Channel 4 report did not indicate the exact location or date of the
mutilations, but it mentions that officials have spent over a week
looking for the assailant. The reader must be aware that there are no
predatory feline species native to Puerto Rico. This fact makes the incident
so much more important: if a feline is involved, it must be a species
that escaped from some unknown institution, or which escaped or was set
free by its owner. The journalist covering the story for Channel 4 was
Efrén Arroyo along with photojournalist Humberto Mercado Nazario.
Emergency Manager Jose Baez handled this case personally.
Ovni.net reported to the scene and was able to obtain the following
video images filmed by residents of Barrio La Cuchilla:
In the same sector, on the evening of February 22, 2003, a dog
was slain by the beast that prowls the Candelero Abajo Sector. The dog
presented wounds in its hind and front legs. This latest assault
prompted a massive search by armed policemen on horseback in one of the farms
where the predator was allegedly seen.
The folloiwng images show the wounds inflicted upon the canine:
Other recent incidents, perhaps even more intriguing , took
place in the early hours of February 17 in a neighborhood of the city of
Añasco (on Puerto Rico's western coast) where mutilations were
reported. In this event, 26 rabbits were mutilated, presenting different
injuries; some of them were torn apart. An elderly woman reported hearing
shrill squeals and the sensation that a humanoid form was leaping over the
rooftops. Another witness reported not hearing any sounds , but that
his dogs were nervous and frightened to such an extent that they hid
under the bed.. A research group at the scene reports that the fencing on
the cages was torn and that an injury on one of the animals drew their
attention: it was described as an area on the animal's skin that
appeared to have been shaved and showing an incision similar to that of a
scalpel.
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Translation (C) 2003. S. Corrales, Institute of Hispanic
Ufology (IHU). Special thanks to Lucy Guzmán and Orlando Pla, www.ovni.net
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