The Mystery of Snippy the Horse: On Sept. 7, 1967, in Colorado’s San Luis Valley, I became the first reported case of Alien Animal Mutilation. Some of my historical highlights are:
I was found in my pasture with my skin and flesh cleanly cut away from my shoulders to my ears. There were no tracks near my body and no blood on the ground, but strange markings, included six indentations which formed a circle three feet in diameter, were found on the ground around my body. My owner, Nellie Lewis, said she was positive that extraterrestrials were responsible for my mysterious death.
My heart and brain were missing, and a formaldehyde-like odor was emitted from my body for several days after my discovery. My exposed neck bones and skull were a stark-white discoloration, as if they had been bleached. When my owner visited the spot where I had been found, she reported finding a flattened bush and what seemed to be exhaust marks. She also said she smelled a strange, sweet odor, "like incense" and when she picked up a piece of my mane it burn her hands. Later she reported her boots were found to be radioactive.
An autopsy published at the time claimed that my brain and abdominal organs were missing, and that there was no material in my spinal column. Another doctor sawed into my brain cavity and found 'absolutely nothing' and opened my stomach expecting to find remains of digestive organs, but found only a 'little powdery residue. As long as 24 months after my death area residents said that no grass would grow where my body had been found.
My story caught on quickly in the San Luis Valley, where sightings of objects believed to be flying saucers had become frequent that year, and within a month, the story of my death made the news all over the world.
Of course controversy ensued. Many folks believed that I may have had a severe leg infection at the time of my death and someone must have slit my throat to put me out of my misery. Then once my throat had been cut bacteria, birds, and coyotes cleaned my bones and were responsible for the absence of organs in the abdominal cavity.
Another theory was that a couple of kids shot me with a couple of .22 rifle slugs (there are two holes in my skeleton that could have been from a .22), then running scared from being shot I ran through a barbed wire fence. “I've seen it before, that wire can clean an animal like a knife slicing cheese." said Dr. Leary, a local veterinarian.
Dr. Leary mounted my skeleton on a rolling base and I was displayed around Alamosa, Colorado for years until one day I practically disappeared of the face of the earth... only to be recently re-discovered
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