Surgical Precision and Missing Organs: The Villa de la Quebrada Mystery

Ranchers Find Mutilated Cattle With ‘Laser Burns’ – Aliens or Chupacabra?

A rancher in Villa de la Quebrada found two of his animals dead with impossibly precise cuts and missing organs, joining a pattern of mysterious livestock deaths that spans two continents.

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Something is killing livestock in Argentina, and the way it’s being done doesn’t add up. The cuts are too clean. The organs that go missing are too specific. There’s barely any blood. For the Calderón family in Villa de la Quebrada, this stopped being something they watched in documentaries around October 2025.

Finding the Heifer

About a month earlier, the Calderóns noticed some of their cattle herd had wandered off. Their property gets divided by the 25 de Mayo Highway, so they had to search both sides. A neighboring farmer called them: he’d found one of their young heifers on the east side of the highway. Dead. With details that didn’t make sense.

The jaw had a perfect cut. The tongue was completely gone. One eye missing. No udder. The neighbor took photos on his phone to prove what he was seeing.

Looking at those photos later, one of the Calderón family members focused on the mouth. The inside looked burned, almost like laser work. Getting a tongue out that completely is difficult. Really difficult.

Then the Horse

That following Sunday, he went back to feed the horses on the west side of the highway. He counted them. One of the older mares wasn’t there. Then he smelled it, that unmistakable reek of something dead and rotting.

The mare’s body had the same features as the cow. Same type of jaw cut. One eye gone. The entire back end removed, everything around the genital and anal area just absent.

Both scenes had something else odd going on. Scavenger animals hadn’t touched either carcass. Barely any blood anywhere. The family didn’t bother reporting it to authorities.

The American Pattern

This has been happening along the 37th parallel in the United States since the 1970s at least. Ranchers kept finding cattle with their genitals, eyes, and organs removed with surgical precision. Bodies drained of blood. By 1975, enough animals had died under these circumstances that the FBI got involved.

The pattern actually goes back further. Kansas had a case in 1894. Since then, Missouri, Arkansas, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado have all dealt with this regularly. A researcher named Chuck Zukowski spent years tracking these incidents and noticed they clustered along the 37th parallel, this latitude line that cuts through the middle of the country.

Colorado had it particularly bad in 1975. Between April and October, nearly 200 mutilation cases got reported. The Colorado Associated Press made it their number one story of the year. Senator Floyd Haskell asked the FBI to step in. Throughout the entire 1970s, thousands of cattle died this way, costing ranchers millions of dollars. The FBI finally opened a full investigation in 1979.

The details stayed consistent across all these cases. Ears, eyes, udders, anuses, sex organs, tongues, all removed with something sharp and precise. Blood drained from the carcasses. No tracks around the bodies. Scavengers wouldn’t go near them.

Argentina’s Version

Argentina has its own concentration of these cases, though they don’t follow the same latitude line as the American ones. In June 2025, a rancher named Nelson Billordo near Santillán in Corrientes province had a local boy find one of his cows in a field. The face had been precisely removed. No struggle. No blood.

Hugo Valenzuela, who farms near the city of Esquina, lost three cows over two months. Same pattern every time: tongues, udders, and reproductive organs taken with that eerie precision. No bleeding at the scenes. Other animals stayed away from the bodies. Nobody saw anything happen, even though a neighbor lived just 1,300 feet from where one attack occurred.

The money adds up fast. One rancher broke down the math: “It’s not just in my field, it’s in the whole region. Behind the Cerrito killed five, in Malabrigo a while ago killed seven, a neighbor killed two, so they add up and when you get the count are 20 or 30 animals per month, and are 15,000 pesos (about 335 dollars) each heifer.”

What People Think It Is

The Calderón family member who found their animals had a straightforward reason for ruling out human involvement: “It doesn’t make sense for someone, or a group of people, to do all this and then just leave the animal there, like the young cow, without taking it. Plus, the precision of the cuts, the way the tongue was removed, and the burns inside the mouth, it’s just too perfect.”

They’d watched enough documentaries and news reports to narrow it down to two possibilities: either the chupacabra, which nobody has actually seen, or aliens.

Argentine ranchers asked their National Service of Agri-Food Health and Quality what was happening. Officials blamed the snout mouse, the Hocicudo, a scavenger that eats soft tissue from dead animals. That explanation doesn’t touch the precision of the cuts or those burn marks inside mouths.

Back during the 1970s American wave, ranchers kept reporting that the mutilations happened right around the time mysterious unmarked helicopters showed up. Some ranchers thought the federal government was doing it, maybe testing biological weapons. Things got tense enough that the Nebraska National Guard told their helicopters to fly at 2,000 feet instead of the usual 1,000 feet because ranchers had started shooting at anything that flew overhead.

In August 2014, after eight cattle turned up dead near Walsenburg, Colorado, rancher Robert Wolf saw some strange aircraft activity. On August 20th, a black helicopter with no markings flew slowly over Cucharas Canyon. Two days later at 12:30 in the morning, four large helicopters hovered within 100 feet of his house, side by side but staggered, sweeping the ground with powerful spotlights.

Veterinary pathologists offered simpler explanations. Scavengers eat soft tissue first, which could explain why certain organs go missing. In December 1974, the Kansas Brand Commissioner’s office said most of the deaths came from natural causes: predation, shipping fever, blackleg. Local sheriffs pushed back hard on that. They insisted their ranchers were honest people who wouldn’t mutilate dead animals for insurance money.

The Same Script, Different Continents

Villa de la Quebrada is following a pattern that was written decades ago thousands of miles away. The Calderón family member put it plainly: “The truth is, no one can tell you exactly what could have happened or what caused it. Even in other provinces where similar cases have occurred, the animals show the same characteristics.”

They’re not panicking about it. “We’re not scared, but it seems very strange, and we don’t know what it could be.”

The details match whether you’re in Colorado or Corrientes. Surgical precision. Specific organs missing. Almost no blood. Scavengers won’t approach. No tracks anywhere. People blame cryptids, extraterrestrials, government experiments, natural predators. The FBI wanted to investigate the American cases in the mid-1970s but couldn’t because they lacked jurisdiction unless the mutilations happened on Indian lands.

Ranchers keep finding their animals dead with cuts that seem impossible. The pattern continues. Nobody has a definitive answer.

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