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The True Story Behind The Cattle Mutilation Mystery · Murder Files Unsealed

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  Speaker 1: All right, so buckle up because we're diving into some
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  seriously strange stuff today.
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  Speaker 2: Huh. Cattle mutilations.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. We're tackling the mystery that's probably been
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  keeping you up at night ever since you saw it
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  on Unsolved Mysteries.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that show. It's like a car crash you
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  can't look away from, you know. And this topic, man,
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  this is a big one. It's got true crime, it's
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  got the paranormal, it's.
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  Speaker 2: Got it all.
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  Speaker 3: It's got everything. And people have been asking for us
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  to do a deep drive on it for a while,
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  so let's get into it.
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  Speaker 1: It's understandable though, right, I mean, those Unsolved mysteries just
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  get under your skin. We're hardwired to want answers even
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  when things seem completely impossible.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and when it comes to impossible, well, these cattle
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  mutilations they're right up there. Like think about it. You're
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  a rancher like Matt Carter or Mt. Anderson, two guys
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  from Oregon who were actually on Unsolved Mysteries, and you
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  walk out onto your land and there it is one
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  of your cows dead and not just dead, not just dead, No,
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  we're talking messed up. Yeah, And not messed up in
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  a way that makes you think, oh, a pack of
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  wild dogs got to it or something. This is different.
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  It's like surgical almost. Yeah, Organs removed perfectly cut incisions.
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  I mean, Carter and Anderson, they'd heard all the stories
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  everyone in those parts had. It was like local folklore.
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  But to actually see it with your own eyes.
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  Speaker 2: I can't even imagine. And it's one thing to hear
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  about it.
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  Speaker 1: It's a whole other thing to find your best heifer dead,
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  tongue cut out, face, skin back like someone was getting
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  ready to I don't even know.
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  Speaker 3: And that's the thing nobody does right.
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  Speaker 2: And get this.
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  Speaker 1: Anderson even said his heifer had been acting weird the
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  day before, wouldn't stay with the herd, like.
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  Speaker 2: It knew something was up. Two key, totally spooky.
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  Speaker 1: And to make it even weirder, no blood, no footprints,
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  no tire tracks, nothing just gone. It's like whatever this
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  blinked out of existence.
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  Speaker 3: It's that lack of evidence that's just it's mind blowing,
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  you know. I mean Carter's case, for example, the first
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  time it happened, they found one of his cows dead.
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  Its top lip was gone, tongue missing, intestines, pulled out.
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  Two years later, it happens again, this time to one
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  of his bulls, and it was almost the exact same thing.
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  Speaker 2: Hold on, wait two years later, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Two years and the second time there was snow on
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  the ground, so you know, perfect conditions for footprints or
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  tire tracks, but still nothing. It's like someonel just pluck
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  those animals out of thin air.
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  Speaker 2: Plucked them right out.
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  Speaker 1: Huh man, Okay, so we're talking way more than just
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  a couple of isolated incidents here.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, this goes way back. I mean, people usually
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  think of the seventies as like the Heyday for this
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  kind of thing, but it actually goes way further back
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  than that. We're talking decades and thousands of cases, not
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  just in the US but in Canada too, thousands.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. Okay, so this isn't just a few ranchers losing
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  their minds. This is this is like a phenomenon exactly.
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  Speaker 3: And what makes it even more strange, even more creepy,
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  is that the mutilations they're often really similar. It's that
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  pattern that really gets people thinking, you know, like, what
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  could possibly explain.
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  Speaker 2: All of this thousands of cases?
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  Speaker 1: Huh? I mean you mentioned the lack of blood earlier.
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  And that's something I've always wondered about what the lead
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  of theories on, how something like that is even possible, Like,
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  how do you make a clean getaway when.
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  Speaker 2: You've got a well, a situation like that.
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  Speaker 3: On your hands? Right, It's one of the most baffling
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  aspects of all this. I mean, you'd picture a scene
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  like that, you'd think blood everywhere, Yeah, chaos exactly, But
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  in these cases it's consistently clean, no blood or very little.
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  It's like it just vanishes. Some people try to explain
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  it away by saying, oh, it's predators, you know, they
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  have weird ways of feeding. Even then, it doesn't really
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  add up, does it. It's just too clean, too precise,
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  And that's where people start looking for other explanations, more
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  unconventional ones.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so let's talk unconventional.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking like cults, secret government stuff, maybe even aliens,
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  right laughing.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the theories do go there, and you're not a
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  low I mean unsolved mysteries. They even went down that
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  road a little.
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  Speaker 2: It's unsolved mysteries. They go down every road.
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  Speaker 3: True, that's what we love about them. But you know,
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  Terry Den Mirror, the guy who created the show, he
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  actually said that, out of all the weird stuff that covered,
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  cattle mutilations struck him as the most likely to actually
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  have a UFO connection.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, coming from the unsolved mysteries guy, that's really saying something. Okay, So,
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  out of everything, why cattle mutilations? Is it just the
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  lack of blood or is there something else that screams UFO?
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  Speaker 3: I think it's the whole package, you know, the surgical cuts,
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  the missing organs, the way they vanish without a trace.
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  If you were some kind of I don't know, extraterrestrial
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  surgeon and you didn't want people to know you were here,
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  I mean.
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  Speaker 2: I guess that would be a pretty good way to
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  do it.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, but let's say for a second that it's not aliens.
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  What about those other theories, the ones a little closer
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  to home. Let's start with cults. That always seems to
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  be a popular one.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, cults, it comes up a lot, probably because of
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  the whole ritualistic aspect. You know, the organs being removed.
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  It sounds like something out of a horror movie.
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  Speaker 1: So are we talking like sacrifices?
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  Speaker 2: That kind of thing.
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  Speaker 3: That's usually the idea. But the thing is, where's the evidence.
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  No cult has ever come forward to say yep, that
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  was us. There's never been any kind of proof linking
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  these mutilations to any known TOULT activity, right.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Okay, so that brings us back to square one.
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  No evidence, just speculation pretty much.
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  Speaker 2: What about the.
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  Speaker 1: Government then, Is there anything to those stories about top
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  secret projects.
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  Speaker 2: Stuff like that?
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  Speaker 3: Well, those are definitely out there. People talk about experimental
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  weapons testing or maybe research into diseases, things like that,
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  And again, I get it. When you see the way
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  these animals are, well, the way they look, it's easy
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  to jump to those conclusions, especially with all those conspiracy
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  theories floating around. But again, just like with the cult theory,
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  there's no real evidence.
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  Speaker 1: It's frustrating, right. This isn't something new. This has been
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  going on for decades. People have been researching it, investigating it,
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  and we still don't have any real answers.
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  Speaker 3: It's the ultimate mystery. We're so focused on finding who
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  or what is responsible, we forget to ask how how
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  are these things even happening? How do you make something
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  that big disappear? How do you drain all the blood?
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  Those are the questions we need.
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  Speaker 1: To be asking it's like trying to solve a puzzle,
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  but half.
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  Speaker 2: The pieces are missing exactly.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe that's the point. Maybe we're so busy looking
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  for the who that we're missing the how interesting, right, Like,
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  what if whoever or whatever is behind this? What if
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  they don't want us to know how it's done? What
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  if that's the real secret?
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  Speaker 3: And that's a chilling thought, And it makes you wonder
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  if they are that good at covering their tracks, what
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  else are they capable of?
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  Speaker 2: And you know what else is weird?
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  Speaker 1: And some of those Unsolved Mysteries episodes, they talked about
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  how some ranchers said their animals were acting all strange
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  in the days before they were you know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, like they knew something was up that is strange.
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  Speaker 2: Right, like they were being watched or hunted or something.
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  Speaker 3: It adds a whole other level to it, doesn't it. Yeah,
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  The thought that these animals were chosen picked out for
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  who knows what, and that it was planned, it wasn't
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  just random.
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  Speaker 1: Makes you want to set up a bunch of cameras
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  out there, you know, see if you can catch something on.
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  Speaker 3: Tape, what like night vision cameras.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, imagine what you'd see.
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  Speaker 3: Probably a lot of coyotes and raccoons, but hey, you
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  never know. But you know, it's interesting you say that
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  about the cameras, the surveillance, because there are some theories
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  out there that maybe, just maybe this whole thing is
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  connected to some really advanced technology stuff that we don't
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  even know about yet.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, now we're getting somewhere, so like what experimental aircraft,
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  some kind of sonic weapon that can like make things disappear.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it's possible, right, but again no evidence. But
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  it's interesting though, how these theories, even the really out
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  there ones, tell us more about ourselves than about what's
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  actually happening. Like, in a world where technology is changing
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  every day, it makes sense that we'd start to worry
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  about what we don't know, what we haven't discovered yet.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like our brains are wired for this stuff.
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  We hear a weird noise, we jump to the worst
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  case scenario. See a cow missing its tongue.
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  Speaker 3: Gotta be aliens, right, It's like we need an explanation,
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  even if it means bending reality a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Wonder, with all the things we don't know, all the
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  mysteries out there, maybe we're better off not knowing all
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  the answers.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe ignorance is bliss.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes, right, Well, folks, that's about all the time we
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  have for our deep dive into cattle mutilations. We've gone
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  over the facts, the theories, the what ifs, and it
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  seems like the more we learn, the more questions we have.
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  Speaker 3: But that's half the fun, isn't it, trying to figure
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  it out, even if we never actually do. It's the
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  mystery that keeps us coming back from more.
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  Speaker 2: It really is.
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  Speaker 1: So next time you're out late at night, maybe driving
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  past a field, and you feel a shiver down your spine,
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  remember there's still things out there we may never understand,
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  and that's.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, absolutely, And who knows, maybe one of you listening
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  will be the one to finally crack the coat. Until
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  next time, keep asking questions and never stop exploring the unknown.