Livestock are being found with eyes, tongues and other body parts cut neatly out.

There are no tracks or bloodstains. It’s been happening, off and on, for decades.

In 1967 Nellie Lewis of Apaloosa, Colorado, discovered that her horse, Snippy, had been mutilated by space aliens. She said the horse gave off a sweet scent like incense, its mane burned her fingers and the boots she was wearing became radioactive.

The Appaloosa mare’s death drew international media attention when her owner, Nellie Lewis, said the 3-year-old was mutilated by space aliens.

Since the 1970s, Montana ranchers have found dozens of cattle carved up in eerie, macabre fashion.

Cox Tor on Dartmoor is as bleak and lonely as anywhere in southern England. Now, for dozens of farmers who graze their sheep on the surrounding commons, it is also a place of fear. This month alone more than 30 sheep grazing there have been found mutilated and laid out in bizarre patterns.

An expert on cults has urged the Garda to work with America's FBI to solve ritual - style sacrifices.

The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is investigating reports that a dog was sacrificed in the Co Wicklow village of Enniskerry.

Sheep have been found on Dartmoor with their necks broken and their eyes gouged out in the third attack of its kind in 18 months. The three sheep were found on moorland at Pork Hill, near Tavistock. Their tongues had also been cut out. They had been arranged in a line when they were found on Monday.

An expert is now on the case after evidence of possible cult activity was found in a local park.

Possible Cult Animal Killings Investigated

An expert in occult activity met with Sgt. Jack Pike of the Faulkner County Sheriff's Office to discuss the possibility of cult involvement in recent reports of cattle mutilation in the county.

Ephraim police have a new ally in their search for whoever committed this month's cat mutilations in the city cemetery.

LEXINGTON, N.C. -- The acting Davidson County sheriff says it appears the death of a cow whose severed head was found in an apartment complex is related to cult activity.