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Sunday, October 18, 2009

ANIMAL MUTILATION IN ARGENTINA: ANOTHER POSTING FROM THE INSTITUTE OF HISPANIC UFOLOGY

Scott Corrales is a researcher for whom I have a lot of time. I am a big fan of his books, and he is probably at the top of my wish list for speakers at the Weird Weekend. We have never met, although he was greatly helpful to me back in 1998 when I was writing Only fools and Goatsuckers, the first of my two books on the chupacabra. I make no apologies, therefore, for reprinting any of his reports that I come across, if only to bring his work to a wider audience.

Argentina: The Mule Soul - A Mythical Creature Reported in Loreto

Source: La Arena (Newspaper)
http://www.laarena.com.ar/avances/denuncian_en_santiago_del_estero_que_el__almamula__mutila_a_los_animales-1442.html

Date: 10/16/2009

Argentina: The Mule Soul - A Mythical Creature Reported in Loreto

A rancher living in an outlying district of the city of Loreto (Santiago del Estero) told police that a strange creature – known in popular mythology as “El Almamula” (the Mule Soul) has been attacking his animals and has already mutilated several of his pigs, eating “their eyes, tongues, livers and hearts.”


Santiago del Estero - 10/16/2009

The man, identified as Mario Prado, a resident of Barrio Emergencia on the outskirts of Loreto, presented a complaint before Section 27 of the Provincial Police, further informing authorities that he would wait in a corner of his house, fully armed, in an effort to slay the creature and put an end to the “goings-on”

“This situation doesn’t involve normal animals – it’s the handiwork of the Almamula, because it eats eyes, tongues, livers and hearts,” Prado pointed out, citing what he was told in turn by another local upon seeing the state in which his pigs had been found.

According to his explanation, this neighbor also informed him that he should arm himself and wait in the pen for the next attack, and to file a complaint with the police, which he finally did in recent days.

(Translation (c) 2009, S. Corrales, IHU. Special thanks to Grupo G.A.B.I.E)

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