{"id":1276,"date":"2009-12-25T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-25T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1276"},"modified":"2009-12-25T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-25T15:00:00","slug":"cattle-mutilations-and-occult-weirdness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1276","title":{"rendered":"Cattle Mutilations and Occult Weirdness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent &#8220;cattle mutilation&#8221; report had the gang at<a href=\"http:\/\/stephenbodio.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/cattle-mutilations.html\"> Querencia turning to me<\/a>, because evidently I am their go-to guy on weirdness.<\/p>\n<p>After a couple of weeks had passed, I cranked out a four-part blog post series at my other blog:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/natureblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/cattle-mutilations-return-part-1.html\">Part 1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/natureblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/cattle-mutilations-return-part-2.html\">Part 2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/natureblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/cattle-mutilations-return-part-3.html\">Part 3,<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/natureblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/cattle-mutilations-return-part-4.html\">Part 4<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But I left something out: what I called my &#8220;Berlitz full-immersion summer course in occult weirdness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I did write about that aspect of the experience for<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fatemag.com\/\"> Fate magazine<\/a> back in 1988. But I seem to have outsmarted myself and &#8220;filed&#8221; that issue in some very special place. It is not in the Box of Magazines in Which I Published Articles.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally it is not available online, being from 1988. Too bad, because I had thought of scanning the pages and putting them on the web site.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I could find a copy somewhere if there was sufficient demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent &#8220;cattle mutilation&#8221; report had the gang at Querencia turning to me, because evidently I am their go-to guy on weirdness. After a couple of weeks had passed, I cranked out a four-part blog post series at my other blog:Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4. But I left something out: what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[23,22],"class_list":["post-1276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-colorado","tag-weirdness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-kA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1237,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1237","url_meta":{"origin":1276,"position":0},"title":"&#8216;Occult Park&#8217; Resurrected in Dallas","author":"Chas S. 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