# People killed, cut or stole the animals (theft, cult activity, harassment).

> Still possible: People killed, cut or stole the animals (theft, cult activity, harassment).

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# People killed, cut or stole the animals (theft, cult activity, harassment).

People killed, cut or stole the animals (theft, cult activity, harassment).

**Still possible** Answers **1** questionDeduced0

## Where it stands

**Still possible** Its tests haven't settled it: two pieces of evidence for, none against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Tool marks, vehicle tracks, or missing animals turning up elsewhere.

## What would rule it out

- Carcasses in places inaccessible to vehicles with no human traces.

## Evidence 2 for · none against

[Four of the seven cows vanished without trace, which theft explains and scavenging does not.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/skinwalker-ranch/evidence/EVD0D014Z4J6QC6/four-of-the-seven-cows-vanished-without-trace-which-theft)

Suggestive

FOR

[NIDS's 1998 necropsy of a Basin cow found its eye and ear cut with a sharp instrument.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/skinwalker-ranch/evidence/EVD0D014ZCC5H22/nidss-1998-necropsy-of-a-basin-cow-found-its-eye-and-ear-cut)

Suggestive

FOR

## The questions it answers

[What happened to the Shermans' cattle?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/skinwalker-ranch/questions/QST0D0147YC7V7H/what-happened-to-the-shermans-cattle)

Most likelyPredators, disease and scavenging, read as mutilation

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). People killed, cut or stole the animals (theft, cult activity, harassment). [Answer ANS0D014CTM0VRP]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0D014CTM0VRP
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Key

**ANS** 0D014CTM0VRP

Kind

Answer · hypothesis

Origin

Deduced

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