# Scavengers, insects and bloating after a natural death produce the classic picture of missing soft tissue,…

> Most likely: Scavengers, insects and bloating after a natural death produce the classic picture of missing soft tissue, clean-looking edges and no blood.

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# Scavengers, insects and bloating after a natural death produce the classic picture of missing soft tissue,…

Scavengers, insects and bloating after a natural death produce the classic picture of missing soft tissue, clean-looking edges and no blood.

**Most likely** Answers **1** questionPublished0

## Where it stands

**Most likely** Its tests supported it: four pieces of evidence for, none against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- A carcass left in the open and watched develops the same features without human involvement.

## What would rule it out

- Several independent necropsies of fresh carcasses showing excisions with heat or tool signatures and no scavenger access.

## Evidence 4 for · none against

[Arkansas sheriff's officers watched a dead heifer in a ravine and recorded scavengers producing the reported…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/skinwalker-ranch/evidence/EVD0D0151AW4YKP/arkansas-sheriffs-officers-watched-a-dead-heifer-in-a-ravine)

Supported

FOR

[Rommel's New Mexico inquiry concluded that the most credible sources attributed the damage to normal predator…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/skinwalker-ranch/evidence/EVD0D0150V84321/rommels-new-mexico-inquiry-concluded-that-the-most-credible)

Established

FOR

[The FBI closed its inquiry in 1980 having found no case of mutilation by other than common predators.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/skinwalker-ranch/evidence/EVD0D0151326SJR/the-fbi-closed-its-inquiry-in-1980-having-found-no-case-of)

Established

FOR

[The historian of the wave finds most cases were scavengers, misdescribed by officials unfamiliar with…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/skinwalker-ranch/evidence/EVD0D0151JP7NJF/the-historian-of-the-wave-finds-most-cases-were-scavengers)

Supported

FOR

## The questions it answers

[Do the wounds called "mutilations" need any cause beyond scavengers, decomposition or people with knives?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/skinwalker-ranch/questions/QST0D014E9G5Z6R/do-the-wounds-called-mutilations-need-any-cause-beyond)

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

Most likelyScavengers, insects and bloating after a natural death produce the classic picture of missing soft tissue,…

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Scavengers, insects and bloating after a natural death produce the classic picture of missing soft tissue,… [Answer ANS0D0150KE1ED0]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0D0150KE1ED0
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