The terrified driver of the vehicle did not stop the vehicle until almost a mile past the impact point, while the three passengers in the back seat screamed that something had fallen on their laps: the torso of a man who had been cleanly sliced in half at the waist.

Not knowing what to do, the badly frightened workers abandoned the torso on the roadside near the village of Loma de Caballo and return home. The driver was later accused of vehicular homicide and sent to jail.

Oddly enough, the dead man's lower half was found not on the road's shoulder, as would have been logical, but in a nearby field, not too far from the highway. When the authorities realized that there was no way that the vehicle could have sliced anyone in half, much less deposit their legs at a distance, the driver was exonerated and released.

When interviewed, the dead man's son stated his belief that his father's death had not been brought about by any kind of vehicle. His father, he stated, was a quiet family man who would never walk around such desolate countryside at night, and that his body did not present any of the signs expected in someone run over by a car. "My father was sawed at the waist. I don't know by who, but he wasn't hit by any car."

The details of the forensic examination were equally bizarre. There had been no tearing or rending of any kind on the flesh or garments, in spite of the fact that the cut had taken place in an area where there would perforce be dangling tissue, whether from the stomach or the intestines. Clothing and flesh had been cleanly sliced as if by a colossal guillotine, and there was a marked absence of blood. Nor had any bones been shattered: the dead peasant's spinal column had been sliced off without fracturing a single vertebra. Freixedo concluded, after analyzing the case, that the forces behind this evil event deliberately dropped the torso from above onto the windshield of a moving car in order to shatter it and frighten the vehicle's occupants.

Dr. Jacques Vallee mentions an odd human mutilation--although not one of such grand proportions--in connection to the strange UMMO documents, which were the rage of French and Spanish ufology in the 1960's and were later to acquire puzzling international dimensions. One of these purportedly alien documents, dating to 1969, mentions how the UMMO entities conducted "psycho-physiological" experiments in the 1950's on a number of animals owned by Spanish baroness in the city of Alicante. Gruesome animal dissections took place in a dungeon beneath the noblewoman's mansion, and, in 1954, the eyes, tongue and hand were removed from the body of the baroness' recently deceased daughter by persons unknown before her burial. The mutilation was conducted with surgical precision.

A number of "vampiric" mutilations--so-called due to the total absence of blood from the victims' bodies, should perhaps also be taken into consideration, as they have occurred in such dissimilar locales as Canada, Yugoslavia and Mexico.

Four bloodless, mutilated corpses were found in Yugoslavia in the 1950s. On November 17, 1977, three Canadian hunters were found slain and bloodless on a wooded island on Manitoba's Lake Winnipeg after a night of heavy UFO activity over said body of water. Bloodless babies were discovered in the Mexican state of Queretaro in the late 1970s following a spate of UFO sightings usually associated with "witches" by the local population.