Map of Bourg-Madame, France

In my research of the villa’s history, I didn’t find any other official or unofficial reports of animal mutilation or other phenomena that could be considered of a paranormal sort.

In June of 2007, twenty five years after that incident, a bizarre discovery was made by five workers of a construction company, when they were recycling some wastelands for the building of an apartment complex in the neighboring town of Sainte-Leocadie, thirteen miles away from Jean Paul Granau’s farm. They dug up the bare bones of approximately two hundred and fifty sheep.

Henry LeChetite, the local chief of police, didn’t consider it necessary to add in his report that among all those bones, they could not find a single vertebral spine. It was also established that the common grave, so to speak, was much more recent than the skeletons in it.

By suggestion of the local pastor, Père Gus Galattout, LeChetite contacted the department of Pagan Religions and Medieval Rites at the Universidad de Bilbao, where I was working at the time. The case captured my interest instantaneously, and a week later I was on a plane to Barcelona, which is about three hours from Bourg-Madame by car.

It was commissary LeChetite himself who gave me a detailed report of the facts, introducing me to the story of Fede, the German Sheppard. He also showed me pictures of the sheep, and took me to the site where the grave was found. There was more than enough evidence to recognize the classic patterns of animal mutilation. Still I found it curious that there was no account of any UFO sighting whatsoever, which is frequent in scenarios where animal mutilation takes place.

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