1) Choice of Animal: Sheep do not fit the typical profile of animal mutilation. Cattle and horses are the victims in approximately 90 percent of cases. The remaining 10 percent of cases are represented by random animals, including domestic pets.

2) Typology of mutilation: The corpses were in an advanced state of decomposition but there were neither signs of genitalia removal nor of muscular or organ evisceration.

3) No reports of UFO sightings or other so-called paranormal activity could be detected in the history archives of Bourg-Madame and nearby towns and cities.

Sheep do not fit the typical profile of animal mutilation.

I decided to focus in the ritualistic explanation of the case, to facts closer to my field of expertise. After talking to some of the reluctant inhabitants of Bourg-Madame, and with the kind assistance of the pastor Gus Galattout and commissary LeChetite, I came to learn that an abandoned Masonic facility had been used in the last years by another pagan sect, which I gathered, by the nature of their rites, was a faction known as Theistic Satanism.

I visited the Masonic temple, which was hidden in the basement of a deserted apartment complex located in the French town of Llous, with less than a hundred residents. I did recognize the classic Masonic symbols and arrangements underneath the leftovers of what undoubtedly had been an improvised Black Mass service: a ceremonial altar (not the sacrificial type), blasphemous inscriptions and sexual drawings on the walls, inverted crucifixes, brutalized rosaries, and other profanations of Christian emblems. I did not see signs of ritual slaughter, or other sadistic sacraments though.

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