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First published on July 10, 1992 In the early hours of Sunday July 29, 1990, a white horse was found dead beside a huge crop circle hoax near Westbury. Some say the horse died of natural causes.... others that it was brutally mutilated. AN INVESTIGATOR into the supernatural believes Satanists sacrificed a horse at a Wiltshire beauty spot. Clive Potter says a dangerous black occult group called the Friends of Hecate could be responsible for butchering and mutilating a white horse that was found dead at Bratton, near Westbury. The horse, which allegedly had its left ear and genitals hacked off, was discovered two years ago near the scene of Operation Blackbird, the three week long £1 million crop circle watch set up by circles researchers Colin Andrews and Pat Delgado. Mr Potter, a researcher for Pendragon, a group which investigates anomalous phenomena and an investigator for the British UFO Research Association, claims that the bizarre incident has been hushed up. "Despite all my inquiries and much to my surprise, I have encountered what seems like a cover-up, although I am loathe to use a term like that," he said. Mr Potter says the horse was discovered by two men, Eddie and Vince (who have both requested anonymity), who travelled from their West Midlands home to Bratton to watch for corn circles. Eddie and Vince, who are the only eye witnesses to come forward, were camping on the White Horse Hill. On the morning of Sunday July 29 they got up and went out to find a toilet. While searching, they came across a shape in a field at the bottom of a steep horseshoe-shaped valley at the rear of the famous hill. On closer inspection it turned out to be a horse lying dead on its left side with its feet caught up in a fence. "Its sex organs had been cleanly removed, along with its left ear," said Eddie. "The horse could have died only a couple of hours before our discovery as there was still a mass of foam protruding from each nostril. Also rigor mortis was only just beginning to set in." Eddied claimed that the horse had clearly struggled as evidenced by hoof marks in the ground. There was no blood to be found, other than a spot about the size of a 10p piece about four feet away. Eddie and Vince immediately told another circle researcher, who in turn contacted Wiltshire police as well as the Blackbird team. "Eddie and Vince were allowed to enter the Blackbird site and describe what they had discovered," said Mr Potter. "They were then escorted back to the animal by stewards, the site manager and people dressed in military uniform. No-one else was allowed to visit this site until after the police had arrived and removed the carcass." Mr Potter believes the mutilations were the gruesome work of a black occult group such as the Friends of Hecate, who are known to be based in Wiltshire. He says not only is the symbolism of a white horse important, but also the fact that the sacrifice took part near the crop watch site. "I believe that whoever did this thing was trying to propitiate some spiritual force that many believe is behind the crop circles phenomenon. This is what people say Colin Andrews co-ordinator of Operation Blackbird: He said that the whole incident had been 'hyped up.' He said he had been approached by another crop circles researcher who said she had heard about a horse that had been mutilated. "I suppose I should have looked into it, but I was committed to my operation. I didn't witness anything myself, but I followed it up with the police sergeant who told me, with some conviction, that the horse had run into a fence and had a heart attack. No part of the animal's body had been removed. I am sure that had there been anything seriously wrong, the police would have said so." Wiltshire Police: A spokesman told the Evening Advertiser that he could not trace any record of the alleged white horse incident and that nobody at Westbury police station could remember it. Mr Potter also wrote to Wiltshire Police asking for information last December. In a letter dated December 17, 1991, Acting Superintendent Steven Coxhead at sub-divisional headquarters in Trowbridge replied: "I have checked our records and inquired of the local officers, but can find no trace of any such incident." TV producer and circles researcher John McNish: "The horse died of natural causes. After it died someone did a couple of very nasty things to it. Colin Andrews checked it with the police." Dr Terence Meaden, of the Circles Effect Research Group: "At first there was no talk about the mutilated horse. Everything was kept very quiet. It was only much later that we got to hear about it." Paul Fuller, an investigator with the British UFO Research Association: "This whole thing is very distasteful. Crop circles tend to attract a lunatic fringe. Last summer a similar incident allegedly happened at Alton Barnes when a mutilated sheep was found lying on an altar." Back to 1992 index |
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