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Hey, everybody, I was watching an episode of "Paranormal State" the other day, and they featured a two-story house out in the middle of nowhere that was said to be haunted. During the course of the episode, they uncovered a grave of a decapitated dog near a large, old tree, but the tree's roots were growing through the body. The dog appeared to be a fairly new bruial, but the show's guest psychic said that it was a ritualistic killing that supposedly happened during the 1960's, and it was taking an unusually long time for the dog's body to decompose. She said that was common during satanic ritualistic killings.

Has anyone ever heard of this? Does that really happen?

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satanic ritualistic killings

This might not have anything to do with anything but I found it interesting... yes I googled it,lol or blingo'd it actually.

http://www.tylwythteg.com/lawguide/lawguide5.html

Thanks, goddess. That's quite a bit of info.

Do people really kill animals during rituals?
I thought that was all proven false after the "satanic panic" of the eighties was over.

::fingers in ears:: la la la la la not going to think unpleasant things la la la la no innocent animals were ever murdered la la la la bossman's a meany for bringing this up la la la la la

Sorry for being a big meany, sodie. Didn't mean to upset you .

As far as animals being killed in the '80's during rituals . . . it did happen in some jurisdictions. I worked for two different sheriff's offices here in Texas during the late 1980's and early 1990's, and animal sacrifices did happen in those two areas. From what the senior deputies said, it all started around 1983 or 1984. I'm not totally convinced they were satanic rituals so much as they were teenagers just trying to shock the local population and just being plain old sick and twisted. It all kind of fizzled out in the early 1990's.

As far as the animals themselves go, we usually encountered cattle, goats and sheep, and sometimes dogs, that were used during those "rituals". The ones we were called out on were usually only days old, and did not appear to have decomposed too much. My question was, do animals that are sacrificed in ritualistic killings actually take decades to decompose?

I'm not trying to be gross or mean, I'm just interested to find this out to quell my own curiosity, however morbid it may be.

Hey BOSSMAN....have you ever seen the human corpes that have trouble decomposing....scientists usually attribute it to the environmental conditions that the body is stored/kept in.., I'm sure a little a little research can give you more insight....but I cannot comment on whether a ritualistic killing would have any effect on decomposition....if you find anything out...give a shout....

Personally I'd like to think that ritual killings are in the past, but I know that I'd be disillusioning myself with that. There's some fruitloops out there.