Headless goat corpses in a river, a mystery that baffles the American police

Police in the US state of Georgia are investigating a strange mystery that may be linked to an ancient pagan cult embraced by some drug gangs, as hundreds of corpses of headless goats were apparently sacrificed as part of a religious ritual, in the Chattahoochee River in Georgia.

According to ecologist Jason Olseth, he simultaneously recorded seeing as many as 30 headless goats floating in the river in recent weeks.

He added in preliminary estimates that about 500 headless goats have been found in the last four years.

 "We just found a large pile of them dumped in the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area last week, at a boat ramp," he said, referring to a spot forty miles downstream intended for kayaking vacationers.

The world presents a now popular theory that goats are sacrificed by Santeria, a sorcery sect that blends Roman Catholic inscriptions with a West African pagan religion.

Local police aren't currently conducting an open investigation into the strange sacrifices, but Olseth remains concerned: "These goats must have come from somewhere," he says.

"But we haven't been able to determine who buys the goats, who provides them, or actually how they get their way here in the river."

One theory now is that Mexican drug cartels are behind the sacrifices because they incorporate the "spiritual realm" into their activities.

Robert Almonte, a retired El Paso deputy police chief who has worked on a number of drug investigations, comments that during his tenure he has found "more and more drug traffickers are using Santeria for protection over the past two years" and that Mexican drug cartels have begun to "involve witchcraft in their lives." their activities."

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