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on" f {IE MUTILATION MYSTERY Most terrifying of all, Bankston ned that the anima! mutilations cre pS pat sce ee — - but a prelude to what wf fall here call hum-sae, or human sacr'"ge, #205-4°3, 25 set Sees + la’: v caused by disease. The copler-cruising- the wind and by Schifelbica himself; the more details of the “cult of Satan,” v2 gitanist hypothesis was so compelling, saucer circles were actually aww-covered * seeds of a large and mysterious Fese-—- however, thal na one was yet ready toen- silage piles. . lavestigation were brought 40 shoo: = tertain the theory that the bull had been Word spread quickly among UFO re- over the pext few months, the cattle r.- injected with Clostridia bacteria or tox- searchers acruss the United Ststes that the tilations sprcad [ike a psychotic epive= = in—pethaps for experimental purpowes. highly respected Dr. Hynch had taken an into 22 Western states. ets. For indeed, how difficult it would have Snicrest in the mutilations. One of those . oar ee been for a bunch of airborne turkeys to «who heard the news was Jerome Clark, THE BANKSTON SCENARIO Aware a cold, dead animal in the datk! 8 UFO researchef of some tehnown, who At- Flickinger's urging, Clark w::4 And post-death muties would have hadio had been investigating the cattle mutila- again to Bankston, who had teen tro-5- be ready for weird smelis also, as the tions since they fint occurred in his home = ferred to Marion Federal Penitentian <= furnes from @ rotting cow causes one to stale of Minnesota in the spring of 1973. Blinois. Bankston replied with severat sz-- sesiously consider puking os a high- Clark wrote to agent Flickinger in Janu> tefs, @od the horrifying alleyations c:-- Priofity octivity. «2° * * 7" gry 1975 and related Uhe alicgations of a dnued to flow. Ja a fetter of January 22. oo re convict named A. Kenneth Bankston. 1975, for instance, Bankston everres 2 -* 8 SHE UPOANGLE «| . “¢@ bull sex organs bad beea embedics = The incident that ultimately brought . ENTER SATAN - - . - Gi bodies of a@ young’ runaway ¢>-2% the UFO-sleuth mexus into the mute pic- During his many months of investiga- murdered somewhere in the Mics =. tute cecurred in mid-December 1974, tion, Clark had talked with Rois Boyes, Bankston also continued to ask that he x * when a cow was found chopped up at the =a Kamas stale scuator who,in late 1973, transferred to a Minnesota prison, P27: i farm of Frank Schifelbien, neat Kim- had found a $00-pound heifer dead on he would be safe from inmate repris:** ball, Minnesota. At the same time, there his farm, with a six-inch hole carved in Flickingsr contacted the United S=:: "e were a number of UFO sightings in the its belly. When a report of the inchicnt District Attorney's office in Minze-7: gate. After a rather cursory examination was carried in Kansas newspapers, Doyen Es, and the U.S. Atiomcy aporo-=s. ry ae Pd grees cap kee ae nh whe r See Mh eke Mee 8 eve, a aie art hE ae ee a wt! ~ weedy tah oe . AO Mpa PMT eS TT ih aR ei # - tweet eb ey tek . . han f rf - 7 we a * . . . or ie} ; of the mutilation site, & Minnesota fiying- _ told Clark, he was contacted by Bankston, Federaf Judge Myles Lord, a tespers -.. saucer bufl (and avowed Sasquatch con- who at the time was serving @ sentence Minnesota liberal jurist. Judge Lova o==: 4 weetee) named Terry Mitchell came to for bank robbery at the Leavenworth, tected the warden at Marion Pente==-- .,07 7. the conclusion that bovering aliens had (Kansas) Federal Penitentiary. Bankston , fo explore the possibilities of a trans‘e:. Sf: *- beamed a high-cnergy ray at the cow. wrote to Doyen that the mutilations‘were ~ When be learned of Judge Lord's = (i°* "There were also suspiciously broken the work of a clandestine society of terest, however, Bankston wroie to Coa. . bienchs, undowttedly caused, so Mitch- Satan. which had decided to expand Ki = and expressed sore Ecar at the prospect 2! .»* q's theory went, by beediess saucerite public vicinancss. . - + Being semoved to a’ Minneapolis jail. > eeronautics; and then ibere were strange Doyen did not place much credibility, “said that he feared a group of "+ jadeniations in the icé on the farmer's in Benkston’s story, but this did not deter | otiented bikers whd werd heaviiy insc.-: ; pond—obviously gouged by UFO landing Clark from calling the warden at Leaven- - in the mutilations anJ some of shez. : ‘tT > gear—eand peculiar ‘circles in -the snow,- worth-and, obiaining permission ta’ cor, believed, had contacts within law-er!3=. | which appesired in an acrist photo. . " respondwiththeinmate. 20... -! ment circles. The group was located 5 «: ii "> Mitchell went on to positilate: that,- 0:‘Fhere followed. an exchange of fetter : Minneapolis ares, and if they shows 5 UFOIk like steak as much as most Amer- in which Bankston’s first missive—-dated hip t the snitching, they might hats °.* icans—although, again, the ports of the January 23, 1974—2o0ld Clark that “this What be wanted, Bankston said, vis animal taken were those seldom found-in cult is of Satan,” that its membwrs scared email county jail, out of the way. - . any but a weirdo's ‘casserole. Neverthe- the animals’ blood with hypodermic noe- * - Bankston alto urged that the S2>-° * "Jess, Mitchell's theory created a media“ dles and that the animals’ “scx organs are ties Bring to Minnesota for quecio= >. <a &# fiap that culminated in a wlepbone inter-_-taken for ..... fertility rites.” Bankston Sormer Leavenworth inmate-frices <2 view on Tom Snyder's NBC Tomorrow” ‘slicged in subséquént leRers that the taint, named Don Dugan. Dugan: wha 435.5 ” * ghowinlae 1974, cult was also involved in some way with - derving time at LaTuna Correct-c °**-' ° *3t was at this point that serious saucer” the bombing of the Army math leb at stitution-in Texas, had actually, so == * .grudents decided to get into the ease. Dr. the University of Wisconsin in August stoo’s claim went, been a mezc>:: 3, Allen Hynek, director of the pres- 1970, 0 grim deed that left a university the satanic society and had part: +. tigious Center for UFO Studies and pro- sesearcher dead. .Most terrifying -of all, in its rituals—inctuding the oreze :.:. fessor of astronomy 21: Northwesiern Bankston claimed that the animal muti- fhum-ane, tes Univenity, had a friend in Minneapolis isfions are but a prelude to what we shall it appears that the most com>: * who had done some field-investigation here cail hum-ssc, or buman socrificc. «season for Judze Lord to issue a7: = his leisure time. Bankston was quick to sli Clark that. $0 bring Banksion (and later Dzz.> <This man was Donald E. Flickinger, 2 he wanted to help authorities Minnesota was the former's ait;: OT OAR MES OO cage: om gr nines : Lae ta Ey ERAN IOI a eo 4 i 5 1 ; ? - special agent for the Treasury Depon- the cultists, but be was afraid of at one time taken very acrious!y }- . s 3, Firearms, and in January 1975, Dr. Hy- that Clark intervene to hove him end = fist of promintnt Americani—m=: it F gek saked him to investigate the Minne- some other posible informants ve- ‘them political liberal—who were :: * ; | * qote muulations. moved to a jall in Minnesota where they killed by Une mutiletors. blinaes== : aa, A ~: ,- Fliskinger traveled to Kimball, imtet- ould talk more freely. . . aor Hudert Humphrey, a chose {>= if viewed Frank Schifelbien and rapidly Clark could not help Banksion and. Lord's, was on the slleged ist, 2 + ag _ _ demolished the UFO hypothesis. fad aliowed his correspondence with him . the names of newscdsters, acm 2° oe * | geucer-tanding ivets in the pond turned & lapte by the time he contacted Flick- Congress and even movie sett: * @ut to be watering holes chopped in the fnger in carly 1975. When-Flickinger met Novak. Accordingly, on Febru:* 1975, Bank2on . Continued on 72; x i 4 4 & g t *