San Luis Valley

America's paranormal drain: mutilations, lights, and the first famous case — Snippy the horse — all in one Colorado valley.

The San Luis Valley's documented record: Snippy the horse (1967 — the first nationally covered mutilation, necropsy disputes preserved in contemporary reporting), decades of mutilation cases logged by sheriff's offices, and enough sighting density that the valley hosts a maintained 'UFO Watchtower' (a real business since 2000). Christopher O'Brien's casebooks compile witness and law-enforcement records. Explanations per case vary (predation, cults investigated and unproven, misperception); the clustering itself — one valley accumulating every genre — is the unexplained residue. Links cattle mutilations and Skinwalker as the pattern's public cousin.