Sacred Places North America by Brad Olsen

Author:Brad Olsen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: CCC Publishing
Published: 2012-04-20T04:00:00+00:00

Towering over the Great Sand Dunes in San Luis Valley is Blanca Peak, a mountain held sacred by the Navajo. Ute, Taos Pueblo and Jicarilla Apache for thousands of years.

In the decades following Mexico’s independence from Spain in 1821, Mexican and Spanish ranchers migrated north to settle in the San Luis Valley Huge land grants were given to individual citizens by Mexico, later to be recognized by the United States. Spanish colonists who arrived from northern New Mexico in 1851 established the first town in Colorado they named San Luis. Colorado’s oldest church stands in Conejos, about 40 miles (65 km) from San Luis town. Named for its patron saint, Nuestra Senora De Guadalupe, Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Parish was selected in 1863 as the first permanent church in the state. Even in the 21st century, the San Luis Valley retains a strong Spanish-influenced flavor. Overlooking the town of San Luis is a mile-long trail depicting the Stations of the Cross—a series of graphic statues depicting the final hours of Christ’s life.

In the last few decades the San Luis Valley has achieved a new kind of notoriety. The world’s first reported animal mutilation case called “Snippy the Horse” occurred in September, 1967 on the King Ranch near the Great Sand Dunes. As a result of this case, the San Luis Valley is regarded as the publicized birthplace of the highly unusual livestock mutilation phenomenon. Since then hundreds of animals, mostly open-range cattle, have been found bizarrely slaughtered in the valley. Nearly all the mutilated animals are found devoid of blood, eyes or other facial features removed, and indicate signs of being dismembered by precise heat laser incisions. Almost every mutilated animal has its “soft tissue” anal passage cored out and the genitals surgically removed. The fetus is usually taken from pregnant cows. There are never tracks found near “authentic” mutilation sites, either predatory animal or human, but many have been found near burned ground with detectable levels of radiation. Some of the dead animals appear to be dropped from above (broken branches, cracked animal bones from impact). There are very few, if any, additional clues available at an animal mutilation site. As a result no one has ever been officially charged or convicted of perpetrating an animal mutilation. As the largest alpine valley in the world, the San Luis Valley sits like an altar at the apex of the continent. At least one researcher has compared the valley to the high altars atop Mesoamerican pyramids, describing the valley as “America’s sacrificial altar” because of all the animal mutilation reports.

The San Luis Valley is also a location of frequent UFO and paranormal encounters. The UFO sightings include unidentifiable aerial craft, flying metallic orbs, and mysterious floating lights or “cheap fireworks” as the locals call them. The San Luis Valley is considered America’s premiere unsolved mysterious “hot spot” because no other region in North America features the variety or intensity of unusual phenomenon that can be found here. The other North

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