The chilling discovery of two roosters and a white dove — all decapitated and drained of blood — has authorities in upstate New York investigating a possible link to dark ritualistic sacrifices.
The gruesome find near Lake Carmel in Putnam County on Friday is just the latest in a series of recent troubling discoveries in the upstate community — with locals wondering if there’s a cult in their midst.
“The area where this bag was found was only a short distance from where other bags of mutilated animals have been found in recent months, possibly the result of ritualistic killings,” the Putnam County SPCA said in a Facebook post this week.
The bodies of the two roosters were found stuffed in a plastic bag, not far from where the white dove was found along a wooded area on Holland Drive near the lake in the town of Kent, officials said.
So far this year, 10 similar discoveries have been made in the area, including an incident in April when two butchered birds were stuffed in a garbage bag and dumped nearby, News12 reported.
The station said that the birds, which were found shortly after 4:30 p.m. Friday, had been drained of blood.
“Extremely shocking,” one area resident told the outlet.
Animal offerings are often part of bizarre rituals for practitioners of voodoo, Santeria and similar dark crafts.
But authorities said proving the theory is difficult unless the culprits are caught in the act.
“At that moment, when they do the dumping, the only crime that’s being committed is a town ordinance or illegal dumping because we can’t prove at that moment that they did anything of the animals,” Chief Ken Ross of the SPCA’s law enforcement wing told News12.
“To have knowledge of what’s going on before hand and being able to look into it, that would be great.”
Meanwhile, residents with any information on the sick cases are urged to call the SPCA at 845-520-6915.
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