This is a world of mysteries. I keep telling my friends that rationalizing life too much is a waste of time, as experience tells me that life is too complex and unpredictable to be too rational. In fact, it’s one big fallacy that could catch you off guard. Thinking about life too much is a waste of time at some point, and better try to live life instead.

But I also said “too much” because contemplating and learning about life is not that bad. In fact, there are aspects of our daily lives that are no longer mysteries. And we got to thank science for helping us decode and understand the mechanics of life. From life sciences, physics to cosmology, we know more about the universe now than we did before.

And now, it is up to science to help us solve an enduring mystery that baffled, and frightened people all the same.

It goes back in 17th century, when there was an unexplained outbreak of livestock deaths. And the way the animal died could only be explained as anomalous. They expire under unexplained circumstances with the carcasses mutilated and organs removed. Various explanations are offered, from the natural to the outrageous. Is this the work of someone not from this world, or just mother nature’s way of disposing dead animals?