SdCNHA’s Scary Stories, Folklores, and Legends,
-A Horse Named Snippy-
One
of the biggest unsolved mysteries to ever take place in the Sangre de
Cristo National Heritage Area is a true story that happened in Alamosa
on September 7, 1967. On that day a three-year-old Appaloosa named
Snippy did not return home to the fence behind a ranch owner, Harry
King’s home for her usual water and treat.
Two
days later Mr. King went out looking for the horse, he sadly ended up
finding her remains around a quarter mile away from the ranch house.
What he saw next was bone chilling and unexplainable. According to Mr.
King, Snippy’s neck and head had been completely stripped of their
flesh, leaving nothing but bare bone visible.
However,
the rest of Snippy’s body had remained unscathed. No blood was found
around the body, and the flesh had been removed with extreme precision.
Around one hundred yards away from the body there were a series of six
small, round indentions in the ground that had flattened shrubbery.
There were other strange reports surrounding the body, such as reports
of a “sickly-sweet smell” around the body, and the exposed bones
appearing bright pink to one person.
With
these strange reports and the incident itself being unexplainable at the
time, including rumors of unexplained lights in the sky of the area
during that time, amateur mystery solvers began to attribute Snippy’s
death to aliens. Such an event shocked the agricultural communities of
the Valley, and many newspaper articles were published around this time
period with different reports of what may have happened to Snippy.
While
today, we cannot be sure what happened to Snippy, UFO believers and
enthusiasts alike are drawn to this local story that no one can seem to
explain.
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