Leopoldo Zambrano: The Dismembered Man Who Fell From The Sky

 

The Dismembered Man Who Fell From The Sky

By Leopoldo Zambrano Enríquez

1978. State of Tabasco, Mexico. A group of seven workers from the company "Petróleos Mexicanos" were heading down the Gulf Circuit highway—packed tightly into a "Gremlin" van—traveling from Villahermosa to Cárdenas. They had just collected their paychecks and were eager to celebrate. Along the way, the seven men were in high spirits—telling jokes and bantering—when suddenly, a terrible impact brutally jolted the vehicle, and a thousand shards of windshield glass sprayed into their faces like a shower of small stones.

In the ensuing chaos—and frightened out of their wits—the three men sitting in the front seat began to scream, desperately pleading with the driver to stop the car, for something large and heavy had just landed across their legs. In the panic and shock of the moment, the driver floored the accelerator instead of braking, and the seven men came perilously close to crashing.

When the car finally came to a halt, the three men in the front continued to scream in desperation; the uncertainty fostered by the darkness of the night prevented them from seeing exactly what lay across their legs. When they finally managed to catch a glimpse of what had fallen upon them, a wave of concentrated disgust and terror completely overwhelmed them—to the point that they began thrashing about, trying to shake the thing off. Lying across their bodies was the upper torso of a man—severed right at the waist!

The seven men finally stopped near Loma de Caballo, amidst the pitch darkness of the night. Driven by the fear and agitation churning within them, they abandoned the corpse right there on the spot and decided to return to the place from which they had started. The lower half of the body appeared shortly thereafter, near the road where the men had felt the impact against their car—much to their subsequent astonishment—having apparently fallen from the sky. Curiously, this section was not found on the roadway itself or in the roadside ditch, but rather in a field not far away. The deceased turned out to be a poor day laborer.

The seven men later maintained that they had not struck the man, but rather—quite to the contrary—that he had fallen vertically from above. It should be added that a body struck head-on is unlikely to be severed in half; furthermore, the windshield of a "Gremlin" automobile is steeply raked backward and would tend to deflect a body rather than allow it to penetrate far enough to shatter the glass.

However, there are further details that complicate this bizarre incident even more—if such a thing is possible. Salvador Freixedo was the individual who brought this case to public attention and investigated it down to the minutest detail. In the course of his investigation (which can be found in his book *La Granja Humana* [The Human Farm], published by Plaza y Janés), Freixedo spoke with the victim's son, who adamantly asserted that his father had not been struck by a vehicle. To support this claim, he argued that his father was a quiet, home-loving man, and that there was absolutely no reason for him to be in such a remote location—so far from his home—at such an ungodly hour. He told Freixedo that his father was not in the habit of frequenting those parts, let alone walking down the middle of the road.

Another reason he believed in the innocence of the seven oil company employees was that his father’s body did not exhibit the classic signs of a pedestrian struck by a car; the injuries found on the body were simply too peculiar to have been inflicted by the impact of an automobile.

"My father was sawed in half at the waist. I don't know who did it. But he wasn't run over by any car."

According to the son, his father had been meticulously severed using some sort of instrument. The body bore no jagged lacerations of any kind, and the clothing appeared to have been cut with absolute precision. There were no broken bones; nor did intestines or tissue remnants hang from the severed parts—as would have been logical had the victim been struck by a vehicle. To make matters worse, not a trace of blood could be found anywhere, nor did the clothing bear any rips or particles of soil. In short, both the flesh and the clothing of the corpse had been severed with meticulous precision—as if a giant guillotine had sliced ​​the body in two with a single stroke, and the resulting wound had subsequently been cauterized instantly, leaving no trace behind.

The seven men who had so traumatically discovered the dismembered body that had seemingly rained down from the sky were detained following their statements; however, they were released by the judge shortly thereafter due to a lack of evidence. As for the family, let us allow Freixedo himself to describe their reaction to the event:

"The family simply did not know what had happened. I get the impression that the intense agitation that seized their son stemmed from a vague realization that this was no natural occurrence—that, deep down, it was somehow linked to witchcraft or to something mysterious beyond his wildest imagination—and that very fact is what terrified him so."

He couldn't stop repeating: "They sawed my father in half."

(Cr: Fundación Cosmos A.C., 2003)

[While no UFO is present in this account, Freixedo suggested that it was the work of hostile non-human entities who have been responsible for human - and bovine - mutilations all over the world.- SC]