The savage attack on the sheep has left villagers and a local vet in eastern Ukraine baffled
TERRIFIED villagers have claimed a mysterious vampire-like creature has killed eight sheep and sucked their blood completely dry.
The corpses of the animals with holes in their necks were found in the village of Matveevtsy in eastern Ukraine's Ternopil Oblast region.
Local authorities, vets and villagers say they have no idea what kind of creature could suck all the blood from eight adult sheep.
Farmer Mykhailo Ostapyuk discovered the dead animals in the morning when he was moving his flock of sheep from an open-air sheepfold to pasture.
"The corpses of the sheep were scattered in different parts of the sheepfold," he told local media.
"Looks like they were hunted and killed one by one."
Ostapyuk says he now plans to install CCTV cameras in the sheep pen to catch the mysterious creature.
A local vet with 40 years’ experience, named as Maria Andriychuk, examined the victims.
She said that each corpse had two holes on the neck artery and some of them had holes in their legs where veins were located.
"All the blood was sucked from their bodies through the holes in their necks and legs,” said Andriychuk
“I did not find any single spot of blood on the ground near the corpses.”
When she did an autopsy on some of the corpses, the vet says she was even more shocked.
“There was not even a drop of blood in the animal’s hearts. They were just empty. I've never seen anything like it before."
Each of the killed sheep weighed about 154 pounds.
The terrified villagers say they cannot imagine what kind of creature could be so vicious.
Ostapyuk showed a picture of a footprint he found near the fence of the sheepfold, which he believes belongs to the mysterious vampire-like creature.
Some say that the footprint is similar to that of a wolf or a large dog.
But local hunter Yaroslav Yurchuk believes that a wolf or a dog could not have killed the sheep.
"We do not have wolves in the area as we do not have large forests here,” he said.
“If it had been a wolf, it would have pulled the carcass to a safe place before eating it.
“Also a wolf usually eats the flesh of its victim. It couldn't have been a fox as they do not attack animals larger than they are."
One of the local women said: "All this is a total mystery to us. I'm afraid to go out of my house."
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