Entire flocks of sheep preserve vanishing from farms and no person is aware of why
Livestock living on the remote islands of Store-Batalden and Vevlingen near Norway have begun vanishing into thin air. What’s even stranger is nobody has a clue where on earth they are disappearing to
The case has baffled local police
They say counting sheep can help you in nodding off, but Norwegian farmers are in fact losing sleep doing exactly that.
That’s because, over the couple year or so, dozens of livestock living the remote islands of Store-Batalden and Vevlingen have been apparently begun vanishing into thin air. What’s even weirder is nobody has a clue where on earth they are disappearing to.
Farmer Linda Langø revealed to Norwegian news site NRK that desperate shepherds on the island have found “nothing” to suggest where the animals might be going.
“We have searched everywhere, even with sheepdogs and experienced islanders. We find nothing, not even bone fragments or wool“, she said.
Worryingly, the trend seems to be on the rise, with 23 sheep going missing from just one flock in 2026 alone.
Breeder Mette Johannessen who owned the 23 absent sheep becried the vanishings:
We’re losing the lambs and don’t know where they’re disappearing to. We can’t find any carcasses either.” Twenty-three lambs already this year… Simply gone!
Another farmer told NRK that the missing sheep were hitting farmers hard financially, with some losing £20,000 worth of livestock.
“Financially, it’s a big strain. My husband and I realized we needed help. That’s why we reported the matter to the police”, complained Langø Batalden.
The bizarre disappearances have left local police scratching their head, as investigators desperately seek answers as to where they may be going.
Norwegian media has reported that predators on the island have been ruled out as potential sheep-stealers, as all animals known to live there would leave sheep bones and carcasses were they to attack.
The number one theory at the moment is theft, with reports stating that investigators suspect criminals are somehow accessing the island and abducting the sheep living on it.
Crucially though, there has been no concrete evidence to support this suspicion, and so police are urging locals to come forward with any infomation, or if they see something out of the ordinary.
Lead investigator Elias Demac from the Florø police station told reporters that that they have been in contact with the farmers and are taking the situation seriously.
We think it’s good that this is getting attention, and we want farmers who have experienced something similar to contact us”, he stated.
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