Third-hand Related account BFRO #317

Odor near Benton, Kentucky

a few weeks prior to this incident Benton, Marshall County, Kentucky
Someone else's experience, retold. This event is described inside another report — Sighting by a courier near Benton, across from a log cabin on Cole Cemetery Road. It is catalogued separately because it is a different occasion, not a duplicate.

Account

The resident said another person's hunting dog chased something in the same woods weeks earlier, yelped, went quiet, and was found dead without its head amid a foul odor.

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Facts & provenance

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Date
a few weeks prior to this incident
Stated BFRO report #317 · BFRO report, “Observed” section · read with 80% confidence
Place
Benton, Marshall County, Kentucky
Derived BFRO report #317 · BFRO report, “Observed” section · read with 80% confidence
Map point
36.82, -88.41 (± 1000 m)
Derived BFRO report #317 · derived:same-place-as-main · read with 75% confidence
The report places this event at its main event's location (SOURCE_MAP_LAYER)

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  1. Published 2000-09-15 Retrieved 2026-09-25 Version 1 Hash bee92d76d9b5
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