{"id":33308,"date":"2021-08-20T08:58:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T03:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/mystery-of-farmer-eaten-by-his-own-supersize-pigs-and-other-humans-devoured-by-hogs\/"},"modified":"2021-08-20T10:19:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T04:49:40","slug":"mystery-of-farmer-eaten-by-his-own-supersize-pigs-and-other-humans-devoured-by-hogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/mystery-of-farmer-eaten-by-his-own-supersize-pigs-and-other-humans-devoured-by-hogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery of farmer eaten by his own supersize pigs – and other humans devoured by hogs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Farmer Terry Vance Garner “lived for” his pigs and reared them to be huge.<\/p>\n
But the very same supersize hogs he adored ended up eating him.<\/p>\n
And, chillingly, police said they will never know if Terry had suffered a medical emergency and collapsed in their pen, if he had been attacked by the animals, or there was some sort of foul play elsewhere beforehand.<\/p>\n
While most pigs are bred to be around 350lbs, some of Terry’s tipped the scales at twice that.<\/p>\n
One night, the 69-year-old went out to feed his stock and never returned.<\/p>\n
When family members went to look for him they made a horrifying discovery.<\/p>\n
His dentures and some clothing were found in the pig pen. On closer examination, chunks of his flesh were also discovered. He had been eaten by his own pigs.<\/p>\n
A police spokesman said: “For all we know, it was a horrific accident, but it’s so doggone weird that we have to look at all possibilities.”<\/p>\n
Devastated family members said the year before Mr Garner had accidentally stepped on a piglet and a large sow had attacked him.<\/p>\n
There was a suggestion revenge could have been a motive for the pig in question.<\/p>\n
Terry’s brother, Michael Garner, said: “He said he was going to kill it, but when I asked him about it later, he said he had changed his mind. He was a good hearted guy and those animals were his life.”<\/p>\n
While pigs are not normally aggressive, cases of them devouring people are not unheard of.<\/p>\n
In China a two-year-old was eaten when he wandered into a hog enclosure.<\/p>\n
In Russia a woman had an epileptic fit while feeding her pigs and was eaten alive.<\/p>\n
But tragedies aside, there are also countless macabre cases of criminals feeding their victims to the animals to get rid of evidence.<\/p>\n