Last year Prospect Park saw plenty of dead animals—from possible Santeria rituals to government-sanctioned Canada geese slaughters, almost every kind of animal fell victim to someone or something. Well, the blood is still pouring over there—Brooklyn Photos spotted these decapitated chickens "in the woods in the middle of Prospect Park" yesterday. Looks like the area is still a prime spot for Santeria rituals in 2011! Perhaps this whole dead animal thing will be one of the main focuses of the new park administrator taking over for Tupper Thomas this year. more ›

Has Santeria moved to the suburbs? After a spate of strange animal body parts turning up in Prospect Park this year, including a goat's head, one reader stumbled upon an animal's heart within a chalk heart outline in Glenwood Lake in New Rochelle yesterday. According to local police, this isn't the first animal part to be found around Westchester parks this year: a goat who had been sexually assaulted was discovered in Yonkers and a beheaded sheep was found in Ward Acres in New Rochelle. Police believe this heart was a turkey's heart, and are unsure whether it was college kids playing a joke or part of this recent streak of ritualistic animal killings. more ›

Last week bags containing animal parts were discovered in Prospect Park, upping the body count of slaughtered animals discovered there this year. But then an albino squirrel was spotted in the park, alive and well, and we forgot all about the gruesome discoveries... until now. more ›

Animal massacres are getting a little too frequent in Brooklyn. Earlier this year animal parts were found by Prospect Park Lake (followed by a number of animals dying in that area), and now a similar gruesome discovery was made in DUMBO. According to the Brooklyn Paper, a Santeria-style bag of surprises was discovered by photographer Steve Harris last Sunday as he was walking just east of Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park. more ›

If you're still eating your breakfast burrito, you may want to skip this one: Chicken heads, feet, and "the entrails of a large animal" have been revolting visitors to Prospect Park in recent weeks, and no one knows who's behind the butchery. Most of the remains have been gathered at one spot near the lakebed at the southwest corner of the park, and at least eight chicken heads were recently found, plus intestines and chicken feet. "It was so gross," local Susan Yuen tells the Brooklyn Paper, in an article packed with great quotes. "I saw a chicken head, it started to smell as [a Parks employee] pulled it all out of the water!" more ›

Like Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx, Inwood Hill Park has long been known as a popular spot for Santeria animal sacrifices. Joggers have reported seeing mutilated chickens tied to trees, and one assistant Parks Department gardener recently came forward to share her fun story about picking up animal remains in the park. These include decapitated turtles and roosters, plus a cow’s heart with magnets and a picture of a boy and a girl tied around it. Awww. Here's a slideshow of some of what she's found; it's really not as gross as it sounds, but probably not the best lunch accompaniment: more ›

When we reported Tuesday that a fourth sick, emaciated goat had been found wandering in the area of Pelham Bay Park near the Hutchinson River Parkway in the Bronx, one commenter provided a possible explanation for the mystery: "These goats aren't 'escaping' from anywhere. they're the victims of Santeria sacrifice that regularly takes place in Pelham Bay Park." Indeed, locals have long reported seeing candles, fruits and animal bones and skulls in the area. more ›