More disgusting scary grossness in Prospect Park

The demented butcher of Prospect Park has struck again

On Friday morning, Anne-Katrin Titze and Ed Bahlman’s discovered slaughtered chickens — lots of them — on their daily walk.

“The chicken’s neck was stretched out facing the lake on the rocks — the head was in the water. No feathers, just flesh,” Bahlman said. “A swan ended up knocking the head into the lake.”

Nearby, Bahlman found a large box with two latex gloves inside. Beside the box were feathers — likely from the chicken — strewn about the banks of the lake.

Hours later, the horror show in Brooklyn’s most beloved park took an extreme turn.

Bahlman’s friend, Bonita Makuch, came upon entrails piled on the edge of Prospect Park lake. Some of the guts had fallen into the water — pieces of viscera were peaking out like fleshy glaciers. A chicken’s carcass floated nearby.

“It was quite disgusting,” said Makuch, who was unsure if all the tripe belonged to only chickens. “With a pile that big, it seems to me you’d have to do a lot of killing to get that many guts.”

Susan Yuen, who first came upon a similar revolting crime scene in the same area along Prospect Park southwest last week, saw the intestines in the early afternoon and immediately alerted park officials. A park employee — who would not give his name — quickly cleaned up the mess, pulling two chicken carcasses out of the water and throwing it all in a trash bag.

“It was so gross,” said Yuen, who snapped photos of the grisly scene. “I saw a chicken head, it started to smell as he pulled it all out of the water!”

The incident marks the second gore-fest at Prospect Park in two weeks. Last week, The Brooklyn Paper delved into the mind-bending mystery of a bloody chopping block, smashed turtle shells, and an arson — all of which appear to have been related.

Park officials were as baffled as everyone else.

“Maybe it could be left over from a voodoo or Santeria ritual?” Eugene Patron, a park spokesman, speculated.

He may be onto something. Santeria gross-outs are not uncommon in the area. Just last year, a pig’s head was left along the fence of Green-wood Cemetery, perhaps as a gift to the gods.

In fact, water often plays a role in many of the ritual offerings to Santeria’s assorted deities.

Ritual or not, some wished the park would take the wave of incidents more seriously and treat them as legitimate crimes deserving of an investigation.

“How can the park investigate these incidents when they remove the evidence and don’t even call the police?” asked Titze.

Bahlman, after doing some investigating of his own, determined that the murder- most-fowl must have occurred beyond the confines of the park.

“This is planted there — there was no blood, unlike last time,” said Bahlman. “Now, they’re bringing in things to sacrifice.”

But officials said that the park’s hands are tied, much like the feet of a chicken before it meets its demise.

“Unless someone catches someone in the act of either abusing an animal or littering — which this gory stuff is — there is little we can do,” Patron said.

Brooklyn Paper