Chapter 1: The Unbelievable Story of a Headless Chicken

The extraordinary account of a headless chicken has left many perplexed over the years. Newspaper headlines exclaimed:

• "Headless Rooster: Beheaded Chicken Lives Normally After Freak Decapitation by Axe"
• "Famous Headless Chicken Celebrated in Fruita"

The remarkable chicken, known as Miracle Mike, was born on April 20, 1945, and belonged to the Wyandotte breed. Various narratives describe how Mike became a headless marvel. One version suggests that farmer Lloyd Olsen decided to behead fifty of his chickens, but one of them simply refused to die. Another account indicates that on September 10, 1945, Lloyd's wife requested a chicken for dinner, leading him to choose a five-month-old Wyandotte. After beheading it, the chicken astonishingly remained alive.

Ultimately, approximately six months after hatching, this chicken defied death itself. Initially, it ran around frantically before calming down and attempting to peck for food as if nothing had occurre