After a handful of farmers had their cows that panic and stampede a few times in a row this year, the national agricultural organisation has opened a 'hotline for cow panic', to map and investigate the phenomenon.
One farmer says: "I've been a cow farmer for over 30 years and I have never seen anything like this. All diary cows are affected, but the calves are not.
Now it isn't that odd that cows get nervous every now and then. Cows are really nervous animals. What made this strange is the intensity, and that it wasn't just my herd. Four other farmers in the vicinity also had their herds go jackshit insane and stampede. So it must be something from outside our barns and land that spooked them.
None of my cows were harmed, but they didn't give milk for a full day after. My neighbor though lost a handful of cows that tripped, slipped and got crushed.
Agrarian organisation LTO says it has opened the hotline to assess the situation, and see if they can find a common factor in the incidents that could explain the panic.
Meanwhile, on social media, many theories are emerging, ranging from ghosts spooking the herds, to wireless radiation, to the earthquakes in Groningen (because of the gas extraction), to aliens, to Trump.
Personally I'd say, go look for wolves or bear. Both have been predicted to make their re-entry to the Netherlands, since nature sites have been interconnected with wildlife over- and underpasses.