Chile Forum

Scott Corrales is well known in the field of UFOlogy throughout the Spanish-speaking world and North America. Mr. Corrales, as an author and translator, is recognized as one of the foremost experts in the realm of cattle and human mutilations related to UFO activities across Latin America from Mexico and Puerto Rico to Chile and Argentina. He is especially knowledgeable in the details, range and peculiarities of the "Chupacabra" phenomenon. He has appeared in several TV and cablecast documentaries in the United States, notably, on the History Channel and National Geographic Channel.

Robert D. Morningstar, Associate Editor, UFO Digest.

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The Punta Arenas Exsanguinations

According to Chilean researcher Raul Nuñez of the IIEE organization, a curious and downright terrifying account of human mutilation took place in the vicinity of Punta Arenas - along with Ushuaia, one of the southernmost centers of population in the Americas. No specific date exists for the incident, and that will probably constitute sufficient grounds for hardened skeptics to turn up their noses. But the time frame given is 1977-1978, when other high strangeness events were taking place in Chile and in South America as a whole, like the mysterious disappearance and reappearance of Corporal Valdez on the outskirts of Putre.

On the outskirts of Punta Arenas - four miles south of the city, to be exact - a man named "Juan" felt the urge to put up a rabbit hutch on his property. He acquired all of the necessary elements and built the cages himself, placing the rabbits within them and visiting his smallholding every weekend. All went well until one particular weekend, the one in which he arrived to find his animals dead.

Heartbroken but eminently practical, Juan set about to secure the animal's fur and flesh, discovering in the process that the rabbits had been bled dry, a curious phenomenon that did not keep him from stocking the hutch with more bunnies and starting over. When he returned to his property the following weekend, he found his new purchases dead - and completely bloodless, as the first ones. Angrily, he demanded an answer from his neighbors, who had none to give. No one had seen anything.

Returning to Punta Arenas, Juan consulted the matter with his families and decided to return to the smallholding and restart his rabbit husbandry operation for a third time, but on this occasion he would stay on the property to catch "whatever" was behind these awful deeds. He asked his girlfriend to come with him and stay the weekend. They departed Punta Arenas on a Friday at four o'clock in the afternoon, bent on solving the mystery.

When they had still not returned home on Sunday night, their respective parents grew concerned, but believed that they would probably return the following day. By noon on Monday, concerned phone calls were exchanged between families: Juan and his girlfriend had not returned to Punta Arenas. Fearing the worst, members of both families boarded a van and headed for the rural property.

Upon arriving, they saw that Juan's vehicle was parked outside the house; no one, however, was at the window to wave at them, as is customary in a lonely rural property when the sound of an arriving vehicle can be heard. The relatives wondered if the couple was still asleep, or possibly out for a walk. Entering the cabin and heading for one of the bedrooms, the new arrivals were faced with a scene that not even Lovecraft's gifted imagination could have conceived.

Stunned into a wordless abyss of silence, unable to process the information their eyes transmitted to the brains, the couple's relatives stared at the lifeless bodies of Juan and his girlfriend - both naked, with looks of absolute horror frozen on their features, with clear signs of having vomited and defecated at the presence of something that probably killed them from sheer fright.

The police, summoned to the nightmarish scene of the crime, conducted a routine investigation and reached the opinion that the couple had died from gas poisoning, due to a leak in the gas-fueled kitchen stove. To confirm this, law enforcement officers deposited a number of cats in the house, leaving the gas knob open. When they returned the following day, the cats bounded out of the house through the open door - clearly none the worse from their exposure to the stove. Puzzled, the authorities conveyed the corpses to the Punta Arenas morgue, where forensic pathologists found that there wasn't a drop of blood to be found in either of them.

Eugenio Bahamonde, the paranormal researcher who looked into the case, had a chance to speak to Maria, a nurse who had been involved in the case.

During their conversation, the health-care professional told him that the authorities had ruled out theft or any other criminal motive in these deaths, confirming that she could attest to the complete lack of blood in the corpses or at the scene. Bahamonde later contacted the pathologist, who indicated that the exsanguinations of the corpses were indeed true, but refused to add anything further. These events, writes Bahamonde, occurred in the late '70s, when neither cattle mutilations nor Chupacabras activity were an issue in that part of the world.

A year after the events, Bahamonde offered to take parapsychologist Bettina Allen to the rural property where Juan and his girlfriend died screaming. When they came within a few miles of the house, the parapsychologist let out a scream and pleaded Bahamonde to turn back, as she felt overwhelmed by the negative forces they were driving into. The researcher complied and the event remains another unexplained mystery of the southern reaches of our planet.

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