It was late one night in June of 2000, and a security guard named Luis Alberto Calivar was on duty in Baquedano, Chile when he would have an encounter with a gelatinous aberration that he would never forget, and which would seemingly have a strikingly-bizarre impact on the man's physical health.
The Incident[]
This image is by Tim Morris (Pristichampsus on DeviantART) and was meant to depict a bunyip-like creature. I think that it fits the Baquedano Thing pretty well.
Luis armed himself with a flashlight and a knife in response to the frantic barking of his dogs outside - and soon his torch beam caught 'a dark greenish form that ran very quickly'. The entity appeared to be climbing up a nearby Wasintonia palm, and Calivar's arm was suddenly afflicted with a weird 'cold' sensation, causing his knife and watch to fall out of his hand. His dogs stood deadly still as a feeling of numbness overcame the security guard's body, prompting the frightened witness to run back into the shack-like security outpost in which he had been spending the night. The dogs followed him and hid, shaking in fear.
Calivar described the crazy critter as having a gelatinous body-structure 'as if it was without a solid bone structure', and as moving around 'like a kangaroo'. The apparently globular creature was about 1.30 metres tall and had floppy ears, as well as a body covered in green hairs 'about 5 to 6cm in length'.
When he first caught sight of it, the creature seemed to have been crouching behind a bush - and despite somehow twisting its body around, it never looked directly him. Calivar noticed no abnormal odours coming from the entity, and incredibly felt no fear throughout the encounter in spite of both his and his dogs' physical reactions to the presence of the being. The whole incident 'lasted about 5 minutes' and the creature remained roughly 9 meters away from the security guard.
The Aftermath (and the Fearsome Fat-Suckers)[]
Soon after his brush with the unknown, Luis went to see a doctor who astonishingly revealed that he had somehow 'lost about 20 pounds of body weight'. No medical explanation as to why this was seemed to be forthcoming. However, this final detail adds an interesting folkloric link to the encounter. Throughout South America (but mostly in the Andes regions of Bolivia and Peru), there are legendary attestations to creatures known as Pishtaco, Kharisiri, Ñakaq or Lik'ichiri - which are known to steal the fat of unsuspecting victims and later sell it as fried food. Obviously the description of the Pishtaco as a Caucasian-looking humanoid doesn't fit with the representation of this creature as a green blob-thing, but the sudden decrease in the witness's bodyweight could hint at some kind of a connection.
Source[]
https://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2014/05/cryptids-more-cryptids-4.html