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.