Beware the night stalker

There are things that go bump in the night and usually, it’s just the figment of someone’s imagination.

But in the case of a man from Lake Worth Beach, Florida, the thing that went bumping through the night was real enough to carry out a vicious — but fortunately non-life threatening — attack just because it was expecting another meal.

The man, who refused to be identified, will most likely think twice about feeding wild animals after he was attacked by a raccoon-like rainforest creature which

came charging at him after being fed the night prior, according to Fox News.

He narrated that as he was leaving his girlfriend’s Lake Worth Beach apartment to go to work early in the morning, a kinkajou — a four-legged rainforest creature that resembles a monkey but is related to raccoons — came barging into the second-story residence and attacked him.

The creature had been waiting outside the door all night hoping to get more food after the man and some neighbors fed it watermelon the day before and according to reports from CBS 12, as soon as he opened the door, the creature suddenly jumped on him.

Luckily, the man only suffered non-life-threatening injuries from the encounter with the furry animal — including a bite to the foot and scratches on the back of his leg.

The man’s neighbor, identified as Natalie Dulach, said she was awoken by the chaos around five in the morning after the unsuspected visitor came running in — an intruder that she initially believed was a human approximately 30 times the animal’s size.

“It sounded like a 300-pound man was tackling him in the kitchen,” Dulach explained to CBS 12. “That’s why I thought somebody was breaking into my house. It scared me, to be honest.”

“When he opened the door, it charged at him, at his leg and clung to his leg and then he was trying to get it off … And it kept coming back in,” she continued, noting that she “got scared” and slammed her bedroom door shut.

The man was eventually able to lock the kinkajou in the bathroom until wildlife officers arrived at the home and an initial report from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said that the animal was then taken to an unnamed licensed facility.

At the time, officers were unable to determine where the kinkajou came from and whether it had been owned by anyone and it is still unclear if the animal has since been released into

the wild.