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[tipotep]

Tia , im just wondering if the so called yowies are limited to the blue mountains or do you think that they are in the bush everywhere in Austrlia ?

TiP.

[psyche101]

tipotep, on 06 April 2011 - 04:37 AM, said:

Tia , im just wondering if the so called yowies are limited to the blue mountains or do you think that they are in the bush everywhere in Austrlia ?

TiP.

I live in a Queensland "Hotspot"

Not a single Yowie in the vicinity. Nor could a large hairy hominid survive the climate.

[Tia]

tipotep, on 06 April 2011 - 04:37 AM, said:

Tia , im just wondering if the so called yowies are limited to the blue mountains or do you think that they are in the bush everywhere in Austrlia ?

TiP.

TiP I'll reply to you only because I'm sick of having my name teared to pieces. I honestly don't know. All I can answer for is my colony and yes they are in the BM. There's a lot more to it though, people think they read a book and know everything. I've been studying their habits for years now. I did also go and check out a site of a supposed aggressive yowie and we tried everything to lure him in and while it is a large area and we did find yowie signs, the birds all went quiet but nothing happened. Bloody disappointing thought an aggressive one was bound to show himself but he didn't. I myself do not trust most things that come out of some researchers mouths so if that's the way people feel about me too that's fine because I know the truth and that's all that matters to me.

Edited by Tia, 06 April 2011 - 11:53 AM.

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Tia, on 06 April 2011 - 11:46 AM, said:

TiP I'll reply to you only because I'm sick of having my name teared to pieces.

What name? The reality is that you are an anonymous person making sensational and unverified claims on the internet just like this one:

Where Can I Get Silver Bullets?

Thinking it could be Yowie-related I contacted the OP who, like you, was confident in what he saw, claimed to have collected evidence but refused to disclose it, and absolutely positively did not want anyone independent to personally investigate on site. He was interested in joining a paranormal research group however so making sensational and unverified claims sure seems like a good way of meeting like-minded researchers. His claims are quantifiably no different to yours, Tia, except that you already have long-standing connections to said researchers and you'd like to start your own group.

If you make claims then you should back them up. Simple. This should not be a source of confrontation if your claims are legitimate.

Tia, on 08 February 2011 - 12:09 PM, said:

Also may have found something today, got to get it sent away for testing so just waiting for a contact name. Fingers crossed   Won't say anything more until it goes off to a lab. I'm bloody sore after 3 days of hunting, though it'll be all worth it if this comes up trumps.

The above statement cuts to the heart of your credibility in regards to your claims:

Did you indeed send any samples to a professional laboratory for analysis? If so, post the results (please don't say "The Yowie ate it").

Or did you misrepresent/exaggerate what actually happened? Like sending samples to a guy with a Hair ID kit and making out like it was an actual lab in order to sound like genuine research.

Or are you simply making it up as you go along? A not-so-uncommon pasttime.

You claim to know the truth but you should be able to demonstrate that truth for the rest of us. That is, if your claims are legitimate...

[Night Walker]

Prey (2004)



Watch the trailer: http://home.vicnet.n...ual/trailer.wmv

SYNOPSIS:
“When a number of hikers are found torn apart in a national park, the police and park rangers alike are left baffled. Slowly their darkest nightmares are revealed as surmounting evidence points to the existence of a terrifying beast, known only in folk-lore. With the rangers trapped in the park, they’re forced to make their escape on foot, through the forest. Along for the ride is an obsessed Yowie hunter with a secret agenda. Only then does the true nature of the beast reveal itself.” (courtesy official website http://home.vicnet.n...~prey/about.htm )

http://horrornews.ne...view-prey-2004/


Prey is a modest and reasonably well-made monster movie. As a debuting filmmaker, Trevor McBain directs with a slick and professional look. He displays a good grasp of the mechanics of the genre and moves the film along with a fair degree of suspense. The whole film has essentially been contrived around the initial appearances of the Yowie with the substantial bulk of the story then consisting of a cross-country flight by a group of people and their siege at the cottage. The extended climactic scenes with the survivors cornered in the farmhouse are well sustained. The monster is about the one aspect that looks B-budgeted and it is here that McBain doesn’t quite grasp the virtue of many other B-budget films in keeping glimpses of it to a near-subliminal minimum.

There is a reasonable attention paid to characters who all have credible reactions to the situation, which is the basis of any good survival horror film. Most of the performances in the film – all unknown newcomers – are convincing and do not let the show down. There is never any explanation given for The Yowie, except for a few vague comments about it being a mythical creature.

http://www.moria.co....or/prey2004.htm


Local schlock horror - anyone seen it?

[Night Walker]

Motorist catches sight of a yowie

19th May 2011

WHAT'S more than two metres (six foot) tall, solidly built and covered in shaggy hair?

If your answer was “that guy down at the local,” you're probably right but it's also a common description of a mythical Australian creature known as a yowie, a specimen of which has been reportedly spotted near Centenary Dr, north of Grafton.



A Hunter Valley man named Dean, who did not wish to be identified further, thinks he may have caught a glimpse of one of the creatures, a kind of an Australian version of Bigfoot, as he was driving along the section of road in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

Dean, whose work sees him driving more than 5000km a week around NSW, was travelling south along the Pacific Hwy, north of Grafton just before 2.30am when he took the Centenary Dr bypass. Shortly after turning into the road he saw something that shook him to the core.

“I reached the top of the hill and I was coming around the sweeping corner to the right when I noticed something a lot larger than a kangaroo in the middle of the road – my headlights weren't on it yet but it was a bright night and I saw what looked like a large person stooped over, with a big overcoat on,” Dean said.

“At the time I thought ‘you silly old thing, what are you doing in the middle of the road at this time of the morning', but next thing I knew my headlights started to light it up and it took one giant step off the road, it went from standing up like a person to going down on all fours and then it disappeared into the scrub in about three bounds.”

Dean, who is used to night-driving and fatigue management, slowed down and was looking into the scrub for the creature and said he saw it silhouetted against the sky.

“It had an almost sort of a square, shaggy block head sitting straight on its shoulders – I'm a pretty big guy but it made me absolutely awe-struck how huge its body was – it had its arm up against a tree and it had about a foot of hair hanging from under its biceps.”

He estimated the creature to be at least two metres tall and covered in what looked like jet-black hair.

Dean said he had no idea what to think until he described the incident to colleagues later who said it was similar to yowie-sighting stories they'd heard in their travels.

Since then Dean said he had been researching ... to rationally explain what he saw but has yet to find a satisfactory answer.

“Anybody who knows me knows I'm the ultimate realist but this was an awe-inspiring moment, it's definitely made me a believer,” Dean said.

During his search for answers however, Dean came across the website of Australian yowie researcher, Paul Cropper who was very interested in his story.

Mr Cropper, who has also co-written a book on yowies, said Dean's story wasn't unusual.

“In our book we recorded around 350 reports going back to the late 1700s, early 1800s, but I imagine there's a lot more than that which don't ever reach the media – people have these experiences and then just keep it to themselves,” Mr Cropper said.

Theories abound as to what yowies could be, including an unknown species of ape or even an undiscovered close relative to homo sapiens, he said.

“One thing you can say with absolute certainty is that Aborigines and Europeans have been recording these things for a long time – the Aboriginal stories go back to the Dreamtime and the European stories go back to basically the first settlement ... there's just this consistent thread of stories up until Tuesday morning,” he said.

http://www.dailyexam...of-a-big-yowie/

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Great story. Thanks for posting. I just re-read this article and think that the Denisovans must be a contender. I didn't know that the yowies went down on all fours with such ease btw. Makes me think that they might be the male equivalent of the female bunyip perhaps.

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The researchers found that the individual was female and came from a group of hominins that shared an ancient origin with Neanderthals, but subsequently diverged. They call this group of hominins Denisovans. Unlike Neanderthal, Denisovans did not contribute genes to all present-day Eurasians. However, Denisovans share an elevated number of genetic variants with modern-day Papua New Guinean populations, suggesting that there was interbreeding between Denisovans and the ancestors of Melanesians.

Here's a recent article Bunyips, serpents & other creatures lurking beneath our waters

Edited by tailormaneinafog, 12 December 2011 - 02:30 PM.

[Night Walker]

Update on the Mount George Yowie:


'Yowie' may be wanted man

13 Dec, 2011 01:00 AM

BUSH fugitive Malcolm Naden may have been as far east as Mount George in August 2009 when two women saw what they believed was a "yowie" on Nowendoc Road.

The Manning River Times reported at the time that the two women were approaching Connelly's Creek Gap "just the other side of Mt George" at 7.30pm and saw "a big hairy animal thing" illuminated in their headlights on the side of the winding road.

Faye Burke and Alana Garnett from Wingham said the hairy thing stood perfectly still "like it was at attention" and had dark "chocolate brown hair which was all matted."

Though the women maintained it was not a man dressed up but was in fact a yowie or big foot-like creature, by their description it could well have been Naden, whose computer-enhanced image recently released by police does have dark curly hair. He is also described as 177cm tall - five foot 10 in the old scale.

Described as an expert bushman, Naden has survived alone in the bush since June 2005 when he disappeared from his grandparents' house in west Dubbo. He is wanted on warrants for the murder of a 24-year-old woman in Dubbo in June 2005 and an aggravated indecent assault against a 15-year-old girl.

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Naden has also been linked to a number of burglaries in the Barrington Tops area over the past few years. In January 2009 his fingerprints were found at break-ins at Bellbrook, west of Kempsey. In June 2010 he was as far south as Mount Mooney near Gloucester, where his prints were found again.

The "yowie" sighting occurred between these two points and dates.

http://www.manningri...an/2390791.aspx
http://home.yowieoca...t_George_Yowie/

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tailormaneinafog, on 12 December 2011 - 02:23 PM, said:

I didn't know that the yowies went down on all fours with such ease btw. Makes me think that they might be the male equivalent of the female bunyip perhaps. Here's a recent article Bunyips, serpents & other creatures lurking beneath our waters

Yep, I got it right I think.

P.S. That guy having dark curly hair and 5ft10" tall is a big JOKE.........hahaha....looks like a big hairy man....what a laugh.

Edited by tailormaneinafog, 13 December 2011 - 10:30 AM.

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Here's a cryptomundo report of a yowie seen at close range by 20 people:

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BILL O’Chee can remember it like it was yesterday. It was the day the former Queensland National Party senator came face to face with a creature straight out of a nightmare.

A young O’Chee was with a group of 20 fellow TSS students returning from a two-day camp near Springbrook when they saw what they described as a 3m tall hair-covered creature.

To this day, Mr O’Chee is certain what he saw was the mythical yowie.

He told The Gold Coast Bulletin on November 17, 1977 that the animal approached the boys’ camp on several occasions, at one stage coming within 10m of their cabins.

“About 20 of us saw it,” he said then.

“It was about 3m tall, covered in hair, had a flat face and walked to the side in a crab-like style.

“It smashed small saplings and trees like matchsticks as it careered through the bush, we spotted it several times and once watched it through binoculars. It definitely was there.

“We first saw it just before we returned back to Southport on the afternoon of October 23.”

Contacted this week, Mr O’Chee was happy to confirm the story and said his memory of what he saw was as clear to him today as it was 27 years ago.

“I still remember it, I can still see the damn thing,” he said.

“The majority of my school chums still remember it, it was such an amazing experience.

“It was a big thing, about 8ft tall through the binoculars, it moved in a crab-like fashion.

“We saw where it had been lying on the grbutt and the impression it left was about 8ft long.

“That night it just ripped up whole shrubs between the creek and where our camp was, right out of the ground, – roots and all. A bloke can’t do that, it was quite incredible.”

Mr O’Chee said his experience had left him with the certainty that yowies do exist.

“I do believe it. Nothing that has happened since has made me believe otherwise, all I can say is that it did exist when I saw it,” he said.

“Stranger things have happened. In the last couple of years they have discovered animals in the South-East Asian jungle that are new that survived the Vietnam War. And Australia has a history of supporting large fauna.

“I know the school (TSS) never went back there (Springbrook).

“Some of us got into trouble for mentioning it but I’m not sorry because it’s true.

“I hope it’s still out there and if they are we would be wise to just leave them well alone.”

Mr O’Chee’s sighting is the most famous of reported incidents involving yowies, but there have been thousands of cases around the country of alleged contact with the famed mythical beast.

[RingFenceTheCity]

Here's one of a bunyip, with the back legs coming over in a fast circular fashion of locomotion. I've heard of this before in a swimming context btw.

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hi guys, sorry this is so long but this is somewhat bizarre and complicated. We live out in the middle the bush and my boyfriend had been driving back home at around 3:30am in the morning, so it was very dark and misty (beside it being a full moon) and had reached this point called Noble Falls, where the road winds down into a gully next to a steep rocky outcrop (the road is carved out of the hillside). There is an old abandoned pub at this point, and across from here it drops into a gully with a river/rapids running through which I have a sneaking suspicion run into the hill into an underground water source. It is part of the Avon River and is near a place called Woorooloo Brook (check out these links to see some photos of the terrain I am talking about: http://image62.websh...99vEjHCk_ph.jpg).

Anywho, he had been travelling at about 100km/h when suddenly this thing leapt out from the side of the road, travelling extremely fast, either in front of the ute, or it went straight through the ute. The weird thing is, there is no where it could of been on the actual road because it runs next to a sheer cliff face (unless it actually came out of the cliff face) and the only other possibility is that is leapt from the edge of the cliff face, which is a fair way up above the road and seems somewhat unlikely. There is no where it could have gone either, because it is a drop-off down to the rapids on the otherside, but it indeed it did just seem to vanish.

Anyway, this thing, although he only saw it for a split second, was definately not a kangaroo, as it was huge and he described it as white, with wiry strange-looking fur, with a long (about the length of a car) very straight and flat backbone, with no head and no tail and it was like it was galloping on four legs, but the way it was moving was sort of ape-like, as in the legs were moving in a circular sort of motion, coming over the head (it's hard to explain, but its definately freaky as I cannot think of any animal that moves like that). I have never seen my boyfriend shaken by anything before in his life, and he says when he saw it he got the biggest chill down the spine and all the hairs on his arms stood on end. The immediate word that popped into my head was 'bunyip' (or the 'yowie) as this area has a long Aboriginal history related to dreamtime myths about the rainbow snake and other 'mythical creatures' and funnily enough, there is a farm just up from the Noble Falls called 'Bunyip Park' (haven't found out why they named it that as of yet). I also know that Walyunga National Park, which is across from this location but still connected to the same waterway (The Avon River) is known locally as the home of the bunyip, or there have at least apparently been sightings of such a creature in that area. It is also known to be home of the Warrdarchi, which are some sort of hairy creature that according to tradition inhabit the area (perhaps the one and the same as the bunyip?) My boyfriend's description certainly fits descriptions of some yowie sightings, almost word for word, and he had also experienced car troubles in that exact area for the last few weeks (the car would overheat for some still unknown reason), with overheating also being cited in many other sightings.

What makes this even weirder is that this is the exact spot where one or all the street lights goes out on us, without a doubt, almost every time, when we are driving this road (there is 3 street lights at the pub, run off solar power, so theoretically A) they should all go out and they shouldn't go out every time we drive past!?). We have always discussed what it means as we both feel like it is someone trying to alert us to their presence there, and I have bad feelings and dreams about that old pub, and I get the feeling something very terrible has happened there in the past. It just seemed so bizarre that all these things and this new sighting of this creature all revolves around this same location, and now I wonder if it is all connected. The day after this sighting, I felt urged to stop at the rapids at Noble Falls. So I did and just sat there, wondering why I was here and then got out of the car and something told me to look in the bin. I did and it was full of rubbish and it was very strange, and I just shook my head and got back in the car, thinking I was insane. A few days later, the neighbour came over and said she had been driving back late at night and seen all these cops pulled up at Noble Falls, and they were searching the exact spot I had been at and the drainage ditch on the side of the road near the pub. I don't know what is going on at that place, but it is very, very weird!

Anyway, just wanted to share. Would love to hear some opinions. Omen? Aboriginal spirit messenger? Unknown creature? ET?

http://lightwarriors...p-sighting-omen

[RingFenceTheCity]

Here's the bunyip in the UK:

[vitruvian12]

tailormaneinafog, on 13 December 2011 - 01:09 PM, said:

Here's the bunyip in the UK:

Youve used that video before and claimed it ws your fantasy hyrax.  On to a new pet fantasy already?

[psyche101]

tailormaneinafog, on 13 December 2011 - 10:53 AM, said:

Here's a cryptomundo report of a yowie seen at close range by 20 people:

I live about 10-15 mins from Springbrook. The spot is well know as a quite area where some people grow some illegal plants. I would say out friend more likely stumbled on someone protecting their investment. Or perhaps from the description, harvesting it. (crab like walking for hauling up the booty, and plants ripped out of the ground) He lives in Nerang, I drive through Nerang on my way home. Springbrook is about halfway between my work and my home, of the highway. The school he mentions, TSS Is a very exclusive private school. His parents were obviously loaded.

I have played 3 gigs there for free to support the Springbrook volunteer fire brigade, and slept on the bonnet of my ute. The locals are more worried about Alien Abductions than Yowies, I was warned my actions were foolish, and I would wake up on a different planet. Yet here I am, still posting on UM.

Springbrook mountain is hardly backwaters, it's like 40 minutes drive from Surfers Paradise. It is part of the Gold Coast Hinterland, which is very popular with all types of visitors. The locals are rather eccentric, but that's aout the limit of strange happenings there. Lovely place though, I would recommend all take the time to walk to the falls.

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tailormaneinafog, on 13 December 2011 - 01:09 PM, said:

Here's the bunyip in the UK:

Funny, I could not make out the flippers..........

Also, didn't anyone tell you? Too cold for Bunyips in the UK

Edited by psyche101, 14 December 2011 - 01:10 AM.