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[UM-Bot]

Dean Harrison Yowie attack

Click here to watch video - 08:11s

Jan 2009, while camping in Queensland, Dean Harrison ventured away from the camp and sat in the forest to listen for "Visitors".

[shaka5]

has to be the worst story i've heard in my life

[Night Walker]

What does the world of "yowie research" have to say about Dean Harrison's claim of "Yowie attack"?


Although Rex Gilroy - the self-proclaimed "Father of Yowie Research" - has little regard for Harrison and views prominent members of the AYR Team with suspicion, Gilroy is yet to publicly comment on this or any other of Harrison’s claims.


Paul Cropper is the co-author of "The Yowie: In Search of Australia's Bigfoot" (2006) of which Harrison and his AYR Team are the largest contributors of Yowie sightings. Although he stated that he had no reason to doubt Harrison, Cropper declined to comment on the authenticity of Harrison's "Yowie attack" claim.


Neil Frost is a fellow researcher who claims hundreds of personal Yowie sightings and although he readily attests to Harrison's credibility Frost also refused to comment on the authenticity of Harrison's "Yowie attack" claim.


Brett Green is another researcher who is better known for his fantastic claims of a "Gympie Pyramid". Despite having a long and well-documented history of fakery (including the John Green colonial diaries debunked by historian Dr. Elaine Brown) Green is considered by Harrison to be a very reliable source. Green is the only named (i.e. non-anonymous) "yowie researcher" to support the authenticity of Harrison's claim.


Steve (last name withheld), a long-time Brett Green devotee, is a AYR Team member who participated in the "Yowie attack" expedition and is one of the greatest online supporters of Harrison's "Yowie attack" claim. When I met Steve in August, 2009, however, I found that his personal opinion of Harrison's "Yowie attack" claims was at odds with his online opinion. When I asked him how he could support something he knew to be false Steve shrugged his shoulders, grinned, and said that he was "good at fixing holes" and, at any rate, he had a back-up plan to avoid "going down with the captain and his ship".

I suggest that Harrison, his AYR Team, fellow "yowie researchers", and the authors who rely on Harrison's information to pad out their publications and propagate the myth are all hoping that Steve can successfully repair Australian cryptozoology’s version of the Titanic...

[nognome]

yeah its kinda like when you lie and say you have gone to a made up country,and some idiot says "hey yeah i went there last week",you know their lying,but your not going to comment or everybody will know you lied too.

[Night Walker]

nognome, on 24 June 2010 - 08:27 AM, said:

yeah its kinda like when you lie and say you have gone to a made up country,and some idiot says "hey yeah i went there last week",you know their lying,but your not going to comment or everybody will know you lied too.

Yes, that is a good analogy. Hoaxer-researchers project the facade of reliability by vouching for each other's credibility.

The unfortunate irony is that, although their own personal accounts of Yowie encounters - some claim hundreds of encounters often close-quarter and dramatic in nature - are bogus, the "experts" may have investigated potentially authentic sightings from the general (non-Yowie-fanatic) public. But how is it possible to determine where the facts end and their respective personal fantasies take over?

[emberlake]

They should've bagged his clothes and shoes. Swabbed his fingernails for dna evidence.  Took pictures of the bruises and scraps.  Did he land any blows on it, if so, then more reason to bag them clothes and shoes?
It was pitch black, yet he could see it march across the ridge, stand in attention and turn toward him and run down the ridge at him. Did I miss the part in video 1 or 2 where they said the moon was shining?

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[pixiii]

emberlake, on 05 July 2010 - 12:17 PM, said:

It was pitch black, yet he could see it march across the ridge, stand in attention and turn toward him and run down the ridge at him. Did I miss the part in video 1 or 2 where they said the moon was shining?

THAT is exactly what I was about to post in here ember!  No, you didn't miss the moon shining because it was pitch black, or as he put it, you couldn't see your hand in front of your face!  Oh, but he could see something through the dense bush up on the ridge above the road and 30 metres away! .... *chuckles*

[emberlake]

pixiii, on 11 July 2010 - 05:19 AM, said:

THAT is exactly what I was about to post in here ember!  No, you didn't miss the moon shining because it was pitch black, or as he put it, you couldn't see your hand in front of your face!  Oh, but he could see something through the dense bush up on the ridge above the road and 30 metres away! .... *chuckles*

Thanks, I didn't think I missed that part.    
He should've worked harder on that part of the story.  A bit of moonlight or clear skies would have made more sense.