I was just doing some routine research on the Yowie, and this is probably the only species of hominid that's always said to be aggressive. Yetis are sometimes described as aggressive, but not like the Yaoiwe. Anyway, I've only seen two pictures of a supposed Yowie, but both are horrible quality. Are there any pictures of Yowie that are somewhat clear?

Tried to research - many different kinds of animals came up.
What family is it involved in and what sort of animal does it resemble?

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=htt...hl%3Den%26lr%3D

A site all about Yowies and the hunters and evidence. Etc - check it out on the bottom of the page...

A yowie is like a bigfoot, usually about 7-9 feet tall. They have sharp nails, and they are said to be incredibly aggressive. That picture on the ink you gave is one of only two pictures I have seen of it, and you can't really see much from the photo.

I think thats the only site based on this Australian Yowie, unfortunately, but I'll keep looking.

Her is another website..........
http://www.internetezy.com.au/~mj129/Myste...a_Homepage.html

Not all yowies are aggressive.
We live in the middle of Yowie country and believe that we have had a few possible encounters. Things have gone quite with the drought though.

Here is a genuine photo of a Yowie. They are quite frightening so please be warned !...this is not for the faint of heart.

aaauuuggghhhhh my eyes

they burn, they burn.....

in reality i admire what steve does as a whole for animals.. he's just out there, too much geraldine green

Croc Hunter's a G! But seriously, he's one of my favorite celebrities.

scary

the yowie is just an austrailian varient of sasquatch isn't it?

the yowie is just an austrailian varient of sasquatch isn't it?


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That's correct.
It seems that 2 types have been recorded in Australia, a large aggressive one and a smaller ( still over 6ft ) one.

Theres been reports of neighbourhood Yowies further up the mountain from us, where most of a street know of it.

Here is another link, not the one I was after but better then nothing .....
http://www.n2.net/prey/bigfoot/articles/opit.htm

The roar that's mentioned in the article, is also our first experience of the Yowie and until you hear it in person you'll never know how sound can really scare you.

thanks for the link

Wow! That is one ugly yowie! Good photographing - lol...

This pic's just a reconstruction, but it gives me the creeps

Whoa, that pic tripped me out for a second! I was surprised! Nice picture Thylacina!

The reconstructed picture, is from a visiting yowie in Wentworth Falls. It's been caught peeping in windows at night.

Heres a bit of their story......

Jerry and Sue O'Connor, the principal witnesses in this case, are happy to have their names used, but asked me not to reveal the exact location of their property. Suffice to say they live in the Blue Mountains to the south of the Great Western Highway, where the land immediatly behind their house falls away into a vast maze of twisting, scrub-covered ravines known as the Blue Labyrinth.
Since moving into the area in September 1997 the O'Connors have been regularly visited by yowies, have seen them on numerous occasions, have fed them and have communicated with them, both telepathically and by more conventional means. Many people will find the O'Connors' story difficult to accept, so I would like to emphasise here that everything they have reported - even the apparent telepathic communication - has been reported elsewhere in Australia or overseas.
I find their testimony convincing not only because it has been, in effect, corroborated by similar testimony, but because I know Sue and Jerry and I trust them. For some time after the yowie activity began, Jerry, a down to earth ex-serviceman, could hardly believe it himself. "My whole life was spun on its axis", he says. "It changed my whole belief system."
Sue, however, has always been interested in spiritual matters and it is just possible her open spirituality actually triggered the yowie visitations. Shortly after they moved into their house she conducted a quiet ceremony to invite the local nature spirits into their garden. Soon she and Jerry experienced strong feelings of dread and of being watched. Their screen door rattled, the power box slammed, they heard crashing sounds in the scrub and, in November 1999, heard at seemingly point-blank range, a tremendous, terrifying roar as loud as that of a lion, yet indefinably alien - "other worldly".
They then found about 30 huge bite marks up to 7 feet above the ground on young bloodwood
trees, identical to those found by Neil Frost whose house, only a couple of kilometres away, is
also the focus of yowie activity. Deep grooves left by upper canines which were consistently 80 mm apart and by lower canines which were always 55 mm apart seemed to prove the bites were all made by the same individual. It was clearly hunting for grubs.
At about 2 o'clock one morning in August 2000 Sue woke from a disturbing dream which was accompanied by a weird "electric" feeling, looked up at the window behind their bed and saw a huge animal staring back at her. The creature had a human-sized head which looked disproportionatly small as it was set low into a pair of absolutely huge shoulders. As it was illuminated by a streetlight and a full moon, Sue could see the animal had a slim nose, a very wide mouth and a rounded clump of tan-coloured hair on top of its head..

Sue and Jerry have now experienced six similar sightings, always preceded by the strange "electric" dreams, cold chills and fear. To look through the bedroom window the creature must be over eight feet tall. It seems highly significant that the visits always occur just before or during Sue's monthly
periods. For weeks they hid four infra red video surveillance cameras - loaned to them by yowie
hunter Dean Harrison - at various key points around the yard. During those weeks the yowie approached only once. Choosing the only night when a narrow quadrant was not covered by the cameras, it reached the house and looked in as before.
Like Neil Frost, Dean Harrison and others who have tried yowie hunting with infra red cameras, the O'Connors concluded the creatures can either detect IR light .... or read peoples' minds. On 25 October 2000 they hid a sound-activated tape recorder in a hollow stump next to a cliff over which they suspended a feed pot. They selected that particular spot because that same afternoon, in the same area, Sue had seen a hunched, hairy, tan-coloured ape-like figure running through the undergrowth at phenomenal speed. A local man, Brad Croft, had also recently seen a huge yowie in the vicinity.
In the morning they found the tape had registered heavy bipedal footsteps, the sound of camouflage being pulled away, and what sounded like dextrous fingers lifting the recorder and ripping its protective plastic. The final sound was a hollow thump to the feedpot, which lay empty and shattered 35 feet away.

Tracks found by the O'Connors reflect the confusing pattern elsewhere: some are three-toed, some five-toed.

link...www.yowiehunters.com look at the evidence page.

man, I wouldn't have a Yowie outside my home!

You never know what comes creeping around when you're in bed.

I am starting to be a believer in the yowie.
Tia, you live around the locations of reports ?
Have you ever seen one or had an encounter ?

Me neither. Look what it did to this tree!

Me neither. Look what it did to this tree!

Me neither. Look what it did to this tree!

I and 2 of my children have had what I call probable Yowie encounters. Where we live now is perfect Yowie territory. I feel the encounters are 90% yowie, but until one comes and stands directly in front of me I cannot be 100% positive.

I'm kinda glad i've never run into one, but i have heard a few stories. All took place on the Newell Hwy in NSW, the first was a truckie that was stopped to change a tyre on the trailer when he heard a horrible sound behind him, looked around and saw a huge shape, very vague and dark he jumped in the truck and took off, dragging the trailer off the jack in the process.

Another was a truckie again who had pulled up one night to have a snooze, when he woke in the morning there was a hairy face looking in at him, as soon as he moved it run into the bush, but it was not not standing on the running boards so it would have to have been at least 8ft tall.

And when i was young a mate told me about his uncle that supposedly had the side torn out of his cattle truck, he looked just in time to see one of the cows being dragged into the bush, but as always it was dark and he didn't get (or want) a closer look.

I live in Canada and up here we haven't heard much about the yowie. But I am becoming more and more convinced of it's exhistance. I have always wanted to visit Australia and now I have an even better reason.

Yes I agree, I have always wanted to visit Austrailia and now I will talk my fiance into it. Shhhh she hasnt heard of this yet and once she hears we wont go haha she wont go on my camping trip to the New Jersey pine barrens either. I believe they exist not only in austrailia but all over the world big and small. My honest Christian unkle had an encounter with one in southern oregon and I know the man has never told a lie to his children. He shared it with us around the table with his church going family full of strong christian ways. The fact that it observes people in the manner that i have read is very facinating, it seems almost interested in us but affraid at the same time bless their hearts.

Brightest Blessings.

They like to 'stalk' you too. Both Ruby and I, each have had a different incident happen to us.
In most cases of stalking the yowie follows you at a 45% angle.
Does anyone know if this is behaviour is common of other animals?

I heard some guy on Coast to Coast AM talking about this thing last week, he was talking about some hunt in Australia, it is believed to only come out at night, has red eyes and other things.

No Folks it was not Beckjord

Guest Peter von Puttkamer

Im also from australia and i heard this story
In 1912 a queensland national parks ranger had heard what he assumed to be an escaped, pig rooting among the trees, but when he investigated, he spotted a hairy black black gorilla-like animal about 3 metres away. He said it was very muscular and sturdy it stood about 7 and a half feet tall, with a black shiny face two big yellow eyes its had what seemed to be human like fingers. Suddenly it emmited a foul smell that made the ranger vomit, as he did the creature turned away and dissappeared. these are apparantly his words.:

The point i want to make is there is no fiction about my experience. I saw the beast in daylight about 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Before i might have agreed they where just stories but no more. The reason they arnt seen often is people on bush walks make so much nosie. I dint make much nosie as i was trying to stalk what i thought was a pig.

I dont know if this is ture or not but but still pretty big thing all they same.

Maybe it's just Ian Thorpe wearin' a fur coat

mabye

Werent Yowies those chocolate things?

^ what? I've never heard of that. Yowie is the Aussie equivalent of Bigfoot.

Arnt they like those kinder suprise things they have a little plastic thins inside them

"FOSTERS Australian for BEEEEEEEEER

Yowie, Australian for Bigfoot

Thanks Here's another one I found.

lol, yeah. They had them a while back but i never see them anymore

Some of those pics could be anything. There are a few which appear to show a yowie but there isn't an abundance of photographic evidence like for the Bigfoot so its understandable. Plus, i bet if i saw one of those things and i tried to get a steady shot, my arms would be shaking so badly i'd more then likely drop the camera

Still is creepy though. Where i live, Tasmania, there is little possibility that any exist nearby, at least i've heard no reports. Seems they are restricted to the mainland. Which is good, they can't scare me if they don't live near me

Quote meeps post.....

The point i want to make is there is no fiction about my experience. I saw the beast in daylight about 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Before i might have agreed they where just stories but no more. The reason they arnt seen often is people on bush walks make so much nosie. I dint make much nosie as i was trying to stalk what i thought was a pig.

They aren't exactly common knowledge like sassy. Most people give plenty of warning they are there when they go thumping around in the bush. It's common knowledge in Yowie circles though that a whole street in the upper Mountains has a resident Yowie.

Yeah, a group of navice bush walkers make alot of noise. They'd easily give warning prior to thier arrival. Even experienced bush walkers would make a oud approach, what, with all the undergrowth and what not. I would love to see one though - at a safe distance mind you

so are there any good photos of the yowie?

is it just the austrailian bigfoot, or have witnesses to the creature described it differently?

No there's no good pictures that I know of, mainly all blobs.
Most witnesses describe them roughly the same. Very similar to sassy. When I get more time I'll find some more info on where they are suppose to come from.
In Australia they are part of the Aborigines stories, so have been here for a while.

Here's some info I found on Rex Gilroys sight,

In both China and Java, since the 1930's anthropologists have been excavating massive fossil jaws and teeth of a giant, upright-walking, manlike ape called Gigantopithecus ("South China Giant"), believed to have stood at least five metres in height. Giant-sized fossil footprints found in Asia are thought by some to be the tracks of Gigantopithecus.
In Australia, similar giant fossil tracks have been found which closely resemble the freshly made tracks of Yowie,/Yeti/Bigfoot creatures in modern times.
Gigantopithecus is at present regarded by many 'relict hominid' researchers {such as myself} as the ancestor of the later, smaller Yowie,/Yeti/Bigfoot. While most 'respectable' scientists dismiss the surviving 'relict hominid' theory out of hand, there are a number of other researchers worldwide that think otherwise. Of these, eminent American anthropologist Dr Grover T. Krantz of Washington State University is best known.

From exhaustive studies and comparisons of what he considers to be authentic Bigfoot footprint plaster-casts, Krantz has concluded that the creature may indeed be living representatives of Gigantopithecus. Despite worldwide scientific opinion that Gigantopithecus would have walked on its knuckles like a gorilla rather than on its feet.

Dr Krantz makes a convincing argument based the spread of the lower jaw, that Gigantopithecus was actually an erect biped.
Using the massive fossil jaws of these monster man-apes as a guide he says; "If you change a gorilla to a vertical posture like a human, and make the neck come straight down, one thing you have to do is spread the back of the lower jaw to make room for the neck. And, as can be shown, the lower jaw of Gigantopithecus spreads much more widely than the jaw of a gorilla. Gigantopithecus was so much like the Sasquatch that I would assume Gigantopithecus is still alive today".

During the last great ice age, sea levels were much lower than they are today, and land-bridges joined Australia and the Americas to the Asian mainland. It was over these 'bridges' that the ancestors of the Yowie/Yeti/Bigfoot/ would have migrated.