hey, ok i keep hearing bout all the supernatural creatures all over the world like month man, jersey devil, nessie, werewolves.......
but i haven't hear of any in Australia
well i have yowie but thats it
is there any others or is that it the yowie?
also where are these creatures been seen if there are some

thanks for ur time

I felt so dumb. I rented that Australian movie "Wolf Creek", because I thought it was about a werewolf...quite horrible, too, I didn't finish watching it...

Well there was the Bunyip but researchers believe that was a seal or something. And as far as I know, the only sea monsters they have have been dead for years, fossilized.

anything else cause it just seems like australia has got a collection of lame creatures everywhere else theres the ones i listed before and like odd things happening like balls of light appearing but i've never heard of it here

r we on the non receveing end of myths/legends and the paranormal

If you look back at the history of Australia I'm sure you'll find something. Australias got its fair share of wierd creatures that I'm sure at one point or another they were considered monsters before someone discovered what they really were. There has been talk of a kangaroo-like creature in europe (I think) that has similar characteristics to that of a chimera and who's to say those fury little bouncers in australia aren't hiding something . But doesn't Australia have huge spiders that are big enough to eat birds? Those would definitely count as a monster to me. Cryptozoology is around so that we can prove scientifically that the monsters of the past really exist, and are merely an undiscovered and/or extinct species.

So, don't feel too bad. Australia has proven monsters and mythical beasts if you look at it the right way.

I don't know what animals your refering to, but the fact is Australia has more deadly animals then any other country.... as well as odd animals such as the platypus. Lame? Nope.

The bunyip is the only one of note, which originates from aboriginal myth about a creature that lives in the swamps.

Our actual creatures and animals that are flesh and blood far outweigh the fact we have not many "myths" Though we have the usual stuff like panthers living in mountains.

I'm in Indonesia and I got several of friends from Aussie and they mentioned, instead of Bunyip, Yowie and the Australian sea mosnter (the one that looks like a giant tadpole)-which was evidently a hoax- they also noticed that there are the possibilities of existing Megalania Prisca, since they haven't been gone too long ago. Even the aborigines perform the bush burning for the first time in effort to kill this giant lizard!

Your kidding right??? Australia is unique when it comes to deadly creatures or weird animals...

As for Cryptids just to name a few off the top of my head:

Yowie
Bunyip
Hoop snake
Thylacine
Megalania prisca

and several reported sea serpants.

OKAY!!! so, First, this isnt the owner of this account, its her friend. May I ask you please waht mythical creatures Australia has, because i have not seen ANY freakin paranormal thing, coz then they wouldnt be paranormal, they would be creatures yay its an alien.
About the spiders taht are big enough to eat birds?? WELL okay, here goes. We have big spiders (or average sized...maybe they are just fat) && teeny little birdies (poor midgits) Hence, the spiders big enough to eat birds. I dont think they even eat birds unless they are already dead, or in thier eggies...
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Not far down from Brissy is prime Yowie country. You've got the big fella, also the little hairy guys running around up there. 2 different forms of yowies and I've heard sightings of both.

ABCs up here in the mountains also the Hawkesbury valley. The Tasmania tiger and also a form/ variation of the marsupial lion has had sightings.

The Hawkesbury river monster (a bit like nessie), giant lizards and the bunyip (from folklore).

Hoop snakes fit in with Drop bears, both extremely dangerous and only the most fearless will go in search of them.

Here's one !
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~blueprnt/myth.html

Got to watch out for those Drop Bears

There is no scientific evidence to support the idea that aboriginies consciously burnt the brush to kill Megalania, though it made a good spot on a TV show. This fantasy is actually rather stupid, for such a thick skinned animal could pass through a brush fire easier than EVERY other creature on the Australian Continent.

The demise of Megalania, was probably more due to the extinction of the Megafauna that the huge lizard preyed upon, and the fact humans were smart enough to avoid them. Like its close relative the Komodo Dragon, Megalania probably did not have any paternal instincts, and when less and less prey was available because of the competion with the Aborigines, they probably ate more and more of their own young (just as komodos do), so very likely "ate themselves" into extinction I am sad to say.

Let hope there is a tiny population out there, and they can be brought back like the "good old days", so there will be yet one more, out of a myriad of ways, in which tourists can be killed in Australia.

Well, you've got my favorite belived to be extinct cryptid, Thylacine. And the apparently not extinct marsupial lion, Thylacoleo. And lots of mystery big cats.
EDIT: And also a giant monitor lizard called Megalania Prisca

well the bird eating spider doesnt eat birds its a myth thay eat large rodents. it might eat a bird if its a small flitless bird. I dont like ninjas i would rather be a samuira

Well, I didn't really say that the Aborigines use the fire to directly kill the lizard, but to decrease their population, by killing its feed, changing its habitat and forcing it to move away from the human area (which was left unburned). Thus, in some way the extinction of Megalania might've been also by the inteference of human behavior, like what happened to the Dodos, Reas, and the Balinese Tigers.

yep - it's the bunyip. I remember hearing a story about how some kid got eaten by one.

amanda vanstone is one

there is the bunyip
Yowie
there are a few big cat sightings
tazzie devil sightings in taz and on the mainland
sea serpants
the creature in lake burley griffin which is probably amanda vanstone taking a bath

hi im form Australia and this is all rather funny Yowie are what you all call Big Foot just in case any of you were not Shor Bunyip are a completly diffrent animal ther sort of the old Sea Monster Crost with a man well some are there all diffrent we have devils are right lol but the ones you talking about are not devils Tazzy Decils are commin and are not Crypdic
the one you guys are talking about are Tazzy Tigers there the ones you get siteings of and there alsot minmin light allso known as willo the wisp ufos Giant Lizards and the od Dinosaur but iv posted about that on a nothetr thread

I would agree with that, but the TV show you menitoned suggested they cleverly burnt the lizards alive, which I thought rather silly. The aborigine killing off the other Macrofauna was probably the biggest reason, becasue with them gone, and the humans too smart to be caught, there's not a whole lot for a 20 foot, 1 ton lizard to eat out there (that's slower than they are).

Well i live in Australia and i spoke to a man once that has been a cryptozoologist for a long time now and there have been many reports of sea monsters and yowie(big foot) and even bipedal reptiles have been sighted. The mans name is Rex Gilroy and if you google him you can find a fair few of his articals including some on UFO research in the blue mountains and he even saw a thylacine once himself. check it out.

Yep, I know the show you've been talking about. It's the BBC's Monsters We Meet, right?
I even got the copy here at home. I know, perhaps that 'burning the lizard down' idea was supposedly a brief and short explanation to explain the actual deed of the aborigines. Well, you know, TV's duration shortage....they do bad things to nature...

Throw another Giant Mythical Lizard on the barbie for me would ya?

I would like to..had they not burn it yet...

I got to the BBQ late....AGAIN!!!??? It's the story of my freakin' life, lol.

^ C'est la vie, mon ami!

stingrays........

Australia has enough cool normal existing creatures that it doesn't need to make up lots of weird and whacky ones.

Besides if you told someone 300 years ago that there was a mammal with a beak that lays eggs they would laugh. The platypus is way weirder then most Crypto creatures




Not many things more terrifying then a Drop bear. And the Hoop Snakes are even more ferrocious.

APPARENTLY in the Blue Mountains ,there's been bigfoot sightings and and big cat sightings which got proven in the end. The min min lights are real , it a strange natural effect due to swamp gases and heat , very freaky but you won't dissapear. I've heard other stories of so called monsters in Australia , the only weird experiance i've had ,one morning i heard this loud scray shrieking sound i've never heard off out the back which freaked me and the dog out so stormed out side and there has somethingt big in the tree a house down from me , it shrieked again then took off , i could hear the wings flaping loudy so it wasn't a normal bird , i know 3 other people that have had that experiance. very wierd!

Sounds like a big owl. Some of them can make a terrifying sound.

As for proven Cat and Bigfoot sightings... I doubt it.

You forgot the Wiggles .

not all min min lights are strange natural effect due to swamp gases and heat some are sapost to be liveing things some have been known to tail cars and Play with live stock and even make nose there are some theories that min min lights are liveing crechers that have broken throw demenchins throw a rip in space and time

O.k....let's leave my "mates" out of this.

I wish the Wiggles were cryptids.

I would be lying if I said that the "purple" one(Jeff Fatt) diddn't IRK me just a bit.....but I digress.

I live in the mountains backing straight onto endless bush and I can tell you you'll find some interesting things in the bush up here.

We live near a park ranger and he even admitted to knowing about yowies and ABCs.

I'm not going to miss the deadly snakes in my backyard when I move but I will miss all the hidden extras.

ABC or 'cats' yep, yowies or 'bigfoot' no.

Though as Tia said ive talked to generations of NP Rangers and atleast one Professor would disagree with the not being yowies here

Tia I hope that doesnt mean your moving soon

Something tells me that the "hidden extras" are going to miss you to, lol.

Hi Indeed,

Yes I'm moving, just back closer to town. I'll still be near the bush just maybe not on top of it.

Onyxdk, when I lived closer to town I still use to walk the dogs down the bush and that was actually where I was first stalked.

Hi Tia......Hello indeed.......Ok back on topic.....

Stalked by what?...............Yowie?

I'm suprised no-one has mentioned Drop-Bears and Hoop-Snakes.

Definately the most frightening and dangerous of Australian Cryptozoology.

Hey Tia,

When I was young bloke in the early 1970s, I used to live near the Queen St / Denison Rd area of Leura..

I became interested in cryptozoology at a young age and I could never work out why it was drawn to me...

I remember lying in bed whenI was about 5-6. I remember being scared because someone walked past my bedroon window. I remember the shuffling sound and it's eeriness...

We moved to Sydney not long after (Dad got work there) and I went back to the house some years later. I remembered the incident and saw that my bedroom window was/is at least 8 foot off the ground...

Maybe. Maybe not. But it got me interested at the very least.

I assure you they are! I know because I watched them one day, with my 2 yr.old Niece.

Didn't read page one did you

For posting without first reading, I hearby sentence you to suspend all posting until you go out and bring us back a Bunyip......you're on the clock...chop,chop..

Today I just came across on the 6th page of our local newspaper a double page about yowies, that Mirror what ive said.



But what do I know

I missed this befoe but Hi Isis

Not me.....I've got my Vegemite...no worries.

What for. I've got a couple living down the road.

Besides i always prefferred the Rainbow Serpents.

They have such interesting conversation.

Arent yowies relatives of Bigfoot?

MAN!!! People are so uncreative these days. Can't they think up of Man-Eating Pigs? Or something like that? *sigh*