Still Waters Posted August 8, 2016 #1 Share Posted August 8, 2016 The story of Arthur Marrin and his encounter with a "hairy man" in 1893 is part of the folklore of the New South Wales Southern Highlands. Marrin, a cordial maker, was travelling on horse-drawn cart to Captain's Flat from Braidwood with a load of drinks when something frightened his dog. When he went to investigate, a hairy creature standing six feet tall on its hind legs jumped out towards him. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-05/the-story-of-arthur-marrin-and-the-hairy-man/7693462 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Hammerclaw Posted August 8, 2016 #2 Share Posted August 8, 2016 Not a man and all descriptions point to a relation with native marsupials, the two-legged posture being key. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Meadows Posted August 8, 2016 #3 Share Posted August 8, 2016 It was 1893. They were bored and had to make up stories for entertainment. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Podo Posted August 8, 2016 #4 Share Posted August 8, 2016 Hyraxes are such rascals. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HandsomeGorilla Posted August 9, 2016 #5 Share Posted August 9, 2016 "Still unidentified 123 years later." Well yea, I'd imagine so... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Hammerclaw Posted August 9, 2016 #6 Share Posted August 9, 2016 (edited) 8 hours ago, Gary Meadows said: It was 1893. They were bored and had to make up stories for entertainment. That really happened quite a lot and all over the map. Sold a lot of papers. Edited August 9, 2016 by Hammerclaw 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HandsomeGorilla Posted August 9, 2016 #7 Share Posted August 9, 2016 Antique clickbait. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadChadB33 Posted August 9, 2016 #8 Share Posted August 9, 2016 Always wondered where my mother in-law disappeared to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calibeliever Posted August 9, 2016 #9 Share Posted August 9, 2016 "it had a face like a polar bear" ... *raises hand* "Yes, you in the back" . "Uh, a bear?" 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timewarrior Posted August 9, 2016 #10 Share Posted August 9, 2016 Sorry, it was me. Forgot to shave that day. . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldrover Posted August 9, 2016 #11 Share Posted August 9, 2016 1 hour ago, Calibeliever said: "it had a face like a polar bear" ... *raises hand* "Yes, you in the back" . "Uh, a bear?" "In New South Wales?, nope" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captain crunch Posted August 9, 2016 #12 Share Posted August 9, 2016 (edited) What was the dog baking? Edited August 9, 2016 by Migzilla 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldrover Posted August 9, 2016 #13 Share Posted August 9, 2016 If you click the second link under the photo of the old newspaper print, it leads you to the Trove website. Where you can find the full article. Although it's from another local paper, 'The Goulburn Evening Penny Post', rather than the 'Braidwood Dispatch' where the story first appeared. The original isn't digitised yet. in the full article you read, Some think it's an identical beast which has frightened several teamsters travelling through Parker's Gap on the Cooma road at various times, so much so that they have left their horses and run away. Such an animal has been reported as visiting selector's places at Molonglo and Foxlowe, and there have been reports of the presence of similar ones in the Budawang and Sassafras ranges. It has gone by the name of the hairy man. Other persons maintain it is merely a wombat and perfectly harmless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torchwood Posted August 9, 2016 #14 Share Posted August 9, 2016 38 minutes ago, oldrover said: OMG that adorable, i wonder if they can be litter trained.... I suspect that as far as news goes though that the Dog that can bake is more newsworthy. What was he baking, and who taught him to bake? Australias Got Talent anyone? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldrover Posted August 9, 2016 #15 Share Posted August 9, 2016 Marsupials are all adorable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeastieRunner Posted August 9, 2016 #16 Share Posted August 9, 2016 Oh good. I thought I was the only one more concerned with the dog baking. 3 hours ago, Migzilla said: What was the dog baking? He was first alerted to the presence of something unusual when his dog wouldn't stop baking. Quote Quote He was first alerted to the presence of something unusual when his dog wouldn't stop baking. - See more at: http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/297598/1893-hairy-man-mystery-continues-to-endure#sthash.grR1ymZS.dpuf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
back to earth Posted August 9, 2016 #17 Share Posted August 9, 2016 'Hairy man ' is old one ; either a solid scary creature , a mythical creatire , one half way between , or an earlier type of people that 'newcomers 'drove away . I met a guy that ran into one. He was Welsh tourist living at a friend of mine's (aboriginal ) campsite. I think he got spooked by their stories , even though he was a 6' 3" wild looking drinking and brawling brickie . Everyone was away, massive flood, he got trapped in, no way out, no food, eventually, no dry firewood, got bitten by a white-tailed spider ( they can cause 'creeping necrosis' ) He told me " I can see these sores erupting out and spreading over a few days , and I am thinking, if this flood doesnt end , or someone comes to get me ... this is it , I am gonna die a horrible death . So in desperation I ate a huge handful of psychedelic mushrooms .... - yes, the story now take an significant turn He said it must have poisoned him as the sores stopped spreading the next day and looked better. He was in the big gunya the next night and he felt someone behind him, A hand plopped on top of his head and turned it around and it was 'the hairy man' , he held him still and stared him in the yes ... and all this stuff happened he didnt want to talk about . Sores started to get better, flood stopped, the others came back and said now HE looked like a wild crazy hairy man . He babbled semi-incoherently for a few days and then went back to Wales . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
back to earth Posted August 10, 2016 #18 Share Posted August 10, 2016 Dogs would bake if they could Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carnoferox Posted August 10, 2016 #19 Share Posted August 10, 2016 7 hours ago, oldrover said: Marsupials are all adorable. Not the prehistoric ones... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unusual Tournament Posted August 10, 2016 #20 Share Posted August 10, 2016 On 9 August 2016 at 6:06 AM, Gary Meadows said: It was 1893. They were bored and had to make up stories for entertainment. ...or made a bear encounter seem more entertaining by saying it was a "hairy man." Either that or he was drunk on his own cordial. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashyne Posted August 10, 2016 #21 Share Posted August 10, 2016 Hypertrichosis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psyche101 Posted August 10, 2016 #22 Share Posted August 10, 2016 Quite some conflict there: When he went to investigate, a hairy creature standing six feet tall on its hind legs jumped out towards him. Marrin's back was to a precipitous drop so he picked up a stone and hit it on the head, before finishing it off with the butt of his whip. Finished it off! Killed it in other words. A 6 foot monster against a slightly built cordial salesman hey? Sounds like Arthur Marrin is quite prone to exaggeration, particularly so when we see the reporter for The Braidwood Dispatch offered a description of: "It was four feet long, 11 inches across the forehead and had a face very much like a polar bear. Shrunk two whole feet! And had two forearms stretched out in front of him. As Hammer says, it sounds a lot like a roo or Wallaby. Or seeming as it shrunk two feet the cryptozoological Wallaby-Roo hybrid seems the most likely choice here. On a more sinister note, it seems possible to me that he may have killed someone. That the body was mysteriously moved, and there seems to be quite some corroboration about the body, why else would it be moved? Did he accidentally hit someone with his cordial truck? And then they dropped the story "like a hot potato" which indicates they may have made it up, or something is being covered up. I wonder if anyone has double checked the original grave just to be sure? It has been cultivated, but all the same........ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HandsomeGorilla Posted August 10, 2016 #23 Share Posted August 10, 2016 Well if it had the face of a bear, was the size of a bear and moved like a bear when on two legs (threatened), well... It was probably a Sasquatch. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psyche101 Posted August 10, 2016 #24 Share Posted August 10, 2016 29 minutes ago, Not Your Huckleberry said: Well if it had the face of a bear, was the size of a bear and moved like a bear when on two legs (threatened), well... It was probably a Sasquatch. Mate, no possible way it was a Bear unless it was a drop bear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
back to earth Posted August 10, 2016 #25 Share Posted August 10, 2016 Sasquathsh ? Pffffft , over here we call them Yowies mate. My fav story is when one approached a campsite of a hardened bushie . he poured the Yowie a cup of tea and put it on the ground near him and gestured for the yowie to take it up. Cautiously the Yowie did, sipped it and liked it. he sat by the fire a bit, drank the tea and left. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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