Don't Get Caught With Your Pants Down...

[BigB2]

Woo, OK.
First of all, I have given this account only once before, and it was on the internet. I don't feel as though I could tell someone in real life, I much prefer to sit down and think about it and get it right. (Plus, you know, being judged, bit embarrassing etc etc).


The Sighting.

When?
August 1997.

Where?
Kanangra Boyd National Park, on a big hike from the Wombeyan Caves to Katoomba. For those that know the area, it was to the north of Kanangra Walls, on the track that heads northeastish to Katoomba, from Creft's Walls and along the hills Rip, Rack, Roar and Rumble. I haven't got my maps with me, but it was somewhere along the track down from Mount Stormbreaker to the (I think) the Cox's River (possibly the Kowmung).


What Happened?
It was getting late in the day as I was walking down the track - probably around 5pm. It was definately verging on dusk. I was walking with two other gentlemen (who ended up not seeing anything). I told them I had to take a break and use the 'facilities' - a hole in the ground - and that I'd meet them at the prearranged campsite further along the track and down by the river.

I took my time and picked a good spot - always an important factor when using the facilities in the bush. I ended up picking a nice spot about 10 metres off the western side track. The ground fell away quite steeply from where I was, and I was overlooking something of a clearing - I think a big tree had fallen down and cleared a spot.
As I dropped strides and started, I heard a clear noise in the bush in front of me - something was moving up the hill towards me. I thought it was a kangaroo or a wombat - I clearly remember thinking 'Oh it's dusk, must be a wombat. Awesome, I've never seen one in the wild before'. It would stop and start, and it became clear that it wasn't a wombat - it was moving through the bush on two feet.

I thought 'What the hell, who's walking up from the bottom of the hill?' The bush was quite thick and the track was behind me - not in front. I thought my mates were playing a trick or something. I yelled out something like 'Hey! I'm taking a dump here! Gimme a sec!'. I started cleaning up and stopped paying attention to the noise. It had stopped, and I assumed that whoever it was had got the message.

I'm finishing with the toilet paper when suddenly the noise is a LOT closer - about ten metres away on the far side of the clearing. I started and said 'Goddamn it, I'm almost done just wait a sec!'. I pulled up my underwear and looked up. I noticed a tree on the other side of the clearing was quite a bit wider than before. I froze. There was a MASSIVE hairy guy ten metres away from me, just chilling. Looking at me, standing there with my pants around my ankles. I froze for what felt like an eternity, animal in the spotlight style.

Now, I remember this instant really well because I'm sorry to say that I went into panic mode.
We just stared at each other for about ten years (more like five seconds). I stammered out 'Uh ... hi ... I was just ...' or something like that. The big guy started to sway really gently from side to side. I remember clearly that he had to widen his stance slightly - I heard his foot come down on the undergrowth. He had his hand on the tree at (his) head height. I couldn't really see his face - he (I assume a he) had his back to where the Sun was setting over the ridge to the West.

Now, I suppose it's funny to look back and think that this big guy was thinking (and, sorry to engage in some anthropomorphism) 'Oh hey, I see you just took a dump on my favourite bit of bush, that's cool', but after he started swaying I paniced. It was as though someone had just a big 'PANIC' button in my brain, it's hard to describe. My pants were up and my pack was on in a second and I RAN down the hill along the track to the river (not a great idea). I was obviously spooked down the bottom when I got to my mates, and I just told them that I fell in the (now) dark. What else was I going to tell them? I wasn't even sure about what I had seen. I put up my tent and just went to bed. I was awake most of the night. I'm sure the big guy came and had a look at us at some point in the night - camp was only about a kilometre away from where I had seen him - but I didn't hear anything, and I was awake most of the night. Luckily the next day was a designated rest day, because I was buggered the next morning.

And that's it. I'm skeptical about this kind of thing, but there's simply no other explanation that I can come up with for what I saw. I've thought about it a lot over the years. I suppose it could have been an incredibly elaborate practical joke, but there's no way that someone knew in advance that I was going to stop where I did to be lying in wait. The big guy well, was HUGE. I'm 6'6" and I got the impression that he was a LOT bigger than me - not just in height, but in body mass. I can't imagine faking that kind of body mass with a suit - it would have to be some kind of elaborate prosthetic, quite apart from the fact of the amount of preparation that would be required in the absolute middle of nowhere. It wasn't another person, and it wasn't some kind of animal - I've seen kangaroo, wallabies and deer in the bush, and this was not like them.

Well, there it is, laugh away!

[Jim Hocking]

Hi BigB2 welcome.
Great story, I think I would have needed to sit it out a bit longer if you get my drift. The odour of the job you had in hand may have been the attractant .
Did you ever discuss it with your mates? They may have seen or heard something as well, and your experience filled in a few gaps for them.

[Ozpulse]

Sounds to me like as though your trio were already being tracked at the time, your ill timed need for a toilet break just gave him the chance to have a closer look.
3 males in his territory and one is dominant enough to break away and leave his 'mark'.
You were most definately worth investigating at that time.
Seems a lot of reports of close sightings happen in a similar fashion, a member of a group/campsite is seperated for one reason or another.

[Dion]

Excellent report there BigB2

Thanks for sharing

And welcome to the forums

[Nikita]

Great report Big B2, and I'm sorry I did have a little giggle but that was at the thought of being stuck with your pants down. I know that would be my worse nightmare getting caught like that.

In no way would I ever laugh at anyone who has had a yowie encounter, I think your's was very well documented and I'm grateful that you shared it here with us. Just a tip, never run from the big guy, just walk away or if he's showing signs of aggression learn about submissive acts and use one of them.

I doubt very much it was someone playing a hoax, you can count yourself as one of the lucky ones to have had a first hand experience and it seems your guy was just interested in you, they're just as curious about our behaviour as we are of there's. Nikita

[Jezebel]

Hey there Big B2

Thanks for sharing your story, and I'm with Nikita and probably everyone else on this forum - I'd never laugh at someone else's yowie experiences. I've had my fair share of raised eyebrows, smirks and general disbelief when I've talked about yowies to others. Not so pleasant. Learned the hard way that there are people out there who know nothing about the subject but are very quick to dismiss it and make you feel like an idiot for having an open mind. Their loss, I say.

Jez

[Nikita]

Jez, I know the feeling.

It's just like water off a ducks back now. Their loss if they don't want to learn and hopefully have an encounter with the big guy.

Nikita

[BigB2]

Thanks for listening to my story guys - it feels pretty good to be able to talk about it, catharsis I guess.

With regards to being followed, another funny thing happened while on that hike. We were on the southern side of Kanangra Walls, having a break on top of a ridge. All three of us heard what sounded like two people having a conversation, speaking nonsense, at the bottom of the adjacent valley. We were listening to it for probably ten minutes, these two 'voices' calling and talking to each other from either side of the valley and the noise drifting up to us. I personally just put it down to birds - maybe lyre birds having a sing-off, but now that I think about it, it could well have been something else!

I don't really have contact with the other guys any more, one moved to Norway and the other is with the Army in Afghanistan at the moment. I did strike up a conversation after my encounter about general 'weird things we've seen' hoping to find out whether they'd seen anything. One of my mates told us how he'd lived in a haunted house as a kid, but no yowies.

[The yowie Mrx]

Hi BigB2

I have not told many people on here.But two times out it my area I have herd like a mumberling.One time in the day and one time at night.

Nice area ! I have did a bit of rock climbing around there( grad 12 to 21 ). I getting to old now.

Thanx for you story.It good to get it off you chest.

[AL Pitman]

In 1991 whilst camped near Yerranderie which is very near to where the pants down moment took place , my friends and I had small stones lobbed at our camp for a large part of the night . At the time we could simply not explain it and we were quite perplexed but now many years later and hopefuly much wiser I could add an educated guess as to who it was tossing those stones ( bloody yowies ) .

Hey maybe it was a female Yowie and she was just checking you out if you know what I mean LOL ! . No really it would have been very intimidating and no laughing matter at the time of the contact Iam sure .

Welcome to the forum BigB2 , sorry for the tounge in cheek !!



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[Jezebel]

Cheers, Nikita.

Mr. X and BigB2, I've read reports about people hearing sounds like voices talking, but jibberish. I think I even heard a recording, but it was a while ago. It was possibly on one of the Bigfoot sites. I'll have a look and see if I can find where I read it, and let you know.

It makes sense to me that an intelligent bipedal hominid might have developed vocal chords and tongue and facial muscles which can produce word-like sounds. A yowie language is not so way out there considering gorillas and chimpanzees have been taught sign language, effectively demonstrating that they can understand the concept of language, of nouns and adjectives. If they have the brain capacity and a bipedal stature which makes them even more similar to our own body structure, why not have developed a human-sounding "language"?

[BigB2]

We actually walked through Yerranderie on this selfsame hike - it's meant to be haunted as hell, but we didn't see a thing, even though we stayed the night there.

Maybe whatever was down the valley was making its own version of people noises to try and lure us down there? Maybe it was taking the piss? ... 'Nyah nyah nyah, look at me, I'm a human! Stomping through the bush, making so much noise! I never shut up blah blah blah'

[AL Pitman]

Oh Yaaaahh it's like who do they think they are those hairless Emo freaks , coming in to our little Valley and just like taking a dump where ever they like !!.



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