Yowie Witnesses-Frank

[Mike Williams]

Frank was an interesting guy. I went and spoke to him with Steve a few years ago.
This was down southern NSW.
Steve also contacted the other guy that was with Frank when he described the loud footsteps in the bush.
The guy verified what happened.
Frank led us into the scrub and we found this print, it was suggested that he set us up and had faked the print.
The problem was, when we all found the print, Frank had zero interest in it and kept saying it was poor quality and for us to keep moving.
Then Frank and Steve had a minor bingle over how to pour the cast..which was butchered If I can remember correctly Steve.??


Mike

[Dion]

Love it thanks Mike

Quite a character, like the bit where he says it dematerialized right in front of him.

[Jo Blose]

I enjoyed the opening shot where the machete introduces us to Frank! In fact if I recall, bringing our own machete's was a prerequisite for Frank taking us there! To this day I'm not sure if the reason for that was to help hack our way through thick bush, to use upon a fearsome yowie if the need arose, to keep us each on a level playing field watching each other's backs, or all of the above! Great sincere guy, and reminded me a lot of John Rambo! I have a clear recollection of us coming across neck high flowing water to cross with a strong under current, and without hesitation, Frank stripping down to his budgie smugglers, placing the machete in his mouth between his teeth, and wading on through, carrying his jeans and some supplies overhead! Could have been a scene out of "First blood!"

Aside from the neck high water, getting to that spot was a couple hour drive at least! Frank wasn't even that impressed with the print, yeah it was Yowie says he, and was more keen to keep moving. There wasn't even an inkling oif a set-up. Fortunately, I had my trusty plaster and before he knew what was happening, I was mixing and then pouring. Yes Mike, I do recall Frank "advising" on how to pour plaster into a print! I still have that print too! Not sure if it was totally butchered, but I do recall it could have been better!

A highly memorable daytime account! His description of it was highly detailed, and it sounded incredibly imposing. I know he said the yowie dematerialised, and from his point of view it did, but to be politically correct, Frank observed the Yowie's image to totally fade away and vanish. To be fair, if it dematerialised or became invisible on a physical level or just to Frank's eyes, how would he have known the difference?

Whichever way you choose to look at it, it attributes a clear extranormal ability to that yowie which is troublesome for flesh and blood enthusiasts. It's an ability I was to observe a couple of years later, a good thousand kilometres away, first hand!

[SAB 8]

Nice work!

Amazing encounter!

Another paranormal-Yowie! They just keep racking up!

[Ella]

Is the man in the video speaking English? If so, I could only understand a few words and missed the part about the Yowie dematerializing.

I've heard of Bigfoot vanishing before the eyes of witnesses--the famous Mt. St. Helens encounter in 1924, for instance--but I never thought much about it one way or the other. Just the brute fact of their existence is enough to keep me fascinated. But I for sure believe in BF's "paranormal" (psychic) abilities, and now it seems the Yowie can hold their own with their BF cousins over here.

Steve, I wish you'd tell us about your own experience with a Yowie vanishing in front of your eyes a couple of years later, as you reported!

[forestguy]

It's an ability I was to observe a couple of years later, a good thousand kilometres away, first hand!

Just 2nding Ella's request - are you willing to share your encounter Steve? Unless it's already on the site somewhere and I missed it?

[Dion]

Care to share with us, what that background noise is, in that recording? Sounds like either a plague of locusts, skeeters, or some kind of snake infestation. None of which do I find particularly pleasing.

They are called "Cicadas" Doc and frequent the trees in the summer months http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada

[Ella]

Wow, Chewy, thank you so much for that link. Texas and Oklahoma are full of cicadas--in Texas, they're even called "locusts"--but I had no idea they were so widespread or that there were any cicadas in Australia!

In the early part of autumn, the cicadas seem to rattle the loudest here in Texas from the trees. But when I say "autumn", I mean the official term for the month of September as the beginning of the fall. We really don't have any fall season here, and in south Texas, where I'm from, fall, such as it is, arrives around the first week in December and only lasts a week or so. If you're lucky, you see a few yellow leaves, and the persimmons have fallen to the ground.

Thanx again, Chewy!

[Mike Williams]

Texas and Oklahoma are full of cicadas--in Texas, they're even called "locusts"

Hey Ella
Cicadas and locusts are not the same species of insects...cicadas are not a pest whilst locusts are..cicadas are one of the loudest insects in the world..
http://members.fortunecity.com/cicadaman1999/id46.htm

Mike

[deadpool]

Wow, Chewy, thank you so much for that link. Texas and Oklahoma are full of cicadas--in Texas, they're even called "locusts"--but I had no idea they were so widespread or that there were any cicadas in Australia!

In the early part of autumn, the cicadas seem to rattle the loudest here in Texas from the trees. But when I say "autumn", I mean the official term for the month of September as the beginning of the fall. We really don't have any fall season here, and in south Texas, where I'm from, fall, such as it is, arrives around the first week in December and only lasts a week or so. If you're lucky, you see a few yellow leaves, and the persimmons have fallen to the ground.

Thanx again, Chewy!

Locusts are like, big bastard grasshoppers. In the bible, plague of locusts - ate all the crops, created a famine all because some Pharaoh wouldn't let the Jews free. If it was a plague of cicadas I think everyone would have gone deaf.

Random man: What the bloody hell are those things? Damn plagues!
Other random man: WHAT, I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THAT DAMN NOISE. I'M HUNGRY.
Third man (also random): What? You're not from Hungary, you're Egyptian you fool. Hungary hasn't been invented yet!

[AL Pitman]

Ella , for me at least the incoming sound of Cicadas in the summer is the signal to head of for a spot of Bass fishing usualy undertaken in known Yowie haunts west of Grafton nsw . I consider their song as just a normal part of the season , it just wouldn't be the same without them . www.nativefish.asn.au/bass.html



MY FINAL DECISION IS MAYBE .............

[Ella]

Mike and Al, thank you both so much for the links on the cicadas and the Australian bass. I had heard of American bass and the popular sport here of bass fishing, but had no idea that Australia had any bass too. Locusts, I think, make more like a humming noise, but I don't know anything about big grasshoppers. I seem to remember watching on Animal Planet about locusts being a constant threat and often a scourge in Australia and Africa, but I couldn't swear to it.

Alex, you're right, cicadas are really loud rattlers. ROTFL at your joke! I needed a good laugh today and now I've got one!

[scuba]

Personally, i don't think Frank's pocket knife was big enough!