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[bushyankee]

Hello I'm new, a yank from Oregon. I joined up to share the attached images and others I've found.

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Daintree.png

The image is a screen grab of a youtube video: "Australia, Daintree Rainforest (HD)"

The link to the video is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u09X7m6X3eY

It is not a bigfoot or yowie video. It is a tourist video.

This frame appears about 3 minutes 40 seconds into the video. The subject is visible for 4-5 seconds.

The information from the video is "The Daintree Rainforest is a tropical rainforest on the north east coast of Queensland, Australia, north of Mossman and Cairns. At around 1,200 km2 (460 sq mi), Daintree is the largest continuous area of tropical rainforest on the Australian continent. Along the coastline north of the Daintree River, tropical rainforest grows right down to the edge of the sea"

Apparently this rainforest is ~135 million years old and has been called a prehistoric or primordial rainforest, the oldest on Earth.

How I got here is that I started seeing BF featured in videos by Mark Zaskey and Melanie McCarthy in S.Florida. Then started finding BF in their videos on my own. Then I started finding BF in vids captured in Alabama and Michigan.

And I started thinking. What if I just randomly picked a camper/tourist/trekker video on YouTube? It occurred to me that such a video has a pristine provenance, that is, a clean chain-of-custody particularly if it is completely unrelated to BF or Yowie and has no comments regarding cryptids etc.

So I randomly picked a random 1-minute 360-degree pan (I've learned to really hate panning video lol) of some unidentified Oregon forest. I spent a few days in there rooting around and basically, it was loaded.

So I went straight for the oldest rainforest on earth, the Daintree. A one minute random search for the video and then 3 minutes 40 seconds of reviewing the video and I was looking at this rather handsome fellow. My GF says "he looks like he would clean up pretty well" lol!

The thing is he no-s#@t looks just like a young adult male bush indian straight out of a south florida swamp. The last time Australia was connected to anything was the Triassic so over ~150 million years ago. You would think 150 million years would give you a chance to master a few things... like fire... and cutlery but maybe not.

There are other "possibles" in this video but I thought I would share one that I regard as a "probable".

Thanks again for letting me join.

[Nuggs]

Welcome
I'm new here too, and admire your curiousity!

Unfortunately, I cannot see what you describe in the highlighted area - just blurry background rainforest.

[ChrisV]

Hi Bushyankee
I can see the image your referring to.
I can see features of a face etc but the thing that derails it for me is the perspective and location. The face just looks completely out of scale to rest of the surrounding bush.
Still an interesting image and worthy of a few comments....

[Yowie bait]

Hi Bushyankee. I can see what you could describe as an ape like head and shoulders there. Also can understand if Nuggs or anyone else cant see anything. Hard to say for me on phone. Id be interested to hear others opinions.

Thats a great idea to check videos not related to bigfoot research. At least you dont need to worry about hoaxers.

Theres been a few sightings when people have been filming something else at the time and seen it later. An australian film is rumored to have incidentally filmed yowie eye shine while filming a scene in the bush.

[Wolf]

Welcome to the site.
Sorry, but I only see a darker, shaded patch of leaves high in a fig tree. You can see the lighter, sun-lit tree tops under the branch your circle is 'sitting' on.
If there is an animal there it is something small like a tree kangaroo.

BTW the Daintree used to house a completely different type of aborigine... small of stature with tight, curly hair like the African Bushmen or the now-extinct Tasmanian Aborigine tribes. This smaller type managed to hide from the larger tribes in the thick rainforest for millennia and avoid being wiped out. The Tasmanian tribes survived by being cut off from the mainland... in effect the new, bigger invaders couldn't get to them.

[Wolf]

That is, they survived in Tasmania until the white fella came along and wiped them out.

[Thumper]

That is, they survived in Tasmania until the white fella came along and wiped them out.

Let's call it what it was: genocide.

[bushyankee]

Welcome to the site.
Sorry, but I only see a darker, shaded patch of leaves high in a fig tree. You can see the lighter, sun-lit tree tops under the branch your circle is 'sitting' on.
If there is an animal there it is something small like a tree kangaroo.

BTW the Daintree used to house a completely different type of aborigine... small of stature with tight, curly hair like the African Bushmen or the now-extinct Tasmanian Aborigine tribes. This smaller type managed to hide from the larger tribes in the thick rainforest for millennia and avoid being wiped out. The Tasmanian tribes survived by being cut off from the mainland... in effect the new, bigger invaders couldn't get to them.

No worries, I can't see every BF image others present either.

Even after watching the Mark Zaskey stuff for a few months now he sometimes zooms in on something I can't perceive at all. Sometimes I can't really make it out for a second or two then the image resolves for me and its kind of a shock when I realize what I'm looking at. My brain wasn't prepared initially for how broad the faces appear or just how large and heavily built they are.

Then there are the pareidolia images.

I see pareidolia images quite powerfully but they mostly occur for me under specific conditions so most of the time I can eliminate them. For me pareidolia images appear most frequently on tree trunks, tree stumps and sometimes rock outcroppings or rock faces. I have to eliminate any image I see that is on wood or in front of wood. That drives a few of my friends crazy since I find it hard to believe "tree peeker" images if there is a tree in the background behind the peeker.

I'll bring out some of my better stuff here and we'll see if any of them are visible to you.

People here on this site seem to politely debate stuff and not get too wound up. Also I think in general Australians are a bit more open to unusual wildlife probably from generations spent on a very mysterious continent. Good place to share and discuss.

[Tuckeroo]

Welcome to the site.
Sorry, but I only see a darker, shaded patch of leaves high in a fig tree. You can see the lighter, sun-lit tree tops under the branch your circle is 'sitting' on.
If there is an animal there it is something small like a tree kangaroo.

BTW the Daintree used to house a completely different type of aborigine... small of stature with tight, curly hair like the African Bushmen or the now-extinct Tasmanian Aborigine tribes. This smaller type managed to hide from the larger tribes in the thick rainforest for millennia and avoid being wiped out. The Tasmanian tribes survived by being cut off from the mainland... in effect the new, bigger invaders couldn't get to them.

No worries, I can't see every BF image others present either.

Even after watching the Mark Zaskey stuff for a few months now he sometimes zooms in on something I can't perceive at all. Sometimes I can't really make it out for a second or two then the image resolves for me and its kind of a shock when I realize what I'm looking at. My brain wasn't prepared initially for how broad the faces appear or just how large and heavily built they are.

Then there are the pareidolia images.

I see pareidolia images quite powerfully but they mostly occur for me under specific conditions so most of the time I can eliminate them. For me pareidolia images appear most frequently on tree trunks, tree stumps and sometimes rock outcroppings or rock faces. I have to eliminate any image I see that is on wood or in front of wood. That drives a few of my friends crazy since I find it hard to believe "tree peeker" images if there is a tree in the background behind the peeker.

I'll bring out some of my better stuff here and we'll see if any of them are visible to you.

People here on this site seem to politely debate stuff and not get too wound up. Also I think in general Australians are a bit more open to unusual wildlife probably from generations spent on a very mysterious continent. Good place to share and discuss.

Hi Bushyankee, welcome to oz, that's an interesting technique your exploring there. You need an eye for detail.
You’ll have your work cut out for yourself. Maybe someone could develop software that could help you do the job.

I can see the face, but it seems to be just too large in proportion to the surrounding foliage.

I don’t trust wood either, shame about the human eye distorting things the more you stare at a fixed point.
Probably the opposite for a bird of prey.

Keep your images coming no matter what they are.


Cheers, T.

[yowiedan]

I looked at this image changing the colour to Serpia and black and white and I'm sure its just different shapes and shades that makes up this. Ive had this also in some of my pictures where I swear I have caught something but after looking at it in different shades its only folage or shadows etc...

[yowiedan]

I also noticed on your profile it says Armchair Researcher.. If you never go out into the field and research things you can never grasp how many times you can capture these paradolia images and think you have something on film, But know 100% when you were there in the field nothing was there so it must be a shadow or your brain making a face out of shapes..

[bushyankee]

Hi Bushyankee, welcome to oz, that's an interesting technique your exploring there. You need an eye for detail.
You’ll have your work cut out for yourself. Maybe someone could develop software that could help you do the job.

I can see the face, but it seems to be just too large in proportion to the surrounding foliage.

I don’t trust wood either, shame about the human eye distorting things the more you stare at a fixed point.
Probably the opposite for a bird of prey.

Keep your images coming no matter what they are.


Cheers, T.

Thanks Tuckeroo. I'll post what I find in Australia and a few from the states. I'm currently looking at the possible yowie images collected by others hereon AYR. Some are amazing.

I'm having fun with it. I've gotten past the existence debate by finding a few images on my own, enough to convince me to the core. There were a few key images that pushed me through. Now I'm mostly thinking about conservation, what the damned thing is and what it might mean to the story of our own evolution. Other questions are Where are they? and How many are there?

I know a few folks are gonna trip. Some genuinely can't see the images. Others will have trouble coming to grips with the fact that modern humans seem to have not noticed the parallel species coexisting with us for eons. For nearly everyone there is that certain image that takes it out of the realm of speculation and into a new personal reality.

I have a question though, can someone point me to some content that expresses what the aboriginals have said about the yowie? Thanks!

[Yowie bait]

Theres some newspaper reports in the historical section of the ayr site that may interest you.

[Yowie bait]

Under "historical articles".

[Tuckeroo]

Thanks Tuckeroo. I'll post what I find in Australia and a few from the states. I'm currently looking at the possible yowie images collected by others hereon AYR. Some are amazing.

I'm having fun with it. I've gotten past the existence debate by finding a few images on my own, enough to convince me to the core. There were a few key images that pushed me through. Now I'm mostly thinking about conservation, what the damned thing is and what it might mean to the story of our own evolution. Other questions are Where are they? and How many are there?

I know a few folks are gonna trip. Some genuinely can't see the images. Others will have trouble coming to grips with the fact that modern humans seem to have not noticed the parallel species coexisting with us for eons. For nearly everyone there is that certain image that takes it out of the realm of speculation and into a new personal reality.

I have a question though, can someone point me to some content that expresses what the aboriginals have said about the yowie? Thanks!

Hi Bushyankee, try this for starters.

T.



http://www.yowiehunters.com.au/index.ph ... Itemid=148

[Tuckeroo]

Thanks Tuckeroo. I'll post what I find in Australia and a few from the states. I'm currently looking at the possible yowie images collected by others hereon AYR. Some are amazing.

I'm having fun with it. I've gotten past the existence debate by finding a few images on my own, enough to convince me to the core. There were a few key images that pushed me through. Now I'm mostly thinking about conservation, what the damned thing is and what it might mean to the story of our own evolution. Other questions are Where are they? and How many are there?

I know a few folks are gonna trip. Some genuinely can't see the images. Others will have trouble coming to grips with the fact that modern humans seem to have not noticed the parallel species coexisting with us for eons. For nearly everyone there is that certain image that takes it out of the realm of speculation and into a new personal reality.

I have a question though, can someone point me to some content that expresses what the aboriginals have said about the yowie? Thanks!

Hi Bushyankee, try this for starters.

T.



http://www.yowiehunters.com.au/index.ph ... Itemid=148

Sorry this might work.

T.

http://www.yowiehunters.com.au/index.ph ... Itemid=148

[Tuckeroo]

Thanks Tuckeroo. I'll post what I find in Australia and a few from the states. I'm currently looking at the possible yowie images collected by others hereon AYR. Some are amazing.

I'm having fun with it. I've gotten past the existence debate by finding a few images on my own, enough to convince me to the core. There were a few key images that pushed me through. Now I'm mostly thinking about conservation, what the damned thing is and what it might mean to the story of our own evolution. Other questions are Where are they? and How many are there?

I know a few folks are gonna trip. Some genuinely can't see the images. Others will have trouble coming to grips with the fact that modern humans seem to have not noticed the parallel species coexisting with us for eons. For nearly everyone there is that certain image that takes it out of the realm of speculation and into a new personal reality.

I have a question though, can someone point me to some content that expresses what the aboriginals have said about the yowie? Thanks!

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Here's something I found interesting, may relate to the above question.

T.


viewtopic.php?f=45&t=4728

[Tuckeroo]

Thanks Tuckeroo. I'll post what I find in Australia and a few from the states. I'm currently looking at the possible yowie images collected by others hereon AYR. Some are amazing.

I'm having fun with it. I've gotten past the existence debate by finding a few images on my own, enough to convince me to the core. There were a few key images that pushed me through. Now I'm mostly thinking about conservation, what the damned thing is and what it might mean to the story of our own evolution. Other questions are Where are they? and How many are there?

I know a few folks are gonna trip. Some genuinely can't see the images. Others will have trouble coming to grips with the fact that modern humans seem to have not noticed the parallel species coexisting with us for eons. For nearly everyone there is that certain image that takes it out of the realm of speculation and into a new personal reality.

I have a question though, can someone point me to some content that expresses what the aboriginals have said about the yowie? Thanks!

These are interesting also.

T.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feat ... _O6tb68R9k


https://www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/bunyips


viewtopic.php?f=67&t=5193

[Yowie bait]

Great links Tuckeroo. Keep em comin mate! That lady in youtube video talking about the little hairy men nightime visits gives a similar description of symptoms described by sleep paralasis sufferers. Weird!

[Tuckeroo]

Great links Tuckeroo. Keep em comin mate! That lady in youtube video talking about the little hairy men nightime visits gives a similar description of symptoms described by sleep paralasis sufferers. Weird!

Thanks Yb. ,

Bushyankee or yourself might find these interesting also, from an Aboriginal perspective.

Ive been reading old posts from way back and it's surprising what's there.
I discovered another Bunyip thread, so I thought I'd link that as well.

T.

viewtopic.php?f=45&t=1018

viewtopic.php?f=45&t=2929

viewtopic.php?f=45&t=177

[Yowie bait]

Thats a great story by "believer" about the "boon boon man". They took off pretty quick once they smelled him. Boon boon man would have been terribly offended!

[bushyankee]

Thanks for the aboriginal links.

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This image is a screen grab from a zoom clip I made from "Touring Australia: Temperate Rain Forest ".

The link to the video is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvDUUxyFckU

It is not a bigfoot or yowie video. It is a tourist video.

The zoom clip is zoomed in on video starting at 2:14 in the YT video, the file is 56.4 Meg. The zoom clip dropbox link is:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/kfmmsabh0zcmn ... 1.mp4?dl=0

The information from the video on YT is: "Uploaded on Apr 18, 2010, A look at the rain forest in Tarra Bulga National Park. The park is located in South Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. This footage was shot with two Sony cameras and the quality between the hand held consumer cam and the tripod mounted Z5P is glaringly obvious."

I thought I could see this guy in the YT video. The zoom clip shows facial and eye movement and lots of mouth movement, probably muttering about the photographer interrupting his afternoon hunt. There is lots of movement behind him and some other guys visible. Enjoy.

[Yowie bait]

Thats really cool bushyankee. Looks like a yowie but could be anything with the morphing digital thing happening. Sent shivers down my spine whatever it is!! Thanks for sharing your work with us!

[Yowie bait]

I thought the Image might be a cuscus but didnt think they would be in vic. After going through the list of animals in the gippsland i found out there is cuscus in that area. I dont think it is a cuscus. Its either a type of yowie,a hippy or pareidolia.

[Yowie bait]

Geez now I'm seeing another one and an alien grey.

[bushyankee]

Geez now I'm seeing another one and an alien grey.

After looking at the clip for a few days I can see an infant clinging to his head (a really common thing to see). You can see little black hands reaching around and grabbing and squeezing parts of his face.

[Yowie bait]

It morphs so much its hard to tell. Could be nothing but does look like a face of something you've found there. Its kind of creepy with the music and bird noises!

[bushyankee]

lol yeah the bird noises are the actual recorded sounds so I left it on the video even though there is weird music. If it is anything except the real recorded audio I usually remove it.

I took the Tarra Bulga zoom clip and altered the zoom profile (not so close and it backs out a bit towards the end) and re-encoded it over-sampled to 1080p with maximum depth rendering and put it on youtube as a non-monetized video so it doesn't have to be downloaded:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeHkjDXQ_kQ

I'm seeing yowie at other locations in Australia and will zoom up some of the better ones here. One surprise about this has been that I have *not* been able to find them nor even small signs of them in Tasmania.

At first I though that they were just keeping really low in concealment but after a few concerted efforts I don't see anything there. There was one video of a guy metal detecting around an abandoned coal mining and lumber milling site in northern Tasmania rain forest that looked really promising, the guy was using a reasonably good camera etc but I couldn't zero in on anything worth showing.

So... still looking in Tasmania. I haven't looked seriously in the West either, just a quick peek to see if there was low hanging fruit. That region will take some work as well.

[macquariedave]

Geez now I'm seeing another one and an alien grey.

After looking at the clip for a few days I can see an infant clinging to his head (a really common thing to see). You can see little black hands reaching around and grabbing and squeezing parts of his face.

I see a bevy of pygmy hippopotamuses in pink tutus dancing to the music from Swan Lake . . .

[bushyankee]

I see a bevy of pygmy hippopotamuses in pink tutus dancing to the music from Swan Lake . . .

So your finds are all filmed by Stanley Kubrick in 70mm using his personal lens-set and are completely clear and the yowie holds up a newspaper with todays date and says a few words for the camera?

I look forward to seeing those.