Strange injuries

[Lozza62]

Has anyone had strange wounds appear on their body after a yowie experience. While sitting with back to forest felt sensation on shoulder like being lightly touched then minute later pain in back of leg a perfect triangle of three sores appeared took weeks to clear up and still have scars .....had jeans tucked in socks so spiders etc couldnt bite me.

[Yowie bait]

Hi Lozza. Ive never heard of such a thing. Sounds more like something from an alien abduction story. Some bugs will bite through clothes.

[Tim*]

C'mon, this is just silly.

There has to be a point where you apply some critical thinking to this stuff. It's one thing to be open minded but where does it end?

Little wonder people are ridiculed for yowie talk with this sh*t being thrown around.

No, the yowie didnt give you sores. There are hundreds of more likely reasons you have sores on your body.

[Yowie bait]

No need to get " antsy" there Tim but yeah doubt it was a yowie.

Lozza its probably a midge sandfly type thing. Theres a type up here that causes multiple recurring wounds or bites and is similar to a spiderbite.

[Tim*]

No need to get " antsy" there Tim but yeah doubt it was a yowie.

No pun intended!

[adventurer]

Hey Lozza, i am going to type on behalf of ron. We were both out yowie hunting in a complete different area. The tracks out there were extremely wide. We walked only on the track up the centre. We sat in a creek but did not enter the bush. We heard calls out there, but no rocks or anything.
Anyhow when we left the area i drove home and so did ron. When ron got home he rang me and said his whole inside front of his shirt was full of blood and he had a cut mark below his neck that wouldnt stop bleeding. His wife tried to stop the bleeding. It was sliced enough to warrant 2 stitches.
Weird very weird, sure sounds like poltergeist stuff.
Anyway we forgot about it, but strange we were never near anything that warranted such a thing.
Not saying its a yowie thing---just very strange.

[Lozza62]

Sorry I was just getting feedback....must have been bitten by some creepy-crawly.

[Lozza62]

Hey Lozza, i am going to type on behalf of ron. We were both out yowie hunting in a complete different area. The tracks out there were extremely wide. We walked only on the track up the centre. We sat in a creek but did not enter the bush. We heard calls out there, but no rocks or anything.
Anyhow when we left the area i drove home and so did ron. When ron got home he rang me and said his whole inside front of his shirt was full of blood and he had a cut mark below his neck that wouldnt stop bleeding. His wife tried to stop the bleeding. It was sliced enough to warrant 2 stitches.
Weird very weird, sure sounds like poltergeist stuff.
Anyway we forgot about it, but strange we were never near anything that warranted such a thing.
Not saying its a yowie thing---just very strange.

Hi Adventurer, That's a strange thing that he didn't feel pain and didn't know til he seen the blood.

[Scarts]

Umm, a little more information would help? Sliced just below the neck doesn't tell us much. A leach could cause that sort of bleeding but I wouldn't call it a slice it causes, more a nick. As for lozzas triangle of puncture marks, any number of insects could cause that, or thorns or burrs.

[ChrisV]

Wow - 2 stitches is pretty significant considering he was not aware of the wound? Or was he?
A gash under the shirt would indicate a high chance that the shirt was torn in some way?
Unless it was a said Leach....but they don't normally require stitches?? Or do they>

[adventurer]

Hi. Ron was not aware of the wound until he actually took his top off.the top was not torn at all.we were sweat dripping walking so he didn't realize it was blood dripping.it was like a long sleeve footy type top too.not a light weight tshirt. That's why it was so weird. Don't know much about leeches.

[ChrisV]

Hi. Ron was not aware of the wound until he actually took his top off.the top was not torn at all.we were sweat dripping walking so he didn't realize it was blood dripping.it was like a long sleeve footy type top too.not a light weight tshirt. That's why it was so weird. Don't know much about leeches.

That's weird indeed.
Guess it could be anything.
I've cut myself on a tree branch thru a shirt once and the shirt did not tear. Must of pierced the material but not torn then dragged across the skin. Probably a very rare occurrence but it did happen.

[Scarts]

I've had leeches get onto the bare skin of my legs while I was wearing jeans, while walking through the bush. I had no idea at the time, until I got home later and felt wetness on my lower leg, which eventually revealed a leech. The wound it caused did not stop bleeding without considerable washing and antiseptic, after ofcourse the leech met with a pool of kitchen salt.

I think the unexplained wound on the chest could have been a leech which had its feed and moved on, leaving a bleeding wound.

[adventurer]

Well certainly good to know. We have been through the whole bush ticks under our skin but not leeches. Gross-glad it wasnt me. Im sure ron said it was a clean cut mark though. Do leeches do that? Ill ask ron to reply. Thanks.

[Tim*]

Leeches leave a pretty small but distinctive 'Y' shaped bite mark. That plus a wound that continutes to bleed or weep, due to the anticoagulant in the leeches saliva and you know you've been had by one of these disgusting little things.

I remember being out in the bush once on a rainy day in a grass covered clearing and seeing a leech on the tip of just about every blade of grass. A sea of leeches waving their heads around waiting for something to walk by to suck onto. It was disturbing, I'll never forget it.

[ronstar1]

Hi Tim and Scarts it certainly was something as you say it may well have been a leech but there was no evidence of it on me or in the car.The area we were walking in was well cleared im bewildered as to what it was.

[gregvalentine]

Leeches leave a pretty small but distinctive 'Y' shaped bite mark. That plus a wound that continutes to bleed or weep, due to the anticoagulant in the leeches saliva and you know you've been had by one of these disgusting little things.

I remember being out in the bush once on a rainy day in a grass covered clearing and seeing a leech on the tip of just about every blade of grass. A sea of leeches waving their heads around waiting for something to walk by to suck onto. It was disturbing, I'll never forget it.

Apologies for extending the "leech" tangent.
Dunno about the 'Y' shaped mark, but I got a couple of leech bites (ankle underneath the sock, and on the wrist) this past weekend bushwalking in the Grose Valley. They can't have stayed on long as the marks are not large, do not itch and I did not actually see the leeches. They weren't just scratches from bush.

[Tim*]

Disgusting as they are, I'm not that reactive to leeches either. I know a bloke that is though and he's terrified of the things. Anyway, sorry for straying off topic.