How did you become interested in all of this!?

[macquariedave]

I was always a fan of the Pinkney Report (I think ) in the Australian Post. Reading about yowies, ufos, min min lights and ghosts was enthralling as a kid.

I've got 4 of his books on my Kindle.

[MrHead181]

In Search of. Saw it in the 1970s,a episode about Sasquatch and was hooked. Was a great show.

[bubble1]

Must of seen the same episode of In search of, with Sasquatch, plus in 92 driving past a small Museum/Gas Station in Northern California and look at the Sasquatch memorabillia, but the corker was seeing Neal on A Current Affair, back in 2002 telling us about his local Yowie, and I thought why is this High School Teacher putting himself out there for the potential ridicule of the whole school? Brave move!!!

[Alphawolf27]

I can't remember when i first became interested i often think back when i was younger watching that kids movie harry and the hendersons where they hit a bigfoot on their vacation away and tie it up on the roof. Great movie love how it becomes part of the family, ive always been interested in bigfoot, ufo's, aliens, conspiracy's and government top secret experimenting. Yowies are the highest on the list for me as we are so close to them, its a good feeling to know there is something out there. It became more of an obsession after my encounter i am a big believer now and will continue looking for them

[Yowie bait]

Hi i am a newbie to the forum and on mobile phone so sorry in advance for any bad spelling . I chose the name yowie bait after a freind and i inadvertently angered a large black yowie one night many years ago on fraser island. Years later while travelling with freinds at a rest stop on the newell highway we made a lot of noise and had another angry visitor who whacked the side of our van in the middle of the night. So yeah yowie bait. I have been browsing the forum for a few months now looking for photos and trying to find out what makes these yowies tick. I decided to join the forum to acess the blocked photos and links and possibly join a discussion sometime. Also i am sick of talking to skeptics and close minded people about things like this . I got into this last year when a link to thinker thunker bigfoot in sequoias came up with something i was looking at. I was immediately sucked in but eventually deemed a lot of them fakers and started enjoying the obvious hoaxes instead. One day i was reading an account of a stench and tree breaking that accompanied bigfoot sightings and felt a tinge of terror run through my brain. I thought maybe the hairy man that hassled us maybe the same as these "fake" north American bigfoots i was looking at. I ran a youtube search for yowies and found the audio recordings from Australian yowie hunters and found these much more believable than the American videos and breakdowns and found even more comparisons to my own experience. This site has helped me heaps to understand the yowie a bit more. I no longer hate and fear the hairy bugger that scared my freind and me so much. I now feel lucky to have had the experience. Anyway sorry for the long post and happy yowie hunting to you all. Hope you have your running boots on if u meet one!

[Brindabella Ranger]

Nice thread.

All my sightings aside. For me its this one fact: if the existence of these creatures were to be proven and accepted mainstream, it would mark of the greatest anthropological find in recorded history. It would reveal we're not the only living hominid of our line as believed. It would change the way we look at our place as humans on this earth, rethink our social fabric and perhaps question religion. It would be a global bombshell. And this 'undiscovered' phenomenon is just in our backyard. Isn't that enough reason to be interested in this topic?

[ChrisV]

Nice thread.

All my sightings aside. For me its this one fact: if the existence of these creatures were to be proven and accepted mainstream, it would mark of the greatest anthropological find in recorded history. It would reveal we're not the only living hominid of our line as believed. It would change the way we look at our place as humans on this earth, rethink our social fabric and perhaps question religion. It would be a global bombshell. And this 'undiscovered' phenomenon is just in our backyard. Isn't that enough reason to be interested in this topic?

Well said.

In our backyard is probably the most amazing aspect of all....so close yet so far.

[Cartman]

I am a newbie as well.

I had heard about the Yowie as early as about 1977 starting out as a SRA railway clerk when I was told by a railway substation technician (Ian H.) about his own sighting of one at Wondabyne (on the northern side of the Hawkesbury River) about 1 km Sydney side of the Woy Woy Tunnel. I dont know the actual date but it must have been be early to mid 70's. I heard this from Ian himself - that he had been working inside the Wondabyne 1500V DC Sectioning Hut on a pitch black night and as he has opened the door, the internal light has lit up the trackside, where he has seen a 7 foot high "Yeti" type creature, that had been at trackside crouched down, stand up then bolt up a steep cliff-face in three or four leaps. That is my recollection of what he said. despite it being almost 40yrs ago. To date I dont believe that his sighting and associated details has been recorded for prosperity .... I am trying to find out where he is now living in the Hunter Valley after he left the railways about ten years ago, so I can put him in touch with AYR/Messers Healy and Cropper. For the record at Wondabyne there is a 1 door wide platform, pedestrian level crossing, a former quarry and a boat pontoon. The sectioning Hut is about 500 metres from the platform closer to Sydney. It is the middle of nowhere.

I have always been interested / open to the existence of yowies but after reading Tony Healy and Paul Croppers excellent book on "The Yowie-in Search of Australia's Bigfoot", that it pretty clear that there is a real mystery to solve. As well as a great read I am attending the Paracon 2016 conference in late May where I will have the opportunity to hear the authors in person, albeit on a somewhat different subject.


Grant

PS From various articles I have read I get the impression that infra-red technology has been ineffective because of their ability to "see" IR .... thermal imaging seems to be the way to go

[ChrisV]

I am a newbie as well.

I had heard about the Yowie as early as about 1977 starting out as a SRA railway clerk when I was told by a railway substation technician (Ian H.) about his own sighting of one at Wondabyne (on the northern side of the Hawkesbury River) about 1 km Sydney side of the Woy Woy Tunnel. I dont know the actual date but it must have been be early to mid 70's. I heard this from Ian himself - that he had been working inside the Wondabyne 1500V DC Sectioning Hut on a pitch black night and as he has opened the door, the internal light has lit up the trackside, where he has seen a 7 foot high "Yeti" type creature, that had been at trackside crouched down, stand up then bolt up a steep cliff-face in three or four leaps. That is my recollection of what he said. despite it being almost 40yrs ago. To date I dont believe that his sighting and associated details has been recorded for prosperity .... I am trying to find out where he is now living in the Hunter Valley after he left the railways about ten years ago, so I can put him in touch with AYR/Messers Healy and Cropper. For the record at Wondabyne there is a 1 door wide platform, pedestrian level crossing, a former quarry and a boat pontoon. The sectioning Hut is about 500 metres from the platform closer to Sydney. It is the middle of nowhere.

I have always been interested / open to the existence of yowies but after reading Tony Healy and Paul Croppers excellent book on "The Yowie-in Search of Australia's Bigfoot", that it pretty clear that there is a real mystery to solve. As well as a great read I am attending the Paracon 2016 conference in late May where I will have the opportunity to hear the authors in person, albeit on a somewhat different subject.


Grant

PS From various articles I have read I get the impression that infra-red technology has been ineffective because of their ability to "see" IR .... thermal imaging seems to be the way to go

Gday Grant... interesting story
I know Wondabyne station well...never got off there but always admired how short the platform is and who actually uses the station due to its isolation. I think to get the train to stop you need to let the train guard know at the station before!
From my understanding the station is popular with hikers who use it as a base for exploring the surrounding bushland. Whats also interesting that there are a few AYR reports of sightings not far from this sight....

[Wampa1]

Hello all,

I thought that I would add to this thread, Its really good!
I have been a long time lurker of this forum and website since around 2008 I believe (long time!).
It has maybe been a year since my last visit.. I love coming back and catching up on sightings and stories of all.

I have been interested in Yowies ever since I was a young boy. I am part-Aboriginal through my Mothers side. My Mother grew up on an Aboriginal Mission with her family and they would always tell me stories about their experiences with Yowies and such. I was always fascinated at how frequent their interactions with the hairy folk were. I would love to share their stories one day with this forum.

I grew up in the bush just outside of Kempsey, NSW. Anybody who has adventured around the bushland outside Kempsey knows how creepy it can be. It feels somewhat very spiritual to me.

My Father is one of those old true bushman. He has He has spent most of his life living in bushlands from South East Queensland to now North East Tasmania. He has never once commented on the hairy beast which has fascinated me on how elusive these Yowies can be.

[Wampa1]

I forgot to add my experiences.

I have found a few large footprints over my child hood and always wanted to see more. I am 24 now and currently based in Europe but the bushlands of Australia always come to mind at least once a day!

I became interested in Yowies because of my familys experience with them and the experiences that all of you have had.

Cheers.

[Yowie bait]

Hi wampa1. Be great if you posted some of those stories your family have shared with you. Theres some recent information regarding aboriginal familys trading with yowies on the "Strange wallaby killings thread"if you havent seen it. By the way i think i may have seen you hanging round a spanish ski resort on youtube the other day.

[Wampa1]

Hi wampa1. Be great if you posted some of those stories your family have shared with you. Theres some recent information regarding aboriginal familys trading with yowies on the "Strange wallaby killings thread"if you havent seen it. By the way i think i may have seen you hanging round a spanish ski resort on youtube the other day.

Funny you should mention that spanish yeti sighting.. Yes it was my name inspiration and its a 8-9 hour car ride from where I live but I swear it wasn't me!

About the experiences of my Family with Yowies; I have not spoken to my Mother about these child hood stories for quite some time so bare with me if information is minimum.
My Mother has told me about an occurring experience she and her siblings experienced a lot. She has 4 siblings. Where they grew up was surrounded by dense forest land with the occasional small cave opening here and there. I believe these cave entrances have been buried now.. They were never allowed to go far into the bushland as kids which is understandable especially with the dangers out there for children.
She told me that Yowies would come from the bushland two or three times a week to scavenge around their property. She and her siblings would have to stay inside and away from the windows when this occured. They would always hear heavy footsteps outside and after an hour or two they would leave. She said it would happen quite a lot over her childhood up until maybe her being 14-15 then they moved away.

I have an Uncle who was more in touch with the bushland than my Mother. He had a few tales that he would tell me.
He had a lot of friends when he was in his teenage years he would say. Always a different group of friends each weekend.
One time he was with a bunch of friends walking through bushland. They came across a small dark hairy creature in a tree trying to hide amongst the branches.. As kids/teenagers do.. they started throwing sticks/rocks at it.. It finally fell from the tree, landed on its feet and bolted further into the bush away from them. They ran the other way.
That night they were sleeping at a mates house not too far away from there. Three of them were sharing a bed near a window that was left open. During the night one of them woke to a hairy hand around their feet trying to pull him out the window. He started screaming and the hand disappeared and a large noise was heard running away.

Yowies were occasionally sighted at an old scrap/tip yard near where they lived a lot. Always scavenging they were.

I always looked back on these experiences as tactis to scare me and my friends from going too far away from home as kids. Oh and they did work on me, I was always observant of my surroundings when adventuring through forest lands in NSW. Always had the sense of being watched or some form of spiritually around me.

As for other family experiences, I dont have much detail of them. Just the occasional yowie spotted here, yowie sighted there.

[ChrisV]

Hi Wampa
Thanks for sharing.
Interesting stories and again reaffirms the aboriginal history and connection.

I find the wallaby trading stories very interersting....

[Yowie bait]

Thanks wampa. Would be good to hear more like this.

[wellymon]

Awesome thread ChrisV

Great reading by all, I love it.

Anyways I will put in my 2 cents worth in, after reading some great banter.
Being a Kiwi and moving over to this awesome land, in 1999 and getting hooked up with an amazing girl .
Nah really now.
My wife's mother lives up the very top of Little Nerang Road, pretty much overlooking the Hinze Dam, which is West and the whole of the Gold coast, East. She constantly heard way out of this world, screams and noises, over a period of 5-6 years?
My Mother n law handed me a book, Rex Gilroy " Mysterious Australia ".

We brought our acre block, backing on to the national park, in the "Woolly Butt Range", hinterland around Bonogin Valley.
Where for the last 12 years, we have heard and both me and my wife have witnessed, un explained things happening around us, that really IMO only correlate to the Hairy One.

Hence my first thread on here " A Firm Believer " which was my first thread posting? and obviously put it in the wrong thread!!!!. The "Yowie Controversial, Conjecture and Fringe Subject Matter Discussion".
Ha ha, well I should say, that was the first mistake I made, as I never knew, what I was going to get in to!. Then realised, I was bombarded by all these people that have been on here for years, had years of experience in all sorts of realms, wether it be Big Foot, Yowie, Ghosts, UFO's, Conjecture??

I realised I could not change it at all? I went through various emotions, regarding what I believed in and clashed with others!, (My Apologies)

Oh well IMO, the past is the past and this is the " Year Of The Monkey" which myself and my wife are born in 68, probably why this expeience has happened or happening right now where we live, right now.
Cheers
Welly

[Wolf]

Ah, so you're a kiwi?
What do y call Jew living in NZ?

Hebrew (say it out loud if you don't get it )

[Yowie bait]

I hear ya wellymon. Theres a certain post on the supernatural section i wish i had never made(most of my posts actually!) and another secret i shouldve kept to myself on this very thread. Anyway too late now and no delete button i can find.thats interesting about hinze dam and your mother in law. Makes you wonder how many people dont report sightings or share there property with yowies and keep it to themselves. Cant say i blame them. I read a tonne of ufo conspiracy,abduction books growing up in the 70s and 80s. I became obsessed with ufos and thought they were the real deal. These days i could give a c**p if they exist or not. Im sure they do but ive never seen a ufo or an alien or any hassles with them in the nearly 50 years ive been around and probably never will. The thing i do know is that there is something that can get me if i go into the wrong part of the forest at night that scares me a lot and its not the little green man!! Sure is the year of the monkey at your place mate and he bought his freinds too by the sounds of it!

[ConvincedSkeptic]

Hi All,
Fascinating thread! Hope you don't mind me jumping in
I grew up in the bush in Northern NSW around the Byron Bay Hinterland .When I was a teenager I was in the local Historical society (Massive history buff) and started doing an oral history research project with a member who was an archaelogist. Anyway one day we were interviewing a bloke who lived in the back of Upper Main Arm (area backs onto Mt Jerusalem NP) when he started talking about various yowie encounters his neighbours up and down the gully had had over the years. It was only in passing but it peaked my interested and I started researching local encounters and the local Aboriginal history (There's a surprising amount).

After school I didn't think much of it until last year when I had a few........unexplainable events.
I can't find my original post in this forum but I still remember it quite clearly.
My partner and I live in an apartment complex the border suburbs of Indooroopilly/Taringa in west Brisbane. It's about 1km to dense bushland/ the slops of Mt Cootha. Late one night in about June ( Around 2am as my partner was a shift worker at the time) we were lying in bed talking when when heard blood-curdling almost guttural screams coming from the mountain. Shook us both but we just assumed it was a domestic dispute, however we didn't hear any police sirens or hear any reports the next day. When I asked our neighbours all reported being woken at the same time. After I posted on this forum and listened to some audio recordings I can confirm my sound matched.
Then a couple of weeks later we went hiking with a mate on the mountain (Near Gordons Rd) and had the the dead silence and pungent smell that you get. 2 weeks later the same happened whilst finishing a hike at JC Slaughter falls.

For anyone interested- I continued hiking for the rest of the winter but nothing else strange happened. Although on a roadtrip in November to the Sunshine Coast with the same people (Partner and best mate) we stopped in a park on the outskirts of Kenilworth at dusk and within 5mins had packed back into the car and were bolting. Didn't see or smell anything but again had that eerie silence with the horrible feeling we were being watched from the surrounding bush.

So anyway I guess that's my continued interest in all this. Always fascinated to hear other people's accounts and if anyone is interested more about Northern NSW please ask

[Yowie bait]

Hey ConvincedSkeptic i read your original post a few weeks ago so must be on here somewhere. Would be nice if there was some yowies on mt cootha/brisbane area. Still some forests left but dissapearing fast with all the new developments happening around and on the outskirts of brissy. Sure is a lot going on at once which may bring em out. Who knows? Maybe these people living in these new developments will start to see stuff soon. Much like ormeau and springfield etc. Sounds like your a bit of a yowie bait(!) with all these smells and sounds you are experiencing.

[macquariedave]

I can't find my original post in this forum but I still remember it quite clearly.

Did you try at 'User Control Panel' and click-on the various links under 'Show your activity'?

[macquariedave]

I can't find my original post in this forum but I still remember it quite clearly.

Did you try at 'User Control Panel' and click-on the various links under 'Show your activity'?

Sorry, 'Your activity'.

[ConvincedSkeptic]

You guys beat me to the redirection. It seems I am haha. I'm a very curious and visual person and enjoy identifying timelines and locations so I'm always interested in everyones posts. To be honest I wouldn't be surprised if there was some activity the west of Brisbane. Although given the high traffic of Mt Cootha it seems more logical that it would be happening out towards Belbowrie and Brookfield - maybe their curiosity keeps them close?

[Simon M]

I've been interested in cryptozoology stuff for as long as I can recall - probably due to the TV show In Search Of, which seemed to have more episodes about Bigfoot than any other topic (apart from UFO's, which were the second most investigated topic). Also, Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World used to be on back then. There was also a magazine (one of those ones where you get one every week and collect them in a binder, etc) called The Unexplained: Mysteries of Mind, Space, & Time that I collected. I also read a book called The Mysterious Monsters that convinced me there was something to these stories. The idea that there really was such a creature seemed to make more sense than the idea that thousands of people were just making things up - why would they? Why would they all tell the same story? How did the footprints get there? For some reason the Bigfoot stories were my favourites, much more so than UFO's or the Loch Ness Monster. As I got older I read about Yowies, Bunyips and surviving Thylacines and became more interested in Australian cryptids.

It's something I openly discuss with people, but everyone who knows me well assumes I am 'eccentric' so I sort of get a free pass. "Oh, he's into that stuff", "that's just what he's like" etc. It's seen as a personality quirk, but I'm aware that nobody I know takes the topic seriously. They know that I do, however. If it's a person I haven't known for years, I rarely discuss anything apart form the weather, etc. If challenged on it, I do like to make sure that any smug/pat comments are replied to politely and in a manner which implies that the would-sceptic is relying on arguments they've heard others make (such as saying "did you know that..." and then stating a fact and giving a reference for it, so as to suggest that I've 'done my homework' and they haven't).

I've also read everything Erich von Däniken has ever written (I think), and have read a lot about Atlantis, The Lost Kingdom of Mu, The Golden Dawn (and various other secret societies), Opus Dei, etc. If it's unusual and people don't want to discuss it, I want to read about it.

I've just ordered a hardcover copy of The Yowie : In Search of Australia's Bigfoot as I hadn't read it and this forum has made me want to. This is such a great idea for a thread.

[micathia]

When I was in primary school, in China. I saw a documentary named "The Wild Men, ten years investigation". It'was a serious, government initiated documentary program talking about Yeren in China. A ten year investigation since 1970s sighting report that drew people attention.

The documentary itself has no video footage, somehow they discovered some weird animals in that area, for example, a kind of white bear in mountain etc.

However, seeing this documentary as a primary school kid, i was so scared. You know sometimes a kid will cry and tell mum and dad they saw a monster or a vampire in the back yard etc. So this fear haunted me many years until attention to girls replaced it.

I did pay some attention to US bigfoot, but since no one can bring up live one or dead body, I tend to believe maybe they existed before, but not they extinguished. I had no knowledge about Aussie yowie till 2016, 13th year since I came to Australia.

I love trees but not a bush camper or bush walker type. Without knowing about yowie, I told everyone (mostly Chinese) that Aussie bushes are perfect for tourism and natural life. Because "they are perfectly safe! no wolf no bear no tiger no leopard!"

In 2004, my parents visited me in Melbourne, we went for a drive from Melbourne to Sydney, we were very excited. Because it was long drive, I told my parents we have to depart at midnight (only because I am excited driving at night). Driving from 12am to 4am in near morning, I was totally exhausted, so we just pull over in a bush area by the side of the road not closing to anywhere and fell sleep. My mother later said she had a dream seeing "shabby beggers putting hands on the windows of the car......", then I said, "Mum, no beggers/homeless in Australia". My mother has passed away, can't ask more detail about that.

I couldn't believe here in Aus not only there are many sightings, those sighting reports sound so detailed and real, and they are so close to where humans are. The closet sighting area is Toolangi, only 45 mins driving to where I live.

So now, I am quite confident this mystery will be solved in ten years. We are almost there.

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PS: just recently, a group of 13 wild elephants just raided a Chinese village. These animals destroyed most of the crops, cleaned up farmers' food storage and the local government just distributing pamphlet about "elephants" that's all. Maybe one day this is the way we will see yowies. Something happend in bush, they are starving or they are too populated, then some of them cannot find a piece of area in bush to settle down, then they grouped (similar to "unemployed youth with no hope to buy property or find a girl friend"), raid a town, for food or rubbish bins, possible in a friendly way.

[deadpool]

We were driving to Springbrook (family outing) and we passed a sign saying "Welcome to Yowie Country". I asked what one was and my mother proceeded to tell me about an encounter her uncle had in the blue mountains whilst doing a rally driving.. thing. I was astonished that we had bigfeet too (I was only 10 at the time and movies like The Snow Beast and Harry & The Hendersons both freaked me out and amazed me at the same time).

So since then I've been out and about, had my fair share of sightings, encounters, etc.