Yowiehunters Forum

Hi all - I've been looking around for a while now, but this is my first post.

I'm on the northside of Brisbane and was wondering if anyone has any info on sightings in this area? I've seen a couple of mentions in old forum posts, but from what I've seen they've only been mentioned in passing.

I'm partic. interested in the Dayboro/North Pine area, and I'm also currently planning a few days out bush for a look around Mt Mee.

Hey Forestguy

I am not sure I can help you much But I would say any of the mountains west of Dayboro is your best bet from kilcoy to the north right down to Jindalee in the south. It’s just a matter of getting out there and having a look.

Hey there forestguy,

I frequent the Mt Mee area on a weekly basis and haven't come across anything out of the norm...yet. Have had that uneasy feeling a few times in the southwest part though. And know of a bloke who had an experience with his dogs.

Jmina is the place to head to if you want Yowie action, especially now heading into winter.

Syd

Hey Forestguy
On your way to Jimna take Sunday creek road on your right,then follow until you get to middle road also on your right.this road is a good spot to start having a look around....Have spent many a day and night up thier ..
Has been a while but with winter coming will be back up thier.....middle creek road area is restricted so permits are advisable...

Cheers nig and Jeannie

P.S If you come across a black suzuki soft top dont stress its us....

Sounds good - thanks Nig.

A word of warning before a reconnaissance into the Jimna area.

I had a sizable rock thrown at me recently when looking around a creek bed by myself, try and take a friend with you if planning a trip there.

Syd

I wanted to chime in here and say that throwing rocks or sticks at you has been observed as an inquisitive behavior with this primate to see what reaction it will get out of you. At times it's been to show frustration as well. Recently an expedition here in the states spent a week at the same campsite with activity around them. Every night but one they had a portable battery powered TV on the entire night and noted the ranging movements. Ultimately the activity would halt behind their camp where the TV was facing, and the 3 squatches they could discern from silhouette would stay put in that area for 3-4 hours fascinated by the TV. The one night they didn't run the TV, they constantly had objects thrown at them, not near them but at them as some connected, and they eventually turned the TV on and the throwing of objects ceased. I would speculate a portable radio would peak their curiosity as well and it might be something you all down under could try in da boosh. :-)

syd i believe most things should be done in pairs in the bush not so much our hairy friend but any other number of things that could go wrong i have had a mate bitten by a brown once lucky it was only small but he was by himself and had to do the native trick of lying still and spent the whole night in the bush himself to let the toxin break down then walked out the next day.
back to topic syd what was your response to the rock throw :-) did you high tale it out ? i probally would have being by myself

Forestguy, I believe you should hear this story of an event that occurred back in the early to mid 80's to the brother of my very good friend, C. Now, as human memory can be deceiving over time, I could have some facets of this tale not quite straight, but the series of events I am about to describe are known to another person on this forum, and he may correct some of the details if I'm wrong. I hope he doesn't mind me posting this, OK B?

Anyway, C's brother, D. and a couple of his schoolmates (they would have been aged 14 - 17 or so at the time) decided to camp out at North Pine Dam overnight for a lark. Like most of their friends who also wanted to go, they knew the area well, being born and raised not far away, and convinced their parents to let them stay out for the night.

As D. told it, one of them had a car and they all piled in with their camping gear and snacks and set up camp. As it began to get late, they started a fire, and were sitting around, chattering away, when one of D's friends got up to have a slash. Logically, he went just beyond the light circle cast by their campfire, and got down to business. It was nearing the completion of his toilette that he became aware of something very, very smelly somewhere nearby. His first reaction was that someone had taken a dump in the bushes and he was almost on top of it, and apparently he shouted out to the group behind him, thinking one of them might have followed him and dropped a stinky fart as a joke.

As his eyes were no longer facing the light of the fire, he could see something off to his side, probably only a matter of metres away, as he tells it, but he just thought it was a bush or tree. Then for some reason, he thought it was one of the group trying to scare him, and he made some bantering comment to what he thought was one of the guys. When he got no response, he froze, and by now, he really had the wind up, but it wasn't until he spotted (what he later described as) red, almost glowing eyes about 7 feet up from the ground looking directly at him and probably reflecting the dim firelight, that he totally lost it and panicked.

Not surprisingly, he screamed, turned and bolted back to the campfire, where all the friends were still sitting, so he knew it wasn't one of them, hiding in the bushes, playing a trick on him. He was so panicked, he basically very rapidly screamed at the group to get the hell out, something huge was in the bush, and then he bolted for home. The rest of the group followed in double quick time, ignoring the car they had come in, and just running blindly for the road and home. Sounds like total panic to me.

I am told that they got a bit of distance between them and the campfire, and turned around for a look. D claims they saw in the outer light of the fire, a pair of large, long legs, right on the edge of the clearing, just visible in the low firelight. They lit out for home, well panicked, not a small feat, as home was a good couple of kms away and when they got to the home of the kid who lived closest, the parents were horrified at the panicked and exhausted state of the lot of them. The parents, together with a couple of older brothers and one or two of the males in the camping group immediately returned to the camping spot to see what was up.

D said that the adult search party too were spooked, as their kid and his mates had been almost incoherent with fear, and they didn't think it was an act, as all the kids were freaked out and flat refused to go back for their stuff alone. The second party were too spooked to do more than collect the kids' gear, pile it into the car that was still sitting there, and head for home again. D. and C. vowed to return the next day and take plaster to make casts of any footprints. Next day came, and in daylight, everyone was a little braver, though still freaked out, and they went back to find the area around the campfire all messed up with not a single good footprint left to cast. From that point on, D. and C. referred to the tall, smelly hairy legged thing as "The Shambling Man".

D. and his girlfriend both calmly told us this story in 1989, at his 21st party, way after most of the partygoers had collapsed from strong drink, leaving only the hardy and mostly non-drinkers left awake! I don't know how many blokes would tell a tale like this in front of their girlfriend.

Some months later, C took his dog, his fishing rod, and his sleeping bag in the back of his old Cortina wagon, and headed out to North Pine dam. Fishing as the sun went down, he became well and truly spooked when just as night was falling, he smelled a horrifically vile stench that hadn't been there before. He just threw the dog and fishing rod into the back, jumped into his car, turned on the headlights and headed out of there FAST.

I have no reason to not believe this person, or his brother, as we have been friends for over 30 years. I for one would be most interested in hearing of any other stories of this nature in the same area, Forestguy, so please keep this thread going with info if you find anything.

I often wondered if a good place to start might be the local retired police officers in the area - off the record might provide some interesting reports of anything similar, although with the degree of building happening in that area now, the areas of forest and scrub are starting to vanish.

Good luck!

Thanks Shazzoir - I was actually planning a trip out to North Pine dam in the next couple of weeks with my brother, so you've given me some encouragement to get it sorted...

Any chance you could ask your mate C whereabouts he was around the dam when he went fishing?

Cheers.

I live at Petrie on the nth side am very close to lake Kurwongbah and do walk the dam wall to the spill way and have on occasion had that eerie feeling the same feeling I'm feeling right now while writing this... as I have not throughly investigated the area because I'm a big chicken I have found area's where something large had flattened the grass and I put down to roo's/dingo's because I found their sign even though I haven't seen any for a while in fact there is a unusually big lack of wild life come to think of it.. plus a few mths back I discovered 2 wild geese with their heads pulled off and chest cavity eaten out not a nice find but suspicious I thought a feral cat or not, I could understand 1 bird but not two, the location was the BBQ area at Lake Kurwongba off Torrens Road, Petrie...

Thanks homerbear. I headed out to the area yesterday - not Lake Kurwongbah, but nearby.

One thing that really struck me was the complete absence of wildlife - no rabbits/roos/foxes/anything. Found a few tree breaks, and a couple of possible prints. Also learned from the experience - really need to make sure I put something in the pics for perspective.

Hi forestguy,
When you say near there, where's there, the no go zone for the public would be the best bet for evidence, and I've asked about the lack wildlife from a local wildlife carer who is quite puzzled by the strange lack of fauna in and nth pine dam I asked if she be able to quoted on that and she hung up on me, I later rang her back and she sort said the DPI told in no certain terms M.Y.O.B if u want to keep caring for wildlife, and she said no more and she has begged me not to reveal her name.....
So what the Government know, some 1 said the no go zone is THE zone, so my friend, I am off 2 c if my shadow was a tree or my imagination or.......... if u want 2 join me ring me u have my number I will try 2 go tomorrow arvo....

Yeah mate, we were looking at Lake Samsonvale rather than Lake Kurwongbah, a few bays around from where you were. We didn't get a chance to do much Thursday, and today's out for us - I'll give you a bell next week to line up something for next Saturday if you're free.

Good luck this arvo, and be careful if you're heading out by yourself.

Cheers,
FG