How did you become interested in the yowie?

[Dion]

Just wondering how people became interested in the yowie, what brought people to use this forum?

For me it was an avid interest in Ufo's, finding a strange footprint out near Noojee Victoria and having a visual sighting of a Yowie near coonabarabran.

[homerbear]

Always had a general interest in so called tassie
tiger/ yowie/bigfoot siting, had an incident happen on a camping trip in '06' which has pointed to a yowie type situation but at the time we thought it was deers as there is a lot of large deers in the area , it could have been deers.. Anyway also my Dad told me a story once when he and a friend were out hunting deer in Tassie in a place called "The Nile" about 30yrs ago saw a tassie tiger through their rifle scopes initially thought it was a greyhound type dog, but the giveaway was the dark stripes on its back, so it must have been a TT. He is not the kind of person to make things up about what he saw, he is a very experienced and skilled hunter having spent nearly 20yrs in the military, he said to me that they had spotted it coming out the bush and approaching a 5ft barb wire fence which it casually leapt over as like if you were stepping over log and then disappeared back into bush. The area they were is unforgiving and very nasty thick bushland where only the experienced go, if your not experienced here you can easily get dead as he put it to me, I have been there with him and errr I wouldn't like get lost there....

[topender]

i lived with my grandmother in the 60s down in the Tarra valley sth east VIC, i was about 10 yrs old, she had poinoned an animal that was killing some sheep, turned out the animal looked like a dog but was stripped...thylacine. then later in life i had professional dealings with a person ( counselling ) who had a type of post traumatic stress disorder from a close encounter with a giant ape type creature. this person was a staright up and down sort of person, no history that would indicate she was lying or fabricating..this led me to think well what did she see?..the rest is history, i have followed the issue OBSESSIVELY ...help me

[lil foot]

wish i had a great story to tell.
although i am new to this forum,i have been looking at this sight for about six months and have read every sighting report.
i love the idea of the unknown and have also always been interested in tassie tigers and big cats, and now add yowie to the list. i saw a big black cat just outside cairn river in 1990 and have a few friends who have seen both the cats and the tigers but none have seen, or have chosen to tell about any yowie sightings. it is amazinglly addictive this yowie thingy. obssessed much? yes!!

[lil foot]

Just wondering how people became interested in the yowie, what brought people to use this forum?

For me it was an avid interest in Ufo's, finding a strange footprint out near Noojee Victoria and having a visual sighting of a Yowie near coonabarabran.

gday chewy, just wondering where abouts in noojee you saw the foot print? im very familiar with this area as i do a lot of fishing there. and also its around this area i have been doing a bit of hiking/yowie searching, awesome part of vic.

[Dion]

gday chewy, just wondering where abouts in noojee you saw the foot print? im very familiar with this area as i do a lot of fishing there. and also its around this area i have been doing a bit of hiking/yowie searching, awesome part of vic.

Hey lil foot

welcome to the forums

I found the print near the old Bridge in the middle of town, still has me stumped on what made it, your right though nice area

[cozza]

G'day chewy
No definate experiences..but some nights.....i dunno I live above catalina park and i'm allways out the backyard 2-3am smoking ciggy's......some nights nothin......some nights i feel i'm being watched......I dont think there is activity in the park nowadays but i'm not that sure because my dog acts pretty strange some nights.....if its a possum he charges down the back fence 100mph and goes off but sometimes he wont go down there and just stays with me growling and howling..i've also heard a couple of weird howls late at night..i dunno.Maybe these things are not from present time or something because theyre's quite a few houses around here.....so surely if it was in the park it would be seen regularly...theres some well worn tracks down into the park yet i havent seen anybody using them??Dogs around the valley all tend to carry on a bit some nights aswell.Ive seen some tree markings up at shipley plateu that look a bit unusual and the sheer vastness of this area has just got me thinkin.....could it be that they only present themselves to those that wish too see them?I'm not what you would call a spiritual person....and didnt think i scare easily...I'm not one to back down from anything but somethings rattling my chain!Theres just to much info for my pea brain to compute!!!I dont even think i'm physically being watched...more spiritually....yet my dog picks up on it too..could it be a long range thing?I dunno maybe i'm way off course and my minds just makin it all up...
I just don't know! Maybe its because its aboriginal land here and nothing to do with yowies at all!Anyway thats me.......

[Yowielover1]

I have had 4 experiences with Yowies in the same general area from 1991 to 1998. I have been acquiring equipment over the last few months (trail cams, bionic ear, kickass 20,000,000cp spotlight, recording devices HD and audio, and night vision)

I will post details of my past experiences soon but i think its best to keep my future hunting locations quiet. I will certainly send Dean my findings though. A few weeks ago i went on a hike and found unusual tree breaks (about 8 of them, and videoed them) They were 4 to 7 feet of the ground and certainly in a place where the public would not frequent.

Looking back i should have checked the breaks for hairs, will do so on my next outing.

I have read everything on this sight and am quite enthused to do an overnighter should i detect fresh signs of a Yowie in the areas i have in mind.

I experienced them from 1991 to 1998 because i used to go into the bush alot at night but have not done so since. After reading the stuff on the site i will not go unless fully prepared for a real angry one.

Cheers <--- how i felt after my first experience

[Dion]

Hey Yowielover1

Welcome to the forums

Can you give a general area on where you a based?

I will post details of my past experiences soon

I eagerly look forward to hearing about your experiences

Cheers

[Yowielover1]

Hi Chewy,

I am based in Brisbane...will post my experiences this weekend

[Yowielover1]

Hi Chewy and others - here is number one...

My first experience happened on the Saturday 22nd of December 1990. I know the date because 2 days prior I had been stabbed in the neck in the middle of the night by my girlfriends jealous ex-boyfriend.

There were 4 of us that went to the forest that night. Myself, my brother, and 2 friends. It was about 10:30pm when we got there. A spur of the moment decision to spend some time in the forest – we took 5 beers between 4 of us and when we got there we had heard a cow in the distance. We all climbed onto a structure in the clearing about 150m away from the car up a track. The clearing was about 50 feet across in thick rain forest. It had not been kept well because the grass was about 6 feet high. The structure was a brick sided building about 10 feet square with a concrete slab flat on top about 8 feet off the ground. We called the place ‘The slab” I don’t know who started it, but we all joined in with the cow, mooing, then sheep, I think we did the whole farmyard so to speak. We made quite a lot of noise with some very good animal impressions for quite a while.

I was feeling quite invincible since a knife had gone into my throat and I came home from hospital after one nights observation with a butterfly clip on my neck. I started talking about the devil and saying I wanted to see him. Feeding off my brothers and others apparent fear of this conversation I continued for some time in that vein.

My brother started telling us all to shut up – it seemed he had heard some noise and wanted to pay closer attention. I was talking still and he gave me an elbow full force into my jaw and said “shut-up shut-up shut-up shut-up” He was scared. I decided at that time he was actually hearing something and he told us he was hearing footsteps.

We all keenly listen for movement. It was a calm night, light intermittent breeze, about a ¼ moon, thick rain forest in the middle of nowhere and we had a torch with 2 D size batteries (not good I know). I heard 2 steps and I remember thinking...."who on earth would be walking around in this forest late at night?" There wasn’t any houses around and nobody would walk through this thick forest without a good torch. We all concurred that we had heard foot steps. My brother said he had heard 5 more before that.

We all sat and listened now. This thing had stopped directly down wind of us. A little scared at the prospect of a crazy man observing us from about 50 feet away. When you know something or someone is looking at you in the middle of the night, and its got 2 legs, you start to feel a little uncomfortable. Our mood had gone from meaningless chatter to absolute silence, eager to hear the next step of this night-stalker.

Then “IT” (a supposition) realized we had found out it was around. It let out a huge long loud low growl that was so deep and resonant that I could feel my chest vibrate from it. I have never heard a thing like it all my life – I watch all the nature shows, but nothing comes close to the fear and dread that this growl made us all feel. To make such a low, continuous, menacing loud sound like that, it must have had lungs bigger than beer kegs, and to me it didn’t sound like it was really trying either.

My friend (who wasn’t the sharpest tool in the shed) said “It’s a bear!!!” The other friend said “Everybody think of white light, think of white light.” Then somehow we had all joined hands and started praying the lords prayer. Four 20 year olds sitting in the forest praying and holding hands...we were incredibly scared.

After that growl, nothing. Not a step from it. We sat there in silence for about 30 minutes and decided that we should try and go. We all came down from the slab silently as we could, and walked in a huddle touching each other doing baby steps back to the car and got out of there.

The car ride home was filled with excitement. We all realized that we had heard a Yowie. I think if I had the same experience alone I would have died from shock.

Experience 2 3 and 4 to come...

[Shar*Chi]

Wow kickass story there Yowielover1! Can't wait to hear the others.

I think I've always known about Yowies coming from a small village in a greenbelt south of Sydney. Many nights around campfire the stories & legends were passed around, and once or twice there was some scary wood knocking in the night, but still didn't take it that seriously till I read into the reports here. I am planning to live back in a rural area asap and every location I've shortlisted seems to be prime yowie country so I've followed up with some investigations of my own to make sure I'm gonna pick the right spot to live and bring up kids. The investigation has been quite rewarding as it engages me physically (goin' bush), mentally (theorising), and spiritually (comprehending the metaphysical). I've also been drawn into a deeper understanding of aboriginal culture and heritage and that has been fantastic by itself. I've been paying closer attention to the dreaming of the places I go camping and learning how to respond to the different vibes u can get out there. I'm not hell bent on a close encounter with a yowie by any stretch of imagination, and I have no interest in proving their existence to anyone else, but I feel if I continue on my path and they are out there, then sooner or later the paths will cross and I want to be at least a bit prepared!

[Dion]

Hey Yowielover1

Thanks for your detailed report I enjoyed the read

May I ask where about’s this happened? General area no need for specifics.

I also suggest you email your encounters to Dean when you get the chance if you haven’t done so already noting the location of the event as every encounter is important.

Look forward to reading the rest of them

Cheers

[Dean Harrison]

The first experience I had was in my backyard at Mt. Tamborine just after midnight in 95’. I arrived home to something very large and with a menacing grunt/snort/growl. It was very loud and walking around on two legs ripping out small trees and foliage from the ground, then throwing them into the forest. It was large, very strong and without doubt on two legs. It was a chilling sound as it walked around in the swamp vocalising. I went inside and came out with a flash light, then stopped with feelings of dread and thought it best if I didn’t know. What ever it was, it certainly was not happy. The fact that it was ripping out trees and throwing them such a distance, prompted the thought that just perhaps this was not a normal native animal.

Second encounter was at Ormeau in 97’ when I was chased, as I think everyone already knows about. This was the clincher. Now I needed answers.

Third guy was Fatfoot in the Blue Mountains, when I spent up to 3 nights a Week with him, armed with a small 35mm box brownie camera with a flash range of 3m. Despite him turning up at the same time each night, I could never interest a film crew in those days.

Fourth was Expedition times at Springbrook with a Female Yowie, which was on going for a few years. Not quite adventurous, however she was there most nights. Now she has a child, as myself and Pixie discovered a few months ago.

Piliga was fifth. Came out yelling at me at 4am.

Taree, Kilcoy and Kilkivan we had many adventures with them over the years, but as per usual, they mainly come out at night, avoid IR and stay just enough away not to catch the flash. They were always very clever operators in the forest’s at night during operations. Regardless of every move we had up our sleeves, they were always one step ahead – but there using us as entertainment.

Most of our activity was at night, however I would now far rather concentrate on the daytime, because the cloak of darkness is makes it nearly impossible to get off a good shot or use a video camera no matter how hard you try.

DMH

[Yowielover1]

Here are the rest people...

Experience 2

I can’t remember the date of this one. It was in colder months about 1992. I went to the rain forest late one afternoon with a friend of mine. As night fell, he wanted to stay a little longer though we didn’t have a torch. We decided to take a walk from the barbecue areas up the walking track and got about 50 meters when we realized it was much too dark to continue without a torch.

No moon, slight breeze, senses completely alert – I then heard the sound of footsteps in the distance coming towards us. My quick thinking ex-army friend heard it too and said “Dive under here” in a determined whisper. We both dove under a large bush (probably completely in sight if I could have seen anything lol) I was in 2 minds – someone was walking towards us and we had no torch, and we dove under bushes face down onto God knows what. I was thinking of snakes, large ants, spiders, and footsteps all at once. We were absolutely motionless, careful that even our breath in and out of our lungs didn’t move the abundance of dry leaves under us.

The footsteps approached in what seemed an eternity. They had a purposeful gait - if it saw us it didn’t care at all or even hint that it did. It just kept walking by us. We were only 5 meters or so off the path.

After it had walked 100 meters or so away, we agreed it was time to find our way back to the car. My friend and I marveled at this things ability to walk with such confidence in the dark. It didn’t sound bigger than 6 feet high. No smell from it at all.

Experience 3

In December 1996 - Same location as experience 2 but the other side of the picnic areas. A few of us, myself, a friend and 2 girlfriends walked up a track towards a boardwalk at a fig tree. We decided to get off the boardwalk and have a look inside it. All of us were beside the fig when one of the girls heard footsteps.

We didn’t want to really talk to anyone (only a freak would come here alone at night), and the girls got scared. It was very dark with nearly no moon at all and under the canopy the moon didn’t do any good. If the torch was off you could not see your hand in front of your face.

We waited listening as the footsteps passed. They didn’t take the usual route on the board walk but chose a path not traveled, passing beside us and under the boardwalk about 15 meters away from us.

Again we didn’t make a sound and ‘it’ didn’t seem to notice us at all. It walked as purposeful as the previous experience and seemed not disadvantaged at all by complete darkness. The girls decided it was time to leave the area.

Experience 4

Same girls this time but this was January 1998. One of the girls had a male cousin up from Melbourne who came on one of our forest outings. This time though, it was in the foothills before the rainforest - quite a vast picnic area with fields, swings and sheds, and a nice little creek running through it.

We were all sitting in a shed after a track walk having a talk and I noticed the sound of sticks being broken across the field at the creek. To me it sounded like sticks about the thickness of your thumb being broken – not under foot, but like someone was board.

I talked the southerner into coming across the field to see if we could see the noise maker. We walked across the field silently and approached the foliage beside the creek. The thickness of the overhanging trees made it way too dark to see anything and we stood and listened to get a bearing on where the stick breaking was taking place.

Then... ‘snap’ it broke another stick. “Its just across the creek” I whispered slowly. We had walked across the field straight to it and it was about 15 meters away on the other side of a creek that was about 3 meters wide and a foot deep. As I finished my careful whisper – it quickly became obvious that it wasn’t careful enough. This thing came barreling through the large bushes at us. It sounded like it was the size of a cow and had no care in the world as to the damage the 6 foot lantana bushes could do to it.

In about 1.5 seconds it covered half the distance.

“Oh c**p!” I pulled on the other guys shirt and bolted. I must have done the 70 meters back to the shed in 6 seconds. As I got there, the poor guy was about 15 meters behind me looking quite pale, in shock, and out of breath. We looked back at the creek and it had not followed.

I suspect it was a yowie that gave us a bluff charge. It sounded huge. It was nothing like a wild pig and I know on that side of the creek a hoofed animal would not get a good footing. I can only assume it (the yowie) was watching us and waiting for us to leave so it could raid the bins after the Saturday picnics and like an impatient child it was breaking sticks to pass the time not realizing we would hear it.

So that’s my 4 experiences without really trying. Soon I will be frequenting these areas again in a more deliberate manner to see what I can find. Sorry Chewy I don’t want to say where these things happened. I don’t want any anonymous AYR readers to go into these areas and disturb them with the wrong intent. The next step for me is a recon mission to find fresh signs and to put out my trail cams.

After that some overnight visits.

Can't wait to hear some other stories.

[Dion]

Hey Yowielover1

Great read again thanks for sharing,

I totally understand not wanting to disclose the area you had your encounters, a lot of others do the same when there on to something.

[Kirsty]

I have always been into parapsychology, though this is a stage left from yowies

What got me interested in this was a mate in the US was telling me about the experience he and his mother had at their house in Indiana (there is bushland and farm fields around their house)
Then he sent me a mp3 of what people had been hearing in their area that month as it was not just himself have these sound experiences and it had me intrigued to say the least! I tried to debunk it as wolves but he had been telling me there is no wolves or bears in that part and the sound is more bass deep to the ears than what came across in the recording. They have also been having domestic dogs turning up dead in the area for a while now.
So I got reading up on bigfoot then yowies after he asked me about them after some program aired over in the US about them in the Blue mountains.

So this has got my interest at the moment. I have heard all sorts of things over the years from the Aboriginal community growing up but now it finally has my full attention

I am a de-bunker freak but in saying that it does not mean I do not believe. I do believe there is things not explained yet or known about and it's not always some prankster!

[SAB #1]

Hey all

Just attempted to comment on the Psychic, Paranormal, Yowies topic but it seems that this topic has been locked off. Probably a good move as it seems that Homebear to put it bluntly is a bit of a goose and has little to no idea about the reality of the Yowie phenomenon. I respect the right of people to voice their opinion and to state varying beliefs (in fact I think it is essential if we are to get to the bottom of this phenomenon) but it was pretty clear that he was more interested in looking for a fight rather than pursuing a rationale debate.

Another thing I would like to comment on is the debate about whether to - or not to - report locations of Yowie activity. I myself weighed up the pros and cons before I included my encounter and photograph at Tapin Tops NP. In the end I decided to report it for a variety of reasons:
1) I believe that these beings are not only masters of their environment but also have what could be best termed as para abilities. This being the case I believe that there is little to know chance of one of these beings being captured (should one desire to do so). The best we can hope for I believe is print casting, habitation evidence (eg. beds), documentation of activity (eg. stick breaking) DNA evidence or possible photographic/video evidence. As is well known amongst researchers even the obtainment of these types of evidence is extremely difficult.
2) I believe the vast majority of encounters take place on these beings terms. That is: They choose to interact with us (I believe mainly out of curiousity) not us managing to track them down. Even in cases where research teams go to areas of known hotspots - the encounters are primarlily on these beings choosing to interact with them.
3) Few people have the time or financial ability to conduct field trips to many of these areas (especially hotspot areas away from major metropolitan areas) - and those that do so usually don`t stick around for long periods of time (eg. weeks).
4) In reality - people entering these beings environment would be seen as little more than an annoyance or curiousity. And even though the Australian continent has been heavily logged there are still vast areas of forest and bushland for these beings to seek refuge - especially when the encounters are in national parks or along the vast and often extremely difficult to access areas along the Great Dividing Range.
5) I believe fellow researchers should have access to this knowledge so they can be kept up to date on areas of activity and therefore be able to conduct follow-ups or further their research. I like to view this as a team effort and our combined efforts will hopefully prove this phenomena to be real.

I applaud AYR for even setting up this forum as I think it has done wonders for Yowe research in Australia not to mention giving those interested in the phenomenon an outlet and ability to interact with like-minded people. I do however have a little criticism. I have followed the debate about reporting the location of areas of activity (and when I say areas - I mean precise areas eg. street names, road names, GPS coordinates, distance to and from certain points etc) in other topics on this forum as well - and have noted a reluctance from AYR - or associates of AYR to reveal locations of activity. I believe the only legitamate reason for keeping locations anonymous is to protect witnesses who wish to remain anonymous. Other reasons, such as keeping crackpots away, and from keeping possible research areas from becoming contaminated I do not agree with! I believe there is an elimate of 'Boys Club' (just a figure of speech for all you female AYR`s) within the AYR. For those of us who are independent or just not within the 'AYR loop' it is hard for us not to become somewhat frustrated at the guarding of locale information. If AYR is legit about Yowie research than they should provide an avenue for people serious about investigating this phenomenon to be alerted to possible activity in their locales or areas they are interested in keeping tabs on. The same applies for independent witnesses. The case of Yowielover1 is one of many examples I have read on these forums which disappoints me:

Sorry Chewy I don’t want to say where these things happened. I don’t want any anonymous AYR readers to go into these areas and disturb them with the wrong intent. The next step for me is a recon mission to find fresh signs and to put out my trail cams.

While I applaud Yowielover 1 for reporting his encounter I question the motives for keeping the locale secretive. Serious researchers or persons in his area who would benefit from knowledge of this location are being denied the ability to conduct further investigation!!!

In regards to disturbing them with the wrong intent I think the vast majority of people on this forum are legitimate and rationale people who have a great deal of respect for these beings. There is the odd case of questionables on the forums but they seem to come and go very quickly. Even if people do go out with negative intent I personally believe they will still have next to no chance of tracking one of these beings down - as I have previously stated I firmly believe that the majority of encounters are not by chance but stem from these beings curiousity and willingness to interact with us!

[Shar*Chi]

Hi Sab just think outside the box, there is more than 1 mode of contact on these forums, and giving specific locations directly to anonymous readers is probably not the wisest choice. Let's face it, our race does not have the greatest track record

[SAB #1]

Yes I agree there are many dodgo people in our world who probably have negative intent! But I think you missed my point - even if they are aware of localities - I believe they have little to no chance of inflicting possible damage to these creatures (in saying that I am well aware of the reported cases of shootings). Yet I think all of the cases that involved shooting or 'hostile action' of humans involved the human witness being suprised by the yowie. I have not heard of one account where a person has gone into the field with the intention of doing harm to these creatures and obtaining their objective. Why??? I believe these beings have psyc-ability and are aware of intent - although they may not fully understand our emotions I believe they are aware enough to know when someone or something is looking for them and wishing to do them harm! Also, I question how many people with this negative intent have the ability and desire to get to these areas. I think it is mainly people such as ourselves who respect the creature - who are the ones that are primarily going to go out into the field! I think those that wish this creature harm are in fact a very, very small minority.

[Yowielover1]

as I have previously stated I firmly believe that the majority of encounters are not by chance but stem from these beings curiousity and willingness to interact with us!

Your tone is a little angry Sab#1

Your comment would suggest that a yowie will choose to have an encounter with you if it wants to. Therefore you don't need any GPS coordinates, street names, exact locations from me or anyone. Just go out and it will find you.

I certainly would not divulge these locations to a person who goes so far as thinking there is a secret boys club in AYR. Thats just nonsense. I joined last week and haven't been invited to secret boys club meetings at all. I don't know Chewy from a bar of soap (no disrespect to you Chewy - just makin a point)

[SAB #1]

HA HA HA

Sorry Yowielover1 - I did not mean to come across angry at you - especially you being a new member to the forums and all. I apologise.

I guess I`m a little frustrated as I have followed this forum for some time before I actually joined and I have heard this reasoning for keeping locales secret numerous times.

Your comment would suggest that a yowie will choose to have an encounter with you if it wants to. Therefore you don't need any GPS coordinates, street names, exact locations from me or anyone. Just go out and it will find you.

In regards to the Yowie`s choosing to intercact with us. Yes! They primarily choose (maybe not every encounter but the majority) - but you need to get to their locale first. Once your in their locality then they will choose whether they want to interact with you. For instance I take it your encounter occurred in south-eastern QLD somewhere - that narrows it down to about a thousand possible locations. My encounter occurred at the main camping area (don`t know its name otherwise I would give it) at Tapin Tops NP. Now, if I travel to that location (or if others do) it does not mean I`m going to automatically have an encounter. I can go there - set up cameras - explore the bush - attempt as much as I like to initiate an encounter - but at the end of the day it is up to the creature to particpate in the encounter!!! I believe many encounters that we humans see as chance encounters are in fact initiated by the creatures! There are many cases of continued activity where the location of sightings is well known by many people! Eg. The Frosts Case in Hazelbrook - other sections of the Blue Mountains such as Tablelands Road - even in your area SE QLD eg. Springbrook, Best of All Lookout etc. Yet this knowledge has not led to hoardes of Yowie Researchers swamping these sites or psychos with shotguns roaming these areas with intent to kill a yowie!!!!

I certainly would not divulge these locations to a person who goes so far as thinking there is a secret boys club in AYR. Thats just nonsense. I joined last week and haven't been invited to secret boys club meetings at all. I don't know Chewy from a bar of soap (no disrespect to you Chewy - just makin a point)

Also, you misunderstood me about 'Boys club'. I did not suggest YOU were part of the 'Boys club'. You, like me are just an interested party of the phenomena. I was leaning towards the Forum Moderators more so as being part of a 'Boys Club'! In saying that I am not looking to start a fight here or bear a grudge against anyone in AYR (in fact I respect them immensely - especially those Forum Moderators who regularly contribute to the forum as their opinions on the most part I totally agree with) - I just would like to see more free flow of information and less GUARDING of info, especially about locale of encounters! And when I use the term 'Secret Boys Club' I don`t mean it literally - like they actually conduct their own secret meeting at secret locations and such - I used that term in a more generalised sense!!!

[_Daniel_]

First of all, i'd just like to thank Chewy for starting this thread... seems to be one of the more interesting threads i've followed for quite some time. Secondly, thanks to everyone else who has shared their stories... they are all very fascinating and i look forward to reading a few more.
Unfortunately, i don't have a great story to share with you all.. my intersest in the Yowie stems from a fascination of all things cryptid, especially those native to Australia... and also my love for the great outdoors, so i find it only natural that i take an interest in the Yowie.. I have been conducting a bit of research in the field of late and so it's really good to have everyone sharing their experiences on here!
Cheers
-Anonimust

[Dion]

Hey all…. good to see some real input in the forums Keep’ em coming

I’d just like to touch on this ‘boys club’ thing I am certainly not aware of such a thing. I’m afraid I’m in the same boat as every one else on these forums I only hear about news if it’s posted on this website or here in the forums.

If people are really after a hotspot location they only need ask Dean or Paul Cropper as they deal directly with all witness reports. Having said that some areas are probably of limits due to either witness not wanting their location known due to trespasses or if the area is already being used by other researches its pointless having more there disrupting valuable research.

I hope people understand that there is no ‘secret society’ as such; people only need ask if they want location details.

[Dion]

Fourth was Expedition times at Springbrook with a Female Yowie, which was on going for a few years. Not quite adventurous, however she was there most nights. Now she has a child, as myself and Pixie discovered a few months ago.

This is great news a child, look forward to hearing more on this one

[Dean Harrison]

Probably one of the more constructive threads we have had in a long time. Yes she has a little one and seems like they are moving pretty freely about out there. No shortage of prints. We could have cast them if we were prepared.

SAB, we are not holding information from everyone, just you.....

In regard to Boys club and being within the loop, so to speak, I guess there is an element of this (however we don't have a secret handshake...... but Chewy's working on one right now I believe......)....... I don't feel the need to broadcast street names to people that I don't know and may require full frontal lobotomies.

Most people on this board are terrific people, and they often email me and ask me questions rearding locations directly. Your more than welcome to do the same SAB, and hopefully I have the information you require.

I enjoyed your Post. You are certainly correct when you stated that they will find you. This is often the easiest way for an encounter in an active area. As Neil Frost once said to me, "He kept coming each night to play because he was bored and probably had nothing better to do".

I would whistle the same tune for hours in a particular location in the Blue Mountains until Fatfoot arrived. He felt safe because I had built a familiarity with him. By whistling this same tune, he would know it was me and more often than not, come out to play. His favourite game was to see just how close he could get to me before I knew he was there (he wasn't very good at it). There were some rather hair raising occasions, the least of which was when I locked the keys in my car after midnight (that was my refuge in case something turned pair-shaped), and he wanted to play a little harder than usual (obviously resulted in a broken window).

Sometimes I would pretend not to know he was there and let him get close to try and get that picture, however when your alone in the forest with something like this holing a little Box Brownie (as was the fashion at the time), I would have had to let him stand right next to me to get the pic.

Due to the memories of Ormeau, I never knew just what his intentions would really be if I let him have his way. I know that he was determined to get close enough to touch me, but then what? This was the thought that made me push him back with a bright light whenever he came too close, and off he would run back down the hill into the thick foliage, only to come stalking back from a cunning (or so he thought), new direction.

On another occasion, I had brought some friends with me to see this. I told one of them to hide behind a certain tree stump and not move, however be ready with the camera (knowing full well that it would come up on this particular track within the preceding 10 minutes). It was more than amusing when both my friend and Fatfoot both stuck their heads up from opposite sides of the stump at the same time. Taking the picture happened to the last thing on his mind right at that moment. Fatfoot played with us for over 6 hours that night until he vanished. Thinking the game was over we relaxed for a while before I stood up and said "I bet you he's still here somewhere". I then turned the spotlight on and hit him directly in the chest right in front of me in full view of all of us. He then ran through the open to hide behind a tree, but the tree wasn't wide enough, so he dropped to all four and scampered backwards down the hill to cover.

(Sounds like I may have veered a little off track with this message, so I digress......).

Basically, if you can do something that sounds interesting in an active area, 9 times out of 10, they will come over and spy (if they are in the area). Most people would never know unless it puts out the Nameless Dread, steps on a twig or wants to play. You will know if they want to play! Normally a rock or stick will come your way.

Geoff Nelson was telling me of one that would come and throw rocks at his shed whenever he played Cliff Richard, but wouldn't we all......?

Springbrook, we spent hours looking for one. It wasn't until we became bogged in the cars and we were leaving, she turned up to see what all the commotion was about.

Musical instruments are interesting for them, however the problem with any noise you make, it of course inhibits your hearing by covering their footsteps.

Just talking as normal is useful, but never stop the moment they turn up because you don’t want it to appear obvious your aware of their attention straight away (Unless there’s Dread, and then use your big beam and move on). Dread during the day is far more comfortable than night!



DMH

[Yowielover1]

Nice post Dean, sounds like you have had a lot of fun...loved the bit about the guy hiding behind the stump

[Dion]

(however we don't have a secret handshake...... but Chewy's working on one right now I believe......).......

Yeah LoL Its high five up high…to the left…to the right…. Down low….eh….. too….slow.

Gets them every time!

[Dion]

What got me interested in this was a mate in the US was telling me about the experience he and his mother had at their house in Indiana (there is bushland and farm fields around their house)
Then he sent me a mp3 of what people had been hearing in their area that month as it was not just himself have these sound experiences and it had me intrigued to say the least! I tried to debunk it as wolves but he had been telling me there is no wolves or bears in that part and the sound is more bass deep to the ears than what came across in the recording.

Hey Kirsty

Do you know if there is a link on the net to hear these recordings?

Me and my old man heard a howl off Evans lookout in the blue mountains once coming from across the ridge. Just wondering if it was going to sound anything like what we heard.

[deadpool]

Where to begin!

My great uncle encountered one before I was born, my Mum told me about it when I was about 10. He was driving along, and the car stopped due to reasons unknown. When he flicked the headlights on again, "something big and hairy" was standing infront of the car. It pushed down on the bonnet of the car and was generally making a ruckus until my great uncle got over the shock and started honking the horn. It promptly ran away.

Then there was the Patterson footage. That got me more interested. Then I started to read about them - mainly Bigfoot over in the states. Not much on Yowies that I could find.

Then there was all the times I was a kid bushwalking with my Dad, and he'd tell me "theres monsters in the forest, so don't go too far in". I didn't believe him until we saw one running across the same track a few weeks later around dusk about 200m away.

Then I found here.. thats when it peaked. Since then i've always been on the look out.