Interesting Springbrook/LND Report

[Dean Harrison]

Recveived this report yesterday. Some of our Members have already read it.

DMH



Hi… This report is 24 years old, but I thought it would be worth adding to your data base of sightings, specially seeing as how Springbrook seems to be the favoured habitat of some unknown creature. It took place in the mountains around Springbrook National Park in south eastern Queensland, Australia… to the east of Wunburra Lookout …near the Little Nerang Dam. The area is mountainous and the bush ( forest ) is thick, although not too far from towns and houses, farms etc..



In 1984 I was living on the Queensland Gold Coast. My best friend Wayne Griffiths lived in Springbrook with his parents ( I think they still live in the area ) In September a friend of mine, Anna Persi, came to visit from Melbourne. Wayne and I had often used the walking trails in the national park that stem from the Gwongorella Picnic area and the Purlingbrook Falls. We had never seen anything unusual. Anna wanted to hike into some rougher country so we parked at the Wunburra Lookout and walked downhill and south east for quite a distance, crossing the Little Nerang Creek and continuing into the national park area. We stopped on the hillside overlooking the dam and stayed there for a few hours. We commented to each other that we felt like we were being watched, and concluded that there must be someone else sharing our bush paradise. As it was late in the afternoon we set to walking back along a very vague animal trail that we had followed into the area. At one point we were walking across the slope of a heavily wooded hill ( eg not going up or down ). We were walking slowly, picking our way along, about 4 metres apart. We crossed a rocky, dry creek bed running down the slope in amongst the trees. Wayne crossed it first. Anna crossed second and as she crossed she looked to her right up the creek bed. She froze on the spot. Wayne turned around and came back and I caught up to Anna. Looking up the creek bed we all saw a human sized, black, sleek furred creature. It was squatting on a rock at the edge of the creek bed about 6-7 metres away. It seemed to be playing with a twig or something. It noticed us and I remember seeing a human-like yet ape-ish face with glistening eyes. The facial area was black but free of fur, as were the hands and feet also. Had it not been moving, it would have been totally camouflaged by the black shadows of the bush around it. This took place in only about 30 seconds. The creature didn’t seem to be perturbed by our presence at all. Then we heard a strange gurgled sound and something came crashing through the bush towards the creature. There was a brief pause and silence while the smaller creature looked behind it. Then a HUGE arm, with a hand and five normal fingers, and part of a body covered in the same black fur, reached out for the creature. The smaller creature took the hand and the arm drew the smaller creature away. We could hear them moving through the leaves for a few seconds, but as soon as the spell was broken we bolted out of there at world record speed. We had travelled about 100mts when there was a noise coming from behind us. It was kind of gutteral and it rose in pitch each time. If I had to compare it to anything, it was like the noise made by someone who is trying to say the alphabet while burping. I'm sure you've heard someone doing that. It had a threatening tone to it and we picked up the pace accordingly ! Between us we later confirmed that there was a strange kind of wet-dog smell about the creatures, and that the smaller creature was almost definitely a "child". The smaller creature was about 160cm tall. Maybe a little taller. It was wiry and gangly and it's fur was a little patchy, like a chimpanzee. When it stood up it was surprisingly very upright and erect - nothing like an ape's posture - everything like a human posture. It's arms and legs were long. There was no real flesh colouring anywhere to be seen - it was all black. The bigger creature was the same but the arm we saw was very muscular. We agreed that we did see a suggestion of a breast as the bigger creature bent down. It was possibly a female. We did get a split second of a look at the bigger creature's face and the one thing we all three noticed was that it was lighter than the smaller creature's face. While the small creature's face kind of blended in with it's fur, the big creture's face was a markedly lighter colour than it's fur.



We’d never seen more than the odd black wallaby in this area, however, black animals are common in this thick bush as they only have to stand stock still and they vanish into the hard shadows.



We thought that these creatures might have been following us or at least observing us as we picnicked at the dam. Anna returned to Melbourne and did some research at the State Library ( there was no Internet in those days ! ). She found a report in a Brisbane newspaper from about 30 years previous where a couple of hikers were fishing in Little Nerang River. They had put the caught fish behind them on the bank. They heard a noise and when they turned around they saw a huge, black-furred humanoid creature making off with their catch, into the surrounding bush. Apparently they took photos of the large footprints left in the creek-bank mud but God only knows what happened to them. When they were hiking back to Purlingbrook Falls, they reported that something kept throwing small rocks at them with great force but they couldn’t see who or what it was.



Wayne’s family lived in a bushy area and told me that they heard weird crashings and gurglings and screeches, so often, that when they heard them at night they would good naturedly yell out “Go away Yowies !”



I hope this has all been useful to you.



Marc

Windsor, Victoria

[Yowielover1]

Thanks Dean,

Can't wait to get out there for a hunt. What's stopping me? More equipment on the way soon night time Yowie observation expedition will begin.

[Nicc]

Interesting read, looks like ill be spending some time around the falls and little Nerang dam on my upcoming hike.

[forestguy]

So that would put them about 2.5/3 kms north of where we were the other weekend?

[iwanttobelieve]

Sounds like a very interesting encounter.

Always good to read a new report.

Keep them coming!

[Dean Harrison]

Never let the time scale fool you. There is still no shortage of them in that location.

DMH

[Dean Harrison]

Another one from not far away.

DMH



Hello Dean,
About 17 years ago I had a strange experience in the Nerang State Forest (QLD) which is part of the Gold Coast Hinterland. I was 19 years old and lived on a couple of acres along Castle Hill Dr. I had lived there since 1976 age 4 and spent many years walking or riding push bikes in the forest while growing up. One day I took a German Sheppard we had for a walk into the forest as I often did. There was a firebreak track right behind our house that went steeply down into the valley and up to the next ridge and so on. I had walked these tracks many times and even once on a neighbours horse. On this particular day I began walking down the track with our dog and thought I was hearing my foot steps twice but the sound was of breaking under growth not the crunching of dirt under my feet. The steps were almost matching the same as mine. At first I though it was a roo moving through the bush but they generally travelled faster and I knew the sound they made. This was different. The crunching sound was too heavy and too deliberate for a roo.

At this stage I became very curious and as I went to take another step, I deliberately stopped my foot contacting the ground and stopped completely. I heard one loud crunching footstep in the bush and then quiet apart from my dog whimpering behind me. I wanted to check it out but as I turned to my dog to get it to follow, it looked terrified and the hairs on its neck were standing up. The dog turned half around to head back up the track and was looking at me in a pleading way (if that makes sense) and making a whining, wimpering sound. This was extremely unusual behaviour for this dog which had taken on any animals it had tangled with without any self restraint or fear. I had never seen that dog behave like this and I started to feel fear and could feel the hairs raise on the back of my own neck. At that point I decided to go back up the track and the dogs mood changed completely.

I believe it may have been a sasquatch due the 1. the deliberate heavy human like foot steps 2. the unusual fearful behaviour of the dog 3. It doubt it was a person as the dog had a history of running at strangers and bailing them up. 4. The time lag between footsteps was inconsistent with any small or larger creatures that live in that area. 5. The foot steps were comparable to a stalking/hunting activity.

I believe in the existence of such creatures and this event I have never forgotten. My older brother had a similar experience a few years earlier while walking at dusk from the Nerang township through the forest to our house. He had run home and had said he had heard heavy footsteps in the forest as though he was being stalked. I haven't lived there since the early 1990's but still think about it wondering what I would have experienced if I had of continued down the track. It still kind of haunts me sometimes.

I am very interested to hear your view point as I have rarely, if ever had any opportunity to get any serious discussion from people on the topic. I discovered your site tonight during a search on google after finding nothing but rubbish on youtube.

Kind Regards
Malcolm

[Nicc]

I go mountain biking a fair bit in Nerang State Forest i once discovered this pile of large branches blocking one of the trails i was riding. I took a couple of pictures of it and left quick as i felt i was being watched. I know locals have put piles of sticks on the fire trails to stop the motor bikes but this was a skinny mountain bike track. Anyway thought i would share it with everyone.

[Shar*Chi]

My gf spent a lot of her youth in the areas directly below Springbrook, in the valley, and her friends their said that yowie visits were frequent. They would lock the doors and stay quiet until the visitors had passed on. I went thru there a few months ago and asked a few locals but only got some funny looks!

[mikka]

Very good reading Dean, thanks for sharing

[stickyfingers]

...hey Nicc... it looks like someone or something is trying to give you a hint methinks! ... by the way my friend... was that photo taken with a mobile phone by any chance???... just curious... cheers... Stickyfingers.

[Nicc]

Stickyfingers, yea it was taken with a mobile phone a while ago, my good camera is too heavy to take riding.