Going back again to Kempsey in the 60s/70s, my very vague experience occurred around about 1976/77, which was around the time of the George Gray report and other various sightings in the upper Macleay region.
My brother (13 years older) lived in Casino and taught at a one teacher school outside Casino. Every couple of months my parents and I would travel up to Casino to spend the weekend with my brother and sister-in-law. It was something that we looked forward to.
Mum and Dad would usually arrange to leave work early on a Friday and we would leave about 3:30-4:30 in the afternoon after I got home from school. We usually took it easy getting up to Coffs Harbour about 90 minutes away where we would stop and grab an early dinner.
Dad usually took the alternate route from Coffs to Grafton via Glenreagh, which is more inland and has less traffic. I always though of the Glenreagh area as prime yowie country. All scrub and forest and hills. Anyway on this particular occasion, the trip from Coffs to Grafton was the usual boring affair. I used to look forward to waving Grafton goodbye as it meant we were on the last leg towards Casino.
After Grafton, the Summerland Way is a particular dull affair with wide road fringed on both sides by forest. Between Grafton and Whiporie you pass over a number on flat bridges that cross creeks and dry waterbeds. I can't actually remember which bridge or whether it was before or after Whiporie and I have tried in vain everytime I drive up that way to pick which of the bridges it was but I'm never quite certain because they all look the same.
Anyway, as we were crossing one of these bridges my eyes wandered to the right looking out the drivers side window over Dad's shoulder. My eyes kept tracking right as we went over the bridge and just as my field of vision crossed to the right rear window I noticed a large dark shape disappear quickly down below the deck of the bridge about 10 metres to the right of edge of the bridge. It was a split-second movement and I thought to myself, "that's odd."
The shape was large but in the darkness, I couldn't really make out any distinctive features or get a real fix on the size of it. I just thought it was odd because I could not discern clothing and the shape was dark and shadow like. What I could tell though, replaying the image in my mind (which is still reasonably sharp after 30 years) is that the shape was definitely upright, human in shape and, I felt, of very large proportions. Definitely wasn't a 'roo as they way it descended below the level of the deck was the way I would expect myself to look doing the same thing like watching a person disappear down a set of stairs.
I'm not counting this as a yowie sighting but I'm damn sure it left me with that 'strangeness' you feel when something you see isn't quite right. Also the bridge was in the middle of nowhere and I don't remember seeing any other cars or such there. In any case I can't figure out anybody would be going down below a bridge of that type at that time of the evening in the dark with no torch.
Anyway, there you have. My 'corner of the eye experience'.
My 'corner of the eye' experience...
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Re: My 'corner of the eye' experience...
Thanks for telling us your story, Opus (cool avatar too, by the way 
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Sometimes it doesn't take much to get an impression of something, as our brain is always trying to make sense of what it sees. The fact that this has stayed with you all these years shows your experience has made an impact on you, after all, you are posting here, aren't you?
The experience that made me start believing there was something 'not of the everyday world' out there in the bush happened when I was 11. I'll perhaps tell that story another day, though. I didn't 'see' what it was, but the event scared the living c**p out of me, and one of the other people involved at the time who I am still in contact with. We both explored the Yowie thing over many years, and only revealed this to each other last year, to our great surprise, but also relief.
Again, thanks for posting. I believe you are in good company along with all the other folks who come here, whether they post here or not. And I would have done exactly what you have - gone back over every bridge every time you pass, just in case it was 'the one'.
Kind regards,
Shazz
)Sometimes it doesn't take much to get an impression of something, as our brain is always trying to make sense of what it sees. The fact that this has stayed with you all these years shows your experience has made an impact on you, after all, you are posting here, aren't you?
The experience that made me start believing there was something 'not of the everyday world' out there in the bush happened when I was 11. I'll perhaps tell that story another day, though. I didn't 'see' what it was, but the event scared the living c**p out of me, and one of the other people involved at the time who I am still in contact with. We both explored the Yowie thing over many years, and only revealed this to each other last year, to our great surprise, but also relief.
Again, thanks for posting. I believe you are in good company along with all the other folks who come here, whether they post here or not. And I would have done exactly what you have - gone back over every bridge every time you pass, just in case it was 'the one'.
Kind regards,
Shazz
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Dr. Carl Sagan