Yowiehunters Forum

I have been lurking for YEARS but not posted a heap, from the experiences i have had around this area with yowies etc i have found them to be quite aggressive, to the point now where i don't feel comfortable alone in certain areas of the bush where i once did. So my question is, what would be an effective type weapon (not a gun) to carry in these parts JUST INCASE, i have had mates take shots at a yowie and have it keep coming at them, i just want opinions on whats a good close range weapon to carry incase? do you carry anything? should i?

Well if you plan on doing a field trip and remaining in the comfort of your own car, a portable spotlight, the car headlights, your steering wheel lock, and your cigarette lighter all become close range tools of the trade.

ya last will and testament

Mate just carry a camera, i think they're allergic to them...

hey yumpet you mention the yowies becoming violent, are you meaning in a display situation when it does a mock charge while being agressive with the local flora, or has it actually attempted to inflict damage to you and ya mates by rock throwing, etc?
would love to hear ya encounter stories.

just quick for now ill elaborate later but we have had small things from rocks being thrown and stamping etc etc to violent encounters like screaming and chasing people and someone even being dragged off into the bush

violent encounters like screaming and chasing people and someone even being dragged off into the bush

Can you provide any details into the alleged yowie grab and run please.
Regarding your hot spots..
I assume you take video/still cameras etc into your yowie hotspots everytime you go there and wonder if you can post anything that you have found interesting...


Mike

Being draged off into the bush oh well i better take a spare set of undies then just in case. As for spam in a can i think you best remove from can before throwing at him or that WILL piss him off lol..

BB

yumpet wrote: we have had small things from rocks being thrown and stamping etc etc to violent encounters like screaming and chasing people and someone even being dragged off into the bush

I would really be interested to hear about this case also

Hi there yumpet,

Catching up on the board after being away for a while. Looks like there's been a bit more silliness while I was gone...

Anyways, I'm quite familiar with the Coffs Harbour region having grown up on the Mid-North Coast. Spent many pleasurable hours up there and passing through.

I have heard and read many yowie stories from the Coffs area and I believe that there is an interesting story on AYR regarding a child who had a 'yowie playmate' backing onto one of the many banana plantations up there.

Can you please provide some quick details about where in the Coffs area the 'dragged into the bush' incident happened and what the outcome/story was behind that. At first read it sounds most interesting. From my perspective the aggressiveness does not gel with other stories I have heard/read from that area. Also was it the 8 foot species or the 4-5 foot species.

George Gray allegedly fought with a 4-5 foot yowie in the Carrai region (1968); was it one of those?? What year was it?

hey Bill good to hear from you

OK i posted this last night i swear but it must have disapeared, kinda sucks now i got to write it again

When we were young we used to frequent a local lookout about 12km from the main center of town up a hill full of banana plantations as it gave us a hang out that was close enough to town to get there pretty quick but far enough for the police to not worry about us. For years we had felt like there was something up there but just dismissed it sorta (we had all heard stories). The more we went there the more certain we became that the stories were real, we heard alot of stomps on the ground as it got later at night, just like a "thump thump" so we started thinking that it might be a warning signal so when we heard it we would leave. The warnings didn't always come like that though we had rocks thrown at us, not huge ones but ranging from small to the size of tennis balls and some nights we had them banging on the toilet block and things like that. But the night that someone got grabbed i was at home in bed when i had a mate ring me in hysterics. I had told him about the Yowie a while before but he didn't belive me so we took him up there and the big fella put a show on with some stomping and stuff, so needless to say he belived it after that, he in turn told some of his mates one of who just laughed at him so he took him up there one saturday night late, the bloke got out of the car and walked down towards the picnic tables taunting the creature and laughing about the idea of a yowie when Chris (my mate) heard a blood curdling scream and ran to the stairs with a torch but couldn't see anything so he ran back to the car to grab a baseball bat as he got back to the stairs he seen his mate laying on the ground, he thought he was pissing himself laughing so he grabbed him and slapped him but as he did his shirt come off and he seen big scratches running from his chest all the way around to the top of his shoulder so they scooped him up and threw him in the car and pissed off down the hill. later they realised he also had scratches around his side on the opposite side to the shoulder ones. i didn't see the guy personally for about a week i spose but he still had the marks to prove it happened. The night he called me i got dressed and shot off up there but didn't find anything unusual

it wasn't long before we all stopped going up there


There has been weird things happening up there for years and still to this day everytime i go up there i don't feel comfortable even in the day time there is a strangeness to the area

Hey Yumpet when did this occur? How long ago?

sorry thought i added it in it would have been about 2000-01 or there abouts, i had written about it before here i think.

We have a few hot spots around the Coffs area but i have not been out exploring in a long while

Hey yumpet,

That Google map you posted, could you post the link (URL) to it. You can get the link on the menu on the top right-hand side of the map. It's just a plain little link with a small chain icon beside.

I'm quite interested in this as it is in the region that I grew up in. I'd would like to take a look at the surrounding area.

Thank you.

Actually... no need. I'm guessing it's Sealy Lookout. Just had a quick look on Google. Nestled on top of a ridge, bushland extending back out through Coramba.

Fairly crappy weather up that way right now. Lots and lots of swollen rivers...

I'll have a look (at the lookout) next time I visit that way.

yeah thats it, sealy lookout, i tried to post a link but it didn't work

yeah weather is s#@t ATM but if your up this way and need someone to go bush with, send me a PM or something

Thanks yumpet. I thought I knew the spot.

Unfortunately I usually only get back to the mid-north coast once or twice a year to visit folks and do some beach camping. I was up there at Easter just after the previous round of flooding at Bellingen. Wish I had have heard your story before hand. I would've gone up for a day.

Can't be sure if I'll be up there again this year, at least not until after winter. If it happens though I'll try and contact you for a meet. I'd really enjoy a first-hand tour of the site. Beware though... I'm skeptic. But your story does interest me.

This is a subject that I have tossed a thousand times, especially since the event of Jan'.

I now come down to simplicity. I had no chance. No time to react, no time to get changed into my Super Hero costume and no time to invent a MacGyver contraption (regardless of how far away it was before it ran at me). It was all over before it even began. With have saying that and acknowledging that turning on a flash light button also wasn't one of my first thoughts, if I had my second time around, I believe I would do a Justin Garlick (if I was prepared).

Spray canister air horn. I cringe even saying that. Most un manly.

Yes..... sounds lame I know..... However I believe it would work a treat. Louder and more long lasting that a crack of a rifle. At 3am in the still of darkness, I think it would scare the pants off me out there. Yelling at it didn’t work, however something as loud and apposing (not to forget confusing), as that would certainly stop most people in their tracks. Especially if you have never heard it before.

Well thats my next port of call. Forget your night vision and night equip – doesn’t work. It’s all old hat now in the States and has been with us for years. Only the newbies bother with it. The more years you have, the more you know and learn, the more you understand why.


Also, using your air horn..... you don’t have to be worried about being busted at Customs like I was at the end of last year. Luckily Lasso had an AYR cap on and the officer is a follower of this site.

DMH

The Woman (who was the child), from Coffs, phoned me at 7pm on April 29/30 in the year 2000.

Don't shoot the messenger................................

Her story should be on the site somewhere.......

Her Mother worked on a Bannana plantation and as a small girl, she would wander off to play with her friend, which was a boy of about the same age. He was a little diferrent to other kids and knew a lot about the land. He taught her how to climb trees, dig for ants and other fun things to eat. His Mother and Father were never far away and were always at a distance where they could protect them.

They got along very well and I guess one could say - best friends like brother and sister. Always playing games like tag and hide and seek.

According to the Woman, he communicaated via "feelings", which was the exact tern that she used. When asked to explain the term, she said, "emotion". He never spoke, other than a few grunts here and there, however he could say things without a spoken word.

A few years later, he said goodbye to her. She thought that he was leaving, but he wasn't - it was her. The Mother took her to Qld and she began school. Due to her relationship and upbringing with her special friend, she never fit in normal society conversing with other children. She prefered the company of her other friend, who knew her better than anyone.

From time to time he would pop up in her head and say hello, just as if they were never a part. He was, apparently, looking over her from a distance.

Years had gone bye and as a young adult with a child, she moved back to the same location in Coffs. Her BF (thats boyfriend and not BigFoot), rented a house on a property.

At night, his car alarm would often be sparked and shadows could be seen. Odd thing began to happen around the house, especially at night. There was some controversy regarding the BF, and the Yowie let her know that he didn't trust him.
One night she went out and left her Daughter to be babysat by the BF. The BF walked down the corridor towards the small girls room and was hit by an unseen force that hit him in the chest driving him backwards through the air and on his behind. He left the Woman as a result.

She is still in contact with the Yowie, remaining as lifelong friends. She also offered to introduce me. I think Tony may have met with her.

Rememberrrrrrr.......... no shooting the messenger.

DMH

Why not jus stay out of the bush..?
cleary if they attack, it would be common scence to get out of there.

Tyk

you could be hit by a truck when you leave your house everyday but you still leave your house right? Same s#@t diferent smell