Sighting Gibralter Range 1998

[wixee]

Hi... my name is Mark and I've being surfing this site a number of times over a couple of years.

Anyway...

Back in winter 1998 my mate and myself were travelling from Glen Innes to Grafton. As we approached the top of the range approx 9.30pm it become foggy in sections as we passed a number of hills downward.(I Think the range is about a half hr trip down and we were approx halfway down) My mate had the highbeam on appproaching a fog patch and travelling no faster than 40kph. We both noticed these two red eyes on the side of the road pointing into the direction of the headlights thinking it was some type of wallaby etc... My mate then flicked to low beam to allow him to see much clearer. I could see road kill on the side of road with this beast of a thing. I thought it was a rottweiler from a distance....but as we nearly approached the road kill it leapt a metre or so off the road kill and continued to the opposite side of the road. We both witnessed it on two legs scampering and grabbing the guardrail with it's arms and throwing it's body over the side of the mountain. We couldn't believe our eyes at that point in time. The creature was black haired and about 5 1/2 ft approx and super quick.

I have always kept that image in my head since then and Yowie encounters have always interested me.

I am located in Nerang on the Gold Coast and would like to meet up with like minded people to go for a hunt if anbody is interested.

Regards,

Mark.

[Dean Harrison]

Hi Mark,

Thank you for contributing.

We plan to have an expedition in your area soon. We will keep you informed.

DMH

[Heffo7]

Hi... my name is Mark and I've being surfing this site a number of times over a couple of years.

Anyway...

Back in winter 1998 my mate and myself were travelling from Glen Innes to Grafton. As we approached the top of the range approx 9.30pm it become foggy in sections as we passed a number of hills downward.(I Think the range is about a half hr trip down and we were approx halfway down) My mate had the highbeam on appproaching a fog patch and travelling no faster than 40kph. We both noticed these two red eyes on the side of the road pointing into the direction of the headlights thinking it was some type of wallaby etc... My mate then flicked to low beam to allow him to see much clearer. I could see road kill on the side of road with this beast of a thing. I thought it was a rottweiler from a distance....but as we nearly approached the road kill it leapt a metre or so off the road kill and continued to the opposite side of the road. We both witnessed it on two legs scampering and grabbing the guardrail with it's arms and throwing it's body over the side of the mountain. We couldn't believe our eyes at that point in time. The creature was black haired and about 5 1/2 ft approx and super quick.

I have always kept that image in my head since then and Yowie encounters have always interested me.

I am located in Nerang on the Gold Coast and would like to meet up with like minded people to go for a hunt if anbody is interested.

Regards,

Mark.

Hi Mark

I regularly travel that road and often hear stories from both Grafton and Glen Innes locals regarding strange occurances particularly around the camping grounds of Mulligans Hut, Eastern Boundary Creek Falls and Raspberry Lookout. Large footprints, large bipedal sounds around the camp especially if they are camping with infants and young children, stuff being rearranged and so on. Also stories of camps being charged through in the middle of the night on the Old Grafton Road going back 30 years or so when you were allowed to camp along there. They are definitely there, it's a perfect habitat corridor.

Winter you say... I'd soooooo be heading for Grafton. It's way too cold in Glen Innes in winter.

Welcome and Happy New Year

Chris

[wixee]

Hey Chris,

Your right about the corridor..It's absolute wilderness around that area. Perfect for a Yowie I would think.

I want to catch up with one of my old Koori school mate's and ask him about Yowie activity in the area as he grew up in Baryugil which is a stone's throw away.

Cheers,

Mark.

[Dean Harrison]

Location: Jackadgery, New South Wales

Event: Yowie Sighting

Date: 1978

Terrain: Deep rock gorges, river country huge steep hills of boulders with cracks and vegetation between them there would be many hidden caves in these hills.
Very remote virgin bush only accessible by chopper or canoe.


I grew up on the northern rivers of NSW where many of the local schools have white water kayaking and canoeing as a school sport or P.E. elective. Once a year the school permitted the more experienced of us to go on a week long canoeing expedition with the teachers that where involved in our sport.

I was about 14 at the time on one of these trips.

We drove for 3 hours deep into the roughest terrain this area has to offer to launch into a medium sized river, which travels through deep bush country to a very large estuary to the ocean. We where way up the river 2–3 days paddle from our launch point, we usually stopped there for a rest for a day and a half and did some fishing as it was the best spot on the trip for big fish.

The water was so clean and there were deep gorges separated by shallow rapids, It was very remote and virtually untouched by man as the only way in was by canoe or chopper we had to carry the canoes around waterfalls and big rapids so motor boats are out of the question.

There was about 30 of us and we set up main camp at the mouth of a river junction which was half way down a Gorge where if you fall in you can’t get out as the rock is straight up at the river bank. Late that afternoon a friend and I paddled up stream about a mile to go fishing above a set of shallow rapids we left the canoe at the bottom of them and walked up to a backwash just above the rapids.

We finally got across the top of the rapids and on to some soft ground about 30 –40 feet from the bottom of an almost vertical boulder rock face. The whole area was mountainous hills made up of very step piles of huge boulders with ledges and vegetation between the rocks.

A few feet on to the soft ground we could see a very large foot print it was over a foot long and very wide I put my foot in it a size 7 men at the time and it was almost twice as long and twice the width. We thought someone was playing a trick but no one had been up there only us two. Then I could smell something dead & rotting and noticed some tracks, well-used ones scratched into the rocks.

Then I heard some rustling in the long grass between us, and the rock face. An ape like creature about 5-5 ½ ft with light brown/dusty tan hair all over it stood up and ran very fast to the rocks and straight up them like a monkey it was so fast!

It did seem to drag its arms very low until it hit the rocks then it seemed to move even faster. It stopped about 80 –100 ft above us on a ledge and crouched down and watched as we stood and watched it.

It held a stair for about a minute then ran off in between the rocks, we took off back to the canoe and set a record speed back to camp, we even left some fishing gear there an didn’t go back for it.

On arriving at the camp we told the teachers who had been in this area a few times.

One of them did show some concern and I think one of the aboriginals that was with us said something to them as we circled the tents that night, and lit a big fire I was with the older students, the tough ones and we camped a bit away from the others so we could smoke cigs. But we got no sleep that night and we left earlier than usual the next day.


Phil


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Location: West of Grafton, New South Wales
Event: Road Side Sighting
Date: Summer 1974
Source: Grafton Examiner. April, 1990.

A Grafton man is set to join the latest North Coast Yowie hunt, with a report of a sighting of the fabled beast near Grafton 16 years ago. Mr. Michael Allison of South Grafton and his two brothers spotted what they firmly believe was a Yowie on the Grafton-Casino road, one night in the summer of 1974.
Mr. Allison said yesterday the three were traveling home from a speedway meeting in Lismore when they were confronted by the creature on the roadway between Whixorie and casino.
"It was about 12.30 or 1am, and we were all stone cold sober," he said yesterday. "We had on full beam lights and driving lights and we saw this creature just crossing the road. It stopped facing us, just as though it had been dazzled by the lights and then stumbled away. It was about two metres tall and about a metre across the shoulders, with a Gorilla or Neanderthal type head. It was stooped at the shoulders and covered with long, dark fur or hair."

Mr. Allison said all three brothers in the car had seen the animal on the road and the descriptions tallied when they compared what each other had seen.
"We didn't tell anyone except the family at the time, because people sling off at that sort of thing." Mr. Allison said he had since spoken to other people who had reported strange experiences along the same stretch of road. One man told him of a sighting on a windless night when the bushes and trees off the road had been violently shaken and agitated by some creature that then made off "in a blur."


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DMH