Gilroy fact of ficftion
Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2016 10:06 pm
I came across an old magazine article recently featuring a story about Rex Gilroy and it reminded me of how
I first heard about Cryptids and UFO’s in Australia when I was younger and before the internet.
A kind of a deja vu thing happening about a strange fella up in the Blue Mountains digging around in the dirt
and being ridiculed by everybody. Every photo you saw of him he was holding up a big lump of plaster
with a strange look on his face.
Its been a few years since I’ve thought about Rex, he must be getting on in years now. I saw his web site is still
operating and full of speculation and rhetoric about anything mysterious in Australia and elsewhere.
Rex seems a bit old school as far as research goes, I don’t know if hes been engaging in more recent
technologies like other younger researchers.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard his name mentioned anywhere on AYR. In hindsight, It's not that hard to know why.
I think he was ridiculed because of his willingness to play to any media and sell a few books with little or no
evidence supporting his claims. Also his overbearing self belief that he's right all the time. Another reason was
that he had his finger in too many pies over the years and was the only expert on all such matters.
Anything from the Min Min lights, UFO’s, Gosford hieroglyphs and Yowies, Rex always had an informed opinion
or so he believed, or was it just simply his strange demeanour didn’t allow him to be taken seriously.
Surely he must have earned some type of accolade after more than fifty years work.
People who have devoted their life to something and amassed a large body of work may received an
OA medal or even a knighthood. Although it would sound funny getting an Order of Australia for services to the
strange and mysterious.
I feel sorry for him in a way and was wondering what’s going to happen to all his journals and boxes of bones
and tonnes of plaster casts once he passes on. When he does, you watch the media try and be compassionate
without the usual send up and tongue-in-cheek vignettes.
Shouldn’t Rex be the Grandfather of Australian Yowie research or is he just Australia’s version of Erich Von Daniken.
T.
I first heard about Cryptids and UFO’s in Australia when I was younger and before the internet.
A kind of a deja vu thing happening about a strange fella up in the Blue Mountains digging around in the dirt
and being ridiculed by everybody. Every photo you saw of him he was holding up a big lump of plaster
with a strange look on his face.
Its been a few years since I’ve thought about Rex, he must be getting on in years now. I saw his web site is still
operating and full of speculation and rhetoric about anything mysterious in Australia and elsewhere.
Rex seems a bit old school as far as research goes, I don’t know if hes been engaging in more recent
technologies like other younger researchers.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard his name mentioned anywhere on AYR. In hindsight, It's not that hard to know why.
I think he was ridiculed because of his willingness to play to any media and sell a few books with little or no
evidence supporting his claims. Also his overbearing self belief that he's right all the time. Another reason was
that he had his finger in too many pies over the years and was the only expert on all such matters.
Anything from the Min Min lights, UFO’s, Gosford hieroglyphs and Yowies, Rex always had an informed opinion
or so he believed, or was it just simply his strange demeanour didn’t allow him to be taken seriously.
Surely he must have earned some type of accolade after more than fifty years work.
People who have devoted their life to something and amassed a large body of work may received an
OA medal or even a knighthood. Although it would sound funny getting an Order of Australia for services to the
strange and mysterious.
I feel sorry for him in a way and was wondering what’s going to happen to all his journals and boxes of bones
and tonnes of plaster casts once he passes on. When he does, you watch the media try and be compassionate
without the usual send up and tongue-in-cheek vignettes.
Shouldn’t Rex be the Grandfather of Australian Yowie research or is he just Australia’s version of Erich Von Daniken.
T.