The Odd Walk

[ChrisV]

From the latest report ( Beechmont QLD Report #104 ), the witness talks about the odd walk of the Yowie. He stated that it did not look quite right. This had me thinking.

There was also another point brought up in another thread stating that it looked like that they 'glide' when they cross roads.

Then there is their ability to climb rock faces, cuttings, trees (maybe) amongst other surfaces that defy our abilities. And they do this with speed and agility.

By the sounds of it, maybe these guys can't handle walking a flat hard surface as a road. This might mean that their feet are more curled than we thought. This curling gives them excellent traction and grip for uneven surfaces. The road is not a natural surface in the bush which means they may not have the ability to use a flat foot step like humans do.

This might give them the appearance of an unusual walk - maybe an even gliding look as they attempt to get their best flat foot forward. I would think it would be most uncomfortable for a creature with a curled foot to walk properly on a completely flat/hard surface that a road presents.

I'm no expert....just curious on what peoples thoughts about this are?

[Yowie bait]

Ive seen these things running up close. They move like nothing youve seen before. Very graceful for something so large and heavy. Good on Dee and Rusty for sharing their experiences in an effort to enlighten the rest of us.

[adventurer]

Hi, it still doesnt make sense does it. We all know they can run fast pass you at speeds, you would think they would struggle to do this with curled feet (although anything can adapt with what they have ).
Then at the same time, many have seen prints which seem to look flat (including the foot moulds).
Make no mistake the 1 i saw didnt appear to have a unusual walk, i stared at the top of it and glued my eyes to the top of it, it was dead level .
I think welly is way ahead of any of us. I think these things can be seen walking running hiding behind bushes and other times they are not normal. There is way more to these things then we will ever know.
Ron and i saw something not normal, we are trying our hardest now to go out regularly again just to try get something on film, i think its persistence and hope it pays off. We have been out twice since(talk about consuming your life lol) first time back we couldnt even enter whatsoever and 2nd time was with a group and only tree knocking in the distance.

Need more IR cams out there we cannot afford.

[ChrisV]

Hi, it still doesnt make sense does it. We all know they can run fast pass you at speeds, you would think they would struggle to do this with curled feet (although anything can adapt with what they have ).
Then at the same time, many have seen prints which seem to look flat (including the foot moulds).
Make no mistake the 1 i saw didnt appear to have a unusual walk, i stared at the top of it and glued my eyes to the top of it, it was dead level .
I think welly is way ahead of any of us. I think these things can be seen walking running hiding behind bushes and other times they are not normal. There is way more to these things then we will ever know.
Ron and i saw something not normal, we are trying our hardest now to go out regularly again just to try get something on film, i think its persistence and hope it pays off. We have been out twice since(talk about consuming your life lol) first time back we couldnt even enter whatsoever and 2nd time was with a group and only tree knocking in the distance.

Need more IR cams out there we cannot afford.

Yeah I agree with your points. After re-reading what I originally posted, taking into account other witness statements etc - its just does not add up. Unless the odd walk is a lame individual or something else, nothing quite adds up.

[adventurer]

well you never know-you could be right--lame. Bindis, stone bruises, just sore aching feet from all the miles they do. I get lame walking around work all night lol.Dam achilles.

[Yowie bait]

Whats lame is peoples inability to accept the unique abilities these hairy men have acquired..somehow.

[ChrisV]

well you never know-you could be right--lame. Bindis, stone bruises, just sore aching feet from all the miles they do. I get lame walking around work all night lol.Dam achilles.

I did laugh at that comment about walking around all night.....that would be a pain to do that allnight.

Worrying about treading on a snake, bitten by a funnel web spider - its a dangerous bush out there!

[adventurer]

well you never know-you could be right--lame. Bindis, stone bruises, just sore aching feet from all the miles they do. I get lame walking around work all night lol.Dam achilles.

I did laugh at that comment about walking around all night.....that would be a pain to do that allnight.

Worrying about treading on a snake, bitten by a funnel web spider - its a dangerous bush out there!

Not to mention we look like idiots with the spider stick waving around, tripping over HUGE toads the size of a cat lol and dodging the red belly black snakes hiding under fallen palm leaves. Just to mention to the larval ticks. We got red extreme itch for days doc prescribed antihistamines. I googled that certain bush tick there, their in the bush feb march and beginning of april. Can itch up to 2 weeks. And of course the yowies runnin around. Loads of fun--not.

[Wolf]

The gliding walk comes from not straightening their legs while they walk.

Try it... you can move pretty fast through the bush when you walk this way. I have done it many times when going for long bushwalks barefoot. There is little to no impact on your feet because it is absorbed in your bent knees.
And your foot is given the chance to 'mould' over and around stones, etc with little discomfort (why I walk this way when barefoot... it is easy to 'feel' stones before your heel thumps down and adjust your weight accordingly)
Although it is tiring after a while, you can cover a lot of ground without bruising your feet in a very short time.

[adventurer]

Whats lame is peoples inability to accept the unique abilities these hairy men have acquired..somehow.

I agree but without seeing it with your own eyes it is hard to take it all in.

It doesnt matter how you walk bent knees or straight knees you will always bop--try it.

[Simon M]

That's an interesting point, Wolf.

Makes sense given that they seem to have their knee lower down on their leg than we do. Perhaps that accounts for their speed despite their relative size compared to us?

[Dean Harrison]

While on the topic of oddities such as gliding Yowies which we hear of from time to time, another oddity is the vanishing Yowie.

We have often heard from people who claim it simply "vanished", sometimes practically right in front of their eyes. Most vanishing Yowies seem to walk behind a rock or tree and they are suddenly "gone". I had my own experience of this at Kilkivan many years ago, to this day I still can't fathom.

I wrote a Report today of another phantom Yowie that paraded itself in front of a mother and daughter on horseback in a field, before running into a sparse group of small trees in the middle of the paddock and *poof* - gone. The write up pays the story no justice, compared to the Audio Report, as usual. It was something they couldn't get their heads around either. The small patch of saplings was only 5m x 5m in a baron field. There was no exit, yet it vanished.

Here is the link - http://www.yowiehunters.com.au/index.ph ... wales-2003

The Audio report is very good. Not sure when we will have it Online.



DMH

[Simon M]

The vanishing thing I attribute to some form of 'interference' with our senses. I think they can mess with us somehow - maybe via infrasound - in order to escape from danger. I also think it's a big part of why they can elude human pursuers with such seeming ease and why some people are afraid to discuss their encounter(s). I have no proof whatsoever of this, it's just an idea I have based on what I've read and heard over the years.

I think they can hear (or otherwise sense) the hum produced by electronic equipment and that their senses are more sophisticated than ours by many degrees of magnitude. They have physical abilities we don't have, they clearly have sensory abilities we don't have, and their chief survival tactic is avoiding human beings. If they're able to emit sound that can stun a large prey animal (as some accounts relate), they could easily use it to confuse and disorient a human whom they see as a threat. The described vanishing could be the result of a burst of intense sound that has rendered a person insensible for a brief moment without their being consciously aware of it. I've seen people vomit as a result of feedback from a PA system, and loud enough noises can cause physical injury, so if these creatures employ sound in a unique way that can briefly 'short out' our senses it would explain (in my view) a lot of the supernatural events people describe in relation to Yowies.

Just my two cents, and I say this as someone who's never seen anything remotely unusual out in the bush.

[Yowie bait]

They are obviously vastly superior to humans if even only in the physical sense. I reckon they can mess with our heads as well. I dont think psychic abilities is out of the question and still a physical or mental trait without going the supernatural route.

I dont see any evidence for curled feet though. Maybe Wolf is responsible for some of these gliding sightings with his barefoot bushwalks.