yowiedan wrote:I have been looking at some Yowie Research videos that are on You Tube. I'm continually seeing videos with people saying that scratch marks from small animals or birds are Yowie footprints. Also whenever there is a black shadow in the bush and it has a shape like a Yowie it's said to be a Yowie. C'mon people your making us look like clowns with people laughing at us. If your filming and see a dark shadow in the bush and notice it, go to that exact area then and there and see what it is. Or go back there to the exact same spot and time of day and see if the dark shadow is still there and investigate. Just because there is a dark shadow in the bush or there is a mark on the ground doesn't mean its Yowie Related. I thought us Aussie's had more brains than this, or are some of us just wanting to be You Tube star Wannabee's. It's getting a bit ludicrous with what keeps popping up on our Yowie You Tube Channels. To be honest if you have to put the video on slow motion for us to see what your talking about, and nothing is there it's getting very old. When i go out, a huge percentage of what i hear or see i discount as other native animals diggings or tracks or calls. I really can't see how everytime you go out, you film a Yowie looking at you in the bush or coming across footprints. People wake up to yourselves your making yourself look really stupid. We should look at Rusty's Videos, he's got 1000's of dollars worth of gear and still hasn't got that money shot, so why do you guys think your getting something everytime you go out. We should all investigate our hairy friend with a bit more time and effort and common sense, to try to work out what is that mark in the ground or what is that tree break from, instead of saying that's from a Yowie. I really wanna know how do you guys come to it's a Yowie Conclusion before you guys even investigate things properly. We should all do this for our future videos on our You Tube Channels, firstly when we find something, actually discuss what it could be and actually study it more closely instead of just sticking your foot next to it while wearing a thong and saying yes that's a yowie print. Then guesstamaking how big it actually was when you got home. Do reconstructive videos, go back and see if what you filmed is still there, if not get someone to help you and measure how big it was with whatever you filmed. Let's make our Videos more constructive and go into details a bit more when we actually find something. Don't jump to it's a Yowie conclusion straight away. Remember our minds see jumbled up images and try to make sense of it, so it makes these images into things it does recognise like a face. It's easy to see faces in pictures we take in the bush because of shadows and light on trees or leaves etc, Pareidolia is rampant in our field of research and its becoming ridiculous that everytime things are seen in the bush its of course a Yowie straight away.
Ok, I get that you are not a fan of my methods or my conclusions, fair enough. However,yowiedan you have made a few hasty conclusions and assumptions yourself. I don't just run off willy nilly into the brush with a camera and my thongs at random places ,then point, film and shout yowie.
The amount of relevant statistical information, compiled on a given area determines it's selection. I committed a year and a half of roughly six hour days
seven days a week (when possible) narrowing down the locations to a list, that to me suggested a reasonable probability of success. Given that with the exception of reported sightings archived on sites like this one, it all must be put together from scratch. I could have studied for and obtained a degree in any number of fields in less time. As for Paradolia, as I've said before, yes of course I understand what it is , I have hours and hours of footage that is full of suggestive matrixing. I also only have basic camera equipment with limited clarity after 200 meters. I even purchased a good tripod on advice to try and limit hand held zoom tremors, which have all but ruined what may have been more definitive pictures, one way or the other.
What you see on film alone as a clear case of visual paradoilia , is a much more complex experience for the in situ witness, surrounded by the real in a way the camera can never fully capture. The evidence of experiencing the location is all but lost to film alone. The filmers perspectives of, depth, color, scent, sound and even how a place can feel, are still bound in the area's of our brain that have developed conscience and mind over instinctual mutualism
as being part of the environment and not just a witness to it. In the army you are trained to look through the vegetation and not at it when paroling in dense area's so as to prevent vertigo and motion sickness headaches, and also to notice what doesn't want to be noticed ,the enemy, the hidden and the hunted. Also although my longer video's are broken down into smaller consumer sized sequences , each claim has more on site evidence than just the alleged yowie itself, alleged footprints, unusual tree breaks, unusual trails pushed through thick spine and nettle riddled brush, weird and huge human like scat loads , weird whoops, and whistles, grunting, growling, stomping that is not so much heard as it is felt through the ground.
Do you know how many reports world wide there are of these creatures standing as if frozen in place when under observation and almost always in physical contact with the nearest tree or large cover ,only to vanish when the observer blinks or changes his eyeliner for the nearest of moments.
In other reports the creature wont move at all until the observers moves on. Why? Because it's patience, stillness and physical adaptations are keyed towards environmental stealth in order to survive and hunt in a place where time does not matter. Humans are time and distance obsessed, how far must we go, how fast and in what time frame must it be achieved in. That is why when we go into the Australian bush we can hear and see birds, insects and reptiles but most times we will not see a single mammal. But they are there, still and just out of sight, watching until you leave.
There are a certain set of circumstances surrounding many reported encounters. More often than not witnesses are followed. More often than not witnesses only noticed the yowie because of the yowies own actions and not because the witness was keen eyed. It's reasonably rare for a group of people to encounter a yowie. Four wheel drive enthusiasts despite ,their time on trails and in deep scrub, only occasionally have (or report) encounters.
Modern hunters equipped with fire arms have far fewer encounters than bow, dog and knife equipped pig hunters. Horseback trail riders tend to have closer encounters than those on foot. More People who are in country or parkland area's for casual exercise (such as jogging or casual strolls) report encounters than back pack equipped distance hikers. As is said "You dont find yowies....yowies find you" Ever consider why that is the case?
I have a footlocker full of my old army gear (I was a grunt for 11 years), boots, greens, fully equiped webbing and pack ect , but I choose to dress absurdly ill prepared for the bush, shorts, thongs, singlet in most cases, no water or food just a camera and a small pocket compass with a folded pocket map, I don't shower for a few days before the trip (drives my wife mental). I get driven to the chosen location by a group of three people, whom are deliberately noisy when we arrive. They stay for a period of time, talking and generally being apparent and then they depart. I remain on my own in the area and move around and through the bush with little care of the noise I make. I urinate and sometimes defecate in the area and I keep my camera at the ready.
I do not agree with tree knocking or howling for response practices. I try and get as much information about an area as I can from indigenous sources where possible including their traditional name for the location.
So between the location research and a developed methodology of appearing to have no methodology (behaving as close to a lost person as possible )
I make myself as vulnerable as possible in an attempt to illicit a response from an opportunist but intelligent ambush predator.
Do I want to be a Youtube sensation?
Myself No. I'm not interested in fame (or fortune for that matter) I try to be as anonymous on camera as I can be, in fact I rarely even talk openly on camera. All of the videos on my GLOBAL MONSTER chanel are not monetized and for the most part carry no advertisement (some contain copyrighted music or snippets of media that allow copyright holders to place adds on the video, a fair trade if the used media makes a point or is used to effect).
The subject matter, yes most defiantly. I would like "yowies" to be a common topic of conversation in this country as bears or big cats are in their respective lands.
Why? I'm sure I won't bore you with my well known motives, suffice to say that I'd like to see them thrive in protected and safe habitats just as much as Id like to help dispel the truly dangerous myth that all of Australia's wild species are harmless hoppers and hiders. I know better but that is anecdotal.
I hope this helps explain at least some of my motivations?
I'm not here to discredit the subject matter, but I will explore and express it in my own way as the situation arises.
And how can I be wrong anyway as there is officially nothing to even be wrong about.Sadly the nature of my negative experience, leaves me with this conundrum.
Because I know they are real and because I know they can be dangerous in the extreme, do I keep these facts to myself so as to avoid controversy
or do I do all that is in my power to act in a way that might prevent even one person from being harmed out of their own instilled ignorance of the potential danger. I know that if I seen you walking unaware towards a king brown snake that decency would compell me to warn you. Same thing, different animal.
Cheers mate
