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as title,

google "Yowie Map Tasmania" and click the first link. I got this:

https://goo.gl/mBx3jk

seen this before? I have seen this for a while.

I'd certainly like to know who created this and where they got their info from.
None of these "reports" are on the yowiehunters website.
I am sceptical for a couple of reasons:

1) I sometimes search TROVE for old newspaper reports of sightings. I've found any number from the mainland states but never one from Tasmania. They could be there; I'm just saying I haven't seen one.

2) All of these reports have the same simplistic structure: "A man/woman/couple were hiking/driving/walking and they saw a Bush Ape/Yowie. It walked off into the bush." Very little detail, and all the reports are quite recent. I smell a rodent.

3) I have a house in the far south of Tasmania. Pretty scrubby territory. I've never heard any of the locals talk about such a thing.
In fact, it has always puzzled me that Bush Ape reports come from pretty well anyplace that has forest, yet the one place that has the thickest, greenest, lushest forest of all (Tasmania) seems to have no history of them.
There were many good bushmen in Tasmania; trappers and piners to name two types. If anyone would have seen a Bush Ape it would be one of them. But I have never heard of a single report.
Now, if Bush Apes migrated here less than about 10,000 years ago, when the sea level rose and made Tasmania into an island, it would make sense that they did not get to Tasmania. But the Aborigenes seem to suggest that they have always shared this country with them, and the Aborigenes have been here at least 40,000 years. Can anyone find a solution to this puzzle?

MA

Interesting map find, micathia. 38 supposed sightings in Tassie... can they all be made up? I wonder. The 1987 Lake Dulverton sighting reported in AYR is quite detailed. Perhaps too much so. 30 years on, it would be good to hear an interview with Linesman Bill Johnstone and his friend contract cleaner Stella Donahue of Kew, Victoria. Seems there was a report to Police as well.

MA. the old newspapers can be a treasure trove! After all, the Hobart Mercury has been established since 1854 and the Launceston Examiner even earlier in 1842. I have been to both newspapers when producing a promotional documentary on the Regional Press in Australia.

At another time I was in Tassie making a different doco that included the timber industry. I spoke with timber workers I got to know fairly well who admitted they knew of genuine Tassie Tiger sightings but nothing was said about any large hairy man like creatures. However, I didn't ask that question as I've only been mesmerized by the Yowie/Bush Ape thing in the last few years!

You are indeed fortunate to have a house in picturesque south Tassie. My other place is on a lake in Gippsland surrounded by pristine bush. There have been sightings nearby so I always keep a lookout. Who knows when I'll get lucky! Maybe the new dashcam will do the trick...

As for the aborigines and the land bridge, it is amazing to think as recently as 10,000 years ago, scientists say Tasmania was joined to the mainland. If that's the case, and the latest research says the indigenous people have been on this continent for more like 60,000 years, it makes sense to me that the Yowie/Bush Ape may have crossed into Tasmania. The reason is according to the aborigines, these creatures were inhabiting the land before they arrived. Of course an argument against them being there at all is climate. Perhaps they would rather be where it's warm! Will have to ask when we manage to catch one.

Searcher,

I always thought the 1987 report from Tasmania sounded like someone tripping out. If you know what I mean....

If we assume (for argument's sake) there are no Bush Apes in Tasmania, there are only a few possibilities:

1) They came less than 10,000 years ago and Bass Strait kept them from reaching Tasmania (not that they would have known it existed.)

2) They did get to Tasmania but died out for some unknown reason. Maybe they were never numerous and were killed off by the Aborigines. I doubt a hairy/furry being would be troubled much by cold weather. (There is a report of one trudging up a road in the alpine region in a blizzard with a deer over its shoulder.)

All IMHO.

MA

micathia wrote:as title,

google "Yowie Map Tasmania" and click the first link. I got this:

https://goo.gl/mBx3jk

seen this before? I have seen this for a while.

This is the same map and info presented by that crazy 'mysterious man' from last year.
He said he walked about Tassie asking people about sightings but never got any stories.

A lot on this map can't be verified by anybody, lots of sightings but only a few have been explained.
If your interested in that discussion micathia you can find it on page 9/62 of this forum,
about a third of the way down. 'are there yowies in tasmania'

It was originaly posted by YOWIE 2008 mon april 25 2016 and responded to by mysterious man.
For awhile there I thought you may have been him.


T.

I had an experience in Tasmania about 20 years ago up in the highlands. Freaked me right out and has had a lasting effect on me since. That experience is what led me to this group however I had always dismissed the Yowie as a possibility as I didn't think there had been any other sightings down there.... I think they are there.

micathia wrote:as title,

google "Yowie Map Tasmania" and click the first link. I got this:

https://goo.gl/mBx3jk

seen this before? I have seen this for a while.

Interesting.

My own research as at 2016 for Tassie Yowies is this....

Interesting.

My own research as at 2016 for Tassie Yowies is this....[/quote]

I should have noted that DATES ONLY signify yowie sightings.

NAMES equate to missing or found deceased persons.

Cheers again.

Why not Tasmania it has plenty of thick forest and caves.A small group of them could still exist.

Lozza62 wrote:Why not Tasmania it has plenty of thick forest and caves.A small group of them could still exist.

Totally agree with you Lozza. Tasmania would be a paradise for them dense bush, pristine waterways and plenty of wildlife for food and a sparse human population.

I agree. Of course theyre in Tas and W.A as well.

Good ol " Rexy G " has some interesting Tassie tales of ye olde days according too....?

Substance to the tales or not, they are a pretty good read.

Cheers

Hope he doesn't sue me for this (lol I'm told he is very letigious) but here goes....

http://www.mysteriousaustralia.com/stra ... enona.html

Tasmanian Stories copyright ect ect.... to ol Rexy

"Even in Tasmania stories of large man-like hairy monsters have persisted since the earliest years of European Settlement.
During March 1975 in the rugged Poatina foothills of central Tasmania, two shooters were walking from out of scrub into a clearing. Suddenly the men were stopped in their tracks by what they described as a huge man-like figure, 8 ft tall and covered in black hair. Seeing the two men the creature appeared to take fright, and, moving off at great speed ran down a hill in front of them heading for cover of nearby bushland. The hunters abandoned their excursion and hastily left the area for home".

He has a lot more but his site is infuriatingly scattered.

Cheers

Yowie bait wrote:I agree. Of course theyre in Tas and W.A as well.

I disagree with them being in Tasmania. I have no doubt they are on the mainland.

To me, the interesting thing about reports is not only where they come from, but where they don't come from.

So, if Bush Apes existed in Australia, then one would expect lots of reports to correlate with well-forested and bushy areas and that is exactly what we see. We would not expect to see them in Pitt St in Sydney and we don't.
But we would expect to have reports of them from Tasmania due to the fact that it is well-forested yet not overly large and yet has been explored by many hardy men over the years. Men clever and stealthy enough to catch the rare and elusive Thylacine. Yet, the number of Bush Ape reports from Tasmania could be counted on one hand (and they are, I would contend, unreliable.)

It is precisely this lack of reports from Tasmania that makes the reports from the mainland all the more believable and compelling.

It's OK to politely disagree with each other. It is good because it makes us think about our own position and argue our point more strongly.

MA

Mad Academic wrote:

Yowie bait wrote:I agree. Of course theyre in Tas and W.A as well.

I disagree with them being in Tasmania. I have no doubt they are on the mainland.

To me, the interesting thing about reports is not only where they come from, but where they don't come from.

So, if Bush Apes existed in Australia, then one would expect lots of reports to correlate with well-forested and bushy areas and that is exactly what we see. We would not expect to see them in Pitt St in Sydney and we don't.
But we would expect to have reports of them from Tasmania due to the fact that it is well-forested yet not overly large and yet has been explored by many hardy men over the years. Men clever and stealthy enough to catch the rare and elusive Thylacine. Yet, the number of Bush Ape reports from Tasmania could be counted on one hand (and they are, I would contend, unreliable.)

It is precisely this lack of reports from Tasmania that makes the reports from the mainland all the more believable and compelling.

It's OK to politely disagree with each other. It is good because it makes us think about our own position and argue our point more strongly.

MA

I can see your point M.A and weve been down this path before. It just seems unfathomable to me that they wouldnt be there or were there but yeah the sightings dont back it up as you say.

My theory is much like Trevor mentioned in the house slapping thread and that they would be anywhere that could sustain them. Perhaps a smaller population or smaller types?

You will have to find out for us when you get back to Tassie!

Aussie Bigfoot wrote:I had an experience in Tasmania about 20 years ago up in the highlands. Freaked me right out and has had a lasting effect on me since. That experience is what led me to this group however I had always dismissed the Yowie as a possibility as I didn't think there had been any other sightings down there.... I think they are there.

Well thats interesting. Did you have a sighting there?

Yowie bait wrote:

Aussie Bigfoot wrote:I had an experience in Tasmania about 20 years ago up in the highlands. Freaked me right out and has had a lasting effect on me since. That experience is what led me to this group however I had always dismissed the Yowie as a possibility as I didn't think there had been any other sightings down there.... I think they are there.

Well thats interesting. Did you have a sighting there?

Not a sighting but I got the feeling that if I stayed where I was, I would have.
Me and a mate were trout fishing and had decided to go and cut a few wood grubs before night fall.
We were chatting away standing about 20 meters apart ( just laughing and talking s#@t) and swinging the axes into a couple of fallen trees looking for grubs when I heard a noise behind me.
It was like a muffled voice, my ears pricked up and I scanned the surrounding but the bush was pretty think and it was late in the arvo and I couldn't see anything? I moved along the log a bit and swung the axe at a different spot on the log and I heard a loud crack from behind me like a big dry branch would make if it were broken.
At that point I started to feel sick and had a feeling that I was in trouble and needed to move. I looked over to my mate Benny and he was looking at me with this look on his face and goes to say something to me and this almighty scream/yell cuts us in half.... literally knocked us both over.
It was about 65 meters through the bush out to the dirt road where the car was parked and they were the longest 30 seconds of my life. Jumped in the car and got out of there at warp speed.
My heart was pounding so hard I could hear it over the car stereo.
We dropped both axes and our grub tins in the commotion and didn't look back.
Instead of staying at the shack at the lake I dropped Benny there and drove back down and drove home. Benny packed up and did the same.
I used to spend a lot of time in the bush but not anymore. Haven't spoken to Benny for a few years but whenever we catch up it always comes up in conversation.

Hey Aussie Bigfoot. That really does sound like a yowie encounter. Very much like what happened to me and my mate actually with the dry wood break followed by a full on body slamming scream. Maybe some infra sound directed your way that made you feel sick and like you should move?

Good move getting out of there when you did!

Yowie bait wrote:Hey Aussie Bigfoot. That really does sound like a yowie encounter. Very much like what happened to me and my mate actually with the dry wood break followed by a full on body slamming scream. Maybe some infra sound directed your way that made you feel sick and like you should move?

Good move getting out of there when you did!

I've read about the infra sound stuff and I'm not sure if that was what we got but I definitely knew something was about to go down and that we were in trouble. Benny told me later that he was about to suggest we go as he was feeling the same.
All I know is that if something can make you feel like that, it means business and all the gentle giant, friends of the forest c**p has to come from people who have never been in that situation.
I don't think I'll ever be comfortable in the bush again.

Aussie Bigfoot wrote:

Yowie bait wrote:Hey Aussie Bigfoot. That really does sound like a yowie encounter. Very much like what happened to me and my mate actually with the dry wood break followed by a full on body slamming scream. Maybe some infra sound directed your way that made you feel sick and like you should move?

Good move getting out of there when you did!

I've read about the infra sound stuff and I'm not sure if that was what we got but I definitely knew something was about to go down and that we were in trouble. Benny told me later that he was about to suggest we go as he was feeling the same.
All I know is that if something can make you feel like that, it means business and all the gentle giant, friends of the forest c**p has to come from people who have never been in that situation.
I don't think I'll ever be comfortable in the bush again.

OK; you had an unsettling experience.
You heard a stick break, a "scream".
But, at the end of the day, you didn't see anything. No "Yowie", no Bush Ape.
That does not count as evidence to me. (Sounds like mass hysteria to me...and that's not a put-down, it's a recognised phenomenon.)
Feeling as if you "would have" seen one is not the same as actually seeing one.
I still don't believe they are in Tasmania.

Aussie Bigfoot wrote:

Yowie bait wrote:Hey Aussie Bigfoot. That really does sound like a yowie encounter. Very much like what happened to me and my mate actually with the dry wood break followed by a full on body slamming scream. Maybe some infra sound directed your way that made you feel sick and like you should move?

Good move getting out of there when you did!

I've read about the infra sound stuff and I'm not sure if that was what we got but I definitely knew something was about to go down and that we were in trouble. Benny told me later that he was about to suggest we go as he was feeling the same.
All I know is that if something can make you feel like that, it means business and all the gentle giant, friends of the forest c**p has to come from people who have never been in that situation.
I don't think I'll ever be comfortable in the bush again.

Yeah i can relate to that. Thats some creepy scene right there. Hard to explain until you experience something like that yourself. Lucky it didnt chase you out of there if it was a yowie. Maybe the axe was a put off!

I dobt know about the infrasound or getting "zapped". I think its a thing they can do. Imo of course.

Fair enough MA. Aussie Bigfoot didnt actually see one. Still, with the wood break,scream and creepiness it does sound like an encounter...well , to me anyway.

Mad Academic wrote:

Aussie Bigfoot wrote:

Yowie bait wrote:Hey Aussie Bigfoot. That really does sound like a yowie encounter. Very much like what happened to me and my mate actually with the dry wood break followed by a full on body slamming scream. Maybe some infra sound directed your way that made you feel sick and like you should move?

Good move getting out of there when you did!

I've read about the infra sound stuff and I'm not sure if that was what we got but I definitely knew something was about to go down and that we were in trouble. Benny told me later that he was about to suggest we go as he was feeling the same.
All I know is that if something can make you feel like that, it means business and all the gentle giant, friends of the forest c**p has to come from people who have never been in that situation.
I don't think I'll ever be comfortable in the bush again.

OK; you had an unsettling experience.
You heard a stick break, a "scream".
But, at the end of the day, you didn't see anything. No "Yowie", no Bush Ape.
That does not count as evidence to me. (Sounds like mass hysteria to me...and that's not a put-down, it's a recognised phenomenon.)
Feeling as if you "would have" seen one is not the same as actually seeing one.
I still don't believe they are in Tasmania.

Might not have been a yowie but might have been. I didn't hang around to find out, that noise was so loud I couldn't even work out which direction it came from and whatever it was was definitely not human.
I agree that the geography of the state given that it's an island makes it hard to justify their presence which is why I've never assumed it was a yowie. I just saw the Tasmanian thread and thought I needed to add to it because I have had this experience in Tasmania.
But the more I thought about it the more I think that Tasmania is the perfect hiding spot.

Off topic... but it saves me starting up a thread.

Is there any hairy man reports at all from the Tiwi Islands ?

I seriously doubt it.

If they were there, I would definitely know about it. No documented sightings in either Out of the Shadows, The Yowie, and basically nothing in the AYR archives. Thylacines and Cats - sure, but not the Yowie as far as I'm concerned.


One location however that is becoming known in recent times, and that is W.A.


Hi 'TheBlackStump' - we haven't received any information from the Tiwi Islands in the past.



DMH

I'm positive there was a woman on here years ago relating her encounters in a secluded valley in Tasmania .

I also recall hearing an old story of first settlers building a home in Tassy and when they went back the next day the home was destroyed . The Aboriginal people said it was the hairy man , they blamed the Aboriginal people for it anyway .

Dean Harrison wrote:I seriously doubt it.

If they were there, I would definitely know about it. No documented sightings in either Out of the Shadows, The Yowie, and basically nothing in the AYR archives. Thylacines and Cats - sure, but not the Yowie as far as I'm concerned.


One location however that is becoming known in recent times, and that is W.A.


Hi 'TheBlackStump' - we haven't received any information from the Tiwi Islands in the past.



DMH

Any reports from any islands?
Ones relatively close to the mainland like Frazer, STraddie or others....?

Just googled this old thread on AYR. Devil Devil /Jungadee filmed on Tiwi jumping into the back of a moving ute ? Maybe it had been watching the fisherman and went after the catch.

viewtopic.php?f=45&t=4634&view=next

Re above link I posted. I googled Tiwi Islands Yowie and the link/thread come up so I assumed it was Tiwi. Loooking back on it now it may not be Tiwi. Rusty2 started the thread so Rusty if possible could you clarify , if you know , where the vidoe was taken.

Cheers

TheBlackStump wrote:Just googled this old thread on AYR. Devil Devil /Jungadee filmed on Tiwi jumping into the back of a moving ute ? Maybe it had been watching the fisherman and went after the catch.

viewtopic.php?f=45&t=4634&view=next

That is an awesome video. Forum was cool back then. So many enthusiastic members, sharing info and eager to learn from each other.

Wolf wrote:

Dean Harrison wrote:I seriously doubt it.

If they were there, I would definitely know about it. No documented sightings in either Out of the Shadows, The Yowie, and basically nothing in the AYR archives. Thylacines and Cats - sure, but not the Yowie as far as I'm concerned.


One location however that is becoming known in recent times, and that is W.A.


Hi 'TheBlackStump' - we haven't received any information from the Tiwi Islands in the past.



DMH

Any reports from any islands?
Ones relatively close to the mainland like Frazer, STraddie or others....?

Wolf , theres an excellent encounter from Fraser in the sightings section on the AYR main board if your interested. A couple of brave young lads getting hassled by an angry yowie.

Pretty sure theres a straddie one ( maybe a junjudee?) as well on the forum but none in the sightings section. Deadpool has his junjudee encounters at Redland Bay which is a really interesting thread if you can find it.