Yowiehunters Forum

yowiedan wrote: Wed Aug 08, 2018 6:25 pm There are more stories of researchers being herded out of areas by a few Yowies who first circle them then make the researchers walk out back the way they came. If the Yowie was an animal that was aggressive we would have heard that on the audio reports on the Yowie Hunters Youtube channel. It must be in certain circumstances that they become aggressive, what that is no one knows!

Dean Harrison wrote: Thu Aug 09, 2018 1:24 pm I have ABSOLUTELY no doubt people have lost their lives to them in the past and will continue to in the future.

This not to say that they are all killers.

Just as in Humans and Animals, there is good in bad, and anything biological has its emotional ups and downs. I believe that most people who are alone in the forest that have an exceptionally bad run in with one, and too obligated into the bush for an escape, probably don’t live to tell their story, so we will never know about it.

Back when I still had some youthful energy around 18 or so years ago (!), I was doing an investigation into bush related missing people. I had a particular interest in Ormeau, as this was a location where I feel I had only just escaped with my life one night, and if I had not stopped to make a phone call on the edge of the bush before entering, I wouldn’t be here today. Some weeks later on television, a man went missing on the edge of the bush at night while waiting for friends to pick him up after work (after dusk), just around the corner from where I was chased, – never to been seen again. All that was left was his esky on the side of the dirty road.

Somehow I had located a number within the department of the missing person’s bureau (or whatever it may have been called), and they thinking I was an investigating officer, was promptly transferred to someone with a great deal of knowledge on the subject.

We chatted for some time in relation to the causes of the most common percentage of missing people and how many people are found at a later date. It turns out that most of the missing people turn up at some stage. I asked him what the breakdown was between missing people that are never found people in Cities/Towns, compared to missing people in the bush. I was told the statistics were significant. The statistics of missing people never to be found in the bush dramatically outweighed those of the City.

By now he was starting to wonder who I was, exactly which Department I was from and what investigation I was performing. The interview ended there…..

If I were not in a fortunate position to quickly get to cleared land at Ormeau, or didn’t have people there at Kilkivan, I have absolutely NO doubt in my mind I would not be here today. There is no question about it in my mind. The Ormeau Yowie was horrific. I have never seen anything like it. The raw aggression was beyond anything I have ever witnessed. The power of it was beyond belief.

My opinion is that lone bushwalker who crosses paths with an exceptionally bad one, and are obligated into the forest far from any escape, probably are not here to tell us about it. I have seen them in action and I can tell you from a firsthand perspective, you are defenceless. There is nothing you can do about it. You are helpless. Any attempt to defend yourself is futile. I do believe they are responsible for many missing people. I was nearly one.



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Boab Bob wrote: Fri Aug 10, 2018 3:37 am It's sad to see people perpetuating the idea that the yowie has been killing people. It's just fringe 1990's X-Files balderdash and/or deliberate far right misinformation. Jews, blacks and muslims aren't enough? Of course the yowies can't defend themselves in print and in human society in general and what human will be their advocate while people who are meant to be responsible drift into conspiracy theory. As far as i know there is only one account of a death - a historical aboriginal story of a strangulation of a woman. Could well have been out of fright or even didn't happen and it was a 'crime of passion' between humans.

If you are swanking about and posing on trail while actually tracking a territorial relic hominid in it's home range and it bumps you out of the way.. that's NOT evidence that the yowie/hairyman is dangerous any more than similar creatures and humans themselves. In general, fear of the unknown seems to be a green light for this built-up fear-mongering.

Boab Bob wrote: Fri Aug 10, 2018 5:18 am Ignorant? Of what? Where is your evidence that the yowies have killed anyone?

Boab Bob wrote: Fri Aug 10, 2018 3:37 am It's just fringe 1990's X-Files balderdash and/or deliberate far right misinformation. Jews, blacks and muslims aren't enough?

Wollemi Explorer wrote: Sat Aug 11, 2018 1:40 pm I think that any animal which can push over healthy trees should be respected. The reports from Dean's personal encounters are enough to be a warning. Very real potential danger.
As for the "Jews, blacks and Muslims", Are you basing your study on media reports? (Manipulated truth) , Or first hand experience?
I totally agree with YowieBait, they would, and could, take you if they wanted to.

Dean Harrison wrote: Thu Aug 09, 2018 1:24 pm I have ABSOLUTELY no doubt people have lost their lives to them in the past and will continue to in the future.

This not to say that they are all killers.

Just as in Humans and Animals, there is good in bad, and anything biological has its emotional ups and downs. I believe that most people who are alone in the forest that have an exceptionally bad run in with one, and too obligated into the bush for an escape, probably don’t live to tell their story, so we will never know about it.

Back when I still had some youthful energy around 18 or so years ago (!), I was doing an investigation into bush related missing people. I had a particular interest in Ormeau, as this was a location where I feel I had only just escaped with my life one night, and if I had not stopped to make a phone call on the edge of the bush before entering, I wouldn’t be here today. Some weeks later on television, a man went missing on the edge of the bush at night while waiting for friends to pick him up after work (after dusk), just around the corner from where I was chased, – never to been seen again. All that was left was his esky on the side of the dirty road.

Somehow I had located a number within the department of the missing person’s bureau (or whatever it may have been called), and they thinking I was an investigating officer, was promptly transferred to someone with a great deal of knowledge on the subject.

We chatted for some time in relation to the causes of the most common percentage of missing people and how many people are found at a later date. It turns out that most of the missing people turn up at some stage. I asked him what the breakdown was between missing people that are never found people in Cities/Towns, compared to missing people in the bush. I was told the statistics were significant. The statistics of missing people never to be found in the bush dramatically outweighed those of the City.

By now he was starting to wonder who I was, exactly which Department I was from and what investigation I was performing. The interview ended there…..

If I were not in a fortunate position to quickly get to cleared land at Ormeau, or didn’t have people there at Kilkivan, I have absolutely NO doubt in my mind I would not be here today. There is no question about it in my mind. The Ormeau Yowie was horrific. I have never seen anything like it. The raw aggression was beyond anything I have ever witnessed. The power of it was beyond belief.

My opinion is that lone bushwalker who crosses paths with an exceptionally bad one, and are obligated into the forest far from any escape, probably are not here to tell us about it. I have seen them in action and I can tell you from a firsthand perspective, you are defenceless. There is nothing you can do about it. You are helpless. Any attempt to defend yourself is futile. I do believe they are responsible for many missing people. I was nearly one.



DMH

micathia wrote: Mon Aug 13, 2018 11:33 am Aren't there many similar cases that bodies were found (sometimes naked) at river bank in far deep bush?

Dean Harrison wrote: Mon Aug 13, 2018 11:45 am Hi Micathia,

Yes, its called Bridge Creek. A forest corridor between two estates. A lot more built up now of course.

They have a long history of coming into such areas and fringes of Human population where the surrounding bush is expansive. Its nothing new.

My original Post was simply stating the obvious inherent dangers. Nothing more.



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