Yowie scream in Vic high country
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2019 10:56 pm
A mate of mine had an interesting experience last night camped in the Vic high country at Macalister George on Burgoyne Track. It's a seriously steep 4WD track in dry rocky country with nice sandy campsites on Macalister river at the base. We were at the spot last week where I took the photo.
He said that sitting around the campfire about 9.45pm there was what sounded like a woman screaming at the top of her lungs. It went on for a couple of minutes and turned into loud chimp like ooh ooh type noises, very loud, very deep, followed by growling. He said the total time was about 5 minutes. The sound came from further to the right from where my photo was taken on the other side of the river, half away up the hill but further around to the right. That hill would be 60deg & you hear rocks sliding down that hill constantly which is unnerving at night.
I've been trying to soften my 4wding mate up to the idea of Yowies existing for years but he wouldn't admit to it being one but it has him rattled. He said his 2 teenage kids were scared but didn't want to show it but he was terrified.
I ran through the usual animals, fox, koala, wild dog, but he said, no way because it was way too loud & deep. He's hunted & 4wd up here since the early 90's and has no idea what he encountered.
Unfortunately he did not record the scream but I was interested to know if anybody has heard anything like that in Australia because that is the sort of sounds I would associate with North American Bigfoot, not Yowies, not that I necessarily know what one sounds like, but a woman's scream & loud deep chimp like sounds? Any reports like that? I wanted to play some yowie sounds for my mate but I'm not sure if any exist. Anyhow, just thought I'd put this out there.
He said that sitting around the campfire about 9.45pm there was what sounded like a woman screaming at the top of her lungs. It went on for a couple of minutes and turned into loud chimp like ooh ooh type noises, very loud, very deep, followed by growling. He said the total time was about 5 minutes. The sound came from further to the right from where my photo was taken on the other side of the river, half away up the hill but further around to the right. That hill would be 60deg & you hear rocks sliding down that hill constantly which is unnerving at night.
I've been trying to soften my 4wding mate up to the idea of Yowies existing for years but he wouldn't admit to it being one but it has him rattled. He said his 2 teenage kids were scared but didn't want to show it but he was terrified.
I ran through the usual animals, fox, koala, wild dog, but he said, no way because it was way too loud & deep. He's hunted & 4wd up here since the early 90's and has no idea what he encountered.
Unfortunately he did not record the scream but I was interested to know if anybody has heard anything like that in Australia because that is the sort of sounds I would associate with North American Bigfoot, not Yowies, not that I necessarily know what one sounds like, but a woman's scream & loud deep chimp like sounds? Any reports like that? I wanted to play some yowie sounds for my mate but I'm not sure if any exist. Anyhow, just thought I'd put this out there.
