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I think you have a very valid and likely observation regarding the "woo factor" associated with much of this genre.
In my opinion, there has got to be some sound science behind all of it. Whether its a chimaera of novel physics creating exotic wonders in the ufo field thats completely misidentified and associated onto other things, or the misunderstood behaviour and bush tactics of our favorite furry friends. Heck theres even a possible quantum mechanism linking the brains anatomy and psychic paranormal phenomena. One of the main factors making the scientific underpinning elusive and seeming like "woo" is the human factor for people to see what they want to believe instead of for what it actually is. In my opinion this leads to people going down false rabbit holes and coming to incorrect conclusions.
Getting back on to the discussion of invisibility cloaks and infrasound. I think infrasound is a good candidate to explain much of the reported qualities observed in many yowie and sasquatch cases. The creatures are certainly big enough to generate it and it doesnt take much amplitude for the infrasound to begin effecting a subject. Just look at the incident in the link i provided. A simple lose fan blade in a lab air extractor duct was enough to create infrasound powerful enough to induce hallucinations and instill a sense of dread and foreboding. Granted in the case in the link the infrasound was amplified due to the laboratory room being resonant with the sound frequency created by the wobbly fan blade. But, Im willing to bet a sasquatch or yowie huffing and puffing can do even better.
Are yowie and sasquatch using infrasound to either create a sense of foreboding to repel competing predators after the same prey or unwanted interlopers in their territory? Possibly using infrasound like a tiger does to stun prey before pouncing? Its a definite possibility. Although Im not sure I've seen any scientific evidence in the form of infrasound recordings attributed to yowie or sasquatch. I know of one researcher who claims to record sasquatch infrasound in the states, but his credibility is lacking especially since his microphone rig used for recording infrasound physically wouldn't capture infrasound. I've ran his rigs descriptions past very good physicists who have both given the design a thumbs down.
But i still think infrasound is a good candidate to describe what people are reporting in yowie and sasquatch cases. It could possibly blur or interfere with human vision making the yowie hard to spot or directly observe. With the right mindset that could be construed as the yowie doing something paraphysical leading to dimension hopping, mystical and ethereal conjecture.
Low amplitude infrasound at the lower end of the spectrum (around 7hz i think) can cause a sense of fear and make people want to flee an area. A yowie could perhaps create this at a distance so if you were in the general vicinity you'd leave his territory. At higher amplitudes (volume) at the same frequency and presumably much closer to the creature it can potentially create nausea in people.
Infrasound at 19 hz can vibrate the fluid in the eye blurring vision. But it needs to be at high amplitude. So for that trick to work you'd have to be fairly close to the yowie. It might explain some cases of yowies vanishing before your eyes but the problem is all your vision goes blurry not just the yowie.
But there could be a different interaction between the brain, ears and vision going on with infrasound thats more exciting and could possibly explain why people see yowie vanish before their eyes. Oscillatory infrasonic modulation of the cochlear amplifier in the ear and how it effects selective attention between auditory and visual stimuli.
Here's a link to a study on the subject for those who want to learn more about the mechanism in detail.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/artic ... ne.0208939
Basically it works like this. The brain is bombarded at any moment by sensory stimuli. More than the brain can process. It has to filter the stimuli in order to focus its selective attention on one of them. Scientists have discovered that due to neurological pathways connecting the visual cortex and the auditory areas of the brain that if you focus on something visually it tends to "mute" the auditory stimuli and vice versa. Essentially, when you are focusing on something visually the brain is sending neurological oscillations (brainwaves) through the visual cortex at 7-10 hz. Through entrainment, these neuron oscillations cascade down into the auditory part of the brain to the nerves that connect to the tiny hairs in your cochlea in the inner ear that are responsible for detecting sound. (Sound waves make the hairs vibrate creating a signal in the connected nerves at the appropriate sound frequency and send it to your brain) since the signal is the same as the frequency of infrasound ( 7-10hz in this case)which the ear cant "hear" it overrides the signals the hairs make in response to audible sound. And you dont perceive sound in an audible range when this happens. It explains why when youre transfixed on something visually, like in a life threatening situations or especially compelling sightings people report not hearing any sound. Its being muted through this interplaying mechanism that connects the auditory and visual cortex.
The important part. Scientists discovered the muting process works in reverse between the ear and the eyes too. So if a infrasound stimuli to the cochlea is strong enough, it cascades upwards through the nerves into the visual cortex. The brain has to focus on one or the other and if at the moment the sound is a stronger neurological stimuli the selective attention will go to the ears and not the eyes. Creating a blind spot to what your directly looking and trying to focus your visual attention on.
Could yowies, under the right circumstances, override the visual attention of humans through use of infrasound making it so your brain simply disregards them and doesnt report the visual stimuli at the center of your visual cortexes attention up the chain to the thalamus and, via that, your conscious attention? Its not a bad hypothesis if there ever was one.
Best part is the yowie doesnt have to be aware this actually happens to their subjects. It might be a happy coincidence and side effect from a tool they use for hunting or dissuading rival predators from their territory. Using infrasound to stun or repel subjects.
Another thing in regards to infrasound. Yowies dont need to actually produce infrasound to make the brain preceive infrasound. A pair of yowie working in tandem could create the perception of infrasound too. When two tones are produced simultaneously, that are slightly different frequencies. The difference between the frequencies (phase) is also detected by the brain. This third frequency (the product of the phase between the two tones) could be in the infrasound range. Its possible yowies can create audible sound at much higher volume and power than infrasound giving them another method and tool for projecting infrasound in their subjects. I presume though the subject would be well aware of the racket the yowies were making and report this as part of their sighting.
decent theory there bassplyr