As Ihave stated there are a number of hominids throughout the globe that are livingoutside of human dominated niches and are all nocturnal, making accidentalobservation rare.
Thousandsof probable Sasquatch or Bigfoot throughout North America has generated hundreds of excellent sightings, half at night. This is the likely ratio for a nocturnalanimal. For the Sasquatch, the sightingdata is now excellent. For others suchas the Yowie or the Pamir Wildman, we have a handful of reports only and thesame cycle of collection and confirmation will be needed to build up a properinventory.
Itis important to recall that these are wild animals needing large ranges tosurvive and this means a small but significant population, properly in thethousands. Yet difficult to count.
Herewe start with a report from someone who has no other incentive to publish butto reassure others that it is all right to do so.
Former Queensland Senator Recalls YowieEncounter
Posted: 06 Apr 2011 08:50 AM PDT
barossa-region - Bill O'Chee can remember it like itwas yesterday. It was the day the former Queensland
A young O'Chee was with a group of 20 fellow TSS students returning from atwo-day camp near Springbrook when they saw what they described as a 3m tallhair-covered creature.
To this day, Mr O'Chee is certain what he saw was the mythical yowie.
He told The Gold Coast Bulletin on November 17, 1977 that the animal approachedthe boys' camp on several occasions, at one stage coming within 10m of theircabins.
"About 20 of us saw it," he said then.
"It was about 3m tall, covered in hair, had a flat face and walked to theside in a crab-like style.
"It smashed small saplings and trees like matchsticks as it careeredthrough the bush, we spotted it several times and once watched it throughbinoculars. It definitely was there.
"We first saw it just before we returned back to
Contacted this week, Mr O'Chee was happy to confirm the story and said hismemory of what he saw was as clear to him today as it was 27 years ago.
"I still remember it, I can still see the damn thing," he said.
"The majority of my school chums still remember it, it was such an amazingexperience.
"It was a big thing, about 8ft tall through the binoculars, it moved in acrab-like fashion.
"We saw where it had been lying on the grbutt and the impression it leftwas about 8ft long.
"That night it just ripped up whole shrubs between the creek and where ourcamp was, right out of the ground, - roots and all. A bloke can't do that, itwas quite incredible."
Mr O'Chee said his experience had left him with the certainty that yowies doexist.
"I do believe it. Nothing that has happened since has made me believeotherwise, all I can say is that it did exist when I saw it," he said.
"Stranger things have happened. In the last couple of years they havediscovered animals in the South-East Asian jungle that are new that survivedthe Vietnam War. And
"I know the school (TSS) never went back there (Springbrook).
"Some of us got into trouble for mentioning it but I'm not sorry becauseit's true.
"I hope it's still out there and if they are we would be wise to justleave them well alone."
Mr O'Chee's sighting is the most famous of reported incidents involving yowies,but there have been thousands of cases around the country of alleged contactwith the famed mythical beast.
And yowie hunters say the Gold Coast is is a hot spot.
Tim the Yowie Man said the legend was alive and well in the Gold CoastHinterland. He said the Gold Coast was 'the Bermuda Triangle of
Over the past decades, there have been numerous reports of the hairy creaturearound Springbrook, but the late 1970s were the most prolific period forsightings.
Within a period of five months from October 1977, at least five separate yowiesightings were reported either in, or on the edges of,
In January 1978, a
"It was horrible. A great big hairy beast about 9ft tall, with no neck,and giving off a terrible smell," said the woman. She was with herboyfriend checking out the view from the Best of All Lookout when she saw thecreature crashing through the undergrowth.
"If I had been in
"But really it was none of those things. It seemed to lumber alongcrabwise and made funny grunting noises. It was hard to see its face but it wascertainly flat.
"There didn't seem to be any prominent nose but its eyes had a wickedgleam."
In August 1978, a shy schoolboy reported a strange encounter with a hideous 8ftmonster that looked like a baby King Kong.
A then 13-year-old Shaun Cooper said he was terror stricken after sighting 'adark hairy thing' using its long arms to strip the bark off a tree in bushlandnear his home at
"It was about 2.30pm on a Sunday," he said.
"I had gone for a ride on my bike when I saw it up the hill a bit. Itlooked real to me and it was clawing the tree.
"Bark was falling down around its body. Then suddenly it turned and lookedat me, putting its arms by its side.
"It looked at me from about 50 yards away for no more than three seconds.I turned and just went for my life."
Shaun and his mates later led a hunt for the creature and said they foundfootprints that closely resembled giant footprints more than 1ft long.
Photographed at the time by The Bulletin, they did resemble large footprintswith three or more claw-shaped toes on each foot. The reporter also noted atree that had bark torn from it as if it had been clawed by an animal.
Other reported sightings from that time included a man who said he saw a yowiepeering in at the front door of a Springbrook house in January 1978.
In February that year, a National Parks and Wildlife worker reported seeing aYowie near the Antarctic Beeches at Springbrook. He said another Springbrookresident had also seen a female yowie with pendulous mammaries.
These were followed by another spate of sightings in the 1990s.
In March 1990,
He sent plaster castings to yowie hunter Rex Gilroy, who then mounted anexpedition to check on these and other reported sightings and footprint findsin the Lamington Plateau, Woodenbong and Kyogle areas.Australia's answer toTibet's abominable snowman or yeti and North America's bigfoot, the yowie isthe subject of myth and legend.
Despite thousands of reported sightings from around the country, the fact thatno one has ever snared even a hair from a yowie's head has never dulled thethrill of the chase for yowie hunters.
And Tim the Yowie man, who has been hunting yowies for the past decade, saidthe huge number of sightings over the years had led him to believe that theyowie, like the truth, was out there.
"Thousands of people have reported seeing these creatures, right backto the Aborigines, and there is no doubt that they have seen what they believeis a yowie," he said.
"That many sightings can't all be hoaxes and they go back well beforegorilla suits existed."
Tim said the yowies described in each of the sightings contained plenty ofsimilarities.
The creature often reeks, it lopes sideways like a crab, it grows to 9ft tall,it makes strange grunting noises and when provoked or alarmed gives ahigh-pitched shriek.
"Most of the sightings are fairly similar although the height canchange," he said.
"In north
Tim said the Springbrook yowies were renowned for one very prominent feature- they stink.
"There is a report of a ranger there in the early 90s at the Best of AllLookout who vomited at the terrible smell soon after seeing what he claimed wasa yowie," he said.
"They have been reported to smell like rotten eggs, probably because theylive in the rainforest where they are constantly damp."
But Tim himself was mystified that the number of reported sightings havedwindled to virtually nothing in the past few years.
"The biggest thing to happen in yowie sightings was back in 2000 when abusinessman in Canberra managed to get video footage of a black hairy ape-likecreature about 50km west of Canberra," he said.
"I went to the location and we were unable to rule it out as a hoax. It isthe best evidence we have seen in years.
"But yes, I have started to wonder myself what has happened to the yowies.What happened to all the sightings?
"They seem to have vanished into thin air."
Tim said he believes prolonged drought and development, esp-ecially in areaslike the Gold Coast, may have wiped out many yowies or driven them deeper intoless developed areas like the mountains in the
"Yowies are traditionally said to be shy creatures and theywouldn't like being confronted by a bulldozer moving in on their space,"he said.
"But where they have gone is a mystery, just like the yowies themselvesare."
And one person who has finally 'fessed up to a fake sighting, 25 years afterthe event, is Sean Pask. He told The Bulletin in January 1979 that he and threemates saw a yowie in swampy bushland at Hollywell.
"We've seen a horrible hairy thing down in the bush at Hollywell and itgrunted and it smelled like yuk," the boys told a Bulletin reporter overthe phone.
"And no one believes us and we're sick of people laughing at us and thismorning we saw it again - well not exactly saw it, but we did hear it.Honest."
Sean, then 11, his brother Paul, 12, and mates Tyson Franklin, 12, and PeterLoh, 12 lured a Bulletin reporter out into the 'bush' to tell the story oftheir amazing sighting of the Hollywell Horror, and get their picture in thepaper.
But Sean, now 36 and a construction worker living in
"I'm the only one who will admit it, the others won't talk," he said.
"It was just four boys mucking around in the bush.
"In those days it was forest all around, we thought we heard something,scared ourselves stupid and the story just grew from there.
"We thought we'd have a bit of a lark and we rang the paper.
"It didn't take much to get our imaginations going in those days. It was agood story at the time."
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Australian Yowie Hunter Attacked - June 2009
Hot on the heels of last week's wild weather in southeast Queensland comes ahunter of mythological beasts - Tim the Yowie Man.
Tim - who uses no surname and can be almost as elusive as his quarry - saysthere is a direct correlation between significant rain events and sightings ofthe yowie.
"The soaked soil and muddy bogs created by the heavy rain are moreconducive to animals, including yowies, leaving their footprints,'' Tim said.
He said last week's rain could make "a large hairy bipedal hominoidcreature'' uncomfortable and force it from deep jungle canyons into the open.
So Tim has rushed from that other capital of strange mysteries -
So far he's seen nothing - but that hasn't put him off.
"I'm quietly confident of finding some sort of evidence such as hair orfootprints of the mystery beast,'' he said.
"If I'm really lucky I may even get to see one.''
Dean Harrison of Australian Yowie Research says he has just returned fromSpringbrook, bearing photographs of footprints he believes are of a femaleyowie and her young trailing along behind.
"They seem to be quite passive around that area compared to other areasthat we've been to,'' Mr Harrison said.
He said tales of yowies near Springbrook date back to before European settlement.
Mr Harrison said on his latest expedition he was rugby-tackled by a yowie at3am near Gympie.
"This one knocked me flying backwards. I landed in a rock pool,'' he said.
Australian Yowie Research Eyewitness Testimonies
The Australian Yowie Research is the FIRST Website on the Internet dedicated tothe Research of the Yowie and are also the LARGEST and most well known ResearchOrganization in the World on all subjects Yowie related. Many years of hardwork and Research has contributed to the massive 'Hit' rate and Success of theA.Y.R. We have been seen repetitively in all facets of the Media on Yowierelated issues throughout
The A.Y.R. are also known as "The YowieHunters" in the Media, but weprefer to be known as "Yowie Research" due to the fact that we wishno harm to The Creature and do not wish to instill a predictable interpretationof the word "Hunter". The A.Y.R. are linked to all Major Researchersin this field around the Globe, keeping up to date with the latest findingsconcerning all the new Bigfoot and Yowie evidence as it happens. A.Y.R. ownsome of the latest and most modern surveillance equipment in Australia, whichis used in our everlasting quest for the truth and long term goal of theeventual filming of this Creature to prove to the unknowledgeable skeptic thatthe Yowie does in fact exist. There are NO definites about what the Yowieactually is, other than a 'Hairy Man/Ape' that resides in the deep of our andthe World's forests.
Hypothesis is abundant in this field of Research, as too is conjecture anddebate regarding what the Yowie is. It could perhaps be the last survivingGigantopithecus or maybe a Species of Austrlopithecine - may also be neither.Whatever the Yowie may be, there is far too much evidence to support that theYowie DOES exist, rather than it does not. Many of the World's academics arenow coming forward after being shown various evidence and claiming that thereis certainly something out there that is not formally recognized by Science.
The Witness reports cannot be ignored. Just how many credible witnesses viewingthis Animal at close range will it take for people to understand that the Yowieis far more than imagination? The reader must also keep in mind that many ofthese witnesses were not alone at the time of their sightings. There has beenup to 20 Witnesses during the same encounter! Some of our best witnesses of theYowie WERE IN FACT Skeptics prior to their encounter! There have been thousandsof Yowie reports in this Country since Colonialism during the 1700's, alldescribing the exact same Creature. These encounters are not only visual, butalso audible. Again the reports over the years tell of deep guttural growlingand grunting far beyond the vocal capacity of a human. Reports from the late1700's are the same description as the current reports today.
How could this be? Considering that 300 years ago E-mail, Fax and Phone werenot available for these witnesses to collaborate, to create an elaboratefictitious story? People on both sides of the Country were encountering thesame Beast at the same time, much the same as today. The 'fear of ridicule'factor is slowly diminishing and more people are now coming forward, where inthe past they were reluctant. The A.Y.R. have been instrumental in this majorshift in the communities thinking and the acceptance of the possibility thatthere IS something lurking deep in our forest regions.
Yowie sightings are rare, depending on where people live, however we do haveproperties where people live side by side with these Beasts and sightings aresuch a regular occurrence that they are simply accepted as 'Neighbour's in somerespects. Footprints of the Creature are cast and the A.Y.R. have been involvedin sending one of these casts off to Dr. Jeff Meldrum of Idaho State Universityfor formal examination, in which he considered the cast to be authentic andconcluded that the print matched the Sasquatch. The A.Y.R. holds a vast amountof files on the Yowie from the 1700's to this current day. This Website isconstantly changing, upgrading and uploading - so stay tuned for furtherupdates. We would like to thank the many contributors to the A.Y.R. Website andthe encouragement and support of our fellow Researchers. - Dean Harrison
NOTE: Dean Harrison is the lead researcher at
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