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| The Yowie is the Australian version of Bigfoot. It is interesting to note that Australia has been seperated from the Asian continent for over 70 million years. This separation of continents occured long before anthropoid ape came on the seence. So how did this creature evolve. European settlers that came to Australia in the 19th century noticed that the aboriginals were terrified by some thing called the Yahoo or devil devil. The 1842 issue of Australian and New Zealand Monthly Magazine, wrote if the creatures were imaginary, though some Australian naturalists believed that Yahoos were real animals. Because of the creatures "scarcences, slyness, andsolitary habits", according to the article, "man has not succeeded in obtaining a speciman". It concluded that the Yahoo was, "most likely to be one of the monkey tribe". Mrs. Charles Meredth who was a resident of New South Wales from 1839 to 1844 noted the aboriginals fear of the Yahoo. Reported that the creature "lives in the tops of the steepest and rockiest mountains in which are totally inaccessible to all human beings. A article from the Sydney Sun. Dated 10-11-1912. The Surveyor Charles Harper's discription of a Yowi sighting. A huge manlike animal stood erect not 20 yards from the fire, growling, grimacing and thumping his breast with his huge hand like paws.... I should say its height when standing erect would be 5 feet 8 inches to 5 feet 10 inches. It's body, legs, and arms were covered with long brownish hair, which shook with every quivering movment of its body. The hair on its shoulder and back parts appeared ... to be jet black, and long, but what struck me mostly was the apparently human shape, but still so different. I saw that ... the phalanges [ toe bones] were extemely long, indicating great grasping power by the feet. The body frame was enormous, indicating immence strenght ... The head and face were very small, but very human. The eyes were very large dark and piercing, deeply set. A most horrible mouth was ornamented with two large canine teeth. When the jaws were closed they protruded over the lower lip ... All the observations occupied a few minutes while the creature stood erect, as if the fire had paralyed him. Another person to witness a Yowi was Rossco Macrae, aged 37. He said he saw the hairy creature shaped like a man, while driving at night over the crossing of the Great Dividing Range between Torrens Creek and Hughenden. Macrae works for a trucking company which delivers mail between Townsville and Mt. Isa 900 kms away. He first saw a Yowi it was about 9am in the morning holding on to a light pole, it was shacking it like a animal trying to get food from a tree. It was covered in dark brown hair, Macrae then took of at high speed. He clames to have seen the Yowi at least ten times Macrae has talked at least a dozen other truck drivers who claim to have witnessed Yowies along the particular section of high way at night. Macrae believes that Yowie are not from this world, they come from UFOs which he and other truckers have seen in the same area. He said the Yowie live in caves that surround the area and said there were alot of sheep and cattle found dead in the area. Macrae told a story of a trucker stopped for asleep at a rest area on the highway. A Yowie apparantly knocked on the window of the truck and the driver took of very fast, saying would not stop there ever again. Macrae has also spoken with Aboriginal elders at Julia Creek, 350kms away from the sighting area and he was told "Yowies exist". The Aboriginal think these creatures are demons. The Yowies have been sighted for thousands of years by Aboriginal and Europeans settlers through to the present day, could it be possible that every one over thousands of years is hallucinating. I dont think so. REFERENCE. The Yowie. UFO Magazine HTTP//ufomag.co.uk Strange & Unexplained Happenings. Vol 2 Clark Jerome, Pear Nanny International Thopson Publishing Company. |
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| By Jeff Fausch Paranormal Field Investigators |