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In August 2009, Faye Burke and her cousin Alana Garnett left their homes in Wingham with a trailer attached to the car.
They were driving towards Cundle Flat to load the trailer with fresh pumpkins from Faye's brother's home.
"It was half moonlight, the stars were out and it was a beautiful night," Faye said.
But oddly enough there was not a car on the Nowendoc Road.
"I have been driving that road all my life and that's unusual," she said.
Driving steadily the pair were approaching Connelly's Creek Gap "just on the other side of Mt George".
"We were about 200 metres from the top of the hill when I clearly remember looking down at the car clock and it was exactly 7.30pm," Faye said.
"I looked back up at the road and I saw ahead in the headlights this big hairy animal thing on the side of the winding road.
"It was about eight foot tall and four foot wide."
Alana said they yelled out "holy hell" along with a list of other unmentionable words. "We panicked," they said.
"I couldn't turn the car around because I had the trailer and the road was too narrow," Faye said.
"I was s**t-scared and thought I better not mess with this thing in case it lifts the trailer up and tips us over the bank edge."
Keeping her foot on the accelerator and speeding past the thing, Faye said she turned to Alana and said: "Did you see that? She said in a scared voice: 'Do you mean that thing that looked like a Big Foot?' I said: No it was a Yowie."
And Alana screamed back: "Same thing!".
"After we reached the top of the hill I wanted to turn around and get a photo with my mobile phone," Faye said.
But Alana was too scared to go back. She said if the passenger window had been wound down she could have reached out and touched it.
Faye and Alana said the hairy thing stood perfectly still "like it was at attention".
"Its back was facing us and it was looking into the embankment next to the road and it had dark chocolate brown hair which was all matted," Alana said.
"The breeze of the car made the hair around its neck flick up as we drove past."
Neither Alana or Faye believe it was a person dressed up or a ghost. "It was real," they said.
"And I am absolutely convinced it was a yowie."
Faye just wishes she had gone back and taken a photo.
"I knew people wouldn't believe us and I didn't phone the police because I thought they would think we were loopy."
Faye said: "I am not a drinker and I hadn't been drinking but I did have a beer when I got to my brother's house that night.
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Friday, December 9, 2011
Friday, June 24, 2011
'Dog killed by Yowie'
FIRST it was UFOs, now it's feared Yowies could be on the loose in Darwin's rural area.
A Territory Yowie researcher believes the Big-Foot-like beast could be responsible for the recent death of a dog south of Darwin.
The dog's owners believed their seven-month-old puppy, which had its head ripped from its body, was mauled to death by dingoes. But Andrew McGinn, who has been researching Yowies in the Top End for more than a decade, said it was possible the hairy ape-type beast was responsible for the attack.
Read on...
BIG: A photograph of a footprint taken on mango farmer Katrina Tucker's Acacia Hills property in 1997
A Territory Yowie researcher believes the Big-Foot-like beast could be responsible for the recent death of a dog south of Darwin.
The dog's owners believed their seven-month-old puppy, which had its head ripped from its body, was mauled to death by dingoes. But Andrew McGinn, who has been researching Yowies in the Top End for more than a decade, said it was possible the hairy ape-type beast was responsible for the attack.
Read on...
BIG: A photograph of a footprint taken on mango farmer Katrina Tucker's Acacia Hills property in 1997
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Hunt on for star yowie - Film needs beast of a man (via Paul Cropper)
2 May 2010
Sunday Mail, The
A QUEENSLAND film student has launched a search for a man to play the yowie in a movie about the mystical ape-like creature rumoured to roam the Australian bush. The casting call for the short film, called The Yowie, states the successful applicant should be tall, powerful, hairy, physical, a ``Big-Foot'' and aged between 25 and 55.
Perhaps our very own hairy Hollywood star Russell Crowe could take a paycut and step in to the role, or un-manscaped local talent such as Titans prop Brad Meyers or Wolfmother guitarist Andrew Stockdale. Griffith University film student Col Bayford, 23, said the script was inspired by sasquatch stories in his native Canada and adapted to tell the tale of the Australian yowie.
``We've had over 80 applications for the role so far but the ideal candidate would be tall, hairy, rugged guy,'' Mr Bayford said. ``Creating that humanoid look is important to us because we want people to think it could be a guy in a monkey suit but he just doesn't look quite right.''
The film is based on two main characters, couple James and Vivian, who are spending a weekend camping when a mysterious figure appears in the bush. The plot follows the couple as they battle to survive the night. Mr Bayford said the film, which was funded by students, was ``more thriller than horror''. But while the film is fictional, Australian Yowie Research (AYR) founder Dean Harrison is convinced real-life yowies are out there.
``When you have done the research we have and seen what we've seen, interviewed the countless witnesses, taken plaster casts of footprints, you have to believe,'' Mr Harrison said.
``And there are photos and footage but that's all I can say and I can't say any more but they are very real,'' he said.
According to AYR almost 10,000 sightings have been reported around the nation, the majority on the east coast, including bushland areas around Brisbane.
But is budding film director Mr Bayford a believer? ``I am a firm believer in science and evolution so I keep an open mind about these things,'' he said. The Yowie begins filming at Murwillumbah in June.For information on casting for The Yowie visit http://www.starnow.com/
* Do you have a yowie sighting story? Email healys@qnp.newsltd.com.au
THE AUSSIE BIGFOOT
* There have been almost 10,000 reported sightings of yowies across Australia.
* The name "yowie" is believed to be an adaptation of Aboriginal names "Yuuri" and "Yowri", which were two commonly used names for the creature, particularly in NSW.
* They are believed to be similar to the equally mysterious ape-like creatures known as bigfoot (the USA), sasquatch (Canada), yeti (China) and chuchuna (Russia).
* The largest populations of yowie are believed to be in the remote mountainous ranges of southeast Australia.
* They have thick dark skin on the face with deep skin folds and a flattened wide nose. They often have a strong odour. They are powerfully built with broad shoulders, a small neck and muscular legs similar to an ape.
* Yowies have some serious body hair and walk upright.
Source: Australian Yowie Research
Nominate a yowie contender and read accounts of beastly sightings at thesundaymail.com.au
SML-20100502-2-020-291633
Document SNDMAL0020100501e65200013
Sunday Mail, The
A QUEENSLAND film student has launched a search for a man to play the yowie in a movie about the mystical ape-like creature rumoured to roam the Australian bush. The casting call for the short film, called The Yowie, states the successful applicant should be tall, powerful, hairy, physical, a ``Big-Foot'' and aged between 25 and 55.
Perhaps our very own hairy Hollywood star Russell Crowe could take a paycut and step in to the role, or un-manscaped local talent such as Titans prop Brad Meyers or Wolfmother guitarist Andrew Stockdale. Griffith University film student Col Bayford, 23, said the script was inspired by sasquatch stories in his native Canada and adapted to tell the tale of the Australian yowie.
``We've had over 80 applications for the role so far but the ideal candidate would be tall, hairy, rugged guy,'' Mr Bayford said. ``Creating that humanoid look is important to us because we want people to think it could be a guy in a monkey suit but he just doesn't look quite right.''
The film is based on two main characters, couple James and Vivian, who are spending a weekend camping when a mysterious figure appears in the bush. The plot follows the couple as they battle to survive the night. Mr Bayford said the film, which was funded by students, was ``more thriller than horror''. But while the film is fictional, Australian Yowie Research (AYR) founder Dean Harrison is convinced real-life yowies are out there.
``When you have done the research we have and seen what we've seen, interviewed the countless witnesses, taken plaster casts of footprints, you have to believe,'' Mr Harrison said.
``And there are photos and footage but that's all I can say and I can't say any more but they are very real,'' he said.
According to AYR almost 10,000 sightings have been reported around the nation, the majority on the east coast, including bushland areas around Brisbane.
But is budding film director Mr Bayford a believer? ``I am a firm believer in science and evolution so I keep an open mind about these things,'' he said. The Yowie begins filming at Murwillumbah in June.For information on casting for The Yowie visit http://www.starnow.com/
* Do you have a yowie sighting story? Email healys@qnp.newsltd.com.au
THE AUSSIE BIGFOOT
* There have been almost 10,000 reported sightings of yowies across Australia.
* The name "yowie" is believed to be an adaptation of Aboriginal names "Yuuri" and "Yowri", which were two commonly used names for the creature, particularly in NSW.
* They are believed to be similar to the equally mysterious ape-like creatures known as bigfoot (the USA), sasquatch (Canada), yeti (China) and chuchuna (Russia).
* The largest populations of yowie are believed to be in the remote mountainous ranges of southeast Australia.
* They have thick dark skin on the face with deep skin folds and a flattened wide nose. They often have a strong odour. They are powerfully built with broad shoulders, a small neck and muscular legs similar to an ape.
* Yowies have some serious body hair and walk upright.
Source: Australian Yowie Research
Nominate a yowie contender and read accounts of beastly sightings at thesundaymail.com.au
SML-20100502-2-020-291633
Document SNDMAL0020100501e65200013
Thursday, April 23, 2009
'Yowie not to blame for death'
MATT CUNNINGHAM
April 22nd, 2009
THE Yowie has been unfairly blamed for the death of a dog in the Top End, according to one of the world's leading cryptonaturalists.
Territory Yowie researcher Andrew McGinn told the Northern Territory News yesterday the dog's death could be the work of the Bigfoot-like beast.
"The way the guy's dog was killed was typical of a Yowie," he said.
"I know it sounds fanciful but over the past 100 years, dogs get killed or decapitated and people report feeling watched, having goats stolen or seeing some tall hairy thing beforehand."
But Tim the Yowie Man, a former economist who turned his hand to Yowie research after spotting a hairy beast on a bushwalk 15 years ago, said the Yowie was not to blame.
"I'm very concerned that the Yowie is being incorrectly portrayed as an aggressive creature that is posing a danger to people's pets," he said.
"In over 150 years of Yowie reports all over Australia, I've never heard of a Yowie ripping an animal's head off.
"It is my understanding that in this case there is no evidence that proves a Yowie is responsible for biting the head off a seven-month-old puppy.
"To speculate, with a lack of conclusive evidence to back the claims, that the decapitation of this poor puppy was the work of a Yowie is alarmist."
The Canberra cryptonaturalist said there had only been a handful of Yowie reports from the Territory in the past 15 years.
"One turned out to be a hoax, another turned out to be a hairy naked human running across the Stuart Highway near Alice Springs and the other was of spurious origin," he said.
http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2009/04/22/46555_ntnews.html
April 22nd, 2009
THE Yowie has been unfairly blamed for the death of a dog in the Top End, according to one of the world's leading cryptonaturalists.
Territory Yowie researcher Andrew McGinn told the Northern Territory News yesterday the dog's death could be the work of the Bigfoot-like beast.
"The way the guy's dog was killed was typical of a Yowie," he said.
"I know it sounds fanciful but over the past 100 years, dogs get killed or decapitated and people report feeling watched, having goats stolen or seeing some tall hairy thing beforehand."
But Tim the Yowie Man, a former economist who turned his hand to Yowie research after spotting a hairy beast on a bushwalk 15 years ago, said the Yowie was not to blame.
"I'm very concerned that the Yowie is being incorrectly portrayed as an aggressive creature that is posing a danger to people's pets," he said.
"In over 150 years of Yowie reports all over Australia, I've never heard of a Yowie ripping an animal's head off.
"It is my understanding that in this case there is no evidence that proves a Yowie is responsible for biting the head off a seven-month-old puppy.
"To speculate, with a lack of conclusive evidence to back the claims, that the decapitation of this poor puppy was the work of a Yowie is alarmist."
The Canberra cryptonaturalist said there had only been a handful of Yowie reports from the Territory in the past 15 years.
"One turned out to be a hoax, another turned out to be a hairy naked human running across the Stuart Highway near Alice Springs and the other was of spurious origin," he said.
http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2009/04/22/46555_ntnews.html
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
'Dog killed by Yowie'
MATT CUNNINGHAMApril 21st, 2009
FIRST it was UFOs, now it's feared Yowies could be on the loose in Darwin's rural area.
A Territory Yowie researcher believes the Big-Foot-like beast could be responsible for the recent death of a dog south of Darwin.
The dog's owners believed their seven-month-old puppy, which had its head ripped from its body, was mauled to death by dingoes.
But Andrew McGinn, who has been researching Yowies in the Top End for more than a decade, said it was possible the hairy ape-type beast was responsible for the attack.
"The way the guy's dog was killed was typical of a Yowie," he said.
"I know it sounds fanciful but over the past 100 years, dogs get killed or decapitated and people report feeling watched, having goats stolen or seeing some tall hairy thing in the days beforehand."
In the late 1990s there were several reports of Yowie sightings around Acacia Hills.
In August 1997, mango farmer Katrina Tucker reported being just metres away from what she described as a hairy humanoid creature on her Acacia Hills property.
Photographs of the creature's footprint were taken the next day and examined by the Northern Territory Museum, which concluded that Ms Tucker had been hoaxed.
But Mr McGinn said after speaking with Ms Tucker he had no doubt her story was true.
"After I met this lady I found she was clearly terrified," he said.
Carpenter Darryl Campbell reported seeing a similar creature near Adelaide River in 1998.
Mr McGinn contacted the Northern Territory News after reading a report that Acacia Hills resident Alan Ferguson had spotted UFOs flying around his home.
He said the area seemed to be home to a lot of unusual activity.
"I have been here for 16 years and I hear time and time again reports of these strange things around Acacia Hills," he said.
But Mr Ferguson said he had never seen a Yowie.
"I only see things scootin' around the sky, I don't see hairy monsters," he said,
"But if that's really true, what's next, dinosaurs running around the streets?"
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Australia: Bigfoot spotted in bush near Sydney
15 April 2009Two backpackers on a year long trip around Australia got the fright of their life last week while they were out trekking in bushland in the vicinity of the township of Leura, not far from the well known Katoomba landmark, ‘The Three Sisters’.
It was early evening and by the two ladies admission a bit late to be by themselves in the bush. Ingrid Schoen 23, of Germany and Adi Hassan, 22 of France decided to head back into to town when heard the breaking of branches and loud footsteps heading towards them. Ingrid shone a torch onto the track in front of them. At this point they both claim to have seen what they now describe as Bigfoot charge away into the distance.
‘Admittedly we did not get a close look but we think what we saw looked like the American Bigfoot, basically covered in fur and about two meters tall. It definitely had no clothes on and was not human.’ Ingrid told All News Web reporter Jadyn Cassidy. 'We were petrified and almost lost our way back in our nervous state' Ingrid commented.
The Blue Mountains is believed to be the home of a creature known as the Yowie, basically Australia’s version of Bigfoot or the Yeti. There have been many recent sightings. Prior to the arrival of Europeans local Aboriginal tribes were certain of its existence. Aboriginal communities still living in the Blue Mountains along with some other locals continue to believe the Yowie might be out there in the vast expanses of Australia’s Great Dividing Range.
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