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Hominology
The Great Hairy Man in Australia (Yowie)
History Of The Yowies
This
site also has photos of now deceased Aborigines as
well as text that talk's about the past and mentions
Aboriginal names. Any Aborigine, & or of Torres
Strait Island descent who might be offended by such
photos and text should not read on.
In
fact Australian settlers were seeing Yowies almost
one hundred years before Europeans had ever heard
of the Himalayan "Abominable Snowman".
And yet despite these facts, the Australian public,
apart from experienced bushmen of the outback regions,
have never heard of the Yowie. Aside
from the few legends of the Yowie recorded in Aboriginal
literature the Australian press had never heard of
the creature.
That
is until I published my first article about the Yowie
enigma some years ago, thus becoming the first researcher
ever to bring the existence of the Yowie to public
attention throughout Australia. In
quest of the Yowie I have devoted the past 43 years
to recording sightings and other facts about the creatures
throughout Australia.
Yowie
Database: Enter Here Soon
This
book is the result of many years of painstaking research.
It has not been easy to write, for its subject matter
is as complex as it is diverse.
According
to Anthropologists, anatomical modern humans have
existed for at least 35,000 years. Our earliest primitive
forefathers are supposed to have died out, or did
they. Is it really possible that, in widely-scattered,
remote mountainous and forest covered regions of the
world largely inaccessible to modern humans, relict
hominid ancestors from the dawn of human prehistory
still roam our planet.
That
is the theme of this book. However, as we are primarily
concerned with 'relict hominids' reported from the
Australasian region, our search will be primarily
confined to South-east Asia, Australia, New Guinea,
some Melanesian islands and New Zealand.
All of which I will argue later, were in ice-age times
part of one great land shelf connected with south-east
Asia to the Asian mainland, and which would have permitted
migrations of primitive hominid populations out of
Asia and down into Australasia, at a vastly earlier
period than the scientific community is at present
willing to accept.
Giants
From The Dreamtime, The Yowie in Myth and Reality
Yowie
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Hairy
Man Beasts of the Australia Bush...
Excerpts
from Mysterious Australia
Chapter 16: Released in 1995, now out of Print. Re-release
2003 Order Your Copy Click Here
If
it should surprise you that Sober Australians are seeing
creatures that have always been believed to be confined
to the vast snowy recesses and peaks of the Himalayas,
then hold on to your armchair because by the time you've
finished reading this chapter you could be convinced as
I am, that manlike monsters exist right here in Australia.
You
will learn the so-called "Abominable Snowman"
has been seen over a wide area of Australia from the earliest
times of Aboriginal and then European settlement to the
present day. As I have said, Abominable Snowman are by no
means confined to the Himalayas. Reported sightings of similar
man-beasts have been recorded from both mainland and South-East
Asia, and also over a wide area of North America.
The
creatures are known under a variety of names. Throughout
the Himalayas they are known to the Sherpa people as "Yeti"
("dweller among the rocks"). In China, the "Chi-Chi"
or "Chang Mi" (wild man"); and in Canada
and the United States, "Sasquatch", (hairy man
of the forest", better know as "Bigfoot").
Other hairy man-apes are said to inhabit the jungles of
South-east Asia and New Guinea.
Further
south still, in south-eastern Australia, the Aborigines
preserve traditions of the "Yowie" (also known
as "Doolagahl", meaning "great hairy man").
The yowies, like their overseas cousins, are described as
often enormous, hairy, manlike or ape-like creatures of
tremendous weight and strength.
Their
physical description, as given by the Aborigines to early
European settlers in the 1800's, also matches descriptions
given by modern-day eyewitnesses, and I believe this will
be significant in the eventual scientific classification
of these creatures.
According
to Aborigines, the yowies were terrifying to look upon:
fearsome and hairy, up to or over 2.6 metres in height,
with strong muscular bodies, powerful arms and large hands
longer than a human's. They walked upright upon two legs
with a stooped gait. Their heads were sunk into their shoulders,
giving them the stooped appearance.
They
had a pointed sagittal crest (skull dome) and a receding
forehead with thick, protruding eyebrow-ridges and large
deeply-set eyes. Males were often hairier than females,
who had long pendulous breasts. The feet of the yowie were
much larger than those of a normal-sized human, and possessed
an opposable big toe.
These
mysterious hominids roamed the remoter, forest-covered mountain
regions either in small family groups or or hunting in ones
and twos, their females and young secreted back in their
lairs. The Aborigines both feared and respected the yowies,
venerating them as sacred creatures from the Dreamtime.
In
fact, as already pointed out, Aboriginal folklore is still
full of giant manlike beings, creatures sometimes over three
metres in height. While some were giant humans who made
massive stone tools and sometimes fire, others were more
ape-like. From Western Australia and the Northern Territory
I have obtained traditions of a gigantic gorilla-like monster
that once terrorised Aboriginal tribes of the interior.
From
the vast amount of evidence I have gathered, it is obvious
to me that the yowie, or Doolagahl, like its central Australian
gorilla-monster relatives, was no mere Aboriginal 'bunyip'
but a flesh-and-blood creature.
What
is the Yowie (Great Hairy Man)...
Before
advancing to just some of the massive store of case-history
evidence I have gathered in over 30 years of hunting yowies
and other Australian 'monsters' across the continent, it
is first necessary too examine the following facts.
The
pointed sagittal crest is a primate rather than modern human
feature, while the receding forehead and thick, protruding
eyebrow-ridges are features of primitive 'ape man' skulls
of Java Man and Australopithecus who inhabited Asia half
a million to two million years ago during the last ice age.
In both China and Java, since the 1930's anthropologists
have been excavating massive fossil jaws and teeth of a
giant, upright-walking, manlike ape called Gigantopithecus
("South China Giant"), believed to have stood
at least five metres in height. Giant-sized fossil footprints
found in Asia are thought by some to be the tracks of Gigantopithecus.
In
Australia, similar giant fossil tracks have been found which
closely resemble the freshly made tracks of Yowie,/Yeti/Bigfoot
creatures in modern times. Gigantopithecus is at present
regarded by many 'relict hominid' researchers {such as myself}
as the ancestor of the later, smaller Yowie/Yeti/Bigfoot.
While most 'respectable' scientists dismiss the surviving
'relict hominid' theory out of hand, there are a number
of other researchers worldwide that think otherwise. Of
these, eminent American anthropologist Dr Grover T. Krantz
of Washington State University is best known.
From
exhaustive studies and comparisons of what he considers
to be authentic Bigfoot footprint plaster-casts, Krantz
has concluded that the creature may indeed be living representatives
of Gigantopithecus. Despite worldwide scientific opinion
that Gigantopithecus would have walked on its knuckles like
a gorilla rather than on its feet.
Dr Krantz makes a convincing argument based the spread of
the lower jaw, that Gigantopithecus was actually an erect
biped.
Using
the massive fossil jaws of these monster man-apes as a guide
he says; "If you change a gorilla to a vertical posture
like a human, and make the neck come straight down, one
thing you have to do is spread the back of the lower jaw
to make room for the neck.
And, as can be shown, the lower jaw of Gigantopithecus spreads
much more widely than the jaw of a gorilla. Gigantopithecus
was so much like the Sasquatch that I would assume Gigantopithecus
is still alive today".
During
the last great ice age, sea levels were much lower than
they are today, and land-bridges joined Australia and the
Americas to the Asian mainland. It was over these 'bridges'
that the ancestors of the Yowie/Yeti/Bigfoot/ would have
migrated.
Our early European settlers took the existence of the Yowie/Doolagahl
for granted, regarding them as some secretive race that
inhabited the still largely unexplored interior of the continent,
and the eastern Australian mountain ranges in particular.
In fact, sightings of 'hairy men' by Europeans date back
to the first years of settlement.
I
find these 'historic' yowie reports fascinating, for they
lend the mystery some degree of credibility. It is a belief
in this credibility that has engaged me over the past 36
years to undertake countless field expeditions often in
some of the most inhospitable mountain country, in search
of evidence of these creatures 'existence'.
My
first meeting with the Yowie took place in 1957 when, as
a 14 year old student at Liverpool Boy's High School in
Sydney's west, I came across in the school library aboriginal
myths and legends books containing numerous tales of these
hairy men. I immediately became fascinated with the creatures
and began collecting all the myths and legends I could about
them.
In 1958 when my family moved to Katoomba in the rugged Blue
Mountains, not only did I soon find out that the Yowies
were a part of local folklore, but that people had claimed
to have seen the creatures from the early 1800's into recent
years.
There
are vague reports of early settlers and soldiers having
seen and shot at hairy hominid creatures in the Springwood
district of the lower Blue Mountains as far back as the
1820's.
Over the years, similar tales have come from Katoomba and
Blackheath as well as the nearby Megalong, Kanimbla and
Hartley Valleys. Even the Sydney district in the early years
of settlement was the scene of numerous 'hairy man' sightings.
Beyond the settlement of Sydney Cove in what are now the
sprawling, populated suburbs of modern Sydney, vast forests
of trees and scrub existed there at the time.
South
of Sydney beyond Botany Bay, the inlet now known as Yowie
Bay reputedly got its name from the numerous 'hairy man'
sightings that occured thereabouts in the early days.
As early as 1795, a group of settlers on a hunting trip
was said to have spotted a man-sized hairy beast dashing
away from them through the scrub. Aborigines claimed that
hairy men inhabit the wild gullies in the Hornsby district
north of Sydney, and in about 1822, settlers are said to
have made the first sightings of the man-beasts.
As
the information concerning pioneer-period Yowie sightings
began to mount, so did my first modern-day reports. My first
press interview brought forth a farmer who claimed his father
had seen a taller-than-man sized, hairy, ape-like creature
near their Oberon farm west of the Blue Mountains many years
before.
By
the 1870's coal and shale mining had begun in the Blue Mountains
and miners entered the rugged Jamieson Valley, cutting a
railway line from the base of Katoomba Falls several kilometres
out to Ruined Castle rock formation where a settlement was
established for the mining of its extensive kerosene shale
deposits.
It
did not take long for the miners to become aware of the
'hairy man'.
During
1875, a miner, Mr J.H. Cambell, was exploring scrubland
on the western slope of the Castle, far below the tunnelling
operations, when he sighted what he later described as a
hairy, two metre-tall, manlike ape-like animal moving through
the scrub about 100 metres ahead of him, and seemingly oblivious
to his presence.
Mr
Cambell picked up a strong piece of tree limb for protection
and stalked the hairy creature for half a kilometre before
it eluded him.
Once
settlers began penetrating further into Australia's vast
interior, sightings of the hairy man began to mount. Sightings
in the southern alpine region of Victoria- New South Wales
date from around the 1850's, and in the northern NSW mountain
ranges, such as on the Carrai range west of Kempsey {to
which we shall return}, date from the 1840's.
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Drawing
of Katoomba Hominid
Copyright
(c) 2001 by Rex Gilroy
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Some
Drawings of the (Great Hairy Man)...From Australia
and NZ...Represented here are many drawings and
representations of these hominids from Australia and
New Zealand.
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My
Files Bulge from every State, such as the following...
Jindabyne
1889
In
1889 a cattlemen, Mr Ben Delgate, with several other bushman,
was mustering stock in the Jindabyne district of the Snowy
Mountains late one afternoon in May. As they moved the mob
through timber on the banks of the Snowy River, their cattle
dogs began acting strangely, sniffing the air then whimpering
and barking at something somewhere off in the dense forest.
Then
Ben and his mates were startled to see a three-metre tall,,
hairy man-like creature emerge from the trees, brandishing
a large tree limb which it began waving threateningly at
the men while emitting loud snarls. The cattle began running
in all directions, scattering in fright. One of the men
raised his rifle at the man-beast and fired, hitting him
in the shoulder.
Screaming,
the monster fled off into the timber, eluding the men who
were unable to make their horses pursue the creature. The
men could hear it screaming in the distance, crashing its
way up through the mountainside scrub.
Tumut
1895...
During
1895, two government geologists established a camp near
Tumut while on survey for minerals in the Snowy Mountains.
Late one night prior to sleeping, the men saw something
like a dingo moving around the campfire.
One of the men fired a shotgun at the 'thing', at which
it adopted an upright stance upon two legs and scrambled
in the bush. It was emitting blood-curdling screams as it
faded into the distance. The men stayed up all night, piling
logs on the fire with guns at the ready in fear of the creature's
return. The next morning they found tracks and traces of
blood near the camp.
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Glass
House Mountain QLD
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(c) 2001 by Rex Gilroy
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Photographs
of Cave & Rock art' of the Australian Aborigine,
including Glass House Mountain said to represent a
sleeping giant.
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New
Zealand Beings
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Read
about New Zealand and its 'Rich History' of Gigantic
beings, Fossilised footprints and the Implements they
used.
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Early
Victoria Sightings...1800's
Early
in the 1800's, European settlers' tales of 'hairy man' sightings
covered much of of central Victoria, where the local Aborigines
had another name for the fearsome creatures-"Doolagarl"
{similar in pronunciation to the southern NSW tribal name
"Doolagahl"}. Port Phillip District was the name
by which Victoria was known prior to 1851. Early settlers
once referred to the "hairy man" of the Port Philip
District.
They
were huge beasts, said to roam the countryside beyond old
Melbourne. Both settlers and Aborigines kept clear of them.
It was said about this time that people went missing along
some of the old bush track. Several miners on their way
to a gold claim saw a horseman ahead of them suddenly snatched
from the mount by a huge, 'hairy man-ape' that dashed out
from out of tree cover....
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