rmoor wrote:

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Interesting.

After your stories a few months ago you posted I spoke to the local bush tucker expert.
He told me his grand parents said there were none in the hills near us during their or their ancestors time.

But he did say his grand parents knew of them in other locations in a locality I forget where he said where.
I would imagine we are too far west and the mountains are dry and drought affected from time to time.

The early aboriginal populations were mostly river or stream based from what I can deem from local history.
So I think the local mountain terrain would not support any population for long in our wild country locality.

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 Where is this locality that you are talking about? where are you located?

 

Secondly, these yowies do not live in this area, they come here during winter, their home range is Guy Fawkes all the way up to the QLD border.

 

3rdly, I had camped in Guy Fawkes, numerous times,  did not come  across them but an elderly friend of mine that hermited in GF, had seen them from time to time, but was left alone by them, He hermited up there for nearly 25 years before he died in his cabin with his lab dog. 12 months ago.

-- Edited by Bicyclecamper on Tuesday 26th of May 2026 10:29:57 AM

Ditto.

I am not a sceptic.

Your account has piqued my interest and I did a lot of internet searching yesterday and today.
I firmly believe there is way too much evidence from sensible people for there not to have been/or still be Yowie's in Australia.

Dropped in to see some friends yesterday afternoon that have traveled to many remote places in Australia.

He was working in the Pilliga many years ago with a team of 9 timber cutters and the base team.
He spoke of several encounters with strange events but did not see anything.
Also spoke of one night where his van was shaken heavily but it appeared no-one in the camp was playing a trick on him.

The next morning when he went crook, it was apparent no-one else could have done it.
They were in a remote part of the Pilliga.
The Pilliga has some interesting accounts of Yowie encounters that I read yesterday.

Also, the age old stories and evidence from the aboriginal population supports their existence.
My mate also mentioned yesterday he was aware of a carcass that had been found remotely somewhere that was of strange origin.

Surely it is not beyond the realms of possibility a prehistoric being has survived over many years in remote locations in this wide wild land.
It is just a shame a skeleton or some physical evidence of their existence has not been found?

There is also a possibility the Yowie is now extinct.
They were also largely nocturnal so unlikely to show up on stock cameras?

Well, I may find out if they are around this year, as a mate of mine, has seen two in Gibraltar Range, and now retired has time up his sleeve, and is coming with me back to the proper camp ground in the next 2 weeks, if we have no luck there, we are heading into Guy Fawkes for summer, and staying in there for a month.

 

He, like me is armed, also ex - Vatican Policeman, I am still unarmed until I get this PTSD under control, he my mate Barry, has suitable weaponry to bring one down if we are threatened. We have good cameras, as well as infra red cameras, his put's out green in colour which is the best, mine is red, does show other things, that are not necessarily there ( they are actually banned), so we should see something.

-- Edited by Bicyclecamper on Wednesday 27th of May 2026 05:15:59 PM

Ineedabiggerboat wrote:

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I have some great scary stories to recite around a campfire to unnerve people. They are stories, not facts. Call me a skeptic, no problem.

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We wouldn't call you skeptic... We would call you normal or as we say here "down to earth"...

Some people are very gullible... There are books and religions that have been specifically created for them... It is a big business industry...

I am still not sceptical.

Reckon there is a possibility ancient populations could have existed in remote areas over time.
Look at the Sentinelese tribe on the remote island off India.

I do agree though, firm physical evidence of the existence of some weird populations would be better.
Read of a sighting of a large male, a female and two smaller ones near Parkes, NSW.

If Yowies are so scarce, and they DID/DO exist, then they must be bred out at some stage due to a lack of breeding pairs?
They may well be extinct now.

There is also a strong possibility some sightings have been wild men in the bush, or women like the Pilliga princess.

There is also evidence of a population of pygmies in some regions, but is is said they were killed off by the aborigines when they arrived?
Another one to argue or debate about ha ha !!!!

I agree with Dorian. He makes a good point that explains why no definitive photos exist.

Supposedly the yowie, bigfoot and yeti are all similar. Bigfoot and yeti are better known internationally. There are others.

I found this link about a scientific DNA study of 30 hair samples that had been stored in museums and private collections in various parts of the world in the belief they came from such animals. All were explained as belonging to a known species.

Study by Museum of Zoology, Lausanne and the University of Oxford

Ric, I don't think you are lying about it, nor does anyone else here appear to. I have no doubt you believe it. But like others, I believe there must be some other explanation.

 

 

 

You mean like this?

 

Ineedabiggerboat wrote:

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BC unless a dog is trained to hunt wild pigs, the dog will have an instinctive fear of them and will try and avoid them at all costs. If your dog was scared, my money is on a pig not a yowie.

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 Well, your pig theory must be big, because they stood 8 feet tall. Now I have seen many a pig, hunting, razorbacks as long as 6 ft, and weighing over 500kg, but I have never seen one standing on it's back legs with  a human like face, running after us, hollering like a werewolf. You should read my other two stories before this lot to get some perspective.

 

Plus, they  were throwing things on our roof do pigs do this?

-- Edited by Bicyclecamper on Thursday 28th of May 2026 08:41:57 PM

Bicyclecamper wrote:

You should read my other two stories before this lot to get some perspective.

 

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 I read about another story once, where you had a talking snake, a guy walking on water and a magician that could easily convert water into wine... It is a good funny and entertaining story, but not much more than that...

However, all these stories do make much more sense, when you start to analyse the actual people telling them... That's when... you know...      Everything start to make sense then...

 

Everyone on the negative sides make good points, and reasonable assumptions, that is fair enough.
Probably not fair though to ridicule those who have a belief in such things.

There does not appear to be a great deal of evidence, other than sightings.
I would be hopeful one day a mummified bit of evidence surfaced, until then I guess the nays are winning the debate.

Visited a friend yesterday, her late father was an old railway sleeper cutter and spent most of his life working in the bush.
I was telling her about the Yowie discussion and my subsequent research.
She said her father sighted one in the Pilliga a forest one evening when he was working remotely in the bush.
She said he was adamant with what he saw as it passed by him on the fringe of their bush camp.
In her opinion she never had any reason to doubt his word about that or anything else.
Her opinion was, he was adamant and was telling the truth with what he saw.
Also the Pilliga has a lot of sighting history.
That is two people in two days I have mentioned the topic to that have related Yowie events in the Pilliga that were also never documented anywhere.

Maybe there were wild men living in the bush remotely, mistaken for another creature, maybe not?
There seem to be a hellava lot of sightings and accounts and a lot of indigenous history on the topic.

Oh well, I will stay on the side of belief of Bicyclecamper and hope he DOES encounter one and lives to tell the story - and supply a photo

I will say though, over the years I have related some true events on this forum and been branded a liar by some and ridiculed unfairly.
That is both frustrating, unfair and demeaning.
Those posters appear to have left the site for good since........

Ineedabiggerboat wrote:

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 Mate you are digging a bigger and bigger hole, I don't do drugs of any type, I don't do psychedelics, at all even the legal ones like mushrooms that DVA offer for PTSD. I don't drink alcohol. I don't do testosterone. I do smoke nicotine, but it don't do anything like that. I do do meds that have codeine small amounts for severe osteoarthritus, but don't get high or inebriated in any way. The damn things exist, the reason why no one has really got a good pic of them is, they are not dumb, that is why they have survived for over 150,000 years they will still be here after humans are gone, unless we stuff the planet for them too, which is likely to happen.

No holes, just facts.