Yowie Sightings

A witness submitted a formal report to the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service describing a Yowie encounter in bushland at Springwood in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney. The witness had filmed the creature on a handheld camera and separately photographed a set of large bipedal footprints at the site. The report was received and logged by the service, making it one of the few Australian Yowie accounts to enter an official government record system. Researcher details were forwarded to Australian Yowie Research for follow-up.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yowie; https://www.yowiehunters.com.au/

Around 4 a.m., Ann James and her father were driving through the Blue Mountains when their headlights illuminated a figure running toward them on the opposite side of the highway near Woodford. Ann later recalled: 'The way it was running we thought it was in trouble — just running and stopping and looking around. We moved the car side on to it and the headlights were pointing straight at this thing, and it would have been taller than six foot — a lot taller — really big.' The figure was bipedal, moved with a distinctive gait unlike a human, and disappeared into the bush. Both witnesses were adamant the figure was not a person.

Source: https://www.thefortean.com/2018/10/07/the-monster-of-the-blue-mountains/

Sixteen-year-old Tony Solano and a friend were camping at Sandy Creek when they encountered a creature standing 2–3 metres tall covered in chocolate-brown hair in the nearby scrub. Solano's friend fired rifle shots at the shape before the two spent the night beside loaded guns. When the boys returned days later with their biology teacher, they found several large bipedal footprints, brown hair on foliage, and the crushed headless bodies of hares. A plaster cast of the largest footprint was made and photographed for the local newspaper. Solano, now an adult, has stated he would take the account 'to my grave.'

Source: https://www.cnn.com/travel/australia-bigfoot-yowie-intl-hnk-dst

Naturalist Henry James McCooey — who had previously helped demonstrate that echidnas lay eggs and discovered several lizard species — observed a tailless bipedal creature approximately five feet tall on the NSW south coast. He described it as covered in long black hair with reddish fur at the throat and chest, small restless eyes partially obscured by matted hair, and arms strikingly out of proportion to its body. McCooey wrote: 'When I first beheld the animal it was standing on its hind legs, partly upright, looking up at the birds above it in the bushes, blinking its eyes and distorting its visage and making a low chattering kind of noise.' The creature fled after he threw a stone at it. He subsequently offered the Australian Museum £40 to capture one.

Source: http://www.bigfootencounters.com/articles/mccooey.htm; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yowie