Cryptid researcher claims Yowie almost killed him twice

An illustration of the mythical Yowie by W Asmussen.

Via therakyatpost.com

Bigfoot. Sasquatch. The Yeti. You’ve most likely heard of these cryptids, but what about the Yowie?

Meet the man who claims he has not only encountered the mythical Yowie, an ape-like Australian creature similar to Bigfoot, but also that the terrifying monster almost killed him not once, but twice!

Yowie researcher Dean Harrison has described his too-close-for-comfort encounters with the mysterious creature, once in Ormeau in the Gold Coast hinterland and again in Kilkivan near Gympie, according to a report in news.com.au.

“The scary thing is that yowies have a massive advantage over us because of their eyesight in the dark. The thing that knocked me over ran down a hill in pitch darkness past obstacles, trees and logs. The angles were so steep but it sprinted down.

“It didn’t miss a beat. The one that chased me at Ormeau was the same,” he was reported to have said.


The yowie is Australia’s very own Bigfoot. They are reputed to live in the wilderness and witnesses claim to have seen them in all states and territories in the Australian mainland.

Ipswich, west of Brisbane, is right now considered a yowie hotspot among researchers according to the report.

The first reported sighting of the Yowie was believed to be in 1882, by an amateur naturalist Henry James McCooey, somewhere between Ulladulla and Bateman’s Bay on the NSW coast.

Though Yowies, like Bigfoot or the Yeti are considered the stuff of legends by many scientists, there is a significant community of believers, such as Harrison, who are firm believers that these 2m-tall creatures not only exist, but are also roaming freely in the Australian bush.

Another witness, Tony Duffy says, “in the last 12 months I have had close contact with yowies on at least seven occasions.

“These creatures must be protected and respected. Yowies are clearly ‘the missing link’ that scientists have looked for decades. I believe they are the greatest discovery in the history of natural science.”

Former Queensland senator Bill O’Chee has also claimed to have seen a “hairy, apelike thing that probably would have stood about eight feet (2.4m) tall”, at a campsite at the Gold Coast hinterland in the 1970s.

Though there is no irrefutable proof that Yowies exist, Professor Bill Laurance from James Cook University says we shouldn’t be so quick to dismiss the dedicated work of cryptobiologists such as Dean Harrison, as they hunt down these elusive beasts.

“While it’s tempting to giggle occasionally, cryptobiologists have made many valuable discoveries,” he said in 2013, pointing to Lazarus species such as the Mindoro fruit bat, the Laotian rock rat and Australia’s mountain pygmy possum and Wollemi pine.

“All this means we should probably keep an open mind about the world’s biological mysteries,”he said.

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