Bigfoot (Yowie) Sightings - In Australia!
Time for another cryptid post! As many are aware, the hybrid creature known as Bigfoot has many names in many countries and cultures; in North America, the most well-known is Sasquatch; in China, it is Yeti. Here in Australia, we call these creatures Yowies (or less commonly, but possibly more accurately Yahoos ). First off, a newspaper account from the 1700s describing a hairy giant/monster brought back to England from Botany Bay : An extract from Chapter 16 of Mysterious Australia , penned by Rex Gilroy: The Yowie Story From Eyewitness and Aboriginal Accounts Sketch By Rex Gilroy Australia’s Leading Authority on The Yowie History Of The Yowies: 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 ...