Monsters and Myths

The flooding rains which have ravaged the east coast of Australia over the past week have left a trail of misery for many, but for one man their aftermath provides a rare opportunity to attain elusive evidence of Australia’s most famous mystery animal.

In the wake of south-east Queensland’s record-breaking floods, Tim the Yowie Man, Australia’s leading mystery investigator, has raced from his national headquarters in Canberra to the Gold Coast hinterland in an attempt to find conclusive evidence of the yowie.

“Historical records indicate that there is a direct correlation between significant rain events in this part of Queensland and the sightings of Australia’s fabled yowie,” explains the purveyor of all things mysterious.

“The soaked soil and muddy bogs created by the heavy rain is more conducive to animals, including yowies, leaving their footprints,” further explains the Yowie Man.

“Rain to the extent experienced up here in the last week would make a large hairy bipedal hominoid creature very uncomfortable and potentially force it into areas it might not otherwise frequent,” says the crack cryptonaturalist.

Tim the Yowie Man has set up camp in the village of Springbrook which has earned the title as yowie capital of Australia for its steady stream of reports over especially the last fifty years, including an alleged sighting by an Australian politician and one of the few alleged yowie encounters that has involved violence.

“It’s certainly a hot-spot for yowie activity and now immediately after the rain is historically a good time to hunt for evidence of the creature – I’m quietly confident of finding some sort of evidence such as hair or footprints of the mystery beast.”

“If I’m really lucky I may even get to see one,” hopes the Yowie Man.

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THE Yowie has been unfairly blamed for the death of a dog in the Top End, according to one of the world’s leading cryptonaturalists.

Territory Yowie researcher Andrew McGinn told the Northern Territory News yesterday the dog’s death could be the work of the Bigfoot-like beast.

“The way the guy’s dog was killed was typical of a Yowie,” he said.

“I know it sounds fanciful but over the past 100 years, dogs get killed or decapitated and people report feeling watched, having goats stolen or seeing some tall hairy thing beforehand.”

But Tim the Yowie Man, a former economist who turned his hand to Yowie research after spotting a hairy beast on a bushwalk 15 years ago, said the Yowie was not to blame.

“I’m very concerned that the Yowie is being incorrectly portrayed as an aggressive creature that is posing a danger to people’s pets,” he said.

“In over 150 years of Yowie reports all over Australia, I’ve never heard of a Yowie ripping an animal’s head off.

“It is my understanding that in this case there is no evidence that proves a Yowie is responsible for biting the head off a seven-month-old puppy.

“To speculate, with a lack of conclusive evidence to back the claims, that the decapitation of this poor puppy was the work of a Yowie is alarmist.”

The Canberra cryptonaturalist said there had only been a handful of Yowie reports from the Territory in the past 15 years.

“One turned out to be a hoax, another turned out to be a hairy naked human running across the Stuart Highway near Alice Springs and the other was of spurious origin,” he said.

Source: ntnews