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Centre for Fortean Zoology Australia: What does the Yowie really look like?
http://www.cfzaustralia.com/2011/05/what-does-yo...
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Thursday, 19 May 2011
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What does the Yowie really look like?
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Just what does a Yowie look like? It is commonly described as 'ape-like', but sports many other attributes according to witnesses.
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Some report the creature has "glowing red eyes" like the picture above, created by Australian artist Sharaya Brooks, and that it moves with supernatural speed.
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Some people believe tales of the Yowie paint the creature as more faerie-like than fierce physical beast.
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Aboriginal lore does support the existence of 'little people’ (of a small, hairy variety) in Australia – the yuuri (pronounced 'yawri’, not unlike Yowie) or 'brown jack’, which fulfil a similar role to that of European elves and leprechauns, guarding certain places, granting favours and playing tricks on people.
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Early colonial encounters describe the creature as "gorilla-like"with black hair, or "half baboon half man".
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The animal regularly startled white settlers, spooked indigenous people and frightened horses and livestock.
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Other descriptions refer to the Yowie as a monster - a "big hairy thing", "man like" and hulking - ranging in size from 4ft-10ft in height - with shaggy, woolly hair.
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"Like a huge man with hair all over it" with an "ugly and hairy" face, according to one witness whose horse was frightened by the creature.
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One thing many witnesses agree on is the smell the creature exudes - like "something dead", rancid, stinking, a "burnt bakelite smell", and like "something electrical". -
"It was like an elephant on two legs wearing size 20 boots," Blue Mountains resident Neil Frost would later describe the ape-like creature he encountered in thick bush near his backyard to local police.
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His neighbour Ian described the monster as "7ft [2m] tall, two of me in build. I weigh 100kg [16st], so we’re looking at a creature at least three times my body mass. It was big.
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It ran sort of like a person, but not quite. There was something odd in its gait... It was a big hairy beastie."
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An article from 1842 reads: "The natives of Australia...believe in...[the]Yahoo...This being they describe as resembling a man...of nearly the same height,...with long white hair hanging down from the head over the features...the arms as extraordinarily long, furnished at the extremities with great talons,
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and the feet turned backwards, so that, on flying from man, the imprint of the foot appears as if the being had travelled in the opposite direction.
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Altogether, they describe it as a hideous monster of an unearthy character and ape-like appearance."
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In an article entitled “Australian Apes” appearing in the 1880s, a Mr. H. J. McCooey, claimed to have seen an "indigenous ape" on the south coast of New South Wales:
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"A few days ago I saw one of these strange creatures…on the coast between Bateman’s Bay and Ulladulla… I should think that if it were standing perfectly upright it would be nearly 5 feet high.
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"It was tailless and covered with very long black hair, which was of a dirty red or snuff-colour about the throat and breast. Its eyes, which were small and restless, were partly hidden by matted hair that covered its head… I threw a stone at the animal, whereupon it immediately rushed off…”
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Kilcoy claims to be the home of the mythical Yowie, Australia's equivalent of Bigfoot or the Yeti, which is said to live in the hills around Kilcoy.
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There is a large wooden statue of the creature in town (above and below) that looks more man than ape.
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Some local boys saw the creature, which they said was three metres tall and "smelled of sulphur".
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