Giants From the Dreamtime the Yowie In Myth And Reality

Micalong Gorge 1941

The strange creature "walking on two legs & covered in long Hair"

One day in 1941, Jack Flynn a stockman employed at Wee Jasper station, reported to his fellow station hands he had seen a strange hominid creature in Micalong Gorge, while he was resting on the top of a cliff in a part of the gorge called The Pound. He had been holding a few sheep here while waiting for his employer, Manager Mr. D.G. Wilkinson, to join him.

"The strange creature", he said, "suddenly appeared at the base of the cliff, along which it proceeded to walk." It was, he noticed, "stopped in appearance, walking upon two legs. It appeared small, about the size of a yearling calf, and was covered with long hair." "I could not see the animal's head, although its forequarters were dark, and its hindquarters were a light roan to grey colour."

"It continued on, walking across a rocky outcrop, making no noise, which indicated that its feet were padded," he later said to a reporter. Further queries soon revealed that, for some time prior to Jack's sighting, other station hands had heard strange roaring sounds coming from the bushland thereabouts.....