Giants From the Dreamtime the Yowie In Myth And Reality

Great Sandy Desert 1952

Monsterous Footprints-Jinka Monster

Brassey Range: Many years before, in 1952, mineral surveyors working in a remote area on the edge of the Gibson Desert in the Brassey Range found over a dozen monsterous footprints over two feet in length, embedded in drying creek mud about a day old. An Aboriginal guide with the party told the men that a "Jinka monster" was nearby and they should leave the area right away. The men heeded his advice and promptly abandoned their camp.

Dove Lake Area 1952

Several man-sized hairy Creatures

Very little was heard of the 'Bugaloos' thereabouts until, in 1952, a lone bushman reported sighting a group of several man-sized hairy creatures in the Dove Lake area while on a camping trip.

Jenolan Caves Road 1952

Tall hairy man-like ape-like Creature

Mrs W. Williams of Katoomba, during the years 1951-1952 was working with a Blue Mountains tourist bus company, driving coaches between Katoomba and Jenolan Caves. During this period she knew one coach driver who claimed he had seen a tall, hairy man-like, ape-like creature one night while driving along a lonely stretch of the Jenolan Caves Road near Hampton. The man-ape appeared ahead of him in the glare of the headlights, crossing the road into thick bushland.

A man-like ape-like Beast

Mrs Williams was to recall this tale, when one day in 1952, on a day off work, she was to have her own personal experience with the Yowie. She was taking her niece out for the day in her car to Jenolan Caves. On the return trip she decided to turn off the Jenolan Road and take a dirt road short cut to Lithgow.

As they drove along the densely wooded road, the women caught sight of an "ugly-looking hairy 'hulk', a man-like, ape-like beast 5 ft [l.5 m] in height, standing up off the road atop a grassy embankment on the edge of the scrub, observing them as they passed.

Mrs Williams observed that the 'hulk' appeared to have no neck, the head being sunk into the shoulders, giving the manbeast a stooped posture [like the Gigantopithecus-type creatures already described]. The ladies did not stop, but instead increased speed.

The Brassey Range 1952

A dozen monsterous Footprints

Back in 1952, mineral surveyors working in a remote area on the edge of the Gibson Desert in the Brassey Range, found over a dozen monstrous footprints up to 60cm in length embedded in the dried mud of a water hole, about a day old. An Aboriginal guide with the party told the men that a "Jimbra monster" was nearby and that they should leave the area right away. The men heeded his advice and promptly abandoned their camp!