Giants From the Dreamtime the Yowie In Myth And Reality

Near Singleton 1955

Two black Natives

In 1955, a farmer living at the north-eastern tip of "the wilderness" near Singleton, was shocked one night when he caught in the glare of his torch, two 1.3 m tall black natives in the act of uprooting vegetables from a back paddock garden. They escaped into nearby scrub

Tully River 1955-Letter 1975

Blackish brown gorilla-like Creature

In 1975 I received a letter from Mr Ron Brooks of Cairns, in which he related an experience of his that took place when he was 25 years old in 1955. "In those days I worked for a timber company. One day, while delivering a load of timber to a property out on the Tully river, I was driving my truck through a stretch of forest on a dirt track.

Ahead of me was a tree-covered swamp on my [drivers] side of the track. I spotted a tall, dark figure wading through the swamp water among the trees and approaching the edge of the track." "Thinking it was the bloke who owned the nearby property that I was approaching, I slowed down and yelled out, 'G'day Bert'." "It was a clear spot and as I pulled up, the figure emerged from the trees and I got the shock of my life."

"Standing only yards away was a 7ft [2.1m] tall, blackish-brown long-haired, upright-standing, stooped gorilla-like creature, with very muscular long arms; a big, powerful-looking beast with a big chest and muscular legs with big feet."

"I did not wait any longer and drove off at increased speed, but I do recall that 'he' had human-like genitals, and his head looked very ape-like; big, dark eyes set deep inside large projecting eyebrows and a receding forehead." "I later made the mistake of telling some locals and got laughed at.

But two old blokes who had been timber cutters up in the mountains believed me. They said that old settlers had known of the 'hairy ape-men of the mountains' last [19th] century, and that early timber cutters hardly ever went into the scrub unless they were in armed groups, in case they met up with one or more of these 'apes'. Also, the local blacks say 'hairy giants' have inhabited the whole of the far north since the Dreamtime."