Ape-Men in Australia by Rex Gilroy Copyright (c) 2001 Rex Gilroy. This article is composed of extracts from my 2001 Yowie book: “Giants From the Dreamtime” -The Yowie in Myth and Reality. Copyright (c) 2001 Rex Gilroy, Uru Publications.

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The Australian Yowie Story

Yowies in Australia
Man-Apes of Eastern Australia

Excerpts From Chapter 16 Mysterious Australia 1995 - Rex Gilroy Parts 1-13

Click at End of each Article for Parts 2-16

Part 14-16 Is The Updated Version From the 2001 Yowie Book
" Giants From The Dreamtime - The Yowie in Myth & Reality."

Part 13

The Atherton Tableland, rising high above Cairns, is the scene of frequent 'hairy man' reports. During December 1969, several timber-cutters claimed they saw a two-metre-tall, hairy male "man-ape" watching them among trees as they worked near the town of Atherton.

Earlier that same year, another logging group operating in the Kuranda district reported seeing three strange hominid creatures-an apparent male and female each of two metres in height, and a juvenile of about 1.3 metres-foraging in a gully below them.

Twenty years later, in April 1989, another family group of these hairy 'manimals' shocked a group of loggers by wandering from out of the forest and onto the edge of their camp in broad daylight. Terrified, the men grabbed for wooden stakes and, shouting at the creatures, managed to drive them back into the jungle. The loggers described the humanoid creatures as a 23-metre-tall male, a 1. 3-m juvenile male, and a 2-metre-tall female.

And so the stories of Australia~s Bigfoot creatures continue and show not the slightest indication of ever diminishing. And, I believe, these mysterious, seemingly fearsome yet totally fascinating hairy primitives will continue to survive, hidden in the remote and still largely inaccessible recesses of our vast mountain ranges.

It never ceases to amaze me just how much interest my lifelong research has created. Perhaps the main reason why. millions of people worldwide find the yowie/yeti/Bigfoot mystery so fascinating is that in modem times it is one of the last great unsolved mysteries-in the tradition of the Loch Ness Monster, the giant monitor lizards of Australia and the 'neodinosaurs' of the Congo.

People are naturally excited about these and any other unexplained mysteries and want to read all the available literature about them. But there can be nothing more exciting than actually participating in the search for such creatures.

I therefore feel privileged to be the founder of yowie research in Australia, and to have encouraged others to follow my example.

The search for surviving 'relict hominids' in remote, hidden regions of the world has been called the last great search", and for me it is a fascinating one.

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Parts 14-16 This article [ Parts 14-16] is an updated version of the 1995 Mysterious Australia section on the Yowie is composed of extracts from my 2001 Yowie book: “Giants From the Dreamtime” -The Yowie in Myth and Reality. Copyright (c) 2001 Rex Gilroy, Uru Publications.

Parts 1-13 are excerpts From Chapter 16 Mysterious Australia 1995 - Rex Gilroy