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 8

One October night in 1988 I was woken from my sleep by the phone ringing. Half awake, I picked up the receiver to hear the frantic voice of a woman. I glanced at my watch: the time was 1 am. In an at-first garbled manner she was trying to explain as best she could-while others screamed in the background-that a huge, dark, hairy manlike monster was standing in the backyard of her house which backed onto dense scrub at the end of a well-populated street on the edge of east Blaxland.

Her husband then came to the phone, repeating much of what she had just said. Finally the story became clearer. It appeared that they had just moved into their new home and had invited a dozen friends to a housewarming party. As the others sat about the lounge room talking, two of the guests, a man and woman, had gone out onto a balcony overlooking the backyard and the scrub beyond.

As they looked toward the scrub, they spotted a tall, indistinct, dark figure standing on the edge of the bush in the dim glow of the house lights. As they watched inquisitively, the figure stepped forward into full view.

The couple dashed into the lounge room shouting about what was standing outside. At this, everyone came out to see what the commotion was, only to look down with horror upon a snarling 2.6-metre- tall, naked male creature, very hairy and more ape-looking than human. The women ran inside screaming.

The man-monster proceeded to hurl one rock after another from a nearby garden at the men still standing on the balcony above, before they, too, retreated inside. By now, the woman was phoning the police (who failed to take the matter seriously). Believing the monster to be a yowie, she phoned me as well. Meanwhile, the man-ape walked away into the bush, leaving a bad odour about the yard. It left no footprints due to the hard rocky ground thereabouts.

Investigating the scene later, I found the scrub led into a deep gully dropping down into the eastern escarpment of the Blue Mountains which overlooks the Nepean River with Winmalee to the north-scene of many claimed yowie encounters over the years.

On Saturday 7th June 1979, Mr John Evbic and a mate, "Tony", were exploring the dense scrub on the Jamieson Valley side of the Ruined Castle rock formation. Around midday, as they rested on a rise overlooking a paperbark forest some 60 metres below them, they observed a humanlike shape moving on two legs among the trees.

As it came into full view, the men realised it to be no ordinary human being but something more ape than man, and a good six feet tall. It was covered in long brownish hair.

"The strange beast moved to a paperbark trunk and began tearing away large slabs of bark, appearing to pick off and eat beetles it found burrowing underneath, oblivious all the time to our presence," said Tony.

The mysterious man-beast then began moving off further into the scrub, continuing its foraging. When it was lost from sight, the men did not follow it.

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