Paul Cropper on Springbrook Yowie
Posted by: Loren Coleman on March 11th, 2007
Australian cryptozoologist Paul Cropper, co-author of The Yowie: In Search of Australia’s Bigfoot offers his take on the comments here on Cryptomundo regarding the Springbrook Yowie earlier post.
This is Paul Cropper, co-author of the Yowie book. It’s no stunt. Firstly, the article author, journalist Gabrielle Dunlevey of the Gold Coast Bulletin, contacted us about a week and a half ago about the reports. We didn’t call her. Here’s a quote from her email to us:
“Hi Paul and Tony. I was hunting around for stories at Springbrook today, and learned about the recent release of your book from Andre at the Homestead. There have also been a couple of yowie incidents in the past few weeks – so we thought it an opportune time for a story. I would love to speak to either one of you about the book, and how you plan to go forward in your quest for knowledge about the yowie. If you would like to get in touch, I am available on the number below before noon tomorrow, or any time during business hours on Friday. Kind Regards Gabrielle Dunlevy Journalist Gold Coast Bulletin”
Secondly, it wasn’t even that great a plug. Didn’t even get our website mentioned!
Oh yeah – check out the Tracks section on our site. Just updated it. And I’ll be posting details of a three witness daylight case that took place in January in Queensland, and when I get around to it, info on a multiple witness daylight case – with possible photograph – taken last April in Tarra-Bulga National Park, Victoria. And neither of them are stunts either.
Paul Cropper
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
I have the new book, but can’t make any comments on it yet as I haven’t read it. I probably would have preferred a different cover, possibly more serious, but this one did give me a chuckle.
I grew up on the gold coast and spent many many hours in the bush around the area and i can tell you there is something there.