Yowie Spotting Tips
Posted by: Craig Woolheater on January 6th, 2006
Tim the Yowie Man, the National Museum of Australia’s Resident Cryptonaturalist, offers his top 5 Yowie spotting tips, as well as 4 trails that he recommends to bush walkers and Yowie enthusiasts alike.
- Dawn and dusk are the best times of day to spot a yowie.
- Yowies are most often seen near waterways.
- Keep your eye out for footprints, but you will be more likely to see scratch marks on trees (7ft or above).
- Check out fences for large clumps of yowie fur.
- If you still can’t spot a yowie, Tim recommends practicing the loud mating call of this elusive beast. You need to make a noice that is the cross between a repetitive dingo yelping and an out-of whack chainsaw. Cup your hands around your mouth for maximum projection and choose a prominent landmark like on top of a large rock to maximise your chances of luring in a Yowie.
Australian Alps Walking Track
“This is THE track to hike if you want to spot a yowie – it traverses real yowie country – magnificent tall forests and stunted snow gum woodlands.”
The Yowie is Australia’s version of Bigfoot. From the Australian Yowie Research website comes the following:
There are NO definites about what the Yowie actually is, other than a ‘Hairy Man/Ape’ that resides in the deep of our and the World’s forests. Hypothesis is abundant in this field of Research, as too is conjecture and debate regarding what the Yowie is. It could perhaps be the last surviving Gigantopithecus or maybe a Species of Austrlopithecine – may also be neither. Whatever the Yowie may be, there is far too much evidence to support that the Yowie DOES exist, rather than it does not. Many of the World’s academics are now coming forward after being shown various evidence and claiming that there is certainly something out there that is not formally recognized by Science.
Previous Cryptomundo post concerning Tim the Yowie man:
Get Lost with Tim the Yowie Man
Co-founder of Cryptomundo in 2005.
I have appeared in or contributed to the following TV programs, documentaries and films:
OLN's Mysterious Encounters: "Caddo Critter", Southern Fried Bigfoot, Travel Channel's Weird Travels: "Bigfoot", History Channel's MonsterQuest: "Swamp Stalker", The Wild Man of the Navidad, Destination America's Monsters and Mysteries in America: Texas Terror - Lake Worth Monster, Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot: Return to Boggy Creek and Beast of the Bayou.
I agree with all that Tim the Yowie Man says about the time of the day , looking for tracks even on tree bark but the one think that most Yowie, Bigfoot etc. researchers like to do is make sounds that they believe sounds like the creature. If you want to catch a Bear in the woods you don’t make the sound of Yogi. When you want a dog to come to you, you don’t say, Bow-Wow or Ruff- Ruff.
These sounds that people hear in the woods and attribute to Bigfoot could be Bigfoot saying to his good buddy Yowie, “Here comes those stupid humans again, lets duck down and throw some rocks at them, make sure we make some footprints before we go”.
I have no sugestions about a better way to capture a creature. But the making of sounds that we think are the sounds that a Bigfoot makes might be giving them a warning that we are in the neighborhood and for them to hide.
Sounds to me like the old “Snipe Hunting” we did to neophytes by taking the out in the woods and making them hold a feed bag and make little chirping sounds.
We, the older guys, all of 17-19 would leave them in the dark getting scared and laughing at them while hitting our illegal stash of Schlitz Beer. Let’s hear it for the good ol days of Dunwoody, Ga before it got big time bedroom community of Atlanta.
Of course, today if you want to find a true Snipe just go to your local video store and rent Blade I & II ref under Leslie.