Yowie Kills Dog?
Posted by: Loren Coleman on April 21st, 2009
What kind of footprints are left by Yowies?
According to media in Australia, as of April 21, 2009, there are new accounts of Yowies on the loose in Darwin’s rural area.
A Territory Yowie researcher believes the Bigfoot-like beast could be responsible for the recent death of a dog south of Darwin.
The dog’s owners believed their seven-month-old puppy, which had its head ripped from its body, was mauled to death by dingoes.
But Andrew McGinn, who has been researching Yowies in the Top End for more than a decade, said it was possible the hairy ape-type beast was responsible for the attack.
“The way the guy’s dog was killed was typical of a Yowie,” he said.
“I know it sounds fanciful but over the past 100 years, dogs get killed or decapitated and people report feeling watched, having goats stolen or seeing some tall hairy thing in the days beforehand.”
In the late 1990s there were several reports of Yowie sightings around Acacia Hills.
In August 1997, mango farmer Katrina Tucker reported being just meters away from what she described as a hairy humanoid creature on her Acacia Hills property.
A photograph of a footprint taken on mango farmer Katrina Tucker’s Acacia Hills property in 1997
Photographs of the creature’s footprint were taken the next day and examined by the Northern Territory Museum, which concluded that Ms. Tucker had been hoaxed.
But Mr. McGinn said after speaking with Ms. Tucker he had no doubt her story was true.
“After I met this lady I found she was clearly terrified,” he said.
Carpenter Darryl Campbell reported seeing a similar creature near Adelaide River in 1998.
Mr. McGinn contacted the Northern Territory News after reading a report that Acacia Hills resident Alan Ferguson had spotted UFOs flying around his home.
He said the area seemed to be home to a lot of unusual activity.
“I have been here for 16 years and I hear time and time again reports of these strange things around Acacia Hills,” he said.
But Mr. Ferguson said he had never seen a Yowie.
“I only see things scootin’ around the sky, I don’t see hairy monsters,” he said,
“But if that’s really true, what’s next, dinosaurs running around the streets?”
For those interested in a deeper historical and current discussion of Yowie, I highly recommend the North American (2006) and Australian (2007) editions of the following tome.
The Yowie: In Search of Australia’s Bigfoot by Tony Healy and Paul Cropper.
"It is destined to become an instant cryptozoological classic." – Dean Harrison, Austalian Yowie Research, October 6, 2006.
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McGinn jumps to the conclusion that the Yowie is responsible based on very flimsy evidence. While the Yowie may exist and certainly has as much chance of being real as the Sasquatch, I don’t see much evidence from this article that it is a killer of dogs or anything else.
The imprint in the ground looks a bit too regular around the toes as if it were faked. JMHO
I simply don’t buy into the Yowie, as appealing as the idea may be. To many geography details (isolation of the continent) to get around.
However… A possible explanation for Darwin sightings may be explained by what they folks there drink when they buy a “six pack”.
I’m withholding judgment.
The geographic isolation thing is, to me, a huge hurdle. I have to disagree with Hoosierhunter; I don’t think the yowie “certainly” has as much a chance of being real as the sasquatch. Geography gives the sas a much better boost. But then, my thinking that way has kept me from a thorough review of evidence that could, if I made a better study of it, change my mind.
I’ll say this too. Don’t know what that track is. But I do know this about hoaxers.
They leave much clearer tracks than that. All of them. Period. I do tend to hear this “hoaxers know you need to be subtle” thing. No they don’t. They know YOU NEED TO SEE THE TRACKS.
And the dog sounds like something that sasquatch have been alleged to do, on a number of occasions, most that I have read coming with other compelling evidence.