1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:13,640 From the unexplained to the mundane, come join us on a Journey to the Fringe. 2 00:00:13,640 --> 00:00:18,800 Hello and welcome to Journey to the Fringe, where we absolutely wrecked our recommended 3 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:21,200 section on YouTube so you don't have to. 4 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:26,800 We are your now red-pilled hosts, Taylor and Chelsea, and today, Chelsea is doing an episode. 5 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:30,880 I gave her ideas, but I don't actually know what she went with, so I'm just gonna leave 6 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:31,880 it to her now. 7 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:34,000 I need to open my document. 8 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:35,000 Okay. 9 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:36,000 Okay. 10 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:39,240 Australia is a pretty spooky country, right? 11 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:44,520 Despite all the actual spooky sightings going on down under, and a country full of criminals. 12 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:45,520 Criminals and poison. 13 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:46,520 Yes. 14 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:47,520 Venom everywhere. 15 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:50,240 And the scariest animals known to man. 16 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:55,560 It is already pretty much the scariest place on earth, despite some actual spooky things 17 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:56,640 going on. 18 00:00:56,640 --> 00:01:00,560 And I say that with the utmost love, because it's a beautiful country despite all this 19 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:01,560 downfall. 20 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:02,560 That's where Bluey comes from. 21 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:03,560 Yeah, Bluey. 22 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:04,560 And an expose on the Pellongong. 23 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:05,560 He's too good at my lines. 24 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:13,640 We've slowly been going on trips around the world, and today, I've randomly chosen, but 25 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:18,160 more honestly been suggested Australia is a target, so here we are. 26 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:23,840 Now, let's check in on the spookiness happening down under, and for your listening pleasure, 27 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:28,080 I've alternated cryptid and paranormal phenomenon to shake it up. 28 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:30,000 But first up, we got the bunny up. 29 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:34,920 If you were looking for a bunny up, I would start with looking in the southeastern Australia 30 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:40,160 portions of the country, and in around ponds, wetlands, swamps, billabongs. 31 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:42,280 I have no idea what a billabong is. 32 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:43,480 And I didn't look it up. 33 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:44,480 I had too much to work out. 34 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:46,480 Are they surf shorts? 35 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:48,480 Like a brand of clothing. 36 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:50,200 That's what I think it is. 37 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:51,200 Look around clothing. 38 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:53,640 Around the billabongs. 39 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:54,640 Around riverbanks. 40 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:55,880 We're at rest during the day. 41 00:01:55,880 --> 00:02:01,560 By the way, there's going to be some crazy language in this because Australia is stuck. 42 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:02,560 Funny. 43 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:05,000 They speak English in theory. 44 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:06,760 In theory only. 45 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:10,440 It's like joke English. 46 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:14,960 During the night, I would probably seek shelter because that's when you're going to become 47 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:16,360 bunny up prey. 48 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:19,600 Chelsea, dare I ask, what does a bunny up look like? 49 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:21,320 Or do we get into that in a bit? 50 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:22,320 Yeah, yeah. 51 00:02:22,320 --> 00:02:23,320 We get into that. 52 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:24,320 We're going to do it right now. 53 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:28,720 And what exactly would you be looking for if you're looking for a bunny up? 54 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:32,920 You wouldn't just say I'm looking for a bunny up without knowing what it looks like. 55 00:02:32,920 --> 00:02:36,960 You could be finding millions of bunny ups if you weren't knowing what it's looking 56 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:37,960 like. 57 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:41,120 Generally, you're looking for something aquatic. 58 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:44,400 That's for sure because everything else varies a lot. 59 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:51,760 Some say it has a dog like face, dark fur, a horse like tail, flippers, walrus like tusks, 60 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:55,040 a crocodile like head and a duck like bill. 61 00:02:55,040 --> 00:02:58,200 There are even claims that it resembles a snake with a beard. 62 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:02,760 If you see one of those, it may or may not be a bunny up. 63 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:08,720 They are expected to be skilled swimmers and I would assume that's because it's aquatic. 64 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:12,320 I wouldn't want an aquatic animal to be a bad swimmer. 65 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:14,160 That seems to go against nature. 66 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:16,720 You think so, but hippos are pretty bad swimmers. 67 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:17,720 They bounce. 68 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:19,840 They sink to the bottom and bounce. 69 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:24,360 But they have the cutest little legs when they swim and they take off. 70 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:26,080 Yeah, they're pretty bad swimmers. 71 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:28,760 They spend their entire life in water pretty much. 72 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:30,680 Plus, no one can find their testicles. 73 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:32,600 They're freaks of nature. 74 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:36,760 Yeah, they're the rest of the world's bun yet. 75 00:03:36,760 --> 00:03:39,600 Maybe they are, but I don't know if there's hippos in Australia. 76 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:40,600 Not yet. 77 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:43,320 I mean, they could probably apply for some apabiloescopers. 78 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:45,160 They're looking to get rid of some. 79 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:51,400 One legend says that a man named Bunyep broke the rainbow serpent's greatest law by eating 80 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:53,040 his totem animal. 81 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:58,920 Banished by the spirit Biammy, the man became an evil spirit that lured tribesmen and their 82 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:02,200 livestock into the water so he could eat them. 83 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:05,760 That is obviously a indigenous legend. 84 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:11,360 In Aboriginal Australian culture, which is where I got that trivia fact from, a Bunyep 85 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:16,040 is a spirit creature, which refer back to what I said because I think I got the order 86 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:17,040 mixed up. 87 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:18,720 I'm not going to rerecord that. 88 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:25,680 A word Bunyep translates outside or maybe in Aboriginal Australian culture to devil 89 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:28,960 or evil spirit from the Wemba Wemba language. 90 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:34,640 William Buckley was an English convicted criminal who was sent to Australia in 1802. 91 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:38,280 While there, he escaped and joined the Wallaranga tribe. 92 00:04:38,280 --> 00:04:41,640 He is known for sighting the Bunyep on several occasions. 93 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:43,280 That's a good thing to be known for. 94 00:04:43,280 --> 00:04:44,280 The Bunyep Sighter. 95 00:04:44,280 --> 00:04:46,160 He has a lot of them. 96 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:50,680 One of the first describing it as the size of a large calf with feathers that killed 97 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:51,680 people. 98 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:54,120 Wait, how do feathers kill people? 99 00:04:54,120 --> 00:05:00,080 I think it was despite the feathers that it was killing people, not with feathers. 100 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:03,640 And I don't even see anything aquatic being mentioned in here. 101 00:05:03,640 --> 00:05:06,720 A large calf with feathers that killed people. 102 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:09,120 Oh, no, I can see what you're saying. 103 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:12,000 The feathers killed people. 104 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:14,280 I have no answers from you. 105 00:05:14,280 --> 00:05:16,440 The sighting on this was... 106 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:17,440 Okay, I'm sorry. 107 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:20,880 I just typed all those words into the AI image generator. 108 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:22,360 I want to see what comes up. 109 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:24,000 Okay, report back. 110 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:26,920 I love generating images on AI. 111 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:33,680 Next up in 1818, explorers James Meahand and Hamilton Hume discovered a peculiar carcass 112 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:36,880 in Lake Bathurst in New South Wales. 113 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:39,480 What a beautiful creature. 114 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:41,560 Bottom right, I like that one. 115 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:46,160 Yeah, I like that there's birds on it. 116 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:51,800 In 1818, explorers James Meahand and Hamilton Hume discovered a peculiar carcass in Lake 117 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:53,760 Bathurst in New South Wales. 118 00:05:53,760 --> 00:05:58,680 They did not call the creature a Bunyep, but describe the remains as similar to a manatee 119 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:00,600 or hippopotamus. 120 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:06,360 In July 1845, the Geylong Advertiser describes the Bunyep in great detail. 121 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:10,040 It was also the first recorded use of the term Bunyep. 122 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:15,600 In 1857, in the article titled The Bunyep, a newspaper reported on the drawings made 123 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:17,880 by Edwin Stochuler. 124 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:22,040 Amongst the latter drawings, we noticed a likeness of the Bunyep or rather a view of 125 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:24,240 the neck and shoulders of the animal. 126 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:29,800 Mr. Stochuler informs us that the Bunyep is a large freshwater seal having two small 127 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:37,040 paddules, adulis, paddules, or fins attached to the shoulders, a long swan-like neck, a 128 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:42,520 head like a dog, and a curious bag hanging under the jaw resembling the pouch of a pelican. 129 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:47,520 The animal is covered with hair like the platypus and the color is glossy black. 130 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:52,600 Mr. Stochuler saw no less than six of these curious animals at different times. 131 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:58,440 His boat was within 30 feet of one near Maguire's Punt on the Goldburn, and he fired at the 132 00:06:58,440 --> 00:07:17,440 Bunyep which did not succeed in capturing him. 133 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:22,280 The smallest appeared to be about 5 feet in length and the largest exceeded 15 feet. 134 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:27,440 The head of the largest was the side of a bullock's head and 3 feet out of water. 135 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:32,680 After taking a sketch of the animal, Mr. Stochuler showed it to several blacks of the Goldburn 136 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:33,680 tribe. 137 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:38,760 This is from a publication, so who declared that the picture was Bunyep's brother, meaning 138 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:41,200 a duplicate or likeness of the Bunyep. 139 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:46,680 The animals moved against the current at the rate of about 7 miles an hour, and Mr. Stochuler 140 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:51,120 states that he could have approached close to the specimens he observed had he not been 141 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:56,360 deterred by the stories of the natives concerning the power and fury of the Bunyep, and by the 142 00:07:56,360 --> 00:08:02,560 fact that his gun had only a single barrel and his boat was a very frail description. 143 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:07,080 And then in the 1930s when the depression was at its worst, some of the most recent and 144 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:10,880 frequent sightings occurred, and I just went through most of the famous sightings of the 145 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:11,880 Bunyep. 146 00:08:11,880 --> 00:08:16,880 In doing my research for this and trying to find more recent sightings of the Bunyep 147 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:21,480 in which, if you want to go to the people's use, you go to Reddit. 148 00:08:21,480 --> 00:08:27,440 I couldn't find any, but most of the people referred back to this, stating that this is 149 00:08:27,440 --> 00:08:33,520 why they're terrified of the Bunyep from a children's show in Australia, and it's 150 00:08:33,520 --> 00:08:58,520 a song about the Bunyep. 151 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:21,760 This actually reminds me, childhood cartoons can leave trauma with you. 152 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:28,480 I was terrified for a long time of, oh what's the name of the jackalope? 153 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:30,160 Because of that one episode of Tiny Toons. 154 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:31,680 Oh my god, yeah. 155 00:09:31,680 --> 00:09:32,680 What was it? 156 00:09:32,680 --> 00:09:36,480 And dad used to say when we were driving home at night, yeah, when I jacked was out in the 157 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:37,480 forest. 158 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:41,560 That might actually be our parents doing for inflicting that damage. 159 00:09:41,560 --> 00:09:46,760 But yeah, I mean the TV, the some of the movies we used to watch had way more emotional 160 00:09:46,760 --> 00:09:51,840 people on you than cartoons now. 161 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:53,400 That's the Bunyep. 162 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:57,320 Just based on what I was reading, a lot of people terrified of the Bunyep, just based 163 00:09:57,320 --> 00:10:02,000 on I think just cultural references to it. 164 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:03,600 And childhood trauma. 165 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:05,800 Next up is the Min Min Lights. 166 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:11,240 Some things are just hard to take seriously when they're written in Australian. 167 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:16,840 So the Min Min Lights are sightings of strange lights typically occurring in the Australian 168 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:22,880 Outback and span from New South Wales to Queensland, which is a fair amount of area from the far 169 00:10:22,880 --> 00:10:24,680 south to the north. 170 00:10:24,680 --> 00:10:28,480 Accounts of the light appearance is very, though they are most commonly described as 171 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:33,560 being fuzzy, dish-shaped lights that appear to hover just above the horizon. 172 00:10:33,560 --> 00:10:38,200 They are often described as being white, though some accounts describe them as changing colour 173 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:41,600 from red to green and back again. 174 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:46,120 And then some are described as being dim, others describe them as being bright enough 175 00:10:46,120 --> 00:10:51,160 to illuminate the ground under them and cause nearby objects to throw clearly to find shadow. 176 00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:56,520 So again, it greatly varies but what we're getting at with these are weird lights. 177 00:10:56,520 --> 00:11:00,920 According to folklore, the lights sometimes follow or approach people and disappear when 178 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:02,280 fired upon. 179 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:04,880 There we go, there's the other one. 180 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:14,280 Sometimes very rapidly, only to reappear later on and anyone who chases the lights and catches 181 00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:16,560 them will never return to tell the tale. 182 00:11:16,560 --> 00:11:21,080 Some witnesses describe the light as appearing to approach them several times before retreating 183 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:24,840 and others report that the lights were able to keep pace with them when they were in a 184 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:26,480 moving vehicle. 185 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:27,480 Sightings? 186 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:33,280 There are tons of these, unlike the bunny-ip, which is just like, oh I saw this weird animal. 187 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:37,600 And it seems to be consistent, I would hope, too. 188 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:38,920 And that day I saw lights. 189 00:11:38,920 --> 00:11:40,000 Hey, me too! 190 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:43,360 They weren't feathery or anything. 191 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:46,240 This could also fall under bunny-ip. 192 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:49,200 This is the light bunny-ip. 193 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:54,640 This is the Reddit story, which is from user DMBDreadmaiden. 194 00:11:54,640 --> 00:12:00,080 They stayed about 19 years ago near my hometown in country New South Wales. 195 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:05,280 I used to get driven to catch a bus from a town called Parks about 1.5 hours from my 196 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:09,840 hometown to go visit my them boyfriend in another town several hours away. 197 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:14,600 The bus I had to travel to get to left from Parks around 2am and arrived back late at 198 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:16,280 night when my dad would pick me up. 199 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:19,240 On two separate occasions we saw something strange. 200 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:23,680 On the first occasion we were driving along the country road in between two towns, the 201 00:12:23,680 --> 00:12:26,720 road running in between farms fenced off from the road. 202 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:30,760 There were hills behind these farms that were silhouetted against the often bright night 203 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:31,760 sky. 204 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:36,000 We saw a big ball of light traveling down the hill parallel to our car, probably a couple 205 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:40,520 of kilometers away, and we thought it was just a truck possibly driving along there, 206 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:45,480 until we realized there wasn't a road there and it was one light, not two, like car headlights 207 00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:47,320 and it wasn't a motorcycle. 208 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:51,160 Just because there wasn't a road there didn't mean it wasn't a vehicle though, but it moved 209 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:53,920 so smoothly and quickly that we just thought it was odd. 210 00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:58,080 We didn't really think much about it until a few weeks later we were doing the same drive 211 00:12:58,080 --> 00:13:02,240 late at night, possibly a bit after midnight and we saw the same light in the same area 212 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:04,240 moving quickly and smoothly again. 213 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:07,720 This time dad decided to stop the car and turn off the engine. 214 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:12,240 When he did that the light came down the hill and hurled towards us across the farm fields 215 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:15,080 and over the fence that divided the farms from the road. 216 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:16,320 It was fast. 217 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:20,760 The ball of light was probably about 2 meters off the ground and had a diameter of around 218 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:26,200 1 and a half meters, it was gigantic, silent, a ball of light that kind of fluctuated and 219 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:27,800 rotated as it moved. 220 00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:32,080 It slowed and hovered in the middle of the road behind our car, probably about 50 meters 221 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:33,080 behind us. 222 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:36,480 I got so scared but dad was fascinated in watching it inquisitively. 223 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:40,760 I was panicking and yelling to start the car and drive, I'm not sure what happened after 224 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:43,720 that because dad turned the engine on and we started driving. 225 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:47,480 We never saw the light again but that was the most bizarre thing I've ever seen and 226 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:51,600 every now and again I mention it to my dad just so that I know I'm not going crazy and 227 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:54,560 dad always confirms every detail of it with me. 228 00:13:54,560 --> 00:14:00,320 Yeah I'm not sure honestly if I were to see something like that what would set that apart 229 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:02,840 from me thinking it was a UFO? 230 00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:07,480 Maybe just that there wasn't any defining structure to it, it was literally just a light? 231 00:14:07,480 --> 00:14:09,800 Yeah it might just be a size thing too. 232 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:10,800 Yeah. 233 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:14,320 Because like will of the wisps are like considerably smaller than a spacecraft. 234 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:15,680 Yeah that's true. 235 00:14:15,680 --> 00:14:17,640 So that's the Min-Min Lights. 236 00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:21,720 The next is the Hacksbury River Monster of New South Wales. 237 00:14:21,720 --> 00:14:23,960 I couldn't not include this. 238 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:31,400 We need to hear of the Lake River Monsters that inhabit every area of the earth. 239 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:36,280 If you were looking for the Hawksbury River Monster I would start by looking in the apparently 240 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:41,120 very deep Hawksbury River in New South Wales, a hotbed of weird things. 241 00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:46,040 I mean you could just say that of all of Australia but most of the population of Australia only 242 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:50,640 lies in very small areas of Australia. 243 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:52,560 And they're very widely separated. 244 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:53,560 Yeah. 245 00:14:53,560 --> 00:15:00,520 It's said to be up to 24 feet long that is the River Monster not the river. 246 00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:07,560 The Hawksbury River Monster resembles a dinosaur and like the Loch Ness has a large body, a 247 00:15:07,560 --> 00:15:09,760 long neck and flippers. 248 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:13,520 They're underwater dwellers that resemble a prehistoric pleosaur. 249 00:15:13,520 --> 00:15:18,800 The Daruk people painted pictures of this aquatic monster on rocks thousands of years 250 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:22,160 ago therefore it has been around for a long time. 251 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:26,680 Depicted in the art is having a snake like head, long neck, large body and two sets of 252 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:29,440 flippers with an eel like tail. 253 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:34,440 It basically just confirms what we think of it as being today. 254 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:37,520 Because I said that twice. 255 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:42,120 According to most reports the Hawksbury River Monster doesn't appear to be particularly 256 00:15:42,120 --> 00:15:43,120 hostile. 257 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:48,320 It avoids people and gives them a curious look before submerging beneath the surface. 258 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:52,680 Nighting of the creature have been reporting from Wise Man's Ferry at the western end of 259 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:58,200 the river eastward to the broken bay Brisbane waters expanse at the river's mouth. 260 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:03,600 And there have been reports of strange slide marks similar to that of a crocodile along 261 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:05,440 the banks of the river. 262 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:09,120 I'm not sure whether there are crocodiles that could be making those marks. 263 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:13,400 I'm assuming they've ruled that out if it's a strange sighting. 264 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:20,760 Tony Healy has among his files a 1912 I'm not sure who Tony Healy is but he has a story 265 00:16:20,760 --> 00:16:22,520 in his files. 266 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:32,520 From a 1912 story from the evening news Sydney called was it the bunny ip? 267 00:16:32,520 --> 00:16:37,760 That concerns an alligator like creatures seen in South Creek a tributary of the Hawksbury 268 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:39,720 River in Windsor he said. 269 00:16:39,720 --> 00:16:41,960 The creature was seen by a boning party. 270 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:46,840 A strange object swimming a short distance from them about 4 feet in length and resembled 271 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:47,840 an alligator. 272 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:51,160 There have been reports of them a hell of a lot bigger than that. 273 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:56,280 I haven't been able to establish to my satisfaction that the reports of the bigger ones are genuine 274 00:16:56,280 --> 00:16:58,600 but they may well be. 275 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:03,120 Another report that sparked Healy's interest was one published in the Windsor and Richmond 276 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:05,120 Gazette in 1924. 277 00:17:05,120 --> 00:17:10,680 Quote people were talking about seeing a titanic seahorse and there's a specific eyewitness 278 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:16,480 report by W.J. Riley who along with his brother saw this thing while walking along the terrace 279 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:17,960 Windsor at midday. 280 00:17:17,960 --> 00:17:23,280 They saw something in the river beneath in a deep hole he said and quote re-quote he 281 00:17:23,280 --> 00:17:30,160 said we saw a big ugly thing 2 foot 6 inches to 3 foot in depth with a length of about 282 00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:33,720 5 to 6 feet and of a yellowish or sandy color. 283 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:37,440 Whether it's skin with scale covered or not we could not see. 284 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:43,040 We watched for 15 minutes it had a square looking fishtail it was not a pleasant looking 285 00:17:43,040 --> 00:17:47,640 animal I should certainly not care to be in the water and have it after me. 286 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:48,640 End quote. 287 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:51,080 I agree with you right there Healy. 288 00:17:51,080 --> 00:17:52,080 Yeah. 289 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:53,520 I agree with you. 290 00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:57,840 Is there a chance that these people are all just seeing alligators that definitely are 291 00:17:57,840 --> 00:17:58,840 in Australia? 292 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:00,680 It's appearing so. 293 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:05,200 I mean Australians aren't known to be the soberest of people. 294 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:10,660 And I don't speak fluent Australian so is there a chance that Bunyip is just Australian 295 00:18:10,660 --> 00:18:13,160 for crocodile or alligator? 296 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:15,680 It's true. 297 00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:17,680 But this one is the sea monster. 298 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:19,760 They said it's not the Bunyip. 299 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:20,760 It could be the Bunyip. 300 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:21,960 It's not the Bunyip. 301 00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:26,080 It was related to the sea monster in this case. 302 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:32,040 It just was too far outside of the normal parameters of Bunyip and this one's hot. 303 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:36,080 So next is the land Bunyip the Yaoi. 304 00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:39,640 Okay next the Yaoi. 305 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:41,240 So we're done with that one. 306 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:46,160 This is my longest portion of this and I'm surprised I didn't save this for last but 307 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:48,600 I'm very surprising sometimes. 308 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:52,120 And to myself I never know what I'm gonna do with my research. 309 00:18:52,120 --> 00:18:53,120 We're in life. 310 00:18:53,120 --> 00:18:57,440 If you were looking for a Yaoi I would start by going to Australia and then by going to 311 00:18:57,440 --> 00:19:02,680 New South Wales and the Gold Coast of Queensland, the Great Barrier Reef and the wilderness 312 00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:05,200 of the Moe Howe Range. 313 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:07,840 So that's where most of the reports come from. 314 00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:12,200 And also just anywhere in Australia really would be good enough where the population 315 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:17,560 is because I saw on Reddit actually just as an aside here this isn't in my notes. 316 00:19:17,560 --> 00:19:22,160 Actually posted a picture of where all the Yaoi sightings are in Australia and everyone 317 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:23,160 was commenting. 318 00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:26,240 Yeah that's just the population map of Australia. 319 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:28,960 That's where people are. 320 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:30,200 Australia's take on Bigfoot. 321 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:36,280 The Yaoi's origins go back as ape-like humanoids usually do to Aboriginal myths. 322 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:42,880 According to some accounts the name Yaoi is a corruption of the derug word Yaoi which 323 00:19:42,880 --> 00:19:45,380 means demon or spirit. 324 00:19:45,380 --> 00:19:50,720 This Yaoi is spelled Y-O-W-I leaving the E out. 325 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:55,920 The derugged people have a rich cultural history that includes many stories and legends about 326 00:19:55,920 --> 00:20:01,200 various supernatural creatures and it is likely that the Yaoi was included in these stories 327 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:03,680 as a powerful and mysterious being. 328 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:07,520 Other accounts suggest that the name Yaoi comes from the word Yaoi. 329 00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:14,560 This one is spelled Y-O-W-E-E which is used by the Yuin people of New South Wales to describe 330 00:20:14,560 --> 00:20:18,120 a large hairy creature that is said to inhabit the area. 331 00:20:18,120 --> 00:20:23,200 The Yuin people also have a rich cultural history and many stories about supernatural 332 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:27,280 creatures and it's possible that their legends also include the Yaoi. 333 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:29,240 Well the normal way. 334 00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:33,320 In either case it's likely that the name Yaoi has been passed down through generations 335 00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:37,560 of Indigenous Australians and has come to be associated with the creature that is said 336 00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:40,400 to inhabit the Australian wilderness. 337 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:46,080 The Yaoi is described as being between 5 and 9 feet tall with a large red mouth and 338 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:52,400 talon-like claws according to Aboriginal legends and arms that extend to or past its needs. 339 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:55,080 Seems like it has some problems there with that. 340 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:58,840 Well it's like most primates have longer arms than humans. 341 00:20:58,840 --> 00:20:59,840 That's true. 342 00:20:59,840 --> 00:21:03,160 Because you know they're climbers so you need to be able to reach stuff. 343 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:04,160 Exactly. 344 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:06,400 We don't climb things generally. 345 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:07,800 Just monkey birds. 346 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:09,880 And aptly named based on that. 347 00:21:09,880 --> 00:21:16,480 It's also noted that the Yaoi contain two large fang like canines which distinguish 348 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:19,480 the Yaoi from other big foot species. 349 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:21,800 It usually has brown or red isp fur. 350 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:26,400 Five toe footprints have been recorded up to 18 inches in length. 351 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:32,160 And while mostly bipedal and seem to be standing and walking someone like a human, other reports 352 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:38,000 have described the Yaoi running on all fours in much the same way a great ape would walk. 353 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:43,520 While still others report describing the creature crawling in all fours in a spider like fashion 354 00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:48,240 and seem to be able to move at great speed when either upright or on all fours. 355 00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:50,320 Which is a super creepy detail. 356 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:54,720 There's some great websites documenting Yaoi sightings. 357 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:56,440 Really good references. 358 00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:58,080 I'll put them in the show notes. 359 00:21:58,080 --> 00:22:03,440 There was also in one of these websites that I read that do a lot of research on the Yaoi 360 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:10,280 they said people report that it walks really strange but it can't put any reason to why 361 00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:11,280 it feels strange. 362 00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:12,280 They don't know why it feels strange. 363 00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:13,280 Yeah. 364 00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:17,640 They theorized at least one theory that it's moving strange is what I would say because 365 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:20,000 it's crawling in all fours like a spider. 366 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:26,080 But they said it's because they moved instead of pushing yourself from your back feet like 367 00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:32,000 we do, it moved in a fashion of walking and then pulling itself up with the leg. 368 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:35,920 That you step forward with which I think would be really hard to do. 369 00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:38,480 It made me really think when I read that that's weird. 370 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:39,480 Okay. 371 00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:43,280 I wonder if it had anything to do with the arms just because they have longer arms and 372 00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:47,840 maybe they either sway them slightly different than us or don't sway them at all. 373 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:49,360 Although that would be something you notice. 374 00:22:49,360 --> 00:22:54,360 It really could be anything and just hearing somebody say they moved weird without any 375 00:22:54,360 --> 00:22:55,880 follow up on that. 376 00:22:55,880 --> 00:23:00,280 They're described as being one of the most aggressive Sasquatch species and they have 377 00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:07,200 been reported tearing the heads off kangaroos and dogs and attacking humans as well. 378 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:09,040 Let me get to this account here. 379 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:12,280 Oh, I'm so happy we have big foots and not yawies. 380 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:13,280 Yeah. 381 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:14,280 Okay. 382 00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:16,680 So this is an article from news.com.au. 383 00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:21,000 I don't think this is owned by a cult, but you know, I'm caught off guard all the time 384 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:24,960 by what news outlets called zone. 385 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:27,040 So that's all I have to say on that. 386 00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:31,760 This one's titled meet the man who claimed he has been almost killed by a yowie. 387 00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:35,680 I think he'd stay out of the woods after that. 388 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:38,680 You have probably never seen a yowie. 389 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:40,880 You might have never heard of a yowie. 390 00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:45,120 Well you have now because you've listened to this podcast, but one man has not only 391 00:23:45,120 --> 00:23:48,640 dedicated his life to hunting down the mythological beast. 392 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:51,920 He says he's almost been killed by one twice. 393 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:56,840 Yowie researcher Dean Harrison has described his two close encounters with the mysterious 394 00:23:56,840 --> 00:24:01,800 eight light creature, which is comparable to the North American Sasquatch or the Himalayan 395 00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:02,800 Yeti. 396 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:06,240 He says it was nearly killed by a yowie on two occasions. 397 00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:12,520 First in Ormo in the Gold Coast, Hinterland and again in Gilkevan near Gimpy. 398 00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:13,760 That was a game changer. 399 00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:16,200 I can't go back into the bush by myself. 400 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:21,960 I just got hit with a big dose of reality he told QT and nearly got taken down by one 401 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:25,880 at Ormo in 1997 and that was really scary. 402 00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:28,480 It was only by the grace of God that I survived. 403 00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:33,520 I made a phone call at 11pm in a clearing before going into the bush and if I hadn't 404 00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:35,120 I wouldn't be here today. 405 00:24:35,120 --> 00:24:37,160 This thing really meant business. 406 00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:43,480 But the crunchier was in 2009 at Gilkevan and if a few guys weren't there to rescue 407 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:45,120 me I wouldn't be here. 408 00:24:45,120 --> 00:24:47,680 That took a good 8 months to get over. 409 00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:52,280 The scary thing is that the yowies have a massive advantage over us because of their 410 00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:53,640 eyesight in the dark. 411 00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:58,320 The thing that knocked me over ran down a hill in pitch darkness past obstacles, trees 412 00:24:58,320 --> 00:24:59,320 and logs. 413 00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:02,160 The angles were so steep but it sprinted down. 414 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:03,440 It didn't miss a beat. 415 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:06,400 That one chased me at Ormo was the same. 416 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:08,840 The yowie is Australia's very own bigfoot. 417 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:12,640 They're reputed to live in the wilderness and witnesses claim to have seen them in all 418 00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:15,440 states and territories on the Australian mainland. 419 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:20,080 Okay, so he doesn't really go into any details about how it almost killed him. 420 00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:21,080 That's the end of this article. 421 00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:26,000 I mean it does go on quite extensively but I'm just going to read this one last excerpt 422 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:29,800 that's much further down the page but it just caught my eye. 423 00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:30,800 That's not all. 424 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:35,320 Mr. Harrison, not sure who he is because we're jumping in just randomly in the article. 425 00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:40,120 Who has been researching yowies for 20 years also says many people who go missing in the 426 00:25:40,120 --> 00:25:42,800 bush were likely abducted by the creatures. 427 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:48,240 Is even claimed he once saw a yowie get tagged with a tracking device by intelligence agents 428 00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:52,120 at a rural Queensland army base in the 1990s. 429 00:25:52,120 --> 00:25:53,120 Interesting. 430 00:25:53,120 --> 00:25:54,440 Okay, enough with that article. 431 00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:58,520 I'll post it up in the show notes, hopefully. 432 00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:03,200 Okay, back to my amazing notes. 433 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:08,840 Some farmers have reported stock being killed and legs being torn from sockets, bite marks 434 00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:12,240 and intestines being removed from the bodies of dead stock. 435 00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:16,680 Some believe the creatures have the ability to use infrasound which may be used in hunting 436 00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:18,480 and confrontations. 437 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:22,560 Reports of witnesses being roared at and physically feeling the roar are not uncommon. 438 00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:24,400 And we see that a lot with the bigfoot. 439 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:27,600 They seem to have the same interaction types as the typical bigfoot. 440 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:29,720 I literally just said that. 441 00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:31,800 That's what happens when I go off the script. 442 00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:37,280 Tree knocking, rock throwing, whooping, weird stick formations and large footprints among 443 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:39,760 others that are reported with the yowie. 444 00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:42,800 He does also have some paranormal bigfoot qualities. 445 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:47,280 Some sighting reports, strange occurrences such as light orbs proceeding or following 446 00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:52,840 a sighting or encounter, feelings of sickness, dread and depression and some witnesses, failure 447 00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:57,720 of electronic equipment which worked prior to and after an encounter, glowing eyes have 448 00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:01,840 been reported and this may have nothing to do with the supernatural but a part of the 449 00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:03,440 creatures biology. 450 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:08,080 Ioluminescence is found in a variety of life forms but what the significance of glowing 451 00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:11,200 eyes is to these creatures remains to be understood. 452 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:16,360 The yowie has an incredible amount of sightings along with the Min Min lights with the yowie 453 00:27:16,360 --> 00:27:18,080 I would say even more. 454 00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:24,360 I even found a thermal image video of a yowie which I've never seen before, funny enough 455 00:27:24,360 --> 00:27:28,680 and in the spirit of the podcast let's watch a video. 456 00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:32,640 This is yowie researcher Dean Harrison reveals proof creature exists. 457 00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:35,760 I wonder if this is the same guy from the other article I read. 458 00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:40,840 A Queensland based yowie researcher has claimed he uncovered fresh evidence that Australia's 459 00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:43,600 version of bigfoot actually does exist. 460 00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:48,320 Dean Harrison who has been tracking the elusive creature for decades released a new video 461 00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:53,720 from a recent trip to the Gold Coast hinterland, reducing what he said is the most significant 462 00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:56,360 evidence of the yowie's existence to date. 463 00:27:56,360 --> 00:28:02,320 A clip taking on May 4th at Springbrook National Park use thermal technology shows what Mr. 464 00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:06,560 Harrison said are two 9 feet tall yowie's in the wild. 465 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:11,440 Speaking to Sunrise this morning, Mr. Harrison said the night vision shows something hugging 466 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:15,840 a tree before two huge yowie's step out into view. 467 00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:19,400 Sorry they didn't say what the thing was hugging the tree. 468 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:22,200 No I don't know if it's a yowie or a human. 469 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:24,440 Or a bunyep yeah. 470 00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:26,600 It's a bunyep if we don't know what it is. 471 00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:31,560 We estimate that they must have been at least 9 feet tall and they made no noise arriving 472 00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:33,200 and no noise leaving the area. 473 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:37,720 He said we wouldn't have known if anything was there if it wasn't for the thermal cameras. 474 00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:38,960 Did you watch the video? 475 00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:39,960 I did. 476 00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:43,400 It's hard to tell what the hell is going on. 477 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:47,120 We'll post a link up for that as well so you can take a look. 478 00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:53,240 The yowie also has its place of part of an aboriginal people oral history going back 479 00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:59,520 thousands of years like we see with the Sasquatch and sightings have been documented not orally 480 00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:00,520 told. 481 00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:06,640 The first documented European report of a yowie or wild man as it was called at the time 482 00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:08,880 was in 1789. 483 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:12,960 The creature had reportedly been captured and taken to England. 484 00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:18,200 When they originally recorded the yowie sightings in the 1850s the local media initially referred 485 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:20,960 to it as an indigenous ape. 486 00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:26,200 Sightings again there are many I'm just going to read a couple here. 487 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:33,320 The first one I thought this was a really good one is Nightcap NP New South Wales 2022. 488 00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:37,280 Nightcap is the place name and this one goes like this. 489 00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:42,160 I would like to start off by saying my partner and I aren't the most experienced bush walkers 490 00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:46,520 so most of these finds were either on the side of the path or not too far into the 491 00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:47,520 bush and off the track. 492 00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:51,800 We are always together during our finds and encounters and they occurred during the day 493 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:54,640 all around Nightcap National Park area and surrounding. 494 00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:56,760 So 30th of December first find. 495 00:29:56,760 --> 00:30:00,200 Burley into my exploring wasn't taking pictures or documenting. 496 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:04,320 It was our first time walking this track and as we were walking down the track we started 497 00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:08,240 finding multiple branches and sticks stuck to the ground with force. 498 00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:12,680 They had clearly been done with intention as they are facing vertically and pushing 499 00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:14,200 pretty far into the ground. 500 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:18,840 We also found two stick formations in the shape of antlers stabbed into the ground. 501 00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:22,720 We noticed them because they were actually very beautiful and symmetrical almost like 502 00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:23,720 artwork. 503 00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:27,800 My partner and I noticed every one of the sticks and he was pulling them out as we walked 504 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:28,800 along. 505 00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:32,480 We got to the falls near the end of the road and hung out there for about an hour just 506 00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:36,640 enjoying the rock pools and the view then began to walk back to the car. 507 00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:42,000 We were shocked to find new sticks forks into the ground and even one other antler formation. 508 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:46,080 We were very observant and saw every one of the sticks on the way there and pulled them 509 00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:47,080 out. 510 00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:50,640 So to find new sticks and have been placed within the hour while we were at the falls 511 00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:51,640 was super strange. 512 00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:55,600 There is no way there were people there we would have saw or heard them. 513 00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:59,560 Second significant event the same day, Rumory Park Campgrounds. 514 00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:03,040 Again this was our first time visiting this area and walking this track. 515 00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:06,800 After walking the track we were about to leave and we were walking across the road to the 516 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:11,440 car and I heard this strange grunting noise coming from the pine forest about 20 meters 517 00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:16,400 up the hill to my left and my instant rational thought was that it was a pig so I screamed 518 00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:18,200 pig really loud. 519 00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:22,400 Then out of nowhere a pine cone came flying out of the pine forest past our heads and 520 00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:25,240 hit the tree across the road from us with force. 521 00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:27,280 How dense was that pine cone? 522 00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:32,000 We went running into the pine trees to find the said pig but there was nothing there. 523 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:35,520 We walked around for a while scratching our heads trying to figure out what it was but 524 00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:38,200 we couldn't find anything so we just went home. 525 00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:42,440 So I'm just going to leave it at that just due to time restraints. 526 00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:46,960 These people do go on to have other encounters and I'm just going to read you the titles 527 00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:47,960 of them. 528 00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:53,120 The first one is the 2019 possible encounter tree knocking reply something big in the bush. 529 00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:57,400 Then there is the 16th of March which is titled stick teepees. 530 00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:02,600 So from this you get seeing that they're very akin to Bigfoot. 531 00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:06,800 Yeah we I find to be very interesting just like the Bigfoot stuff. 532 00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:11,240 Just there were tons and tons of documents of this. 533 00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:16,320 So yeah I'll post up the websites that I found very helpful with the sightings and just the 534 00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:17,400 other sighting. 535 00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:22,160 I'd heard about this before I don't know if you have and this is former Queensland Senator 536 00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:27,120 Bill O'Chee recounts a Yaoi sighting he had when he was younger on his official government 537 00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:28,120 website. 538 00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:29,120 Interesting. 539 00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:30,720 He has a long thing about himself on his website. 540 00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:32,520 I'm going to post this one up as well. 541 00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:34,840 I'll have lots of links for you to look through. 542 00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:36,520 His encounter goes like this. 543 00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:41,640 Well at school camp near Springbrook in 1977 O'Chee spotted a Yaoi. 544 00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:45,520 At the time he described the creature to the local Gold Coast paper. 545 00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:46,760 About 20 of us saw it. 546 00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:51,440 It was about three meters tall covered in hair had a flat face of walk to the side in 547 00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:53,400 a crab-like style. 548 00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:59,120 It smashed small saplings and trees like matchsticks as it careered through the bush. 549 00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:04,120 Nearly three decades later O'Chee remained convinced of the Yaoi's existence and that 550 00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:07,320 is the end of that sighting. 551 00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:11,600 Last one we have the Warrigal Dingo Shapeshifter. 552 00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:16,720 Other variations of this include the stylusine shape shifter and the Tasmanian tiger shape 553 00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:17,720 shifter. 554 00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:20,440 I think at this point they're just looking for a shape shifter. 555 00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:25,640 Warrigal shape shifters mainly live in small packs especially in the city to remain inconspicuous. 556 00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:30,640 They live mostly in Australia but have also migrated to other parts of the world. 557 00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:36,000 There is at least one tribe of aboriginal Australians that is a larger pack of the Warrigal. 558 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:42,080 The Warrigal half-worms are basically a man-sized dingo that walks comfortably on its hind legs. 559 00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:47,200 The Warrigal who live with aboriginal tribes have the ability to work some native magic. 560 00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:53,000 I couldn't find a whole lot on this but I did find an interesting Reddit story of somebody 561 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:57,640 theorizing that it could be the shape shifter so I thought I'd share it and it's by user 562 00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:03,160 LesbianGrowl13 and they're sharing their Australian cryptid story. 563 00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:07,800 I live in the bushlands in New South Wales in a very small town like seriously in the 564 00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:10,760 middle of nowhere which is basically all of Australia. 565 00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:13,760 I was about 12 or 13 years old. 566 00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:16,680 It was around I would say 9 to 10pm. 567 00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:21,080 I was walking my friend home and he only lived a few houses down from me but there was some 568 00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:26,440 distance between the houses so we were walking to his house and he stops and says watch out 569 00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:31,680 a snake and I'm thinking it's okay it's just a snake we just walk around it as Australians 570 00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:34,480 think but anyone else would be terrified. 571 00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:39,360 Then we see it go from a small snake to a possum almost to a wallaby then a dog that 572 00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:41,800 chased us all the way back to my house. 573 00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:45,560 There were burnouts going around because it was summer and the grass and weeds were going 574 00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:46,920 to attract snakes. 575 00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:50,000 I think burnouts are when they burn the grass off. 576 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,560 I still don't know what it was but it freaks me out. 577 00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:56,960 It could have been a dog or a really big possum but it was the size of a Saint Bernard but 578 00:34:56,960 --> 00:34:59,600 it was a black German Shepherd or something. 579 00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:00,600 Any ideas? 580 00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:02,160 It's around burripey land. 581 00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:05,880 I would say bunyip for sure. 582 00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:08,080 Probably a bunyip. 583 00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:12,480 And then last one I'm going to share is Australia's UFO capital which is Wycliffe 584 00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:13,480 Well. 585 00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:17,760 Considered the best location to see a UFO if you happen to be in Australia it's way 586 00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:21,680 out of the way so if I mean if you're there. 587 00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:25,840 According to the Sun Herald and Time magazine they are ranked in the top UFO spots in the 588 00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:26,840 world. 589 00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:27,840 Interesting. 590 00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:31,960 Located in the middle of the desert this is a tiny settlement mostly visited as a stopover 591 00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:35,240 between the town Alice Springs and Tennant Creek. 592 00:35:35,240 --> 00:35:41,040 Also close by is the Devil's Marbles which are its own paranormal hotspot I left out from 593 00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:47,040 this where individuals have reported mysterious wailing among other things at night. 594 00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:51,920 Associated with UAPs for decades some believe that it is closely tied to the nearby Pine 595 00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:57,480 Gap intelligent base and visitors to Wycliffe Well go back to the mid 19th century when 596 00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:01,240 this little oasis was a stop for telegraph linemen. 597 00:36:01,240 --> 00:36:07,120 Fast forward to World War 2 and Wycliffe Well continued its run as a way station this time 598 00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:08,320 for servicemen. 599 00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:11,440 It was with the World War 2 soldiers that the sightings started. 600 00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:15,680 So many sightings that the folks who ran the roadhouse started to keep a log of visitors 601 00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:19,760 streaking through the night sky as practice still kept today. 602 00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:21,400 And there is a sighting there. 603 00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:27,200 It is somebody relaying a long story about somebody who was passing through and they 604 00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:32,480 happened to see a lot of weird cars parked there and so they stopped when they were getting 605 00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:37,600 gas and was like hey what's going on and they were like hey we just saw a UFO came by last 606 00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:43,480 night and it caught a lot of attention and a UFO had hovered over a dam that's in the 607 00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:47,600 area and I guess sucked up all of the water and left. 608 00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:48,600 Interesting. 609 00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:52,440 I know it was very long-winded to get that point across so I just thought that I would 610 00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:54,560 share that quickly and wrapping up. 611 00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:59,640 Makes sense and that is an episode I think we've always wanted to do at some point is 612 00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:03,720 UFOs in water because that's a different thing even than the USOs. 613 00:37:03,720 --> 00:37:08,200 And USOs yeah I think are two we could go two very different ways with those USOs and 614 00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:10,400 then UFOs in relation to water. 615 00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:13,640 But yeah that's paranormal Australia. 616 00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:18,280 Australia has a lot going on by the means of weird things. 617 00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:19,280 Yeah. 618 00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:21,720 Yeah that's how I would describe it I think. 619 00:37:21,720 --> 00:37:22,720 Awesome. 620 00:37:22,720 --> 00:37:28,320 It really does and it may or may not be more than just a bunyup at the end of the day just 621 00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:31,720 because we still don't fully understand the concept. 622 00:37:31,720 --> 00:37:36,800 The Yahweh for sure is its own thing but the bunyup pretty much just encapsulates everything 623 00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:39,720 else I'm pretty sure. 624 00:37:39,720 --> 00:37:40,720 Yeah. 625 00:37:40,720 --> 00:37:41,720 Yeah. 626 00:37:41,720 --> 00:37:45,120 But while you ponder this if we 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