Yowie attacks researcher??
Drawing of a Yowie. Source CryptomundoLoren Coleman over at Cryptomundo posted a very intriguing story of a seasoned Yowie (Australian Bigfoot) researcher that reports have a close encounter with the creature. He was “tackled”.
Here is the story from the AAP:
Article from: Australian Associated Press
IT never rains but it pours – in this case, improbable events.
Hot on the heels of last week’s wild weather in southeast Queensland comes a hunter of mythological beasts – Tim the Yowie Man.
Tim – who uses no surname and can be almost as elusive as his quarry – says there is a direct correlation between significant rain events and sightings of the yowie.
“The soaked soil and muddy bogs created by the heavy rain are more conducive to animals, including yowies, leaving their footprints,” Tim said.
He said last week’s rain could make “a large hairy bipedal hominoid creature” uncomfortable and force it from deep jungle canyons into the open.
So Tim has rushed from that other capital of strange mysteries – Canberra – to Springbrook in the Gold Coast hinterland, a village he describes as the yowie capital of Australia for its many sightings.
So far he’s seen nothing – but that hasn’t put him off.
“I’m quietly confident of finding some sort of evidence such as hair or footprints of the mystery beast,” he said.
“If I’m really lucky I may even get to see one.”
Dean Harrison of Australian Yowie Research says he has just returned from Springbrook, bearing photographs of footprints he believes are of a female yowie and her young trailing along behind.
“They seem to be quite passive around that area compared to other areas that we’ve been to,” Mr Harrison said.
He said tales of yowies near Springbrook date back to before European settlement.
Mr Harrison said on his latest expedition he was rugby-tackled by a yowie at 3am near Gympie.
“This one knocked me flying backwards. I landed in a rockpool,” he said.
Australian Yowie Research has been nominated for a Bent Spoon Award on the website of Australian Skeptics, a group that investigates paranormal and pseudoscientific claims.
Given that Dean Harrison has been in the field for quite sometime now, he feels that people might think that this is all a lie.
Dean Harrison emails Loren Coleman with the following:
“The event was one that I shall never forget.
Unfortunately I had [with me] a first timer, who wasn’t present during the attack…, who is trying to call the entire incident a hoax….
It was certainly not [a hoax]. The bruising I received he says was caused by a rock that I repetitively struck myself with.
The rest of the crew tailed the creature for quite some time.
I got hit hard enough to send me back landing in a rock pool.
I’ve been around too long to make things up. I have no need to.
All I can say, is that it was bloody scary. Especially the way it ran at me.”
Dean Harrison
Given that the reports of Yowie interaction with animals and humans has been on the rise in Australia, what do you think?
I like the comment a Cryptomundo reader left:
graybear responds: May 28th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
As Dean Harrison says, he has no reason to invent his encounter, and he is an experienced bushman; he knows what should and what should not be there. This is the kind of event, an eye witness account by an experienced individual, which would be good enough to convict someone if it were presented as evidence in a criminal trial. Unfortunately it also is the type of event which leaves the scoftics musing about how unreliable humans are as witnesses. Bruises too, I suppose.
As the Mythbusters might say, this one is Plausible.
Serious researchers who have spent most of their lives in the field know how damaging hoaxes could be. We’ve heard of it in the past. From the “Bigfoot body” to the Surgeon’s Photo of Nessie.
Written by Javier Ortega - javier@ghosttheory.com
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Dean Harrison is an experienced bushman? He can’t even change a tire!
You like that comment Javier? Did you like the lies posted by MBW on Cryptomundo? That was a post from the AYR forum and Loren Coleman outed the blatant lie. That was one of many lies in Dean’s AYR meltdown post that Mike Williams posted up on Cryptomundo. A few days after the lie was outed, the post was removed from AYR and Dean posted that they had a convenient backup problem!
Seems to me that someone who can lie like that has a lot to hide and a lie (one of many)like that can easily turn the Dean Harrison Yowie Attack into the Dean Harrison Yowie Hoax.
Do you like people who lie Javier?
YL1,
Did you read my comments? I said that I liked the comment left by the Cryptomundo reader.
“Unfortunately it also is the type of event which leaves the scoftics musing about how unreliable humans are as witnesses. Bruises too, I suppose.
As the Mythbusters might say, this one is Plausible. ”
What is your point? Are you saying that I like posting hoaxes here on GhostTheory? When did they find out that this whole thing was a lie?
Are you the “YowieLover” reader that has been posting on Cryptomundo?
-Javier
Yes I am YowieLover on Cryptomundo. Loren outed one lie…there are many others. Someone in Dean Harrison’s position having to resort to lies about me to elevate his credibility is pitiful. He has done this for months on AYR after he banned me and Seeker and Loren has noted on public record that the MBW (Mike Williams) Cryptomundo post contained a ‘factually incorrect’ statement about us.
Loren could do that because he was mentioned in this lie and knew the truth – he could not however ‘out’ other lies contained in that post by MBW or Mike Williams. It seems AYR policy is to ban and lie about people who disagree.
I think it would be better to investigate a little deeper before you can comment on something as plausible. I was there on the night and don’t believe the story for a large number of reasons. The Dean Harrison Yowie Attack is going to turn into the Dean Harrison Yowie Hoax. There are posts on BFF in the general discussion section under ‘footprint analysis’.
I suggest you dig a little deeper, visit AYRediculous and BFF and look into the many inconsistencies the story contains yourself to be able to make an informed judgment.
Thanks for taking the time to reply Javier. I hope I have cleared some things up for you.
YL1,
I merely mentioned that it’s possible due to the amount of reports about the Yowie actually attacking animals that have been on the rise.
Thanks for the updates.
-Javier
No worries mate.
YL1
Javier – you say that reports about Yowies attacking animals have been on the rise. I have been interested in Yowies for about 2 years, follow the newspaper and online reports closely and I have not observed an increase. Could you please provide the references and/or links.
There was a report in an Northern Territory paper that linked a puppy decapitation to yowies but that was just a media beat-up. Even the puppy’s owners don’t believe that was the case.
Thanks.
QT.
The Dean Harrison Yowie Attack Hoax:
There were animals around but were they yowies? The only thing seen by Harrison and the others was white eye shine (yowies are typically described as having red eye shine) nearby up a hill in the dark after the alleged “attack”.
Harrison claims to have noticed a powerful odour at a distance – unsupported by other witnesses at close range.
Harrison claims to have been struck in the chest by something he didn’t see while it was running at full sprint knocking Harrison back 12 feet. He posted pictures of the supposed resulting bruises which show no marks on his chest or torso. Significant bruising only on thighs – one on the inner thigh appears to be an abrasion while the other appears to show he was struck with a object with a defined edge. Bruising does not support his claims.
Harrison has withdrawn his claim of being attacked after being knocked down.
Harrison claimed he and his team chased the creature with eye shine – unsupported by other witnesses who stated that they watched the eye shine for a few minutes then returned to camp.
The next morning Harrison “found” and cast a human footprint and presented it as evidence. Another cast print bears no resemblance to any sort of footprint.
Harrison and his team had been drinking heavily throughout the night.
Dean Harrison = Australian Tom Biscardi. Harrison’s “evidence” has been suspect for years and he will continue seeking false glory if unchallenged.
Yowie attack? Busted.
Hoax? This one is plausible.
Nice yowie drawing.
That will certainly make the skeptics think twice about the implausibility of these creatures.
LOL @marius.
@nightwalker: wowie zowie, there goes harrison’s yowie!
Marius / Bellaboo,
LOL. I like how the figure of the Yowie has the same pose as the infamous frame 352 of the Patterson & Gimlin film.
*sigh….*
-Javier