YOWIE ON FOOT
CREATURE ’STALKING’ HINTERLAND HOME
A CURRUMBIN Valley family say they are living in terror after being stalked by what they claim is a hinterland yowie. It comes just a week after bushwalkers discovered what appears to be a giant footprint “believed to be that of a yowie or Australian Bigfoot”.
A CURRUMBIN Valley family say they are living in terror after being stalked by what they claim is a hinterland yowie.
A report of their harrowing encounters, made this week to local yowie hunter and cryptozoologist Dean Harrison, details an ongoing series of blood-chilling incidents near their bushland home.
The report comes a week after bushwalkers discovered what appears to be a giant footprint, believed to be that of a yowie or Australian “Bigfoot’’, at Mount French in the Moogerah Peaks National Park in the Scenic Rim.
The print, which appears to be a metre in length, was found on July 7 by bushwalkers who gave their names as Laura and Gary and shared widely on the Australian Yowie Research Page.
The Currumbin Valley family, who now say they are considering moving away, claim a nightly visitor has regularly prowled their house since November last year.
The first sighting occurred when the mother was sitting
on her back deck about 9.30pm on a Sunday and heard loud noises in the bush.
“It was clear loud footsteps,” she wrote to Australian Yowie Research.
“I moved to the railing to get a closer look and there I saw it. As it was walking, I bumped something on the deck, the noise stopped it dead in its tracks, it turned from the waist, looked in our direction and snorted loudly and quickly twice – it was huge.”
The woman said she and her dog ran into the house and she turned all the lights out.
“I just stood there staring
out in pure terror shaking and afraid. This massive thing was so close to the house,” she wrote.
The woman said the creature returned the next night, rushing the deck and making gorilla-like sounds.
Other members of the family, including her husband and two children, also claim to have seen the animal.
Incidents included seeing two bright yellow eyes peering in from the dark, strange sounds and rocks being thrown from the bush.
“My daughter came home freaked out one evening as
she was certain she saw it in the gully,’’ she wrote.
“She even rang me from her car to open the front door and turn the light on before she got out of her locked car.”
Encounters continued until Thursday, July 11, when – the woman said – a metal dog bowl was flung at the house.
“We are pretty vigilant knowing what’s out there, lock up early, turn the floodlight on at night out the back, and front light on most nights and stay away from the bush all the time,’’ she said.
The youngest child was not allowed out by himself.
“We are moving out soon,” she said.
Mr Harrison said the area was known for regular sightings. He said yowie stalkings typically involved a single mother with young children.
“Our hypothesis is the yowie feels less threatened and has an interest in the mother and children (but) this situation is different,’’ he said.
“Due to its actions, I would estimate that it either has an issue with the occupants or is one of these bad ones that we sometimes hear about.”
Mr Harrison hopes to set up night vision cameras.