Taking A Walkabout With The Australian Yowie, Clawed Hands, Excavators, Giant Wombats and Bruises... Ouch!

Editor’s Note: This is a post by Bigfoot Evidence contributor, Damian Bravo, a Sasquatch believer. You can join Damian's group Sasquatch Lives? on Facebook and the group's official page at www.sasquatchlives.com.

We will begin our walkabout with the first record sightings or stories report by the first English settlers who arrived on the continent of Australia in the 1700’s. At first, the settlers believed that the Yowie stories were just made up by the aborigines to scare the new settlers. What they did not realize was that the legends of the Yowie had been passed down through generations in the aboriginal tribes and they not only believed they existed but many today state that the Yowie is still roaming the bush land of Australia.

The first documented sighting happened in the year 1790, a small local newspaper in a tiny town which is now known as the great city of Sydney. After this initial report, news of the Yowie’s existence spread like wildfire through the many small towns in Australia. It is amazing to see how quickly the news spread-- if we keep in mind that at the time, not one piece of modern equipment had yet been invented like the telegraph or telephone. It seemed like the Yowie encounters became an epidemic and spread through towns and newspapers.

The aboriginal tribes of Australia have legends and folklore that go back hundreds if not thousands of years and these legends existed long before white settlers arrived in Australia. Yowie sightings are common over every part of Australia, but local Yowie researchers believe a large population is located in the Southeastern Mountains of the continent.

There are many fantastical stories of the Yowie and we’ll talk about a few of them below.

Clawed Hand 1970’s

Here is a small synopsis on the clawed hand taken from Dean Harrison’s Australian Yowie Research Webpage which was also reported on Cryptomundo website:

Found cut off in a gate in Far North Queensland. The Residents heard screaming and ran out of the house to find the cattle still and stunned. CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) and Zoologists could never link the hand to a known animal. Eventually after no answers and stinking up their house while rotting in a box, the owners threw it out.

One thing about this strange cut off hand, at the time the process of DNA identification was fairly new to the world and no known records exist that the hand was actually sent to the CSIRO of Australia and some even suggest it is the cut off hand of a wombat ( which resemble a giant version of Guiney pig). The story also states it was an old couple that found it on the gate of their farm and the clawed hand was twice the size of a normal size human hand.

See Photos below:

Below is a comparison of the mysterious cut off hand supposedly of a Yowie and a Wombat paw which some believe that hand actually is.

Another possibility, which may sound crazy, is that the large cut off clawed hand belongs to a prehistoric Giant Wombat that may still be around roaming the bush of Australia.

Prints on Excavator

In a related incident, prints on a dusty excavator were also found which seemed similar to the large clawed hand report, here are the pictures below:

OK, here is one of my favorite stories so far on the Yowie. As evident in the photographs below, this sighting was a bit painfull for the person involved, OUCH! Shawn actually posted a video about this story in Dec 2011. A man named Dean Harrison, in the video gives a description on a Yowie encounter he had. The creature basically attack him intentionaly and bruised him up real bad.

Below is the article posted on the Australian Morningstarr a few days after the supposed Yowie attack on Dean Harrison. He even let the reporter take photos of him in his birthday suit to show the damage the Yowie made on his body:

Result of a Yowie attack

June 1, 2009 | Filed under: Paranormal | Posted by: Jason Clarke

Dean Harrison's backside

Yowie hunter Dean Harrison hit the headlines last week when The Australian reported the story of him being “rugby tackled” by Australia’s Bigfoot, the Yowie. Dean was tracking Yowies in Gympie, just outside Queensland when a startled Yowie knocked him on his arse!

Dean has played down the story a little, saying he wasn’t actually attacked by the creature just knocked down by it as it ran into him. But he has given these “graphic” photographs of himself to one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, Loren Coleman from Cryptomundo.

As you can see from the pictures Dean isn’t shy, and he suffered multiple cuts and bruises after the creature knocked him off his feet at three o’clock in the morning and sent him tumbling into a rockpool.

Here is a link to the video Shawn posted on Bigfoot Evidence about Dean Harrison’s Yowie Attack on DEC 2011 the video is pretty cool and Dean talks about his encounter in the area it actually happened.

Damian Bravo

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