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May 5, 2009 11:37 AM

I know they call it yowie down under, but the description in this account by Huntor, an Australian hiker, which I found on the BFF, could have been written by a North American. It starts out like this:

I thought then something was odd and listened more closely. It sounded like footsteps.

I stopped walking all of a sudden and hear 2 more steps taken then nothing. I kept walking for 1 min again still hearing noise to my right and stopped quickly again. I heard one step and nothing.

Now I was all senses primed. I kept walking for 5 minutes then stopped suddenly again. I heard one more step.

Then for the next 10 minutes I stopped 3 times and the noise stopped and started again at the same time as me every time. At 1st I thought a lyrebird may have just been traveling the same path as me. But after the noise seemed to be anticipating my stops I was a little more skeptical. On the last stop I put my pack down and threw a rock right at where I had last heard the steps.

And the encounter continues with bush shaking, branch breaking, vocalizations, foot stomping — a set of behaviors identical to what we believe bigfoot engages in. While Huntor did not see what was tormenting him, some people have seen the creatures responsible for such behavior in North America and have reported bigfoot as the culprit.

I continue to be amazed and baffled that the yowie and bigfoot seem to be identical in every way. How is it that the same creature exists here and there? This is a bigger problem than most bigfoot researchers will admit, most of whom think bigfoot is a large bipedal ape. The only large creature that is found worldwide is man, who used his intelligence to get him everywhere he wanted to go. I think that the presense of the yowie in Australia, the case for which is as strong as that of bigfoot in North America, shows that bigfoot is more than a large bipedal ape. What it is, though, continues to be a mystery.

BY THE WAY you may remember that I have blogged about this before, in the context of how the presence of an identical anomaly in Australia pretty much proves it’s not all in the mind.

IN COMMENTS a reader asked about the strange fact that kangaroos are sometimes found wild in the US. I found a couple of links that speak to this – the first is a compilation of links, where I found this quote:

Two police officers cornered a 1.5 m kangaroo in a dark alley in Chicago in 1974.When one officer tried to hand cuff it, the kangaroo screeched and became vicious, punching the officers in the face and kicking them in the shins. When more squad cars arrived, the kangaroo took off at high speed, cleared a fence and vanished from the scene. Another kangaroo jumped more than 2.4 m from a cornfield into the roadway. A truck driver saw a kangaroo and a deer in a field. These are just a few of the sightings of ʻkangaroos’ in the USA.

There is talk on that page of “carnivorous kangaroos.” So be forewarned!

And the second talks of a kangaroo found in Wisconsin in 2005. Seems like a more average kangaroo there. Note that there was never any indication of where it had come from.

 

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