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Yowie / Bigfoot
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2010-2019
2009
 
Sept 10 - Yowie sightings sparks continuing controversy
Sept 3 - Analysis: ‘Dean vs Yowie’ Encounter 2009
Aug 7 - Yowie sighting near Mount George
Aug 5 - AUSTRALIAN CRYPTOZOOLOGY
Jul 18 - Cat's out of the bag
May 26 - I was rugby-tackled by a Yowie, man claims
Apr 27 - New Bulli centre opens path to Aboriginal story
Apr 22 - Yowie not to blame for death
Apr 21 - Dog killed by Yowie
Apr 17 - Another urban myth?
Apr 15 - Bigfoot spotted in bush near Sydney
 
 
 
 
1999 
 
Sept 25 - AUSTRALIAN word
Sept 5 - Yowie zap plan fizzles
Aug 29 - HEY, YOWIE, TAKE COVER
Jun 5 - WOWIE Zowie! We got ourselves a Yowie!
 
1986
 
* The Yahoo, The Yowie and Reports of Australian Hairy Bipeds
 
2008
 
Nov 13 - India "bigfoot" sighting prompts probe
Aug 16 - The rainforests can have that effect on you
 
 
 
 
 
2007
 
Dec - Tarra-Bulga National Park, Victoria 2006: Hoax!
Nov 13 - Yowie hunter switches his search to the South Coast
Sept 2 - Chasing Black Shadows: Hairy Man
Jul 28 - Curse of the yowie
Jun 2 - Are they out there?
 
 
 
2003
 
Mar 15 - Jungle Fever
Mar 1 - The Kariong files
Feb 22 - Australian UFO Perspectives
Jan 30 - Seeking answers to the riddle of the sandstone
* Scientific reaction to evidence for the yahoo or Australian Ape
 
2002
 
Nov 26 - Exhibition teaches students about Aboriginal culture
Jun 13 - Catalyst: Yowie
 
 
2001
 
Nov 24 - The truth is out there
Oct 20 - Mountains' mystery stench may be the elusive yowie
Oct 20 - Myths & Monsters Conference
Sept 25 - Australia's "The Yowie Man"
* The adventures of Tim the Yowie Man cryptonaturalist
Jul 17 - Mapping the Twilight Zone
May 24 - Flabbit! The panther's a paw on a stick
May 13 - Wanted alive: Big black cat that was caught on camera
Apr 27 - Yowie update
Apr 22 - Ethical dilemma faces Yowie hunters
* Giants from the dreamtime : the Yowie in myth and reality
Jan 23 - Big time Yowie Man
Jan 22 - On the trail of Yowie: Bigfoot Down Under
1998
 
Jul 11 - Feted attractions
Jun 9 - On the lookout for Australia's 'hairy men'
Jan 26 - Y is for Yowie
Jan 18 - Tales of the unexplained
 
 
1997
 
Aug 30 - Creator smothers his green cause with a chocolate coating
Aug 22 - Aboriginal astronomy puts the stars in a different light
Aug 22 - Eco-treat a tasty way to save the world
Jan 9 - Kilcoy Yowie Statue
 
1996
 
Jul 17 - Yowies Ignored By Science!
Mar 23 - An alien stole my baby
 
1993
 
Jun 13 - Big Foot sets foot in the Rainforests
May 19 - Men, monkeys and (maybe) the missing link
 
1991
 
Jun 1 - SEE HOW EASY IT IS TO BEND THE TRUTH?
2000-2009
1990-1999
1980-1989
1970-1979
2014 
 
Dec 9 - Batemans Bay yowie sighting an Australian first
Nov 12 - Podcast: QUT's Dr. Matthew Phillips discusses the Yowie
Oct 26 - J&J Yowie Search on the Today Show
Oct 23 - Palmerston Woman seeks Big Foot and friends
Oct 22 - Yowie found in Douglas cave?
Oct 19 - New ‘sightings’ have sparked a spat between rival hunters
Oct 18 - Do yowies in Far North Queensland really exist?
Oct 17 - Yowie! Let’s hope the bark worse than bite
Sept 20 - Yowies: 'they're out there I've spoken with them'
Sept 12 - Bigfoot hoax ruined my life, says Australian man
Aug - “Squatching” in the Blue Mountains!
Aug 14 - Return of the Yowie: in praise of chocolate-coated animal toys
Jul 30 - Organisers tout inaugural Yowie Cup
Jul 29 - Bush police on ‘the big money’ as believable as Bigfoot
Jul 29 - Springbrook, Ormeau, Tamborine Mountain "yowie sightings"
Jul 14 - Yambuk goes ape for yowies
Jul 8 - Something in the Pilliga for local filmmaker
May 16 - The Skeptic Zone Interviews Rex Gilroy
May 10 - Hunter big cat reports defy hard evidence
May 9 - Yowies, ghosts and UFOS at Maitland Gaol for Paracon 2014
Apr 24 - Close encounter of the 'Yowie' kind
Apr 13 - 'Bigfoot has Australian genes!'
Apr 8 - Has the Australian Bigfoot been caught on camera?
Feb 8 - Not Bigfoot, or a Yeti but a boy...dressed as a tree
Feb 8 - Yowie to come out of the hills
Jan 13 - I saw 'Bigfoot' body, says Wodonga man
 
2013
 
Oct 21 - Yetis, Yowies and dinosaur trees
Oct 7 - Rex Gilroy: Yowie Hunter
Aug 30 - 'Yowie Man' researcher resumes hunt on the Manning
Aug 18 - Time to tuck in to some yowie grub
Aug 13 - Brett Green: Yowie Tales
Aug 11 - Tall Yowie tales keep on coming
Jul 13 - Lithgow could yield more traces of Stone Age culture
Jun 15 - Yowie sighted at Bexhill - witness asks to stay anonymous
Jun 9 -I am the Clear Mountain Yowie
Jun 1 - Legend of elusive yowie living on in Mulgowie
May 3 - Australian Sceptics: Bigfoots, Yetis & Yowies oh my
Apr 18 - Yowie Country
 
2011
 
Dec 13 - 'Yowie' may be wanted man
Sept 27 - Yagar Yowie
May 19 - Motorist catches sight of a yowie
Moaners and Screamers
 
 
2006
 
Nov 1 - The Yowie: In Search of Australia's Bigfoot
Oct 28 - The Australian Yowie, Ray Crowe
Sept 9 - Restless souls look for truth
Feb 10 - Yippee, I just spotted a yowie
* Haunted & mysterious Australia
* Voicing and Voices: “The hairy man” (Henry Lawson 1907)
* Bunyips & bigfoots: In search of Australia's mystery animals
 
 
2010
 
Dec 30 - Australian Bigfoot: G’day, Primate
Dec 1 - Apparition or ape-like
Nov 3 - Cheeky Tassie tiger tale
Oct 25 - The Unmasking of George Gray's Yowie
Sept 26 - The truth is out there
Sept - The Yowie (short film)
Jun 26 - Tim the Yowie Man
Jan 19 - What to make of the Yowie?
 
 
2000
 
Dec 16 - Report sent to Bobbie Short by Ardi Mekanik
Oct 23 - He Found the 'Survivor 2' Place!
Sept 13 -Man cries Yowie over Big Foot film
Sept 8 - Yowie sighting reported videotaped in Canberra region
Aug 17 - Deep in yowie territory
Mar - Yowie Attacks Campervan
*Yowies — Fact or Fiction?
 
2004
 
Dec 15 - Yow, squeals Cadbury
Sept 20 - Australian Story: The Rex Files; (Transcript)
Mar 8 - 1987 sighting of a Yowie in Cranbourne, Victoria
Mar - 'We're the mob you should be listening to'
 
 
 
2012
 
Nov 1 - Artist renders Yowie Man deep in mystery
Sept 17 - I'm friends with a Yowie!
Jul 3 - Got a yowie story?
June 6 - Yowie hot spot
June 4 - Panthers, yowie men and a headless roo, the real X-files of New South Wales
May 24 - Wild Blue Yonder
May 26 -Animal Planet TV crew capture audio they believe proves existence of yowies
Apr 28 - Yowie! Terror in the Clouds
 
1995
 
Dec - Bigfooted Bunyips
Jan 11 - Lost in space
 
1992
 
Jul 17 - PIG OR PANTHER: WHAT THE DEVIL RIPPED ROY?
May 19 - Men, monkeys and (maybe) the missing link
 
1973 
 
Feb 11 - Australia’s own abominable snowmen
Feb 4 - Those abominable snowmen
 
1979
 
Oct 31 - 'Ape-man' is not taken seriously
Oct 15 - 'Yowie pads' spur on stalking party
Oct 14 - Yowie search
1987 
 
Oct 19 - Wild Man of China
Oct 12 - Scepticism of Science Fails to fade a madness for monsters
Jul 30 - It's spot the Yowie time again
Jul 28 - YOWIES? NOT REALLY, ONLY A FEW HERMITS
Jun 27 - HERMIT FITS 'YOWIE' DESCRIPTION
Feb 22 - It's big, it's hairy, and it's mean...
 
1994
 
Oct 2 - New book chronicles ACT's claim to yowie fame
* Out of the shadows: Mystery animals of Australia
Sept 2 - Queensland National Party Senator Bill O'Chee
Jun - The Evidence for the Yowie
 
 
1983
 
* Children's book: The adventures of the Yowie
 
1990
 
Sept 27 - BEAM ME UP FREDDIE
1989
 
* Analysis of the Australian "Hairy Man" (Yahoo) Data
1984
 
* An explanation for the use of yahoo in Australia
 
1975 
 
Nov 23 - TRACKING DOWN THE ABOMINABLE BIGFOOT
May 21 - ENIGMA BY ANY NAME
 
 
1976 
 
Dec 15 - It's huge, hairy and hides in the bush
Nov 4 - RECTOR WRITES A YOWIE SONG
Nov 4 - Yowie safari at weekend
Nov 1 - Yowie hunt begins
Oct 26 - Home-made 'Yowie'
Oct - And There Were Giants
Sept 16 - Big Foot has cousin in Australian mountains
Sept 4 - 'Nonsense' tales of hairy beast
Aug 30 - Hunt for Bigfoot intensifies
Jul 31 - Bunyips and yahoos
1977 
 
Oct 28 - MONSTER 'ON THE PROWL'
The hairy man of south eastern Australia
May 17 - 'Bigfoot' - The Canberra Times
May - Mandrake the Magician & Bigfoot
1981
 
Jun 10 - Yowie Out Near Yass
May 20 - Snowman seen
Feb 8 - Evidence points to existence of China's 'ape-man'
 
1985
 
Jul 9 - Move over Lochie, here comes Bigfoot & Mokele-mbembe
 
1988
 
Jan 23 - Group 'close to finding yeti'
1978
 
Feb 4 - Hairy man a legend?
 
2015 
 
Dec 24 - Bodybuilder yowie with strange fetish on loose
Dec 17 - Man claims he’s been almost killed by a yowie — twice
Dec 13 - Ipswich a yowie 'hotspot' as multiple sightings reported
Dec 11 - Yowie captured by 'spooks' and tracked through bush: expert
Nov 28 - 'I was nearly killed by a Yowie... twice!'
Sept 29 - A Yowie Hunt in Kenilworth
Aug 16 - The Yowie: Mysterious Legends of a Tribe of Hairy People
          Also see: Pinkerton's Modern Geography (1802)
Jun 5 - Mulgowie Yowie file reopened
Jun 1 - Getting Hairy with Rex Gilroy
May 12 - Wimby the Yowie - My Lady of the Woods
Apr 24 - Ngambri youth illustrate stories of generations past
          Also see: WAS IT THE HAIRY MAN "YAHOO"? (1903)
Apr 13 - New Australian TV Show will Focus on Cryptids
Mar 16 - Yowie hunter says Yowie left handprint on his vehicle
Feb 27 - An introduction to my experiences with the Hairy Folk
Feb 26 - Australian Yowie Photo Released
Feb 2 - Reconnecting with the Yowie People
Jan 28 - Culture: Pilliga movie is no tourist flick
Jan 8 - Connection: The Yowie and Quantum Physics?
??? - Wattun'goori: The Story of the Hairy Men
 
 
2005
 
Sept 18 - Yowie Hunters
 
 
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Bigfoot in the Australian Media - 1950s
 
Follows the reporting of the Abominable Snowman, Yeti, Sasquatch, and Bigfoot in the Australian news media.


2016 
 
Dec 3 - 'Giant, heavily built hairy thing': Yowie sighted
Nov 25 - Search for yowies, etc, leads to discovery of 'Lazarus species'
Sept 11 - Could Yowie fever fuel tourism boost to region?
Sept 9 - Look out Queenslanders! It's a yowie
Sept 7 - Channel 7 Morning Show, Yowie Story
Sept 6 - Yowie seen at Picnic Point, Toowoomba: terrifying encounter
Sept 2 - 1st Annual Australian Cryptozoology Conference 2016 Rex Gilroy
Sept 1 - 1st Annual Australian Cryptozoology Conference 2016 Gary Opit
Aug 31 - Greta cryptozoology and yowie convention
Jun 9 - Yowie
Jun 1 - Cleverman (TV series)
Mar/Apr - Searching for the Yowie, the Down Under Bigfoot
Jan 2 - Yowie - What are they?
 
 
 
2017
 
* Citizen Science and Cryptozoology, data received from listeners during 18 years of wildlife talkback on ABC North Coast New South Wales Local Radio
Dec 20 - Yowie hunters claim success in Sunshine Coast hinterland
Dec 19 - Thousands Of People Are Hunting For The Yowie And They Reckon They’re Onto Something
Dec 17 - Prey torn limb from limb, chilling howls at night and huge paw prints left behind in the mud: Is this proof the YOWIE exists?
Dec 16 - Juvenile yowie discovered: Is this proof they exist?
Dec 13 - Yowie? Panther? Community terrorised by mystery creature
Dec 2 - I'm A Celeb campmates left TERRIFIED by Oz ‘Yeti’
Aug 5 - Do you believe this man's yowie story?
Jul 9 - Central Coast ghillie suit attacker camouflaging himself to prey on young girls
May 31 - South Sea Islander community confronts fears of yowies and ghosts with night walk
Apr 30 - ‘It was looking right at us’: Dozens of Yowie claims on South Coast
Apr 19 - Mysterious reports uncovered of the ‘Gorillas of Eden’
Apr 18 - The 'roar' in the hills
Apr 10 - 'I'VE CAUGHT A YOWIE'
Apr 4 - Chinese celebrities visit Narrabri Shire to hunt the yowie
Mar 29 - A suspected yowie at Barrington Tops
Mar 17 - Is the yowie out there? Some in Bendigo believe the legendary hairy man is in our midst
Mar 15 - Heather and Rex Gilroy tell the story of yowies in the Barrington Tops
Feb 11 - Man investigating existence of yowies says he has proof of apeman in Gold Coast Hinterland
Feb 4 - ASIO, Ipswich and the enduring yowie mystery
Feb 4 - Researcher captures elusive Yowie on camera
Jan 2 - A Dreamtime Story: The hairy man of Australia
 
2018
 
Nov 22 - Woodenbong in Yowie Country is a good place to start if you're looking for Australia's Big Foot
Nov 12 - Australian Yowie Project - Nana Glen “Town Hall Meeting"
Nov 10 - What really happens in Pierces Creek Forest?
Nov 3 - What drives yowie hunters keen to prove existence of mythical hairy beast?
Oct 31 - Woman describes 'absolutely terrifying' yowie encounter
Oct 17 - Is this proof Yowies exist?
Aug 23 - 'It was 7ft tall, growling and had hairy breasts'
Aug 13 - The story behind that 1976 Queanbeyan $100k Yowie reward
Aug 2 - Yowie sighting reported north of Roma
Jul 12 - Cryptozoologist who claims he's been attacked by yowies admits to bashing his neighbour unconscious because his dogs wouldn't stop barking
Apr 19 - Giant yowie returns to Queensland after three-month disappearance
Apr 18 - Yowies and thylacines in Charlestown
Apr 9 - NOT QUITE FINDING BIGFOOT
Mar 24 - Jean and the Woodenbong Wild Man
Mar 6 - IS THIS THE AUSSIE BIGFOOT ? Hiker claims he’s captured photo of a YOWIE
Feb 10 - Yowie Manifesto
Feb 5 - ACRO Jimna, 2018
2019
 
Nov 15 - Warehouse manager becomes a yowie researcher after 'watching a tree get ripped from the ground by a mysterious creature' while racing his greyhound
Sep 30 - Yowie Featured on New Australian Coin 
* - Welcome to Yowie country: The remote town where there have been more 'sightings' of the mythical beast than anywhere else in Australia
Sep 16 - Hominology Magazine: The Australian Bigfoot, The Yowie
Sep 4 - Yowie expert claims that there are TWO different species of the mythical beast
Sep 2 - Senator Matt Canavan or Yowie?
Father takes a picture of a 7ft Yowie on a bushwalk with his children in Burragorang
Sep - The Braidwood project: A joint ANU/Flinders attempt to find the remains of an unknown animal buried there in 1893
Aug 7 - Yowie sighted in Tamborine, in Queensland’s Gold Coast
* - 'You can see its facial features': The before and after pictures that Yowie hunters claim PROVE the mythical beasts exist
Aug 3 - The Creature From Coffs Harbour
Aug 2 - 'Best yowie audio ever heard'
Aug 1 - “YOWIES INVADE the GOLD COAST!” A true story?
Jul 26 - 'Yowies could be out there': Survival expert The Bush Tucker Man warns Australians NOT to dismiss a spate of 'sightings' in Australian bushland
Jul 24 - Yowies Are Real So Guess I’m Becoming A Hermit
* - Listen to a yowie: Teenagers stargazing in a remote forest claim to have the first audio recording of mythical creature after hearing 'deep moaning growling'
Jul 22 - Hunt for the friendly Yowies: Mum is convinced a family of kind-hearted beasts is leaving her flowers and nuts as 'gifts'
Jul 19 - Family claim they're being terrorised by a rampaging yowie - as a metre-long 'big foot' print is found
Jul 18 - Yowie hunter opens up about his 25-year hunt to prove the elusive beast exists - and the 'top spots' to view them
Jul 16 - Farmhouse tenant who claimed she saw three yowies on her property now says there was 'another mysterious creature with them' lurking in the dark
Jul 13 - Single mother reveals her chilling encounter with a yowie on her remote farm
Jun 30 - Yowie video: Baan Baa 'Yowie' captured on film, Anaiwan tracker Don Fermor shares sightings
Jun 13 - A Vale of Clwydd find: Could man have started in the Central West?
May 31 - LOCAL FILM INSPIRED BY THE YOWIE IS SET TO PREMIERE IN TAREE
Feb 19 - Is this proof the Yowie exists? Man finds mysterious foul-smelling hair on fence 'torn apart by Australian bigfoot'
Feb 14 - I'm a Yowie Hunter!
Feb 12 - Everything You’ve Been Desperate To Know About The Yowie
Feb 9 - The History of the Gold Coast Yowie
Feb 6 - ‘Yowie threw me down a hill’: Cairns woman’s encounter raises supernatural enigma
Jan 23 - Qld truckie claims Yowie bashed his bonnet
Jan 24 - 'I almost hit Hinterland Yowie': truckie claims
Jan 4 - The Yowie of Bribie Island