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2015

The Adventures of Yowie & Birtles

Follows the life of Australian adventurer - the "overlander" Francis Birtles & his dog "Yowie"

Loch Ness Monster

Follows the birth and rise of the Loch Ness Monster mythos as it was reported in Australian newspapers.

Strange Animals

Collection of modern and historical reports of strange animals from Oz and abroad.

Brisbane River Monsters

Follows historical reports of monsters real and imagined in the Brisbane River.

Care for a swim?

Reports of the Wild/Hairy Man

Follows historical reports of the Wild/Hairy Man in Australia from the archives.

International Sea Serpent Reports

Historical Sea Serpent reports.

International Hairy-Man Info

Archive of useful articles & videos.

Yowie\Bigfoot

Keep up to date with news from Oz and abroad.

Fantasy & Reality Entwined

Documentaries of strange real life.

Henry Hoke was an inventor, engineer and scientist from the remote Australian town of Hoke's Bluff. Enigmatic and unrecognised, Henry Hoke's restless energy produced a stream of brilliant, often unrealised inventions.

Gayndah Circus Crash 1959

Local folklore tells of a circus crash near Gayndah in 1959 which is often cited as the cause for modern day sightings of big cats, bears, and orangutans in the area.

Did it really happen?

COMING SOON

Yowie Island

The Yowie habituation site north of Brisbane.

Not really an island but do Yowies really live there?

COMING SOON

17.07.2015 - My Kid Could Paint That (2007)

01.01.2015 - The Lost Tools of Henry Hoke

01.01.2015 - Monstrous Giant from Botany Bay (1789)

01.01.2015 - The Hairy Wild Man of Botany Bay (1802)

Interesting links:

A miscellaneous collection...

Photographs from a séance with Eva Carrière (1913)

John F Kennedy's assassination: Photo showing Lee Harvey Oswald with gun used to kill former President 'authentic'

The First Global Fairy Census Wants to Hear About Your Close Encounters

Signatures of Resistance: Graffiti as Dialectical Collaboration at Thunderbolt’s Rock, Uralla (NSW)

Impacts, mega-tsunami, and other extraordinary claims

That time US soldiers pretended to be vampires and ghosts to scare the hell out of the enemy

The Girls Who Tried to Kill for Slender Man

Brazil's Mediums Channel Dead Artists. Is It Worship Or Just Delusion?

The Roanoke Island Colony: Lost, and Found?

Where Seekers and Spiritualists Converge
It Ain't Necessarily So

Not All Strange Burials Are Vampires Or Zombies

The legacy of implanted Satanic abuse ‘memories’ is still causing damage today

Displacing Misinformation about Events

KFC Plagued By Urban Legends Fueled by Psychology

Spiritualization and reaffirmation: What really happens when prophecy fails

Ancient Greeks Were Afraid of Zombies

Excessive Attention Seeking and Drama Addiction

Texans keep reporting clouds as UFOs

Napoleon's getaway ship 'found in Queensland'

The Examined Lie: A meditation on memory

Hallucinations and delusions more common than thought

Charlie Charlie Challenge explained: not a Mexican demon being summoned

Why teen brains are wired to love ‘Charlie Charlie’ and the supernatural

The benefits of having a lake monster

Sussex Folklore: The Leaf Man hiding in Sussex woods

Black magic on Red Square

Roswell Alien' Photo Likely a Baby Mummy

Where have all the ghosts gone?

Couple behind fake skeletons in river

Parapsychology 'will eventually disappear'

Ouija Celebrates its 125th Anniversary

Cancer researcher Dr Saunders slams Belle Gibson’s ‘enablers’

Boaters say they saw Ogie

Belle Gibson: ‘No, None of it is true’

Double-Exposure in the Back Seat

Panel tackles question of existence of ghosts

Man says photo at center of Civil War mystery is a 30-year-old hoax he did as a teen

Steve Strong’s Egyptian stone tablet from western Sydney debunked

Satanic Ritual Abuse

The Excluded Middle: A Skeptic Explores the Extraordinary

Beautiful lies my father told me

Real-Life Vampires Exist, and Researchers Are Studying Them

I was a lying telephone psychic

Want to believe? Go on, it will make you happier

Elves make compromise with Road Administration

'First human' discovered in Ethiopia

'Fairy control' to halt tiny doors in Somerset woods

New Theory Behind Dozens of Craters Found in Siberia

Anatomy Of A Fake, Viral Story

Cryptozoology and Pseudoscience

Lizard people: the greatest political conspiracy ever created

Evolution, "Devolution," and the Incredible Shrinking of Humanity: Why Creationists Love Giants

Conspiracy Theories and the Paranoid Style(s) of Mass Opinion

Critical Thinking About the Paranormal

Gray Barker: My Friend, the Myth-Maker

Slender Man notebooks presented as court ponders charges

The science behind Brian Williams’s mortifying memory flub

Teens scarring themselves in an internet rite of passage

Inside a bestseller's 'deception'

Boy Says He Didn't Go To Heaven; Publisher To Pull Book

The Black Vault - Project Blue Book Collection

People can be convinced they committed a crime that never happened

Who Falls for Conspiracy Theories?

Blasts from the past: The Soviet ape-man scandal

Uni of Pennsylvania Taking a Serious Look at Ghost Hunting

'Alien abduction' artist admits he fooled everyone

Did CIA U2 flights really cause 50% of UFO Sightings?

CIA On UFOs: 'It Was Us'

Biggest Urban Legends of 2014

Black-eyed ghosts and giant mutant rats: scare stories in 2014

Cyclone Tracy: Aboriginal people foresaw 'bad event' in Darwin

How to debunk false beliefs without it backfiring

Why do we cling to beliefs when they’re threatened by facts?

Satanic child abuse claims based on false memories

What Science Says About Ferguson Case: Memory Can Be Hacked

The Creepy Scientific Explanation Behind Ghost Sightings

Oldest Art Was Carved Onto Shell 540,000 Years Ago

What Can We Do About Junk Science?

I used to be a skeptic, but then…

The 10 Most Notorious Paranormal Hoaxes in History

30.11.2015 - Tropics of Disclosure: Essays in Cultural Criticism (1978)

01.11.2015 - UFO Phenomena and the Behavioral Scientist (1979)

07.10.2015 - Cryptozoology and Myth, Part 5: Which came first – the monster or the myth?

28.09.2015 - Cryptozoology and Myth, Part 4: Crypto-zoologizing the natives’ magic monster

28.09.2015 - The Folk Art And Material Culture of the Sasquatch Phenomena (2013)

12.09.2015 - Cryptozoology and Myth, Part 2: Lake Monster Tropes

Part 3: Hiding in the cold, dark water until Judgment Day

21.08.2105 - Cryptozoology and Myth, Part 1: The Illusion of Facticity in Unknown Animal Reports

01.03.2015 - Psychic Experiences: Psychic Illusions (1992)

01.03.2015 -Waynesboro, PA Track Find February 2002

09.01.2015 - The Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot Film (2013)

09.01.2015 - The Feral Child and the State of Nature (1996)

09.01.2015 - Government's Advice for Yeti Hunters, 1959 (2013)

01.01.2015 - It looked like Chewie… (2014)

28.12.2015 - Bodybuilder yowie with strange fetish on loose

18.12.2015 - Man claims he’s been almost killed by a yowie — twice

13.12.2015 - Ipswich a yowie 'hotspot' as multiple sightings reported

12.12.2015 - Yowie captured by 'spooks' and tracked through bush: expert

30.11.2015 - Chasing Bigfoot: A former TDP staff writer recalls local lore

29.11.2015 - 'I was nearly killed by a Yowie... twice!'

12.11.2015 -History Channel's Bigfoot Captured Was a TV Abomination

03.02.2015 - Why don't people see the yeti any more?

30.10.2015 - Challenge Accepted: Is There Archaeological Evidence of Bigfoot? (Part II)

29.10.2015 - Challenge Accepted: Is There Archaeological Evidence of Bigfoot? (Part I)

30.09.2015 - A Yowie Hunt in Kenilworth

21.09.2015 - Can You Turn a Bear Sow’s Ear into a Sasquatch Silk Purse?

11.09.2015 - Bigfoot “London footprints” declared a hoax

04.09.2015 - Yeti shenanigans from Siberia – 2015 edition

23.08.2015 - Russian artist claims he had a close encounter with a YETI

23.08.2015 - Multi-Dimensional Portals and Bigfoot Dream Visitations

21.08.2105 - Trek to discover truth about Yeti foiled by Taliban

17.08.2015 - The Yowie: Mysterious Legends of a Tribe of Hairy People

01.08.2015 - Searching for the Valley’s Bigfoot

14.07.2015 - Nothing to be Afraid of in the bush

11.07.2015 - Bigfoot in the Australian Media - 1950s

10.07.2015 - Mandrake the Magician & Bigfoot

09.07.2015 - From Bigfoot To Willow Man

05.07.2015 - The Hairy Man Pictographs Part I; Part II (2012)

26.06.2015 - Driving towards Bigfoot

25.06.2015 - GC Skyride may flush out Springbrook’s beast of the bush

22.06.2015 - Australian Story: The Rex Files (2004); (Transcript)

07.06.2015 - Yowie Hunters (2005)

05.06.2015 - Mulgowie Yowie file reopened

05.06.2015 - Getting Hairy with Rex Gilroy

29.05.2015 - Chasing Black Shadows: Hairy Man (2007)

17.05.2015 - Proof of Bigfoot Is in the Bones, Winlock Man Says

17.05.2015 - “Squatching” in the Blue Mountains! (2014)

16.05.2015 - ADVICE TO KIDS INTERESTED IN BIGFOOT

16.05.2015 - Bigfoot Crossing: Strange Signs In PA

15.05.2015 - Wimby the Yowie - My Lady of the Woods

14.05.2015 - Bigfoot Researchers Still Insist Native American Skull is Not Human

27.04.2015 - Bigfoot followers gather in Vilonia

24.04.2015 - Ngambri youth illustrate stories of generations past

WAS IT THE HAIRY MAN "YAHOO"? Queanbeyan Age (1903)

24.04.2015 - Bigfoot or Baloney? A Bigfoot Hunter Confesses (2014)

17.04.2015 - EXPOSING THE 'DEAD BIGFOOT PHOTO'

17.04.2015 - New Australian TV Show will Focus on Cryptids

17.04.2015 - Cashing in by retracing steps of mythical beast Bigfoot

06.04.2015 - Sykes’ reputation and his Yeti project get slammed

01.04.2015 - Kill Bigfoot, and prepare to be prosecuted

31.03.2015 - Ivan Sanderson the Charlatan

21.03.2015 - Yowie hunter says Yowie left handprint on his vehicle

17.03.2015 - Himalayan Yeti 'Mystery' Looks Even Less Mysterious

17.03.2015 - No need to replace an “anomalous” primate with an “anomalous” bear

06.03.2015 - Bigfoot research project in Oklahoma yields intriguing and unexplained results

28.02.2015 - Fake monsters test how mythical creatures are reported

28.02.2015 - Australian Yowie Photo Released

28.02.2015 - Yowie Contact

28.02.2015 - The Yowie (2010 - short film)

20.02.2015 - Idaho State U: Show us the Bigfoot blimp

20.02.2015 - Sasquatch IDed as cemetery clown prankster

03.02.2015 - Bigfoot in Fife, Scotland

21.01.2015 - Bigfoot - an Investment Opportunity

18.01.2015 - The Supernatural Origins of Sasquatch (2014)

18.01.2015 - Digging Deeper into Supernatural Apes (2014)

18.01.2015 - The Skeptic Zone Interviews Rex Gilroy (2014)

08.01.2015 - Bigfoot or big fake?

08.01.2015 - ‘There’s Something in the Pilliga’ premiere in Narrabri

06.01.2015 - "Family of Sasquatches" Traffic Camera Photo

06.01.2015 - Connection: The Yowie and Quantum Physics?

04.01.2015 - Fisherman Says He Saw Bigfoot Bathing

04.01.2015 - Father and Son Film ‘Bigfoot’ in Maine, Twice

04.01.2015 - Not True: Smithsonian Destroyed Giant Skeletons

04.01.2015 - Indonesian Ape-Man NOT Shot in Borneo Jungle

01.01.2015 - History of Yowie Research Timeline

27.11.2015 - Macarthur Panther: Are we really seeing large feral cats?

21.11.2015 - Bark-eating koalas chewing on gumtrees near Canberra

27.09.2015 - Giant killer lizard fossil shines new light on early Australians

09.07.2015 - Is the Beast of Dartmoor back in South Devon?

09.07.2015 - Beast of Dartmoor 'sighting' is a HOAX

03.07.2015 - My uncle, the Jersey Devil

10.06.2015 - 'Dinosaur fish' appears in Vietnam

17.04.2015 - Eye on the tiger: trailing the elusive thylacine

17.04.2015 - Rare Omura's whale carcass find excites scientists

17.04.2015 - The Thylacine Museum

31.03.2015 - Rainbow lorikeets eating meat - experts astonished

06.03.2105 - Rare and bizarre Goblin shark to be exhibited

01.03.2015 - The Quest for the Tasmanian Tiger

08.01.2015 - Of Bunyips and Boulia Lights

07.02.2015 - Illawarra panther picture provokes photo frenzy

24.01.2015 - Even Elusive Animals Leave DNA Behind

21.01.2015 - Rare and terrifying frilled shark

21.01.2015 - Meet the Multi-Headed Caterpillar

03.01.2015 - Confrontation and bipedality in deer

Images of 2015:

01.11.2015 - Legend of Loch Ness Monster was 'invented in a London pub' to drive tourists to Scotland

08.09.2015 - The Queen and the Loch Ness monster: a murky tale of myth, nature and spin

17.07.2015 - Loch Ness Monster June, 1934

16.07.2015 - Loch Ness expert now believes it is nothing but a CATFISH

16.05.2015 - Loch Ness Monster? You otter know better, says wildlife expert

26.04.2015 - Loch Ness Monster could become national animal of Scotland

21.04.2015 - Secret file reveals scandal of the Natural History Museum expert and the Loch Ness Monster 'sighting'

21.03.2015 - Is this amazing new footage captured by a tourist the Loch Ness Monster?

14.01.2015 - Man scoops prize despite NEVER visiting Scotland

Home

05.11.2015 - Greek 'Sea Monster' Identified

23.10.2015 - Daedalus sea serpent may have been skimming whale

03.07.2015 -Remains of sea creature washed up in Far East

25.06.2015 - Our deep need for monsters that lurk in the dark

08.07.2015 - 1901-2 - Updated

Karla

The life of my mum...

09.11.2015 - The War Years