The Naked Yowie Project
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Ed, Editor of Yowieocalypse

aka:        Night Walker

               The Wild Man of Clear Mountain 

CRYPTOZOOLOGIST
 QUALIFIED SINCE 2014; MASTERS 2019
 ** Investigations resolved
  or your BOGEY back free
Last known photograph
of the Wild Man.
This is a personal quest into the mysteries that inspired my childhood with a particular focus on the Yowie, Australia's Bigfoot. A labour of love since 2009/2010 -- no sponsors, no merchandise for sale, not cencerned about 'likes'.

Yowieocalypse (version 1) was of mixed success. It is sloppy and disorganised and much of it remains unfinished. Cryptozoology is a massive subject to tackle and I simply bit off more than I could chew.

However, I did succeed in getting to the bottom of a couple of Yowie cases (a rare feat, apparently), published online the first ever image of the enigmatic historical figure H.J. McCooey, and finding the earliest documented use of the word "yowie" in indigenous culture (I think). I was even once mistaken for a Yowie myself. Fun times...

Yowieocalypse (v2.0) will focus more on writing online articles which examine specific events and ideas in greater depth. Perhaps I'll even have a go at explaining the Yowie phenomenon. The latest information in things I find interesting will still be tracked and shared.

This is serious research, seriously! Enjoy...
Archives:

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PREVIOUSLY:
v1.0
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HOW TO COLLECT DNA:
2020:
 
* From dwarves to giants: South American's contribution to the history of growth hormone and related disorders
* Adapting Human Thinking and Moral Reasoning in Contemporary Society
* Gothic Animals: Uncanny Otherness and the Animal With-Out
* Conspiracy Theories: A Primer
* The Monster Theory Reader
 
 
2019:
 
* An ethnographic study of perceptions of and ideas about mystery hominoids
* Psychological Perspectives on Reality, Consciousness and Paranormal Experience
* In the Valleys of the Noble Beyond: In Search of the Sasquatch
* Thylacine Dreams: The Vernacular Resurrection of an Extinct Marsupial
* Locating the Wild Man: Rain Forest Enchantments and Settler Colonial Fantasies Amid the Ruins of the Anthropocene
* Wild Thing: A Podcast about Sasquatch, Science and Society
* Cryptofiction! Science fiction and the rise of cryptozoology
* The Mystery of Everything Out There: Bigfoot and Religion in the Twenty-First Century
* Losing Bigfoot - a putative ethnography of Bigfooting
 
YOWIE, YETI, BIGFOOT, CRYPTOZOOLOGY, RESEARCH, POP CULTURE, FOLKLORE, ARCHAEOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY
Yowie Year in Review 2019 - Part I: January to March
21 December, 2019
If the Yowie is actually a real but somehow uncatalogued biological species then a golden opportunity for discovery went begging at Witheren on the Gold Coast...
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Feb 15 - Yowie hunter claims recent lack of sightings of the mysterious beast is because bushfires have driven the hairy Bigfoot-like creature deeper inland
Feb 13 - DNA Study: We may be More Neanderthal than Previously Thought
Feb 13 - Bigfoot... Or just a man in a fur coat? Ohio hikers are mocked after claiming to have filmed Sasquatch in state park
Feb 8 - Search for 'Bigfoot' Dublin monster expands as similar footprints found in Phoenix Park
Feb 7 - 'Bigfoot ruined my life' Woman convinced Yeti beasts stalk UK after encounter
Feb 5 - There's a Cancer Treatment That Gives People 'Night Vision', And We Finally Know Why
Jan 28 - Visit Nepal's yeti: How mythical creature divided Himalayan nation
Jan 28 - In regards to the Bigfoot photo and video the Washington State Department of Transportation posted
Jan 27 - Bigfoot Reconsidered
Jan 27 - GIANT DENISOVAN FANTASIES
Jan 15 - Incredible, secret firefighting mission saves famous 'dinosaur trees'
Jan 14 - Mechanic shares eerie footage of a 'mysterious creature' which stalked him through bushland where 'yowies have been spotted before'
Jan 13 - Taxonomania: An Incomplete Catalog of Invented Species, From the Pop-Eyed Frog to the Loch Ness Monster
Jan 10 - Yowie hunters share some VERY imaginative theories on how the mythical beasts avoid bushfires
Jan 9 - How a mysterious seismic hum led scientists to the birth of an enormous undersea volcano
Jan 5 - Mystery of naming of Yo Yo Creek at Augathella solved
Jan 3 - Father and 9-year-old daughter mistaken for deer fatally shot while hunting
Jan 3 - Found these @ Goodwill. Definitely won’t use them but a nice conversation piece
Jan 2 - In One Ear: Bigfoot?

Jul 5, 2019 - Can fish fall from the sky?
Jul 1, 2019 - Yowie spotted: Narrabri Shire Council sneaks Yowie into project videos for six months
 
Nov ?, 2015 - On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit
Sep ?, 2015 - Mistaken-for-Game Hunting Accidents – A Human Factors Review
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ESSENTIAL READING:
Native and western eyewitness testimony in cryptozoology
 
By J. Rabbit (2002)
In Mysterious Creatures: A Guide to Cryptozoology, edited by G.M. Eberhart. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, xxxv–xliii
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Yowieocalypse 2019 - Archive
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Yowieocalypse 2019 Vault
Yowie Year in Review - 2019 Part I: January to March
Yowie Year in Review - 2019 Part II: April to July
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YOWIE, YETI, BIGFOOT, CRYPTOZOOLOGY, RESEARCH, POP CULTURE, FOLKLORE, ARCHAEOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY
Yowie Year in Review 2019 - Part II: April to July
29 December, 2019
Gilroy identifies the rock as being "Australopithecine" and dated it at 2.5 million years old. Most confusing of all is when the article refers to "Dr Rex Gilroy" as having received an honorary doctorate from an unnamed university in California. Is that a bona fide thing? "Dr." Gilroy was contacted for clarification
but no reply was forthcoming...
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YOWIE, YETI, BIGFOOT, CRYPTOZOOLOGY, RESEARCH, POP CULTURE, FOLKLORE, ARCHAEOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY
Yowies Year in Review 2019 - Part III: August to December
8 January, 2020
Did you know that Yowies often call out "Hey you" to people in the bush? That some Yowies have moved permanently into small towns to regularly tease the inhabitants by leaving big dirty handprints on doors? That Yowies regularly play with soldiers on military exercise?
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YOWIE, CRYPTOZOOLOGISTS, RESEARCH, FOLKLORE
Yowies Year in Review 2019 - Part IV: Claims & Evidence
16 February, 2020
Ambiguous [audio]. Unidentified zoologist said "definitely that of a large mammal." "Zoologist" Gary Opit said it could be bellowing of a cow but thought Yowie to be more likely...
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