On New Years Day 1954, a commercial pilot with more than 14,000 flying hours and 17 years experience reported seeing a metallic mushroom-shaped object flying at high speed and low altitude through suburban Melbourne. As it developed, the flying mushroom sighting would have all the ingredients of a typical UFO case; a credible witness, sensational…
Mostly, encounters with Australia’s Yowie are fleeting. A glimpse of a large, hairy animal running upright through the bush and disappearing behind the thick undergrowth, the sounds of heavy, thumping footsteps, thick tree branches snapping like twigs – and then silence. As a clear sign of intelligence in the elusive creatures, Yowies it seems, prefer…
During 1949, the locals of Mountain River, a small fruit growing settlement nestling at the foot of the southern slopes of Tasmania’s Mt Wellington, witnessed “a strange animal making queer noises” prowling the local area over many months. Men were “scared stiff” and the women refused to walk along the road unless accompanied by a…
