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the toes. The second example, a right foot, is 44 cm long by 22 cm wide and is obviously distorted due to it having been impressed into softer mud than the other track. Were the tracks those of two separate hominids or a single individual? Even allowing for size distortions in the original soft mud, the creature or creatures who left these tracks must have been of considerable size-at least three metres in height. The mudstone itself is at least 200,000 years old. Penrith NSW The former presence of the Goolagah is preserved in the rock art of the old Dharuk people of the Penrith district. Upon a vertical rock-face near the town is the pecked rock carving of a large “mundoe” or man- like foot, indicating the Doolagahs once inhabited the area. It measures 35 cm length by 17 cm in width across the five toes. According to the former Blue Mountains Aborigines who related these tales to European settlers in the 1800's, the Goolagah monster men and women were gigantic in every physical feature, with large heads, thick arm and leg muscles, and feet much larger than any normal Aborigine. Males were big-chested and very hairy, while the females had less hair and long pendulous breasts far larger than those of any lubra! These monstrous beings lived and hunted throughout the Sydney region. In what is now the western suburbs area, the giant men, women and their children were a commonplace sight, hunting monitor liz- ards with their large stone or wooden clubs and spears. The Aborigines lived in fear of the Goolagah, whose powerful forms must have been an awesome, terrifying sight to any lone tribesman crouching in fear behind bushes as they passed by. As Aboriginal traditions across Australia tell of battles fought with the giant creatures, it is obvious that they were wiped out around 40,000 years ago-although some present-day Aborigines maintain that in some far-off unexplored mountainous areas some of these giant people linger on. Blue Mountains Aborigines claimed the Doolgahl wandered the mountain-tops hunting the giant kanga- roos, giant monitor lizards and other creatures, killing them with spears and stones. They were/are said to inhabit the New England region of northern New South Wales where fresh campsites could be found. Brewarrina I know of stories even from Europeans, telling of giant-sized stone and wooden tools and weapons found in north-western and northern New South Wales today-such as one freshly abandoned campsite found by a prospector near Brewarrina in 1973. Tweed Valley Giant man-beasts with large wooden clubs have been claimed seen in the Tweed Valley on the Queen- sland side of the NSW-Queensland border even in the 70s. Giant Aboriginal People: And then there are the traditions of a form of giant Aboriginal people, claimed by their smaller, modern counterparts to have survived in remote regions. If such Astraloid giants existed, they were, like their monster hominid neighbors, the result of genetic mutation caused by vari- ous environmental factors. A population of giant Aborigines were said to have once roamed the central west of NSW, side by side with the other giant hominids. Old Aboriginal tales of a giant race having roamed the Pilliga region near Coonabarabran were perhaps vindicated in 1969 with a farmer's discov- ery near Coolah, east of Coonabarabran, of a reputed giant-sized Endocast fossil hominid skull, said to be not unlike the Bathurst Skull No. 1 described in Chapter 14. One day in May 1889, Mr. Frederick Sala, an Orange, NSW quarryman, was digging at the Caleula quarry, about 50 kilometers out of Blayney, when he unearthed what he thought at first was an ancient statue of a normal-sized male body encased in marble. Thinking it might also be the fossilized body of some prehistoric human, he lifted it with some difficulty into a large crate on his cart and journeyed into 299 Appendix D: Scientific Evidence Marble Man, Caleula Atlantis, Alien Visitation, and Genetic Manipulation