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MAN - APES OF EASTERN AUSTRALIA Part II by Rex Gilroy MAN EASTERN AUSTRALIA YOWIES CONTINUING OUR FASCINATING LOOK AT THE MYSTERIOUS "MAN-APES" THAT ARE REPORTED AROUND THE GLOBE! began barking furiously, then cringing, crawled inside its kennel. The girl, suddenly aware that something was behind her, turned, dropped the bag of chicken feed she had been holding, and screamed in terror. There, standing several metres from and towering over her frail 1.8m height, was an enormous hairy manlike beast a good 2.6m tall, and showing a ferocious look in its eyes, which she later recalled were set deep inside big eyebrows. Large teeth showed from its snarling mouth, and it had an overpowering odour. The manbeast moved towards her, but the terrified girl rushed up the back door steps, into the house, slamming and bolting the door as she did so. For some minutes, she later recalled, the beast paced around the house emitting a loud grunting sound, then all went silent. She was beside herself with terror when her parents returned a couple of hours later, and although she could describe exactly what she had seen to them, and later to police, nobody in authority took any action. No search was organised to attempt to track the mys- terious intruder due to the vastness of the nearby wilderness. The above story is typical of many, often quite believable accounts I receive and follow up. But sightings reports are only as good as the people who claim to have experienced them, and are not physical proof. However, like the best of the plaster casts and photographs of possible Yowie tracks found in the wild, they are good circumstantial evidence upon which to build a case for these creature’ Ss existence. But, if the Yowie exists, why hasn't one been captured by now? Or, why hasn't someone found any bones or a recently deceased Farmers around Kempsey on the NSW north coast, especially in the foothills of the vast, impenetrable Carrai Range west of town, frequently carry rifles with them while checking stock in remote areas. They recall only too well incidents that have occurred there- abouts over the years, of hairy manbeasts that have strayed from their mountain lairs onto remote farming properties. The story is still recalled how in 1965, a husband and wife left their remote foothills farm one morning to shop in Kempsey. Their 15 year old daughter was left behind alone to do housework. She had tidied up about the house and was in the back yard feed- ing chickens when the family dog, chained up near the house, The answer i imple. The Yowie's habitat covers vast tracts of inaccessible forest - covered mountain country forming the eastern Australian mountain ranges. Country so inaccessible, that any rare r "unknown" species could very easily escape human detection for centuries. Under these circumstances, capturing a Yowie would be virtual- ly impossible, let alone attempting to photograph one. As for finding recently deceased remains, or bones; mother nature keeps a clean house. No sooner does an animal die in the wild, than its tissue is quickly eaten up by other animals, decom- position and acidic chemicals in the forest soil. Bones become NEXUS - 31 CONTINUING OUR FASCINATING LOOK AT THE MYSTERIOUS "MAN-APES" THAT ARE REPORTED AROUND THE GLOBE! JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1992 - YEAR BOOK