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Whilst traveling by road along the A24 from Sydney to Port Augusta in South Australia, on
18.1.2012 my fiancée and I being tired from a long days travel, pulled into a parking bay set
some distance off the road around thirty klms south of West Wyalong.
The parking bay had a few blue rubbish bins set onto white posts,
the contents of the bins for the most part had been scattered around the area.
Upon stopping near two trees that stood alone in the bay we set about moving our baggage
from the rear of the Holden Astra hatchback into the two front seats so that we might make
a bed in the back of the car for a few hours’ sleep.
Having set up the rear of the car, we were taking in the clear starry night and discussing how
fantastic the night sky looked. Just then my fiancée noticed a strange glow coming from a tree some 30
meters to the front of the car. It was not the moon which was in clear view, nor was it any sort of
reflection. The glow was quite small and quite incandescent, alternating from red to blue through to
orange, that with time grew into a bright white light that seemed to creep up the length of the tree
pulsating all the while. We found this intriguing but not unduly scary and made the location quite
interesting to say the least. Sadly this did not last long as suddenly a series of three very loud knocks
began to issue from a tree line some ten meters behind the light phenomenon and slightly to the right
of it. The knocks continued in threes and stopped when I pointed a flashlight in that direction, only to
begin again once the light was turned off. Having had a previous encounter with what is known as a
yowie I got out of the car and told my fiancée to close and lock the doors and to then remove the
baggage from the drivers and passengers seats. As I did so the knocking grew louder and closer.
I asked my fiancée to hand me a knife and a digital camera which had a powerful flash. As she moved
the bags I walked the perimeter of the parking bay with the flashlight pointed towards the knocking
sounds, which stopped again as I did so. Just then I heard a guttural semi conversation followed by a
very loud growling yell, the like of which I have never. Then two stones were thrown at me one hitting
my leg with a great deal of force. This in fact made me very angry and I copied the growling noise and
yelled back at the shadowy menace. I was more afraid for my fiancée thinking to myself that if these
things were male and they happened to attack me she would be in a bit of trouble. They seemed to be
circling us and had separated from a group of three into individuals to my left, right and front. My
fiancée kept telling me that there was a sound near her side of the car of which I was on the opposite
side. She said that she had heard twigs snapping nearby and had seen a large shadow rise out of the
long grass in the darkness. At that point the bags were moved and she nearly ran me over getting the
car moving. We drove to a service station just outside of West Wyalong and I reported what I had seen to
a skeptical service station worker. I can only assume that we had inadvertently stumbled onto a group of
yowies scavenging the parking bay bins. As for the weird lights? I have no clue. I would love to go back
and spend the night in that bay to finally work out what was going on. I later looked at the seven images
I had taken and they are for the most part too dark to make out anything including the glowing in the
trees, which I find highly unusual. Photo enhancing software has made no difference.
Paul John Mcleod

G'day Paul,

I had an encounter near here, at Weja, about 40 kilometres from West Wyalong back in 1981. See earlier posts at: viewtopic.php?f=45&t=3629&hilit

The details of your description are very consistent with many other reports throughout Australia. Can you also outline your other encounter? Thanks.

Neil

WOW! What an experience. Thank you for sharing this with us. Its interesting (to me) that the rock that was thrown hit you on the leg, it could have so easily been aimed at your head or chest. It's like they were more interested in frightening you off then actually causing you harm.

Well Neil as funny as it may sound my last encounter was only around a two weeks ago in Cairns Ive made a you tube video about it. Can you post links to outside sites on this board?

In a nutshell we were staying at a place about thirty klms outside of Cairns called Cliffton Beach. The house backed onto rainforrest and a creek that had just began to run from wet season rains. We had just come back from Cairns CBD at around 12am. I heard some noises comming from the creek and thought I might get a few wildlife photos. As I approached the creek something stood up....about 8 foot tall...looked at me and bolted into the rainforrest. I got three photos and the enhancements show some interesting things. I got it as it was low in the brush and when it stood up.

And no Im not telling porky pies....I have the images.

My first encounter was in the same area when I was about ten years old. offsiding with my truckie step father as he ran high tension power line cable spoils to the area.

Cheers mate

Sorry if Im breaking board rules....dont mean to. Just thought you would like to see the cairns video


http://youtu.be/4o7yr4qev3o


Cheers

From memory that radio interview with " Bongo" is a well known notorious fake ......sorry

I have to agree with topender regarding the bongo video, it has indeed been labelled a fake by many, sorry also

Your experience was fantastic though Thats quite a story you have there wow amazing stuff. Thanks for sharing it with us & do tell us more

Hi Paul - any chance you can post the pics here direct as well as the youtube link? Just a bit hard to get a look at them on the vid. You can upload a file on the screen where you type your post, then you just place the uploaded file in the text of the post.

Cheers,
FG

Hello guys.

I just want to explain the youtube video somewhat. Firstly I had no knowledge that the bongo audio was fake as is the case with other elements in the video. I was trying to find a way to frame the photographs in an interesting way. So Im sorry if it looks bad, this subject matter is pretty new to me and after that last encounter I have to say that Im hooked. I want to know more and I want to help find some answers. I am not a hoaxer nor a practicle joker and as a published author I would have too much to loose by diliberatly faking. Im am guilty of not researching the subject properly before making the video. Having said that there seems to be preciouse little hard evidence to utilize. Id love to change that fact....if only I knew how to.

Thats what brought me here....I want to know more

Please teach me.

Cheers

Paul

Im happy to email the pics to whom ever wants them.

My email is

[email protected]

Im hopless at linking images to boards and I dont have a website to link the url to

"Sorry bout that chief"

And here is the best image from the three I took in Cairns....again they are completly inconclusive, but its what I was lucky enough to get.

I just want to get out there and find these things just to prove Im not nuts.

Cheers

Heres the only image from six that had anything in it from West Wyalong...its feeble but its the only one that didnt come out black despite using a good digital camera with a flash. You can just make out one of the "yowies" in the treeline.

Sorry guys its the best Ive got.

I can post the dark images maybe someone can pull out some detail?

Cheers

paulmcleod67 wrote: my last encounter was only around a two weeks

Paul
Thanks for posting the Clifton pictures. One thing you can do, provided it is soon and the foliage has not changed too much, is to return to the exact same position you stood when you took the photos. Using a print of the images to frame your shots, take a second sequence of photos. What this will do is allow the pairs to be compared so the differences become apparent. Then the objects might become clearer.

The picture at the roadside stop has too much noise (electronically produced random signals) in the underexposure to allow the picture to be cleaned up. This can be done if you have a "raw file" and the software is available to compensate for the noise before it is converted to a jpg. There appears to be something there but it is too indistinct. Do you think it was standing?

There was a lot of tree knocking going on, it was pretty dark dispite the clear night and that treeline was quite a bit off. I think the one I imaged was squatting at the time. I know they were quite tall as I remember seeing their eyes in the cameras flash.

Hope that helps?

And yes the other images are full of noise Ill post a couple below...These are the original images straight from the camera

HI Guys, i have never posted anything before, i have been somewhat interested in Yowie`s for a while, as i think they are very possible, and a link to us, but that is just my opinion.I am a very keen bush walker and an bit of a photographer,nearly always take it everywhere with me, photographing almost anything and everything of interest.I love the bush/ rainforest and gettin amongst nature, i used to shoot/hunt a long time ago, but just like to shoot pictures now. I have seen many curious things over the many many decades i have spent in the bush, anyway, I have checked out the paulmcleod67 video, and wonder if anyone else has seen something in it at about 1.28 mark when bongo says "telecom van" in the video, well about 60 to 70 mm, or 6-7cm off the left side of the screen up and in the same distance, appears to be something of interest. It does appear to move or change coloration somewhat also. I have played it over and over, as it appears to have a face and arm movement. I also know leaves and sticks, etc do funny things in videos and photos, and also movement from them, and the photographer also. I am not very computer savvy, and was wondering if someone has the ability to have a good look at the area of the video, in slow motion, and maybe enlarging it. There may be nothing in it and it could be just foliage, but might be worth somebody capable of doing so, having a look see. Thanks for the time. Good , interesting web site also.

Hey guys.
Just on that West Wylong area. I've been a miner for some time and I have had the chance to work in West Wylong it's self, this was three years ago, On this particular swing I hadn't seen my family for three weeks straight so after a full day shift and a little feed I dropped a few no doze (caffein these days) and set on my way home.
About 30km north heading home I'd discovered that 12 hr shift, many cups of coffee, no doze and coke will dehydrate like you like your right in 40 deg heat day with no water and shade. I had to pull up for a kip it wasn't worth it, I found a small car area with bbq table to sit at and just have a few hours kip, window down air flown through the car it was bliss. I was awoken a few hours later buy a weird feeling that I wasn't alone a few noises, snapping of sticks, what I thought was a thud in the near buy area. I didn't stick around all the same, that commodore never stopped till iI hit the sunny coast. I had no idea what it was, let alone weather it was anything but paranoia. I did't care now lol it was day light.I've given up the mining to be at home with the family now days, but I was striking up a converation with a truck driver three doors down, he told me of a similar experiance but alot more action involed. As most truckies they've done interstate, on this particular night the driver pulled up in what we can make out to be around the same area 30 odd kms north of West Wylong he did the same, too tired to dangerous time for a nap. The driver was in a small truck and dog (trailer). 20 mins into his sleep he was awoken buy the movement of chain on his dog the on that hold the spae on. Being who he is he got out with the torch and had a look, he looked everywere....... nothing.....around the parking area no one not even a truck or car, went back to the truck, tried again to sleep. Thats when the truck was literally slapped, he pause got out again nothing. He got back in the truck cab, 20 mins later the truck was started to rock like no tomorrow, he'd had enough that truck did't stop till it got to Qld. Ants

hey paul was just reading ur story sounded pretty scary im glad i wasnt there.Just a story my brother in law told me about that area.He was collecting firewood around there and felt like something was watching him put the firewood in his trailer.He said he saw an man dressed in old fashioned clothes looking at him.struggling with the firewood he had to look away to drop the firewood into the trailer and when he looked back the man had vanished.It was only a matter of seconds he took his eyes off this man and then he was gone.There were no immediate trees for him to hide behind that quickly so thats a very weird story i think and seems like its a very strange area for phenonemon.

Found this thread about sightings near west wyalong and also a bit of about the infamous "bongo" audio. Thought some of the newer members maybe interested to have a read. Sorry admin for dragging up old threads but its relevant to some other current threads.

Thanks for bringing this post back to the surface. A question of debunking my story was raised which is fair enough, I'm an author and researcher myself so if I can provide anyone with further information no problem.

I haven't added any detail since the original post as I didn't think there was an interest in my account.

Since the event imaging software...and my skill level.. has improved and I believe that the two last frames from footage that night show an adult yowies head in close up. Whilst I admit the frames are still by no means definitive proof of what happened to us that night I'm relieved that I some evidence of what happened.

Having examined the camera (which I still have if anyone wants to inspect it) I realised that during the event I had accidently flipped the zoom to max, which explains the blurry head shot. What I don't understand is why the images are so shitty....and I swear to god the flash fired every time and yet....? Dunno. I made sure that the injuries I sustained were photographed the following morning.

The vehicle we were in, a Holden Astra broke down in TRURO of all places and we left it there and travelled on to Port Augusta. Far as I know its still outside a servo just inside of town. My fiancée later recollected that she may have hit one of them with the car. She doesn't like to recall that night....fair enough I say.

Anyway If I can help with anyone interested in investigating or questioning my account, happy to do so.

My goal nowadays is to get species recognition so that sign posts can be put up in places where the yowie frequent so as to inform the public of the potential hazards. I know after my encounters that they are a smart, human like species that no doubt has ( as we do) a percentage of psychopathic individuals in the total population. Based on accounts I have researched since 2012 there are many potential missing persons, unexplained murders (based on the condition of certain bodies located by police and suspicious coronial silence once referred) that could be attributed to yowie attack.

Missing kids have been my main concern in this context. Simple warning signs are all that is needed to potentially save lives such as crocodile warning signs.

Anyone interested in perusing this?

Cheers

Ill provide a link to my youtube page of the enhancements (only) I've made since that night so interested parties don't have to sit through my admittedly lousy re-enactment video. Id love a primatologist to examine the headshot particularly along with a recent find in my photos from Cairns that show a large dark ape like creature in thick tropical bushland by the roadside at a place we pulled over in order to chase a loose chicken off the roadside. (I know how stupid that sounds...but I have photos of this event as well).

Cheers

Hi Paul. Ive often thought it irresponsible of the local councils or govt to not have signs up to warn of possible yowie encounters. This would benefit humans as well as the yowies.

I doubt it would be possible as that would be an admission that they exist and thats probably not gonna happen but makes perfect sense.

It was probably me that questioned your wyalong attack but only hoping to get some confirmation from the more experienced people on the forum as i was mentioning it a lot but didnt get any confirmation so glad you've come on here and confirmed it.

The reason it interests me so much is that the face is similar to what i saw when a mate and i got chased and really creeps me out!

I like the new video on your channel of the massive yowie by the road and angry looking one in the bush. If that one near the road is real then that is the king kong of yowies as its bloody massive!

The bin scabbing yowie theory interests me as well. Im sure they are all along the newell scabbings leftover maccas and kfc.

I reckon we had one slap the side of van while sleeping at an isolated newell highway rest stop. My nephew who is over 6ft was taking a leak at the back of the van when we heard a huge slap that woke the rest of us and had him jumping back in the van in a hell of a state.
He said a " a huge bloke walked up beside me and whacked the side of the van".

We had been making a lot of noise earlier so if it was a yowie he was probably annoyed with us being there. Id say bin scabbing at rest stops and camping grounds would be a regular occurence as they're said to be opportunists when it comes to feeding.

Thanks for the speed reply. As I said matey I have no problem in providing what information I can.

Here is the url to the best image enhancements I have from West Wyalong as well as a recent find on one of my digital cards taken by the roadside in Cairns...I think its pretty clearly a dark ape like creature, but opinions matter for sure.

Cheers


https://youtu.be/Mg7VBuBEXe4

Hi Paul. He looks angry thats for sure. The different angles are a good way to view it. Do you think they were a group of rouge males and you interrupted their feeding time and do you think it was trying to kill you or scare you off (??) as its amazing you got away.

Is it too much to ask if you could post the pic of your wounds and of the creature in the underbrush you photographed where you saw the chook?

Yowie bait wrote:Hi Paul. He looks angry thats for sure. The different angles are a good way to view it. Do you think they were a group of rouge males and you interrupted their feeding time and do you think it was trying to kill you or scare you off (??) as its amazing you got away.

Is it too much to ask if you could post the pic of your wounds and of the creature in the underbrush you photographed where you saw the chook?

I'm sure you meant "rogue", although they have in fact been reported as having redish hair . . .

Thanks Dave. Yes I definitely meant "rogue"! My spellcheck is feeding me my own mistakes!

Sure thing. The darker rib shot was taken in the car at the West Wyalong servo that night as was the darker foot shot .The lighter images were next day and I had showered and cleaned up. The Cairns images were taken by my fiancée after I had chased an escaped domestic chook off the road. Which would make sense in context of the subject matter. The last image is the final cleaned up study of what attacked me as best as I think it will ever get.

Here are a couple of extra bits for those interested. Since the incidents of 2012 I have taken to using all my spare time tracking yowie reports versus unsolved missing persons/ found body reports with the idea of doing a book, David Pallides Missing 411 beat me to the punch but to be honest I've mainly tracked reports from NSW/ Qld and there's so much data it will take me at least another year to get a rough draft done...check out the pin map next post.

Location sightings

Thanks Paul. They're some amazing photos. Its good to be able to see them without pausing youtube.

That thing really did a number on you! I guess you're lucky he didnt finish you off. You must've been freaking out!

Your book sounds great. How many people do you think have gone missing in yowie related incidents?