Yowies are large, incredibly strong creatures famous in Australia. It is believed that one frightened yowie can stop and overturn a jeep. It can run three times faster than a human, leaving footprints in the mud with its wide feet and long toes. With his muscular arms with huge hands, the Yowie is capable of throwing stones and breaking the trunks of small trees.
The massive body of the animal with a large belly is covered with thick fur. The color of the hair varies from reddish-brown to almost black.
The huge, shaggy and elusive yowie is said to be lurking in some of Australia's most inaccessible areas. It hunts at night, sneaking up on kangaroos and other animals in the bushes, and then tearing their heads off. Yowie can move across rough terrain with amazing speed, jumping over streams and boulders. Occasionally, he wanders near villages and watches people from behind the dense vegetation. If the yowie is disturbed, it will begin to stomp its feet, beat its chest, and shake trees until they break. Sometimes the beast attacks uninvited guests: it screams and growls so that eardrums burst, and shows its long fangs. It smells so strongly of rotting flesh and rotten eggs that it makes one feel sick.
People have seen Yowies wandering along roadsides looking for animals that have been hit by cars.
Such a case is known. One married couple was sleeping peacefully, not paying attention to what was happening on the street. Their mongrel dog ran out to play in the garden and heard some rustling in the bushes. Suddenly a hulking figure appeared and the dog barked madly. Then everything became quiet. In the morning, after breakfast, the woman went to feed the dog. She called in vain for the mongrel, and then together with her husband began to look for it, but the husband found only a torn and bloody collar. Apparently, Yowie ate the dog for dinner.
In the 20th century and in recent years, yowies have been most commonly seen in eastern Australia, particularly in the mountains and forests of the Great Dividing Range, which stretches from Queensland to Victoria. When an RAF helicopter landed in a desolate mountain area in 1971, the crew found fresh Yowie footprints on the ground.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru