Yowie sighting in Braidwood, New South Wales
1870 · Braidwood, New South Wales, Australia
A boy riding near Braidwood, NSW, in the afternoon of 3 October 1870 saw a tall, long-haired, heavily built creature appear from behind a tree and run into the hills.
Facts
- Reported as
- Braidwood, New South Wales 1870
- Date
- 1870
- Place
- Braidwood, New South Wales, Australia
- Evidence
- visual
- Point
- -35.439, 149.796
- Located within
- 14 km
- Time
- about 15:00, daylight
- Witness was
- horse riding
- Witnesses
- 1
- Creatures
- 1
- Distance
- 27 m (90 ft)
- Height
- 1.8 m (6 ft)
- Described as
- heavy, long length
- Behaviour
- running, standing, vocalizing, watching
- Sounds
- roar
- In the account
- field or clearing, leaped, likened to ape, looked at witness, on or by road, repeat location
- Account
- news report
- Sources
- 1 independent
Sources
- Yowie (AYR)Read the report
Nearby sightings
- Braidwood, New South Wales 1995
- Mongarlowe, New South Wales 2013
- Clyde Mountain, New South Wales 1980
- November 1912 - Currickbilly Range
- Bateman's Bay, New South Wales 1977
- Bateman's Bay, New South Wales 1979
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