Yowie sighting in Charters Towers, Queensland
29 Apr 1979 · Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia
A youth reported being chased and grabbed by a small hairy creature on Towers Hill late at night; police found him running and a blood stain on his leg.
The account itself raises a hoax or a misidentification.
Facts
- Reported as
- Charters Towers, Queensland 1979 (1)
- Date
- 29 Apr 1979
- Place
- Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia
- Point
- -20.071, 146.271
- Located within
- 6.1 km
- Light
- night
- Witness was
- searching for bigfoot
- Creatures
- 1
- Height
- 1.0 m (3 ft)
- Described as
- black hair
- Behaviour
- aggressive display, approaching
- Sounds
- scream
- Traces
- blood
- In the account
- ape like face, face seen, felt fear, followed or paced, hit structure, in vehicle, juvenile, likened to ape, multiple, nothing found after, repeat location, ridge or mountain, told no one, touched witness, witness fled
- Account
- news report
- Sources
- 1 independent
Sources
- Yowie (AYR)Read the report
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