Cian returns to the subject of the Australian 'yowie' with more detail, more opinions, and possibly more conclusions, giving an in-depth take on the most thorough piece of literature on the subject, the 2006 book The Yowie: In Search Of Australia's Bigfoot by Healy & Cropper. Subjects include:

-aboriginal and pre-colonial tales of the 'yahoo'

-links to contemporary US bigfoot culture

-Yowie or yahoo? What's in a name ...

-Do cultures worldwide report 'hairy man' beings? An archetype?

-Colonial era 'Australian gorilla' reports and 19c newspaper hoax culture

-Why were there so few sightings in the early 20th century? Should we trust back-dated reports?

-Rex Gilroy and the emergence of the yowie into popular culture circa 1975

LINKS:

Buy me a coffee, ya bogan!

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wideatlantic

The Yowie: In Search Of Australia's Bigfoot, Healy & Cropper, 2006

https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-yowie/tony-healy/paul-cropper/9781933665160

The Hairy Man, Henry Lawson, 1907

http://www.telelib.com/authors/L/LawsonHenry/prose/trianglesoflife/hairyman.html

Video of Rex Gilroy (worth a look!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziwFN_aEnko

American Monster, William Giraldi

https://gen.medium.com/why-americans-need-to-believe-in-monsters-d5480ad9222e