Mysterious AustrAliA

Vol. 2, Issue No 06

JUNE, 2012

INSIDE: A NEW UPDATE ON THE YOWIE MYSTERY.

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Blue Mountains UFO Research Club. The Club meetings are held on the third Saturday of the month, at the Gilroy residence, 12 Kamillaroi Road, South Katoomba, from 1pm onwards. We are situated on the corner of Kamillaroi Road and Ficus Street, and as we always say, park in Ficus Street where there is safer parking.

R e x a n d H e a t h e r G i lr o y , A u s t r a li a s t o p U F O a n d U n e x p l a i n e d M y s t e r i e s R e s e ar c h t e am . P h o t o c o p y r i g h t R e x G i lr o y 2 0 1 2 .

A NEW UPDATE ON THE YOWIE MYSTERY.

by Rex Gilroy. Director of the Australian Yowie Research Centre PO Box 202 Katoomba. NSW 2780. Copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

This latest update on the Yowie, or :Hairy Man will attempt as usual, to approach the whole mystery in a sensible manner, which sadly cannot be said of many of the other so-called investigators who have persisted from the beginning in regarding these beings as a single race. This paper will prove how wrong they are. The fact is that the name Yowie or Hairy man of our Aboriginal people did not identify just one single race, for it stood for all non-Aboriginal people who had preceded them on this continent. Hairy Man is misleading, for there were of course Hairy Women too! And the term hairy did not necessarily imply the beings were covered in hair for it stood for people who wore marsupial hide cloaks as did the Aborigines into comparatively recent times. There is now an exception to the foregoing since the discovery by me of the Narrow Neck Plateau, Katoomba fossil Australopithecine skull, [2005] and others that have since followed it, proving this primitive race of ape-like hominids once made their way from Africa to Asia, thence Australia over 2 million years ago. These beings produced offshoots which in ancient Aboriginal times were described as very hairy naked beings and were therefore, the origin of the Hairy Man tradition. According to Aboriginal tradition these hairy people wore no garments, lived upon berries and plants and insects. They foraged for food in groups, huddling together in rock overhangs and caves at night for warmth and were ugly to look upon. To return to the other forms of hairy people it is certain that the other Yowies can be divided into three related forms and that they are living offshoots of Homo erectus I have no doubt. My fossil hominid skull collection contains specimens of undoubted Homo erectus to show his presence in Australia dates from as early as around 1 million years ago in the case of the Mudgee NSW skull [found in June 1997] and the Tarana late Homo erectus skull endocast [April 1973]. Homo erectus invented fire by friction and manufactured crude stone tools and was a meat-eater. Like the Australopithecines, his skull was doliocephalic [ie long, narrow] whereas we modern offshoots of Homo erectus possess brachiocephalic [rounded] skulls. Traditions of our Aborigines describe average height, tool-making, fire-making and marsupial hide clade male and female Yowies of obvious Homo erectus features. These beings, they say, stand up to 6ft [ie around 1.83m] and the females being smaller at around 5ft [ie 1.3m] the footprints of these beings judging from plaster casts are much like our own in structure. The second form is taller with males of about 7 to 8ft [ie 2.12m to 2.44m] height, the females about 6ft 5 inches [ie 1.96m]. The feet of these beings are larger in the male, the casts of footprints made by both sexes displaying somewhat broader impressions. The toes appear similar to the modern foot judging from casts but a study of this aspect of Australian relict hominids is still pending.
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We now arrive at the third and giant form of Homo erectus Yowie whose cast footprints display larger toes commensurate with the huge feet of male beings that must stand 12ft [3.66m] tall or over and are massive, strong muscular hominids. Aborigines say the females of these monster-men are between 8 to 10ft [ie 2.44 and 3.4m] tall. ***** Before proceeding further I would point out that the term Yowie was not the only one, for names differed with the Aboriginal tribal dialects throughout eastern Australia in particular, but whatever the name, all meant the same :Hairy Man or Hairy People. My classification of more than one race of yowie or relict hominid has infuriated my unscientific opponents who have been caught off guard. Their typical description of these beings has always been of a single, large, ridiculously hairy gorilla-like monster and due to them having produced so many undoubted fake footprint casts it is useless to employ their so-called finds in any anatomical and physiological research into these primitive beings. Consequently these people disaprove of my Homo erectus-Yowie findings [which came from years of research and comparative studies of footprints and recently manufactured stone tools found in the wild with those of Homo erectus dating to Pleistocene times] added to these studies have been comparative analysis of both archaic and late homo erectus skull-types, both of the classic average human height form and giant ace. In this regard my wife Heather and I extend our thanks to our leading field assistant Greg Foster and the late Antji Westrip. Greg has been instrumental in assisting me in the uncovering of both stone tool and fossil skull remains of Australian Homo erectus, and the discoveries of fossil feet impressions with which cast footprints can be compared, thus identifying the fossil ancestors of all three Homo erectus forms. We can also include more than one pygmy-size hominid of the past although juvenile tracks of the adults of the three Homo erectus, and also Australopithecus races must also be taken into consideration. For many years, beginning with the September 1969 find of a large lower back premolar of a giant hominid at Westmead and discoveries by my late father, Mr WF [Bill] Gilroy and I at a Bathurst NSW district site of numbers of huge stone megatools as well as finds of the first giant hominid fossil footprints by us, I had anticipated the discovery of a fossil skull of one of these monstrous hominids. Then in January 2004 Antji Westrip and I were exploring a dried creek bed high up in the Wadbilliga Mountains inland from Narooma when she told me I had just walked past a giant hominid endocast. A second giant hominid endocast was found by me in the vicinity of Antjis find in August that same year, confirming the former existence of giant beings of over 3.66m height. When as a 14 year old high school pupil in 1957 I began enthusiastically gathering information on the Hairy Man as well as mystery animals [which looking back 55 years makes me the father of relict hominology and also Cryptozoology research looking], I must admit that I thought of the Hairy Man as a primitive race of hairy ape-like appearance. Over the years and with better knowledge I would come to realise that, while the Aboriginal people believed in a hairy ape-like herbivorous/insectivorous race, they also often confused this Hairy Man with other, giant-size and smaller, tool-making, fire-making beings as their folklore reveals. For example, all the Yowies of the Murray River are said to have all worn marsupial hide garments, made fire, and frequently stolen lubras from Aboriginal camps! The difference between myself and other so-called Yowie researchers is that, while they cling to the hairy monster idea I have revealed through common-sense investigation in the course of a lifetime, that the mystery is far more complex than they can cope with hence they will continue to try and discredit my researches and dismiss my establishing the fossil foundations of the Yowie mystery as irrelevant. It might also be because they lack all the evidence I have gathered! ***** Let us now take a look at footprints left by both the fossil forebears as well as present-day tracks of these primitive survivors from the dawn of humanity Based upon plaster casts of the best available material it can be said that the average Homo erectus Yowie foot can be up to 28cm long by 12.5cm wide across the toes, 9cm wide at mid-foot and 7.5cm across the heel. The larger Homo erectus-type Yowie, ie that standing up to 2.44m tall, leave footprints measuring 37cm to 40cm long by 17cm wide across the toes, 16cm wide at mid-foot and 15cm wide across the heel. The giant Homo erectus Yowie form leaves footprints as much as 52cm long by 31cm wide across the toes, 21cm wide at mid-foot and 17cm wide across the heel. At the time I identified the three Homo erectus-related Yowies and had discovered what everyone else had overlooked, I felt I deserved a reward for all my efforts in the face of all the jealous criticism I was receiving and so I named the newly-identified giant form Rexbeast.
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Fossil foot impressions of the size just mentioned are small by comparison to many giant hominid footprints found by the Gilroys and our assistant Greg Foster. Our book, The Yowie Mystery Living Fossils from the Dreamtime [URU Publications 2007] presents an overwhelming number of giant tracks in particular that demonstrate that beings of truly gigantic proportions once strode across the Australian landscape in Pleistocene times. ***** We have examined the sizes of feet impressions and heights of the three Homo erectus-related Yowies. All these tracks, regardless of size, display the same basic structural features of other beings in New Zealand [ie the Moehau] the Solomon Islands and New Guinea landmass, Malaysia, India, Thailand, China, Mongolia and Russia which in turn compare with the tracks of the North American 'Bigfoot' or Sasquatch. It is obvious that all these relict hominids share distant relationships with Homo erectus. Of course geographical and regional variations between each racial group must be taken into account and the varying states of tool culture development [if any] but the Homo erectus features are there, and when American Bigfoot TV documentary makers from Animal Planet recently examined my Australian casts they were astounded at the close similarity of the Yowie feet impression to those of Bigfoot. These findings tend to dismiss the Pleistocene giant ape Gigantopithecus as Bigfoot just as I dismissed it as the identity of the Yowie many years ago. It belongs with the Himalayan Yeti [ie Dweller among the rocks] as a giant primate unrelated to the relict hominids just described. To be fair however there do exist huge fossil footprints embedded in Pliocene deposits of a few million years ago and also in early Pleistocene deposits to show that more than one form of giant opposable big-toed primate-like race inhabited Australia, but this was long, long before the first Aboriginal people landed on our shores, beings that lived when a great land-shelf joined Australia to mainland Asia. Whatever these giant primate-like beings were is yet one more mystery of the Australian fossil past. If one or more Gigantopithecine forms reached Pliocene Australia they would have shared it with other creatures whose scant fossil remains found by me, suggest there were a handful of primate-like creatures here for a time. This subject is dealt with in The Yowie Mystery Living fossils from the Dreamtime and does not concern the main subject of this paper. Having discovered fossil skull-types of Australopithecines in Australia today I say that anything is possible and an open mind must be kept on these matters. We will now turn to the presence of the traditional Hairy Man or Yowie which I believe to be living remnant groups of robust Australopithecines. Having identified the type-specimen skull from Katoomba as an Australian geographical offshoot of African Australopithecus robustus I also named the specimen Australopithecus australis gilroyii. Reconstruction based upon available fossil skeletal material in Africa, leads paleoanthropologists to estimate males stood 5ft tall [1.53m], the females being shorter and slighter. Males are described as having been 10 stone in weight with a gorilla-size brain, being strong, big-boned creatures with a forward-projecting face, female skulls being much the same. Australopithecus robustus of Africa dates back 2 to 1.5 million years BP. A gracile Australopithecus race may have shared the Australian landscape with A. Australis but this possibility is currently based upon a single mineralised [jasper] skull from Wingham NSW and more fossil evidence is needed. Fossil feet impressions displaying a large opposable big toe found at eastern Australian locations compare with present-day specimens found in forest soil, which match African fossil examples. It would therefore seem that an Australian offshoot of African Australopithecus robustus is the origin of the earliest Hairy Man tradition of our Aboriginal people. Australian robust Australopithecine feet impressions found today in the bush can be up to 28cm long by 14cm wide across the toes, 11cm wide at mid-foot and 8.5cm wide across the heel. The larger tracks would obviously be those of males. A study of the anatomy and physiology of primates, fossil hominids and living relict hominids, has enabled me to arrive at the conclusions reached in this paper, yet current ideas may change with time as further fossil or other evidence comes to hand. Like a good scientist I reach conclusions on currently available evidence, altering my conclusions as I find more up-to-date evidence supporting my theory. New findings in Australian relict hominology are inevitable and my wife Heather and I wonder what new and exciting discoveries yet await us in the unravelling of the Yowie mystery. *****
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We have investigated just about every known aspect of the Yowie mystery and shown that more than one race is involved. Yet what of the distribution of these beings? Where are their last retreats from modern human civilisation encroachment? Gilroy fossil evidence shows that Homo erectus roamed much of the Australian continent. At present Australopithecine fossils, chiefly from New South Wales and the Northern Territory are certain to gradually be joined by further specimen material from the other states in the course of future fieldwork. Wherever fossil remains of Homo erectus or Australopithecus are found, research into local Aboriginal folklore usually reveals the former presence of hairy people: in those areas. The same can be said of giant races. For example the Wadbilliga National Park on the New South Wales far south coast, inland from Narooma where the late Antji Westrip and I uncovered the first giant hominid fossil skull endocasts, is still known to local Aborigines today as the home of the dreaded Wadbilliga the Giant Man two or three times taller than the average blackfellow. This information was imparted to early European settlers of the Wadbilliga range foothills, with the usual warning not to enter that wilderness unless well-armed, lest they would be caught and eaten by one of these monster-beings! In early 19th century settlement times settlers of the country around Melbourne [in those times still densely wooded] was the reputed home of Doolagarls, monstrous hairy giants that, according to the tribes people, would kill any Aborigine or European unlucky enough to cross their path! From the Victorian-New South Wales Alps, northwards throughout the coastal flats and mountain ranges to the Great Dividing Range all the way to Far North Queensland, there was not one tribesman, woman or child in the old times who did not cringe in fear at the mere mention of the name Hairy Man in whatever form he took. And this fear spread to many an early European settler over a wide area of the eastern Australian ranges. Eastern Australias mountain country with its moist forested environment was the last retreat for many creatures as the last great Ice-Age of the Pleistocene Period came to an end, turning the vast Australian interior into a parched desert environment. This event, which began around 30,000 years ago, was witnessed by the early Aborigines who relentlessly killed off any other primitive hominids they found for the domination of the continent. Those that escaped found shelter in the rugged, often virtually inaccessible eastern mountain ranges. Later European encroachment drove them out of the foothills, especially along the eastern coastal flats, so that today the majority of sightings claims come from still wild areas such as the southern alpine regions, the far south coastal mountain ranges, the vast Greater Blue Mountains National Park, the northern New South Wales coastal, and New England-Border Ranges, and the inaccessible mountains of Far North Queensland. It is from these regions that claims of sightings of hairy people of whatever race continue. These regions are long steeped in early 19th century-early 20th century pioneer settlers tales and they continue unabated today. For those interested in historical period Yowie encounters we recommend our book Giants from the Dreamtime The Yowie in Myth and Reality [URU Publications 2001]. Among the early accounts of hairy people one can see descriptions of all the Homo erectus-forms of hominids and in particular, the most primitive and man-ape like of all the hairy hominids, the Australopithecine Yowie. These Australopithecine hominids are known from present-day reports to roam the forests of the southern alpine foothills the Wadbilliga and Deua National Park further north. They are still claimed by Aboriginal people to inhabit the Monaro wilds. North of Goulburn begins the southern wilds of the Greater Blue Mountains National Park where they have lately been encountered in the Canyonleigh and Wollondilly country. They have long been known to the Kanangra, Jenolan Range, Jamieson Valley, Megalong-Kanimbla Valley and the Wollemi wildernesses. There are and always have been, encounters in the Mt Royal RangeBarrington Tops-Maitland area, the Taree-Wingham, Kempsey-Carrai Range and New England Ranges country. Indeed these hairy primitives are still claimed seen in the Queensland mountains as far as the Far North Queensland mount ain country where few people penetrate. As to the Homo erectus forms, the modern human-heigh, the 2.6m tall tool-makers and their even larger tool-making Rexbeast relative, all have periodically been claimed seen in the south coast ranges over recent years. Rexbeast hominids have been claimed seen in the Canyonleigh region through to the Blue Mountains wilderness regions of Kanangra, the Jenolan Range and in the Wollemi National Park forests. They are also known in the Mt Royal Range and Barrington Tops, Carrai Range and Bellbrook district. These giants share these eerie, impenetrable mountainous forest wilds with their smaller relatives, and all at one time or another have been claimed seen in the Far North Queensland jungle-covered mountain country.
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To go into the countless sightings reports, close encounters and freshly-deposited footprints left by these beings is beyond the scope of this paper. However, future research may prove [suggested by small apish-looking footprints found in the Carrai Range, other coastal mountain ranges and the Blue Mountains] the existence of a pygmy Australopithecine race the Little Hairy People of Aboriginal tradition although once again this title also includes other Homo erectus-related pygmy folk. In itemising all the available evidence I have shown that the Yowie mystery is far more complicated and technical than hitherto realised by many people interested in the mystery. Although there still remains much to learn of the daily lives of these hunter-gatherers, from all the thousands of sightings reports from pioneer times to the present, and all the studies carried out on footprint structure from plaster casts over much of the last 55 years [the last 40 together with Heather] at our Australian Yowie Research Centre we long ago came to the conclusions presented here, thus solving the mystery of the Yowies true identity or rather identities, for we have proven the Hairy Man to be more than one race. Primitive beings from our own evolutionary past, still out there in the wilderness living just as our Old Stone-Age ancestors once lived. -0This 19th century Aboriginal girl, from the Shoalhaven district of New South Wales, wears a furry kangaroo hide garment. The early Aboriginal people described the Yowie or Hairy Man as such because these hominids also wore marsupial hide garments. Portrait by M King, Sydney NSW.

Copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

A male and female Yowie/Homo erectus depicted in marsupial hide garments. It was for this reason that the early Aboriginal people referred to them hairy people. Sketch copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Rex Gilroy prepared this sketch of a male Yowie, seen by him on the western side of the saddle between Mt Solitary and Ruined Castle on the afternoon of August 7th, 1970. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.
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A male and female Australopithecus robustus. Evidence is suggesting bands of these creatures left Africa over 2 million years ago to enter Asia and Australia across a then-existing landshelf. Illustrations courtesy Life Magazine. Rex Gilroys sketch of a giant Homo erectus hominid in comparison to a modern human. Larger forms are suggested from massive fossil tracks and monstrous stone megatools. Sketch copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.
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The giant mineralised lower back premolar tooth, recovered by Rex Gilroy in September 1969 at Westmead outside Sydney NSW. The measurements of the fossil are: 52mm in length, the two roots being 18mm in length by 13mm wide and in depth, the crown being 31mm in length by 25mm in width. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The Macquarie River, Bathurst area New South Wales. At this location, Rex Gilroy together with his father, the late Mr W.F. [Bill] Gilroy, recovered large numbers of stone megatools in the 1960s. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

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The first megatools recovered from the Macquarie River, Bathurst district site on December 24th 199. The authors hand rests upon a jasper club weighing 16.5kg, the other specimen a jasper [top]m and basalt choppers weigh 5.5kg. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Rex Gilroy with four megatool examples. His right hand holds a 16.5kg hand-axe while in his left is a 16.5kg club, beneath which is a 5.5kg club [these tools were recovered near Bathurst New South Wales]. The huge 20kg chopper [bottom left] was found near Nundle [New England district] New South Wales. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Size comparisons: A 16.5kg jasper club and handaxe from Bathurst New South Wales megatool site, compared with an Aboriginal stone hand-axe and club beneath. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The 16.5kg jasper club [top] with the 20kg basalt chopper [left] and 16.5kg jasper hand-axe. Only beings of immense stature and strength would have been able to have made and used such implements. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

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A selection of smaller, although still very heavy stone megatools from the Bathurst district New South Wales site discovered by Rex and his late father, Mr W.F. [Bill] Gilroy in the late 1960s. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The dried up Wadbilliga River, deep in the Wadbilliga wilderness, scene of the discovery of two massive hominid skull endocasts. The first, and most important of these, was found by Antji Westrip and Rex Gilroy on Wednesday 20th January 2004 embedded in sediments to right of picture. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012. The section of riverbank from which the endocast of the giant hominid came. When spotted, the fossil had recently been exposed from the bank and was lying amid other bank rubble. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Rex Gilroy measuring the creek bank deposits when the first Wadbilliga giant Homo erectus skull endocast was discovered by Antji Westrip. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012. 9

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Wadbilliga Skull endocast No 1, frontal view. A distinct groove exists where the upper and lower jaws were fused together before the outer skull bones disappeared. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Wadbilliga Skull endocast No 1., frontal view from another angle. The rear braincase area is missing. The specimen measures 33cm in available length, by 33cm width across the facial section by 18cm in depth. The eye sockets measure 7cm in length and 6cm in width. The jaw area has been crushed on its right side. Had the endocast been complete and the bones present, it is estimated that a complete skull would have been 37-40cm long, the hominid standing 12ft [3.66m] high. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Heather Gilroy studying the Wadbilliga Man skull endocast No 1. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

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The giant Wadbilliga endocast as a skull [black] in comparison with an average size Homo erectus skull. Sketch copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

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The second giant hominid [Homo erectus] skull [left profile] endocast could suggest that further giant hominid discoveries await the Gilroys and their assistants in this area. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2007.

The second giant hominid [Homo erectus] skull [left profile] endocast could suggest that further giant hominid discoveries await the Gilroys and their assistants in this area. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The second Wadbilliga giant hominid endocast fossil skull type, recovered over 30 metres from the site of the first giant hominid skull endocast find. This right side view shows a receding forehead, a large nasal area and enormous eye sockets. Much of the rear braincase area is missing, although reconstruction suggests that the original skull was doliocephalic, suggesting the individual to have been a late giant form of Homo erectus! Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The second giant hominid endocast fossil skull type, frontal view. The fossil measures 33cm width across the facial section by 27cm in depth. The nasal area measures 16cm in length by 11cm in width, and from the nasal area to the rear of the available fossil material the skull is 28cm in length. Adding about 8cm depth for the missing lower jaw, a complete depth of 35cm would have been reached. The massive eye sockets are 12cm wide by 11cm high. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Rex holding the second giant hominid endocast, with Antji Westrip holding the endocast of the Wadbilliga Man. The Wadbilliga endocast is the first giant hominid skull found anywhere in the world! The Wadbilliga Man [ie skull No 1], dates at least 320,000 years BP, whereas the 2nd endocast came from deposits some distance away at another section of the riverbank which place it at around 380,000 years BP. Despite distortions, the 1st Wadbilliga skull endocast is a flat cranium archaic giant Homo erectus form, whereas the 2nd skull endocast belongs to the late rounded skull form in the same manner as the smaller archaic and late forms of Homo erectus.. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012. 11

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This fossil hominid footprint trackway, found by Rex Gilroy at Katoomba NSW in July 1990, shows giant-size to smaller adult [larger male and smaller female?] together with child-size foot impressions embedded in cooled volcanic ash following and eruption that occurred around 3 million years ago. Rain later turned the ash into a cement state, preserving the footprints. The family was heading north, another giant being was moving south. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The child-size footprints were found to continue on alone northwards, upon the same shoal a couple of metres ahead of the Pliocene trackway of a child. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

On Sunday 25th September 1994, the Gilroys discovered this unique fossil trackway consisting of seven badly weathered hominid footprints, embedded in solid granite, being a former volcanic mud and ash flow. Across this the hominid concerned had walked after the flow had cooled. Rain later reacted with the volcanic chemicals to turn the flow into a solid state, thus preserving these tracks though time. The site of the discovery lies deep within the vast wilderness of Kanangra Boyd National Park, south-west of Katoomba. The hominid that made the foot impressions is thought to have stood around 1.4m tall. The trackway goes north to south [photo taken from northern end], and at one point three tracks lie in an east-west row. An experiment by Rex Gilroy showed the hominid had momentarily stopped to look from side to side before continuing on southwards. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012. 12

The hominid had moved quickly across the cold ash flow. Rex Gilroy proved this by walking over the fossil tracks in his bare feet in about 12 seconds. The best preserved feet impressions measured about 32cm length by 11 to 12cm width, and up to 12cm in depth. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

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A partially-intact giant primate-type footprint found by Rex Gilroy in the Katoomba water catchment in August 1972, together with a giant fossil hominid hand impression recovered by him at Sarina, Queensland in November 2000. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

At the time of the discovery of the Kanangra Fossil trackway, Rex Gilroy also uncovered this monstrous right footprint, embedded in ancient volcanic ash, at another remote location deep in the Kanangra Boyd National Park. The impression measures 90cm long by 54cm wide across the toes, 38cm wide at mid-foot and 40cm across the heel by 7cm deep in the rock. Its large toes measure between 5cm to as much as 9cm in length and from 7 to 13cm width. How tall was the owner of this titan tootsie? Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Rex Gilroy holding the plaster cast he produced of the 90cm long giant hominid fossil footprint. He had to carry it for at least 1 kilometres to the nearest bush road for Heather to meet him with the car! Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

At a Bathurst, NSW creek site the Gilroys have discovered a number of huge hominid fossil footprint. This massive fossil track is embedded in a shoal of mineralised volcanic ash, the solid rock having cracked to create a fissure through the footprint. The ash flow, which was walked through after it had gone cold, was laid down by an eruption that occurred 2 to 3 million years ago. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

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The cracked fossil foot impression [note 40cm ruler]. The impression is 1.1m in length by 40cm across the toes, 37cm width at mid foot and 42cm width across the heel. The weathered track is 1cm in depth on the worn surface. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Some distance away along the creek, upon another sloping mineralised volcanic ash shoal of the same approximate age as the first footprint, Rex Gilroy discovered this 1.21m length by 47cm width across the toes, by 45.5cm width across the midfoot and 44cm width across the heel. It is impressed 1cm deep in the worn surface. The mind boggles at the thought of just how tall such monstrous hominids must have been! Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

At another location of the creek this huge slab of solidified volcanic ash and mud, had been walked through by a powerful hominid of at least 3.66m height at least 2 million years ago. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

A close-up view of the [left] footprint. It measures 51cm in length by 29.5cm width across the toes, 22.5cm across the mid foot and 24.5cm across the heel, by 2cm in depth. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

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Rex Gilroys impression of Aborigines attacking a giant man-ape being. Their ancient traditions Australia-wide are full of such encounters, dating back untold thousands of years. Drawing copyright Rex Gilroy 2012. This monstrous footprint, embedded 14cm into solid rock in the Kanangra Boyd wilderness, measures 68cm in length by 50cm across the toes and 27cm wide at the heel. It was discovered on December 9th, 1998 by Rex Gilroy while he was searching for fossil footprints in volcanic shoals. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The Nepalese Yeti footprint cast alongside the Carrai Range NSW cast and the authors foot cast, demonstrating the large opposable-toed ape features of the Carrai NSW fossil [right foot] and the left foot impression of the Nepalese Yeti footprint cast. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

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Four jawbones of Gigantopithecus. They are[top left] from an old female, [top right] a juvenile male and a very old male [bottom left] all discovered in China between 1956 and 1958 and believed to be between half a million years to one million years old . The jaw from a young adult female [bottom right] found in India in 1968 is at least five million years old. Photo kind permission of Scientific American.

Reconstruction of a male Gigantopithecus, based upon the conservative scientific theory that these apes walked on their knuckles like a gorilla. The depiction of the head is conjectural, because no remains other than partial lower jaws and single teeth have been found. It is assumed by scientists that the giant apes body was in proportion to its massive jaw and that, except for its size and much higher face, Gigantopithecus would have stood about 9ft [2.75m] tall when upright and may have weighed as much as 600lbs. Sketch by kind permission of Scientific American.

The late Mr W.F. [Bill] Gilroy, with the mineralised [limestone] hominid skull found by him on 1st May 1972 at the Fish River site, Tarana, New South Wales. Now known as Tarana Skull No 1. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

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The Tarana NSW skull endocasts were the first real evidence, other than fossil hominid footprints and a giant hominid molar tooth, that Australia has a preAboriginal Stone-Age history. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The Mudgee, New South Wales Homo erectus skull beside a cast of Homo erectus Beijingensis [Beijing Man] from China. Note projecting eyebrow ridges, projecting muzzle and no forehead [in archaic erectines the brains were located behind the eyes] of both skulls. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Downview of the Mudgee New South Wales [left] and Beijing, [Homo erectus from China]. Note the long, narrow [ie doliocephalic] braincases in both specimens. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

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Frontal and right facial view of the Katoomba NSW deteriorated 2 million-year-old Australopithecus robustus-type skull found by Rex Gilroy. It supports the presence of an Australian offshoot of the African form in the eastern Australian mountain ranges. Photos copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

These casts of Australopithecus boisei[top] and Australopithecus robustus which lived in Africa n1.8 and 2 million years ago respectively display large eye sockets and flattish cranium with pointed sagittal crests a very ancient hominid feature. These features compare favourably with the proto-Homo skull from Katoomba NSW [2 million years BP] and the Homo Prometheus 09f Bega district, NSW [4 million years BP] ressp0ectively. However the resemblance is superficial as Australopithecines were confined to Africa. Casts from display in Museum of Western Australia Perth.

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An Australopithecine-type left foot cast. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Rex Gilroy holds a large Yowie foot cast for comparison with the Australopithecine-type Yowie footprint. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

An Australopithecine family in their rock shelter dwelling. While a female [left] tears flesh from an animal bone with her teeth with the aid of a sharp bone tool, the centre and right males are using a leg bone from a recent kill to manufacture sharp tools from other bones of the animal. Primitive late Pliocene-early Pleistocene hominids in Australia would have behaved in the same way. African sites of Australopithecus have revealed smashed animal bones used as tools. The marrow would also have been extracted from the bones first. Our ancestors earliest implements would have been broken, sharp bones, naturally fractured sharp stones and sticks. The authors maintain that this was also the case with our Australian ancestral hominids. Named the osteodontokeratic [ie bone] culture by scientists in 1959, it has yet to be properly identified in Australia, although palaeontologists have excavated bone remains from sites which they have understandably interpreted as natural deposits, or the remains of old carnivorous megafauna kills. Illustration The Illustrated London News. 19

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South-East Asia India China

Sri Lanka New Guinea

Solomon Is. New Ireland New Caledonia Samoa

Australia

Fiji New Zealand

Tasmania

Sketch copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The great Pliocene-Pleistocene land shelf which formerly linked New Guinea and Australia to mainland Asia, also extended from New Guinea to New Zealand, thus enabling primitive Stone-Age races to move between Australia-New Zealand 2 to 4 million or more years ago! Sketch copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

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Rex Gilroys sketch of a giant Homo erectus hominid in comparison to a modern human. Larger forms are suggested from massive fossil tracks and monstrous stone megatools. Sketch Rex Gilroy 2012.

Homo erectus sketch. [This illustration was sketched by Rex Gilroy in 1969 and was based upon a TIMELIFE illustration].It was used to illustrate that there is no doubt in the authors minds that Yowies are living representatives of this ancestor of modern humans. 20

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Rex Gilroy at work in the field. Here he is carrying out a detailed study and measurement of a volcanic strata bank deep in the Nundle State Forest, south-east of Tamworth, New South Wales, on Monday 9th May 2004, where primitive Homo erectus-type dawn tools had been recovered during a previous visit here. These eoliths date back to early Pleistocene times. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

These eoliths [ie very primitive stone tools], recovered by Rex Gilroy at Nundle, northern New South Wales, are similar to many others found over a wide area of Australia. They match those made in Asia by Homo erectus up to a million or more years ago. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Ancient Homo erectus Eolithic tools from Narrow Neck Plateau, Katoomba, New South Wales. All are small chopping and scraping implements. They are matched by recently-made examples being found in the eastern Australian mountain ranges today. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

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The eerie mountains of Wadbilliga National Park, near the Yowrie River. Hereabouts throughout the 1990s into the 21st century, numerous sightings have been reported to Rex Gilroy, of hairy giants of up to 2.8 and 3m height, or discoveries of their footprints in this wilderness. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Rex Gilroy holding casts tracks of a modern human height Homo erectus Yowie. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The Jamieson Valley south of Katoomba. Ruined Castle rock formation rises up to form two saddles between Mt Solitary on the left and the end of the first arm of Narrow Neck Plateau on the right. The area has a long history of Yowie sightings and eerie close encounters. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

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The Dharug Aborigines of the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, called the pygmy folk with whom they shared the region the Boothoo geermi, or Little hairy men. In the vast Burragorang Valley, far to the south of Katoomba, these little folk raided farms of early settlers, stealing fruit and vegetables, even poultry, and such thefts were still known well into the 1930s and early 1940s. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Another view of the Kanangra Boyd wilderness, looking south from the Walls. In such terrain any unknown hominids or other mystery creatures could very easily escape modern human detection. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Cast of an indistinct Yowie track from Wingham NSW alongside a left foot cast of a footprint from the Lamington Plateau region. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

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Daisy Plains, on the summit of the Carrai Range, an abandoned community, although still used for cattle grazing. An eerie place by day and night, and scene of some recent terrifying encounters with male and female ape-like creatures in the 1990s. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Rex and Heather Gilroy hold 40cm long casts of large Rexbeast tracks found at the Carrai Range footprint site. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012. Greg Foster holding the 51cm long by 31.5cm wide Rexbeast cast made from a footprint at the Carrai Range mud lat site. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Rex Gilroy studies a giant Rexbeast left foot cast from the Carrai Range west of Kempsey, NSW. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

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Rex Gilroy holds a cast of his right foot fro comparison with a Rexbeast track. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Rex casting the little pygmy-sized foot impressions on a forest roadside. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Plaster casts of the little pygmy-sized foot impressions. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

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The tracks, one left and two right footprints, measure 40cm in length by 17cm width across the toes and 16cm at mid-foot and 15cm across the heel. The footprints are 3.5cm in depth at the heel, 2.3cm depth at mid-foot and 4cm behind the toes, which are of the same depth. The tracks were spaced up to 1.5m apart, suggesting the hominid stood about 2.6m tall, weighing around 250kg. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The Numinbah Valley situated near the base of the Lamington Plateau, on the Queensland side of the NSW border. This region has a long history of Hairy Man encounters. They continue today. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The mountain country behind Cardwell, North Queensland. Relict hominids are claimed by locals to still lurk in these inaccessible mountains. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012. 26

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The Atherton Tableland, rising up from the sugar cane farms of the coastal flats in the Cairns district, Far North Queensland. This region is believed by Aborigines of the Far North Queensland area, to be the home of Hairy People of more than one kind, who will kill and eat anyone who happens to cross their path in those wilds! Photo copyright (c0 Rex Gilroy 2012.

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Are you aged 20 to 50 and able to enjoy bushwalking and live in the Sydney/Blue Mountains area. Team Gilroy, who are engaged in the search for the Yowie and mystery animals and have discovered relics and rock inscriptions of maritime cultures that explored Australia thousands of years before the Dutch or Captain Cook are searching for an interested, psychically attuned man or woman to assist Rex and Heather Gilroy on a regular basis in their exciting searches and discoveries of pyramids and megalithic ruins of Australias Lost Civilisation of Uru? Interested?? We want to hear from you at 02 47823441 or email us on randhgilroy44@bigpond.com.

TEAM GILROY

Please Note

Our previous meeting was a huge success and we look forward to seeing you at our next one.
Our next meeting will be held on SATURDAY 21 12 Kamillaroi Road, Katoomba.
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JULY, 2012 - same time, same place

So until our next meeting Watch the Skies!

Rex and Heather

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