Join me as I chat with Author, Researcher and Adventurer - Tony Healy to discuss his new book with Co-author Paul Cropper - The Yowie File.
This awesome book documents the widespread belief among Australian Aboriginal people that huge, shaggy, man-like creatures lurk in the continent's rugged mountains and deep forests and attempts to document their origins, making mighty efforts to untangle the mythos from the monster, which has been invariably known by many monikers such as dulagarl, gulaga, jurrawarra, tjangara, noocoonah and wawee, but most often referred to these days (especially to outsiders) as "Hairy Man."
Tony's book also uncovers many early settler stories from the early 1800s, when Europeans began reporting encounters with great hulking horrors that they named "Australian apes", "yahoos", or "youries".
Now colloquially known as the Yowie, tales of this creature are now shared by all Australians, and ancient encounters, as well as modern encounters, are supported by physical evidence such as footprints, hairs, nests, and thermal film footage!
Tony (along with Paul) expertly enumerates the Yowie saga, delivering a blow-by-blow commentary on the ascendence of this antipodean ape.
Find the Yowie File here: https://amzn.eu/d/1ynLCWZ
Check out my other Beastly Endeavours: https://linktr.ee/beastsof
Beastly Theories (Episode 26) Something Strange is afoot with Paul Bartholomew
Beastly Theories (Episode 25) Linda Godfrey - Literary Lycanthrope
Beastly Theories (Episode 24) Nash Hoover - Chasing Legends
Beastly Theories (Episode 23) Ken Gerhard - In Search of Monsters
Beastly Theories (Episode 22) Aleksandar Petakov - Lions of the East!
Beastly Theories (Episode 21) Mark Muncy - Freaky Florida!
Beastly Theories (Episode 20) Dennis Swift - Return to Ica
Beastly Theories (Episode 19) Richard Freeman - The Perils of Pursuing your Passion!
Beastly Theories with Andy McGrath (Episode 18) Kent Hovind - Creationists & Cryptozoology
Beastly Theories (Episode 17) Mark Farnell - Teenage Terror!
Beastly Theories (Episode 16) Replicant Life with Jean St. Jean
Beastly Theories (Episode 15) Ronald L. Murphy - The Hairy Faerie Folk
Beastly Theories with Andy McGrath (Episode 14) Squatch Watch with James (Bobo) Fay
Beastly Theories (Episode 13) Denver Michaels - Water Monsters South of the Border
Beastly Theories (Episode 12) Cliff Barackman - Forever Finding Bigfoot!
Beastly Theories (Episode 11) Christopher Turner - Don't Mention the Reptilians
Beastly Theories (Episode 10) Monica Rawlins - Suburban Dogman
Beastly Theories (Episode 9) Lyle Blackburn - Monster Mash!
Beastly Theories (Episode 8) 'We are the CHAMP'ions with Scott Mardis
Beastly Theories (Episode 7) Jonathan David Whitcomb - Living Pterosaurs!
Join Podbean Ads Marketplace and connect with engaged listeners.
Advertise Today
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Sasquatch Chronicles
The Confessionals
Radiolab
Sasquatch Odyssey
Bigfoot and Beyond with Cliff and Bobo