Comments by "Adrian McLean" (@adrianmclean9195) on "American Reacts to Odd Mythical Creatures Across Australia" video.

  1. Okay - too many messages to read through - unfortunately mine will be long - At Albury High School, in the mid eighties, in the library, was a book on yowies/bigfoot. Either in the very front or back was a photo, of the last GIANT "gibbons" captured and killed in a remote mountainous village in China. The villagers are standing with the two monkeys. They stand about 8 to 9 foot tall. Orange long fur, very skinny and lanky, just like a gibbon, strange flat face with massive eyes. This was thought to be the last ones. Australia has a research group on yowies, called A. Y. R. with many many, videos, some with well known Australians, as witnesses. One was a young Senator and the other was an Anthropologist. There is a Yowie museum in the Sunshine Coast hinterland and it has been on Getaway. Stories of yowies in the Blue Mountains, the Brindabellas and Victorian High Country. I have never seen one. BUT - I have felt a very disturbing "presence" in the Snowy Mountains near Geehi/Tom Groggin in the middle of the night. As for the rest in the video, I haven't heard of them, apart from the Bunyip - which there use to be a mechanical version of, at the old Ettamogah Sanctuary on the outskirts of Albury. You would put 50¢ in a slot, and a giant frog like creature would rise up and raise it's arms and open it's mouth with a lot of loud noises. I have no idea where it has gone to. You can however find it on YouTube. Drop bears are a lot of fun, to scare English backpackers with. LOL 😂 As for the black panther, it seems to be predominantly in Victoria. The former host of Family Fued, photographed one on his property near Bathurst/Orange, televised. In 2004, I drove down the Barry Way from Jindabyne to the Victorian coast. Very remote drive. After bushfires. At about 3 in the morning, before I came to Buchan, on my left, in the culvert, x2 long thick black arms with very large pussy cat paws ( definitely no feral cat !!!! ), reached up onto the embankment and then a very large round cat head with distinct pointy cat ears emerged. I braked and turned around and positioned my high beam on the area. It had already jumped up out of the culvert and ran into a fenced property. This is in far east Gippsland, where most of the sightings have been. The story I have been told / read, is that the US Navy/Army had black Panthers as mascots during the war, whilst stationed in Australia, both inland and on the coast. Some may have escaped or been released. This makes sense. There would be no predator to inhibit their existence, except humans, so relegated to Forest, mountainous less inhabited areas. There were also traveling circuses, that also had big cats. And there are many documented incidents of accidents and train derailments that allowed animals to escape. So the puma / black panther thing seems feasible. I also have a friend who went pig hunting at night in the foothills of the Victorian mountains and they heard a loud growl that sent everything else that lives in the bush, hurtling towards them. They hid behind large gum trees, to stop from being trampled by kangaroos and then fled back to their car and left. With the Wollomine Pine ( sp ), only discovered in recent times, close to Sydney, it's quite feasible for something to exist that does not want to be seen
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