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Vol. 2, Issue No 06

JUNE,2012

INSIDE:

ANEWUPDATE ON THEYOWIEMYSTERY.


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Mysterious Australia Newsletter June, 2012.

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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 Streetwhere there is safer parking.

ANEW UPDATE ON THEYOWIE 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 mysteryin a sensible manner, which sadly cannot be said of many of the other so- called investigators who havepersisted from the beginning in regarding these beings as a single race. This paper will prove how wrong theyare. The fact is that the name Yowie or Hairy man of our Aboriginal people did not identify just one singlerace, 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 didnot necessarily imply the beings were covered in hair for it stood for people who wore marsupial hide cloaksas did the Aborigines into comparatively recent times. There is now an exception to the foregoing since thediscovery by me of the Narrow Neck Plateau, Katoomba fossil Australopithecine skull, [2005] and others thathave 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 Aboriginaltimes 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 andplants and insects. They foraged for food in groups, huddling together in rock overhangs and caves at nightfor 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 intothree related forms and that they are living offshoots of Homo erectus I have no doubt. My fossil hominidskull collection contains specimens of undoubted Homo erectus to show his presence in Australia dates fromas 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 andmanufactured 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 hideclade male and female Yowies of obvious Homo erectus features. These beings, they say, stand up to 6ft [iearound 1.83m] and the females being smaller at around 5ft [ie 1.3m] the footprints of these beings judgingfrom 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 about6ft 5 inches [ie 1.96m]. The feet of these beings are larger in the male, the casts of footprints made by bothsexes displaying somewhat broader impressions. The toes appear similar to the modern foot judging fromcasts but a study of this aspect of Australian relict hominids is still pending.

Rex a nd Hea th e r Gi l r oy , Aus t ra l i a s t op UFOand Unexp la ined Mys t e r i e s Re s ea r ch t eam.

Pho to c op y r i gh t Rex Gi l r o y 2012.


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We now arrive at the third and giant form of Homo erectus Yowie whose cast footprints displaylarger toes commensurate with the huge feet of male beings that must stand 12ft [3.66m] tall or over and aremassive, 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 termYowie 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 asingle, large, ridiculously hairy gorilla-like monster and due to them having produced so many undoubtedfake footprint casts it is useless to employ their so-called finds in any anatomical and physiological researchinto these primitive beings.

Consequently these people disaprove of my Homo erectus-Yowie findings [which came from years ofresearch and comparative studies of footprints and recently manufactured stone tools found in the wild withthose of Homo erectus dating to Pleistocene times] added to these studies have been comparative analysis ofboth archaic and late homo erectus skull-types, both of the classic average human height form and giantace. 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 fossilskull remains of Australian Homo erectus, and the discoveries of fossil feet impressions with which castfootprints can be compared, thus identifying the fossil ancestors of all three Homo erectus forms. We canalso include more than one pygmy-size hominid of the past although juvenile tracks of the adults of the threeHomo 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 gianthominid at Westmead and discoveries by my late father, Mr WF [Bill] Gilroy and I at a Bathurst NSW districtsite of numbers of huge stone megatools as well as finds of the first giant hominid fossil footprints by us, Ihad 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 fromNarooma 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 formerexistence 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 theHairy Man as well as mystery animals [which looking back 55 years makes me the father of relicthominology and also Cryptozoology research looking], I must admit that I thought of the Hairy Man as aprimitive race of hairy ape-like appearance. Over the years and with better knowledge I would come to realisethat, while the Aboriginal people believed in a hairy ape-like herbivorous/insectivorous race, they also oftenconfused this Hairy Man with other, giant-size and smaller, tool-making, fire-making beings as theirfolklore reveals. For example, all the Yowies of the Murray River are said to have all worn marsupial hidegarments, 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 themystery is far more complex than they can cope with hence they will continue to try and discredit myresearches and dismiss my establishing the fossil foundations of the Yowie mystery as irrelevant. It mightalso 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 humanityBased 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 acrossthe heel. The larger Homo erectus-type Yowie, ie that standing up to 2.44m tall, leave footprints measuring37cm 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, 21cmwide at mid-foot and 17cm wide across the heel.

At the time I identified the three Homo erectus-related Yowies and had discovered what everyoneelse had overlooked, I felt I deserved a reward for all my efforts in the face of all the jealous criticism I wasreceiving 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 hominidfootprints found by the Gilroys and our assistant Greg Foster. Our book, The Yowie Mystery LivingFossils from the Dreamtime [URU Publications 2007] presents an overwhelming number of giant tracks inparticular that demonstrate that beings of truly gigantic proportions once strode across the Australianlandscape 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 NewZealand [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. Itis obvious that all these relict hominids share distant relationships with Homo erectus. Of coursegeographical and regional variations between each racial group must be taken into account and the varyingstates of tool culture development [if any] but the Homo erectus features are there, and when AmericanBigfoot TV documentary makers from Animal Planet recently examined my Australian casts they wereastounded 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 Idismissed it as the identity of the Yowie many years ago. It belongs with the Himalayan Yeti [ie Dwelleramong 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 fewmillion years ago and also in early Pleistocene deposits to show that more than one form of giant opposablebig-toed primate-like race inhabited Australia, but this was long, long before the first Aboriginal peoplelanded on our shores, beings that lived when a great land-shelf joined Australia to mainland Asia. Whateverthese 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 withother creatures whose scant fossil remains found by me, suggest there were a handful of primate-likecreatures here for a time. This subject is dealt with in The Yowie Mystery Living fossils from theDreamtime and does not concern the main subject of this paper.

Having discovered fossil skull-types of Australopithecines in Australia today I say that anything ispossible 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 beliving remnant groups of robust Australopithecines. Having identified the type-specimen skull fromKatoomba as an Australian geographical offshoot of African Australopithecus robustus I also named thespecimenAustralopithecus australis gilroyii.

Reconstruction based upon available fossil skeletal material in Africa, leads paleoanthropologists toestimate males stood 5ft tall [1.53m], the females being shorter and slighter. Males are described as havingbeen 10 stone in weight with a gorilla-size brain, being strong, big-boned creatures with a forward-projectingface, female skulls being much the same. Australopithecus robustus of Africa dates back 2 to 1.5 million yearsBP.

A gracile Australopithecus race may have shared the Australian landscape with A. Australisbut thispossibility is currently based upon a single mineralised [jasper] skull from Wingham NSW and more fossilevidence is needed.

Fossil feet impressions displaying a large opposable big toe found at eastern Australian locationscompare with present-day specimens found in forest soil, which match African fossil examples. It wouldtherefore seem that an Australian offshoot of African Australopithecus robustus is the origin of the earliestHairy Man tradition of our Aboriginal people.

Australian robust Australopithecine feet impressions found today in the bush can be up to 28cmlong 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 asfurther fossil or other evidence comes to hand. Like a good scientist I reach conclusions on currentlyavailable 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 whatnew 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 thanone race is involved. Yet what of the distribution of these beings? Where are their last retreats from modernhuman civilisation encroachment?

Gilroy fossil evidence shows that Homo erectus roamed much of the Australian continent. At presentAustralopithecine fossils, chiefly from New South Wales and the Northern Territory are certain to graduallybe 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 localAboriginal 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 SouthWales far south coast, inland from Narooma where the late Antji Westrip and I uncovered the first gianthominid fossil skull endocasts, is still known to local Aborigines today as the home of the dreadedWadbilliga the Giant Mantwo or three times taller than the average blackfellow.This information was imparted toearly European settlers of the Wadbilliga range foothills, with the usual warning not to enter that wildernessunless 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 stilldensely wooded] was the reputed home of Doolagarls, monstrous hairy giants that, according to the tribespeople, 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 mountainranges to the Great Dividing Range all the way to Far North Queensland, there was not one tribesman,

woman or child in the old timeswho did not cringe in fear at the mere mention of the name Hairy Man inwhatever form he took. And this fear spread to manyan early European settler over a wide area of theeastern Australian ranges.

Eastern Australias mountain country with its moist forested environment was the last retreat formany creatures as the last great Ice-Age of the Pleistocene Period came to an end, turning the vast Australianinterior into a parched desert environment.

This event, which began around 30,000 years ago, was witnessed by the early Aborigines whorelentlessly killed off any other primitive hominids they found for the domination of the continent. Thosethat escaped found shelter in the rugged, often virtually inaccessible eastern mountain ranges. Later Europeanencroachment drove them out of the foothills, especially along the eastern coastal flats, so that today themajority of sightings claims come from still wild areas such as the southern alpine regions, the far southcoastal mountain ranges, the vast Greater Blue Mountains National Park, the northern New South Walescoastal, and New England-Border Ranges, and the inaccessible mountains of Far North Queensland. It isfrom 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 theycontinue unabated today.

For those interested in historicalperiod Yowie encounters we recommend our book Giants fromthe Dreamtime The Yowie in Myth and Reality [URU Publications 2001]. Among the early accounts ofhairy people one can see descriptions of all the Homo erectus-forms of hominids and in particular, the mostprimitive 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 thesouthern 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 GreaterBlue Mountains National Park where they have lately been encountered in the Canyonleigh and Wollondillycountry. 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 Range-Barrington Tops-Maitland area, the Taree-Wingham, Kempsey-Carrai Range and New England Rangescountry. Indeed these hairy primitives are still claimed seen in the Queensland mountains as far as the FarNorth 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 evenlarger tool-making Rexbeast relative, all have periodically been claimed seen in the south coast ranges overrecent years. Rexbeast hominids have been claimed seen in the Canyonleigh region through to the BlueMountains 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. Thesegiants share these eerie, impenetrable mountainous forest wilds with their smaller relatives, and all at one timeor 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 bythese beings is beyond the scope of this paper. However, future research may prove [suggested by smallapish-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 althoughonce 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 complicatedand 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 thethousands of sightings reports from pioneer times to the present, and all the studies carried out on footprintstructure from plaster casts over much of the last 55 years [the last 40 together with Heather] at ourAustralian Yowie Research Centre we long ago came to the conclusions presented here, thus solving themystery of the Yowies true identity or rather identities, for we have proven the Hairy Man to be morethan one race. Primitive beings from our own evolutionary past, still out there in the wilderness living just asour Old Stone-Age ancestors once lived.

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A male and female Yowie/Homo erectus depicted inmarsupial hide garments. It was for this reason that theearly Aboriginal people referred to them hairy people.

Sketch copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

This 19th century

Aboriginal girl, from theShoalhaven district of NewSouth Wales, wears a furry

kangaroo hide garment.The early Aboriginal

people described the Yowieor Hairy Man as such

because these hominids alsowore marsupial hide

garments.Portrait by M King,

Sydney NSW.

Rex Gilroy prepared this sketch of a male Yowie, seen by him on thewestern side of the saddle between Mt Solitary and Ruined Castle

on the afternoon of August 7th, 1970.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.


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The giant mineralised lower backpremolar tooth, recovered by Rex Gilroyin September 1969 at Westmead outsideSydney NSW. The measurements of thefossil are: 52mm in length, the two roots

being 18mm in length by 13mm wideand 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, RexGilroy together with his father,

the late Mr W.F. [Bill]Gilroy, recovered large numbers

of stone megatools in the1960s.

Photo copyright Rex Gilroy2012.

Co ri ht Rex Gilro 2012.

A male and female Australopithecusrobustus. Evidence is suggesting bands of

these creatures left Africa over 2 million yearsago to enter Asia and Australia across a

then-existing landshelf.

Illustrations courtesy Life Magazine.

Rex Gilroys sketch of a giant Homo erectushominid in comparison to a modern human.

Larger forms are suggested from massivefossil tracks and monstrous stone

megatools.Sketch copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.


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Rex Gilroy with four megatoolexamples. His right hand holds a 16.5kg

hand-axe while in his left is a 16.5kgclub, beneath which is a 5.5kg club [thesetools were recovered near Bathurst NewSouth 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 hand-axe 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 basaltchopper [left] and 16.5kg jasper hand-axe. Only

beings of immense stature and strength would have beenable to have made and used such implements.

Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The first megatools recovered from the Macquarie River,Bathurst district site on December 24 th199.

The authors hand rests upon a jasper club weighing16.5kg, the other specimen a jasper [top]m and basalt

choppers weigh 5.5kg.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.


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A selection of smaller, although still veryheavy stone megatools from the Bathurstdistrict New South Wales site discovered

by Rex and his late father, Mr W.F.[Bill] Gilroy in the late 1960s.


The dried up Wadbilliga River, deep in the Wadbilliga wilderness, scene of the discovery of two massive hominid skullendocasts. 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.

Rex Gilroy measuring the creek bank deposits when the firstWadbilliga giant Homo erectus skull endocast was discovered

by Antji Westrip. 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.


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Wadbilliga Skull endocast No 1, frontal view. A distinctgroove 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 anotherangle. The rear braincase area is missing. The specimen measures33cm in available length, by 33cm width across the facial sectionby 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.


Heather Gilroy studying theWadbilligaMan skull endocast No 1.


The giant Wadbilliga endocast as a skull[black] in comparison with an average size

Homo erectus skull.Sketch copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Co ri ht Rex Gilro 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 2012.

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 Wadbilliga giant hominid endocast fossil skulltype, recovered over 30 metres from the site of the first

giant hominid skull endocast find. This right side viewshows a receding forehead, a large nasal area and

enormous eye sockets. Much of the rear braincase area ismissing, although reconstruction suggests that the originalskull 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 fossilskull type, frontal view. The fossil

measures 33cm width across the facialsection by 27cm in depth. The nasal area

measures 16cm in length by 11cm inwidth, and from the nasal area to the rearof the available fossil material the skull is28cm in length. Adding about 8cm depth

for the missing lower jaw, a completedepth of 35cm would have been reached.

The massive eye sockets are 12cm wide by11cm high.


Rex holding the second giant hominid endocast,with Antji Westrip holding the endocast of the

Wadbilliga Man. The Wadbilliga endocast isthe first giant hominid skull found anywhere inthe world! The Wadbilliga Man [ie skull No1], dates at least 320,000 years BP, whereas the

2ndendocast came from deposits some distanceaway at another section of the riverbank which

place it at around 380,000 years BP. Despitedistortions, the 1stWadbilliga skull endocast is a

flat cranium archaic giant Homo erectus form,whereas the 2ndskull endocast belongs to the late

rounded skull form in the same manner as thesmaller archaic and late forms of Homo

erectus.. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.


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This fossil hominid footprint trackway, found by RexGilroy at Katoomba NSW in July 1990, shows giant-sizeto smaller adult [larger male and smaller female?] togetherwith child-size foot impressions embedded in cooled volcanic

ash following and eruption that occurred around 3 millionyears 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 onalone northwards, upon the same shoal a couple ofmetres ahead of the Pliocene trackway ofa child.


On Sunday 25thSeptember 1994, the Gilroys discovered this unique fossiltrackway 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 solidstate, thus preserving these tracks though time. The site of the discoverylies deep within the vast wilderness of Kanangra Boyd National Park,

south-west of Katoomba. The hominid that made the foot impressions isthought 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 inan east-west row. An experiment by Rex Gilroy showed the hominid had

momentarily stopped to look from side to side before continuing onsouthwards. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The hominid had moved quickly across the cold ash

flow. Rex Gilroy proved this by walking over the fossiltracks in his bare feet in about 12 seconds. The bestpreserved 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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Rex Gilroy holding the plaster cast he produced ofthe 90cm long giant hominid fossil footprint. Hehad to carry it for at least 1 kilometres to thenearest bush road for Heather to meet him withthe car! Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

At the time of the discovery of theKanangra Fossil trackway,Rex Gilroy also uncovered this monstrous right footprint,

embedded in ancient volcanic ash, at another remote location deepin the Kanangra Boyd National Park. The impression measures90cm long by 54cm wide across the toes, 38cm wide at mid-footand 40cm across the heel by 7cm deep in the rock. Its large toesmeasure 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.

A partially-intact giant primate-type footprint found by Rex Gilroyin the Katoomba water catchment in August 1972, together with agiant fossil hominid hand impression recovered by him at Sarina,

Queensland in November 2000.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

At a Bathurst, NSW creek site the Gilroys have discovered anumber of huge hominid fossil footprint. This massive fossil track isembedded in a shoal of mineralised volcanic ash, the solid rock havingcracked to create a fissure through the footprint. The ash flow, which

was walked through after it had gone cold, was laid down by aneruption that occurred 2 to 3 million years ago.



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The cracked fossil foot impression [note 40cmruler]. The impression is 1.1m in length by 40cmacross the toes, 37cm width at mid foot and 42cmwidth 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 slopingmineralised volcanic ash shoal of the same approximate age asthe first footprint, Rex Gilroy discovered this 1.21m length by47cm width across the toes, by 45.5cm width across the mid-

foot and 44cm width across the heel. It is impressed 1cm deep inthe 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 andmud, had been walked through by a powerful hominid of at least 3.66mheight at least 2 million years ago. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

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



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This monstrous footprint, embedded 14cm into solid rock inthe Kanangra Boyd wilderness, measures 68cm in length by

50cm across the toes and 27cm wide at the heel. It wasdiscovered on December 9th, 1998 by Rex Gilroy while he

was searching for fossil footprints in volcanic shoals.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Rex Gilroys impression of Aborigines attacking a giant man-ape being.Their ancient traditions Australia-wide are full of such encounters, datingback untold thousands of years. Drawing copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The Nepalese Yeti footprint cast alongside the Carrai Range NSW cast and the authors foot cast, demonstrating the largeopposable-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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Reconstruction of a male Gigantopithecus, based upon the conservative scientifictheory that these apes walked on their knuckles like a gorilla. The depiction o fthe 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 bodywas in proportion to its massive jaw and that, except for its size and muchhigher 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.

Four jawbones of Gigantopithecus.They are[top left] from an old female, [top right] ajuvenile male and a very old male [bottom left] alldiscovered in China between 1956 and 1958 andbelieved to be between half a million years to onemillion 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 o Scienti ic American.

The late Mr W.F. [Bill] Gilroy, with themineralised [limestone] hominid skull foundby him on 1stMay 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 skullendocasts were the first realevidence, other than fossilhominid footprints and a

giant hominid molar tooth,that Australia has a pre-Aboriginal Stone-Age

history.Photo copyright Rex

Gilroy 2012.

The Mudgee, New South Wales Homo erectusskull beside a cast of Homo erectus Beijingensis

[Beijing Man] from China. Note projectingeyebrow ridges, projecting muzzle and no forehead

[in archaic erectines the brains were locatedbehind the eyes] of both skulls.


Downview of the Mudgee New SouthWales [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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These casts of Australopithecus boisei[top] andAustralopithecus robustus which lived in Africa n1.8

and 2 million years ago respectively display large eyesockets and flattish cranium with pointed sagittal crests

a very ancient hominid feature.These features compare favourably with the proto-Homoskull 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 asAustralopithecines were confined to Africa. Casts from

display in Museum of Western Australia Perth.

Frontal and right facial view of the Katoomba NSW deteriorated 2million-year-old Australopithecus robustus-type skull found by RexGilroy. It supports the presence of an Australian offshoot of the

African form in the eastern Australian mountain ranges.Photos copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.


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An Australopithecine family in their rock shelter dwelling. While a female [left] tears flesh from an animal bone with herteeth with the aid of a sharp bone tool, the centre and right males are using a leg bone from a recent kill to manufacturesharp 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. Themarrow 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 ourAustralian 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 haveunderstandably interpreted as natural deposits, or the remains of old carnivorous megafauna kills.

Illustration The Illustrated London News.

Rex Gilroy holds a large Yowie foot cast forcomparison with the Australopithecine-type Yowie

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



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China

India

Sri Lanka

South-East Asia

NewGuinea

Australia

Tasmania

Solomon Is.

Samoa

New Zealand

New

Caledonia

Fiji

New Ireland

Sketch copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The great Pliocene-Pleistocene land shelf which formerly linked New Guinea and Australia to mainlandAsia, 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.

Rex Gilroys sketch of a giant Homo erectus hominid incomparison to a modern human. Larger forms are suggestedfrom 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 TIME-LIFE illustration].It was used to illustrate that there is

no doubt in the authors minds that Yowies are livingrepresentatives of this ancestor of modern humans.

Sketch copyright Rex Gilroy 2012


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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 9thMay 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.

Ancient Homo erectus Eolithic tools from Narrow NeckPlateau, 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.


These eoliths [ie very primitive stone tools], recovered byRex 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.



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


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


Rex Gilroy holding casts tracks of amodern human height Homo erectus Yowie.



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The Dharug Aborigines of theBlue Mountains west of Sydney,

called the pygmy folk with

whom they shared the region theBoothoo geermi, or Little hairymen. In the vast Burragorang

Valley, far to the south ofKatoomba, these little folk

raided farms of early settlers,stealing fruit and vegetables,even poultry, and such theftswere 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 mysterycreatures could very easily escape modern humandetection. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Cast of an indistinct Yowie track fromWingham NSW alongside a left footcast 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 dayand night, and scene of some recent terrifying encounters with male and female ape-like creatures in the 1990s.


Greg Foster holding the 51cm long by 31.5cm wide Rexbeast castmade from a footprint at the Carrai Range mud lat site.


Rex and Heather Gilroy hold 40cm long casts of large Rexbeasttracks found at the Carrai Range footprint site.


Rex Gilroy studies a giant Rexbeast left foot cast fromthe Carrai Range west of Kempsey, NSW.



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

Plaster casts of the little pygmy-sizedfoot impressions.

Photo copyright Rex Gilroy2012.

Rex Gilroy holds a cast of his right foot fro comparisonwith a Rexbeast track.



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The Numinbah Valley situated near thebase of the Lamington Plateau, on theQueensland side of the NSW border.

This region has a long history of HairyMan encounters. They continue today.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The tracks, one left and two rightfootprints, measure 40cm in length by17cm width across the toes and 16cmat mid-foot and 15cm across the heel.The footprints are 3.5cm in depth atthe heel, 2.3cm depth at mid-foot and4cm behind the toes, which are of thesame depth. The tracks were spaced

up to 1.5m apart, suggesting thehominid stood about 2.6m tall,

weighing around 250kg.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

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


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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 believedby 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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Please Note

Our previous meeting was a huge success and we look forward to seeing you at our next one.

Our next meeting will beheld on SATURDAY21STJULY,2012-same time, same place12 Kamillaroi Road, Katoomba.

So until our next meeting

Watch the Skies!

Rex and Heather

TEAM GILROYAre 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 andhave discovered relics and rock inscriptionsof maritime cultures that explored Australia

thousands of years before the Dutch or Captain

Cook are searching for an interested, psychicallyattuned man or woman to assist Rex and HeatherGilroy on a regular basis in their exciting searchesand discoveries of pyramids and megalithic ruins

of Australias Lost Civilisation of Uru?Interested??

We want to hear from you at 02 47823441or email us on [email protected].

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