By Tim Binnall
An Australian woman claims to have had a terrifying encounter with the Bigfoot of Down Under: the Yowie. The harrowing experience reportedly occurred back in March, but was picked up by Australian media this week. According to the unnamed woman, she was driving along a barren dirt road in the middle of the night when she made an impromptu pit stop near a large clearing.
After a few moments outside of her car, the woman heard something rustling in the brush around her and so she let out a howl to see if it might be a dog. The creature responded with a similar noise, followed by a growl and some grunting. Sensing that danger may be afoot, the quick-thinking woman pulled out a cricket bat that she had, presumably, brought with her for just such a scenario. She then knocked on a nearby tree as a way of warning whatever the mysterious noisemaker was that she had a weapon.
To her surprise, she heard the sound repeated out in the darkness, which led to a brief exchange of knocks between the woman and the unseen 'thing.' By this point, she was thoroughly fed up with the situation, so she began howling and screaming to scare the interloper away. "That's when everything went pear shaped," she said as suddenly she could hear something very large rumbling down a hill towards her.
"What have I got myself into," she recalled thinking and noted that "I had really bad vibes from this thing." She smartly made a mad dash for her car and made it to the safely made it to her vehicle, where she turned on the high beams and was stunned by what she saw. It was a seven to eight-foot-tall, hairy, bipedal beast with eyes that looked to be about the size of golf balls. Perhaps most off-putting about the creature was that "it smelt like five-week old road kill."
The apparent Yowie encounter soon came to an end as the creature, standing few feet away from the car, became frightened when the woman pulled out her cell phone to take a picture. "I didn't get a chance for a photo," she lamented, "as I went for the button, off she went down the hill."