More Gold Coast ‘Yowie’ spotters come forward

More alleged yowie sightings have emerged since a Gold Coast Bulletin exclusive detailed an encounter between a truck driver and the mythical beast.

MORE alleged yowie sightings have emerged since a Gold Coast Bulletin exclusive detailed an encounter between a truck driver and the mythical beast.

The meeting which is being investigated by local Cryptozoologist Dean Harrison, was a supposed short encounter between a ‘massive’ hairy beast who hit the front of the truck.

On reading the tale Mudgeeraba man Andy McKinnon has decided to share his story with the Gold Coast Bulletin.

A supplied video screen-grab obtained on Thursday, January 24, 2019 of a sketch of a 10-foot tall ‘yowie' drawn by a truck driver who claims to have spotted it inland from the Gold Coast in November last year. (AAP Image/Supplied by Dean Harrison, Australian Yowie Research)

Mr McKinnon a scaffolder by trade believes large scratches he found on the side of a tree last June could have been made by the animal, whose existence is yet to be proven.

“I was mountain biking through the forest when I saw the huge markings on the tree,” Mr McKinnon told the Bulletin.

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“To me it looked like a claw mark, it was off the ground far higher than a human could reach.”

“I saw the stories about the yowie and believe this could be connected, I don’t necessarily believe in them but I think there could be things out there until I am proven otherwise.”

“It’s not like I believe in unicorns or anything.”

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Tree makings found by Gold Coast man Andy McKinnon in Mudgeeraba.

The man who grew up in Sydney claims he had seen large bite marks in a wallaby carcass while in scrub on the NSW coast.

“It looked like something took a bite out of an apple, a whole bite right through the bone,” he said.

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Yowie hunter Dean Harrison who has seen the photos of the marks has doubts they were made by the southern sasquatch.

“While researching in the Blue Mountains, I found extreme and what I thought to be bizarre tree damage far beyond the capabilities of any native Australian animal,” Mr Harrison told the Bulletin.

“This damage ripped not only though thick bark but also through the hardened wood inside — no fingers or teeth could accomplish this.

However Mr Harrison who runs Australian Yowie Hunters had since seen Black Cockatoos make similar markings.

“It’s incredible the damage such small animals can cause.”

Instead Mr Harrison advises those looking for signs of the mountain of hair to be on the look out for a break in a healthy tree or branch that has been heavily twisted.

“That takes a Hominid hand to accomplish, then you know you’re on the right track.”

The existence of the ‘yowie’ is yet to be proven.