1/29An unidentified flying object (UFO) photographed over the Dolphin Arcade building at Surfers Paradise in September 1998. Picture: Oswald Raeder
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2/29Australian Yowie Research founder Dean Harrison scoping out bushland.
3/29A screenshot from a UFO sighting video taken on the Gold Coast in March 2014.
4/29An unidentified flying object (UFO) photographed over the Dolphin Arcade building at Surfers Paradise in September 1998. Picture: Oswald Raeder
5/29Multiple reports have emerged over the years of the ghost of Ned Harper haunting Cascade Gardens at Broadbeach.
6/29Indigenous history expert Shaun Davies speaks about yowies at Eagleby Wetlands. Picture: Jerad Williams
7/29A supposed Yowie footprint found in the Gold Coast Hinterland.
8/29A sketch drawn by 12-year-old Shaun Cooper in 1978. He claims he saw a yowie at Nerang. The story was published in the Gold Coast Bulletin in August 1978.
9/29Yowie yowls again. Published in the Gold Coast Bulletin on March 4, 2005.
10/29Yowie Yarns and tall tales. Published in the Gold Coast Bulletin on January 1, 2005.
11/29A UFO spotted over Southport in 2012.
12/29Terror-stricken boy tells of strange encounter with the 'Yowie' kind. Published in the Gold Coast Bulletin on August 28, 1978.
13/29Another photo of the “haunted” Ernest Junction Tunnel at Molendinar.
14/29Yowie hunter Dean Harrison worked with sketch artist Buck Buckingham to reconstruct a yowie reportedly seen by a Gold Coast truck driver.
15/29Ernest Junction Tunnel at Molendinar, which is supposedly haunted. Picture: John Kirkwood
16/29Yowie Yarns and tall tales. Published in the Gold Coast Bulletin on January 1, 2005.
17/29The Yowie is an illusion – Hinterland woodcutter. Gold Coast Bulletin story published on January 25, 1978.
18/29Yowie hunter Dean Harrison and a sketch of the yowie reportedly seen in the Gold Coast Hinterland.
19/29An enlarged screenshot from a UFO sighting video taken on the Gold Coast in March 2014.
20/29Tarina Callanan was one of several people to report UFO sightings on the Gold Coast in September 2015. Picture: Tim Marsden
21/29Yowie sighting was kept secret. Published in the Gold Coast Bulletin on November 17, 1977.
22/29A UFO photographed over Coolangatta at 6.30am on May 5, 2020.
23/29UFO expert Stanton Friedman on the Gold Coast on August 11, 1988.
24/29Numerous ghost sightings were reported at the Old Stone house on 999 Springbrook Rd at Mudgeeraba before it was destroyed.
25/29A witness sketch of the 1978 “yowie sighting” at Palm Beach. Picture: Australian Yowie Research.
26/29Rumours abound about Pimpama River being haunted by timber cutter Dick Edwards, who lived in a cottage on Pimpama River between Pimpama and Ormeau. Pictured is a Cobb and Co carriage outside the Pimpama Hotel. It’s thought the image was captured about 1875. Picture: John Oxley Library/State Library of Queensland
27/29This object seen from Burleigh Heads on the Gold Coast in June 2010 was later linked to the launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida.
28/29A witness sketch of a yowie reportedly spotted in the Gold Coast Hinterland.
29/29Australian Yowie Research founder Dean Harrison says he snapped this shot (right) during an encounter with a yowie in D’Aguilar National Park early this year. His mate Buck is pictured in the left image for comparison. Picture: Supplied
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