Yowie researcher Dean Harrison reveals ‘proof’ creature exists

A Queensland-based yowie researcher claims to have uncovered fresh evidence that Australia’s version of Big Foot actually exists.

A Queensland-based yowie researcher has claimed he’s uncovered fresh evidence that Australia’s version of Big Foot actually does exist.

Dean Harrison, who has been tracking the elusive creature for decades, released new video from a recent trip to the Gold Coast hinterland, producing what he said is the most significant evidence of the yowie’s existence to date.

The clip, taken on May 4 at Springbrook National Park using thermal technology, shows what Mr Harrison said are two “nine-feet tall yowies” in the wild.

Speaking to Sunrise this morning, Mr Harrison said the night vision shows “something hugging a tree” before two “huge” yowies “step out” into view.

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Image captured with thermal technology revealing a mysterious creature, reportedly a yowie, hiding behind a tree. Picture: Dean Harrison

“We estimated that they must have been at least nine feet (2.75m) tall and they made no noise arriving and no noise leaving that area,” he said.

“We wouldn’t have known if anything was there if it wasn’t for the thermal cameras.”

Mr Harrison, who has led several overnight yowie-hunting “expeditions” over the last month to the national park, told the show he was “excited” to make the major find.

“Sightings" of the hairy apelike creatures, common in Aboriginal legends, go back hundreds of years, though there remains no concrete proof they actually exist.

Mr Harrison told The Sunday Mailthe “equipment we have now is stuff we couldn’t have dreamt of back in the ’90s when I started, so I can assure people that this is just the beginning”.

“In the footage you will see the yowies, hugging the trees in an attempt to hide themselves,” Mr Harrison said.

“Later, they placed four markers directly on the tracks where Buck (Mr Harrison’s assistant) was standing the previous night.

“The markers were not there on our way in, and were not there at 2am, but they were there at 6am on our way out.

“It is a very remote location, with lots of virgin scrub that feels like climbing a ladder when passing through, there was definitely no humans in the area – just yowies.”

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Yowie Research administrator Dean Harrison has been compiling hundreds of accounts of yowie sightings for more than two decades. Picture: Dean Harrison

The most recent reported sighting in Queensland, before Mr Harrison’s, was in Bundaberg earlier this year.

Mr Harrison said he was undeterred by people who dismiss the footage as doctored, or that claim the creatures are mythical, saying those who have had encounters motivate him to keep searching.

“I couldn’t care less if people refuse to acknowledge their existence. I’m not here to convince them, I’m here to provide the facts,” he said.

“Encounters are often life-changing experiences, and I do this to provide evidence for victims, to vindicate them, that their claims are real.”