From the unexplained to the mundane, come join us on a Journey to the Fringe. Hello and welcome to Journey to the Fringe, where we absolutely wrecked our recommended section on YouTube so you don't have to. We are your now red-pilled hosts, Taylor and Chelsea, and today, Chelsea is doing an episode. I gave her ideas, but I don't actually know what she went with, so I'm just gonna leave it to her now. I need to open my document. Okay. Okay. Australia is a pretty spooky country, right?
Despite all the actual spooky sightings going on down under, and a country full of criminals. Criminals and poison. Yes. Venom everywhere. And the scariest animals known to man. It is already pretty much the scariest place on earth, despite some actual spooky things going on. And I say that with the utmost love, because it's a beautiful country despite all this downfall. That's where Bluey comes from. Yeah, Bluey. And an expose on the Pellongong. He's too good at my lines.
We've slowly been going on trips around the world, and today, I've randomly chosen, but more honestly been suggested Australia is a target, so here we are. Now, let's check in on the spookiness happening down under, and for your listening pleasure, I've alternated cryptid and paranormal phenomenon to shake it up. But first up, we got the bunny up.
If you were looking for a bunny up, I would start with looking in the southeastern Australia portions of the country, and in around ponds, wetlands, swamps, billabongs. I have no idea what a billabong is. And I didn't look it up. I had too much to work out. Are they surf shorts? Like a brand of clothing. That's what I think it is. Look around clothing. Around the billabongs. Around riverbanks. We're at rest during the day.
By the way, there's going to be some crazy language in this because Australia is stuck. Funny. They speak English in theory. In theory only. It's like joke English. During the night, I would probably seek shelter because that's when you're going to become bunny up prey. Chelsea, dare I ask, what does a bunny up look like? Or do we get into that in a bit? Yeah, yeah. We get into that. We're going to do it right now. And what exactly would you be looking for if you're looking for a bunny up?
You wouldn't just say I'm looking for a bunny up without knowing what it looks like. You could be finding millions of bunny ups if you weren't knowing what it's looking like. Generally, you're looking for something aquatic. That's for sure because everything else varies a lot. Some say it has a dog like face, dark fur, a horse like tail, flippers, walrus like tusks, a crocodile like head and a duck like bill. There are even claims that it resembles a snake with a beard.
If you see one of those, it may or may not be a bunny up. They are expected to be skilled swimmers and I would assume that's because it's aquatic. I wouldn't want an aquatic animal to be a bad swimmer. That seems to go against nature. You think so, but hippos are pretty bad swimmers. They bounce. They sink to the bottom and bounce. But they have the cutest little legs when they swim and they take off. Yeah, they're pretty bad swimmers. They spend their entire life in water pretty much.
Plus, no one can find their testicles. They're freaks of nature. Yeah, they're the rest of the world's bun yet. Maybe they are, but I don't know if there's hippos in Australia. Not yet. I mean, they could probably apply for some apabiloescopers. They're looking to get rid of some. One legend says that a man named Bunyep broke the rainbow serpent's greatest law by eating his totem animal.
Banished by the spirit Biammy, the man became an evil spirit that lured tribesmen and their livestock into the water so he could eat them. That is obviously a indigenous legend. In Aboriginal Australian culture, which is where I got that trivia fact from, a Bunyep is a spirit creature, which refer back to what I said because I think I got the order mixed up. I'm not going to rerecord that.
A word Bunyep translates outside or maybe in Aboriginal Australian culture to devil or evil spirit from the Wemba Wemba language. William Buckley was an English convicted criminal who was sent to Australia in 1802. While there, he escaped and joined the Wallaranga tribe. He is known for sighting the Bunyep on several occasions. That's a good thing to be known for. The Bunyep Sighter. He has a lot of them.
One of the first describing it as the size of a large calf with feathers that killed people. Wait, how do feathers kill people? I think it was despite the feathers that it was killing people, not with feathers. And I don't even see anything aquatic being mentioned in here. A large calf with feathers that killed people. Oh, no, I can see what you're saying. The feathers killed people. I have no answers from you. The sighting on this was... Okay, I'm sorry.
I just typed all those words into the AI image generator. I want to see what comes up. Okay, report back. I love generating images on AI. Next up in 1818, explorers James Meahand and Hamilton Hume discovered a peculiar carcass in Lake Bathurst in New South Wales. What a beautiful creature. Bottom right, I like that one. Yeah, I like that there's birds on it. In 1818, explorers James Meahand and Hamilton Hume discovered a peculiar carcass in Lake Bathurst in New South Wales.
They did not call the creature a Bunyep, but describe the remains as similar to a manatee or hippopotamus. In July 1845, the Geylong Advertiser describes the Bunyep in great detail. It was also the first recorded use of the term Bunyep. In 1857, in the article titled The Bunyep, a newspaper reported on the drawings made by Edwin Stochuler. Amongst the latter drawings, we noticed a likeness of the Bunyep or rather a view of the neck and shoulders of the animal.
Mr. Stochuler informs us that the Bunyep is a large freshwater seal having two small paddules, adulis, paddules, or fins attached to the shoulders, a long swan-like neck, a head like a dog, and a curious bag hanging under the jaw resembling the pouch of a pelican. The animal is covered with hair like the platypus and the color is glossy black. Mr. Stochuler saw no less than six of these curious animals at different times.
His boat was within 30 feet of one near Maguire's Punt on the Goldburn, and he fired at the Bunyep which did not succeed in capturing him. The smallest appeared to be about 5 feet in length and the largest exceeded 15 feet. The head of the largest was the side of a bullock's head and 3 feet out of water. After taking a sketch of the animal, Mr. Stochuler showed it to several blacks of the Goldburn tribe.
This is from a publication, so who declared that the picture was Bunyep's brother, meaning a duplicate or likeness of the Bunyep. The animals moved against the current at the rate of about 7 miles an hour, and Mr. Stochuler states that he could have approached close to the specimens he observed had he not been deterred by the stories of the natives concerning the power and fury of the Bunyep, and by the fact that his gun had only a single barrel and his boat was a very frail description.
And then in the 1930s when the depression was at its worst, some of the most recent and frequent sightings occurred, and I just went through most of the famous sightings of the Bunyep. In doing my research for this and trying to find more recent sightings of the Bunyep in which, if you want to go to the people's use, you go to Reddit.
I couldn't find any, but most of the people referred back to this, stating that this is why they're terrified of the Bunyep from a children's show in Australia, and it's a song about the Bunyep. This actually reminds me, childhood cartoons can leave trauma with you. I was terrified for a long time of, oh what's the name of the jackalope? Because of that one episode of Tiny Toons. Oh my god, yeah. What was it?
And dad used to say when we were driving home at night, yeah, when I jacked was out in the forest. That might actually be our parents doing for inflicting that damage. But yeah, I mean the TV, the some of the movies we used to watch had way more emotional people on you than cartoons now. That's the Bunyep. Just based on what I was reading, a lot of people terrified of the Bunyep, just based on I think just cultural references to it. And childhood trauma. Next up is the Min Min Lights.
Some things are just hard to take seriously when they're written in Australian. So the Min Min Lights are sightings of strange lights typically occurring in the Australian Outback and span from New South Wales to Queensland, which is a fair amount of area from the far south to the north. Accounts of the light appearance is very, though they are most commonly described as being fuzzy, dish-shaped lights that appear to hover just above the horizon.
They are often described as being white, though some accounts describe them as changing colour from red to green and back again. And then some are described as being dim, others describe them as being bright enough to illuminate the ground under them and cause nearby objects to throw clearly to find shadow. So again, it greatly varies but what we're getting at with these are weird lights. According to folklore, the lights sometimes follow or approach people and disappear when fired upon.
There we go, there's the other one. Sometimes very rapidly, only to reappear later on and anyone who chases the lights and catches them will never return to tell the tale. Some witnesses describe the light as appearing to approach them several times before retreating and others report that the lights were able to keep pace with them when they were in a moving vehicle. Sightings? There are tons of these, unlike the bunny-ip, which is just like, oh I saw this weird animal.
And it seems to be consistent, I would hope, too. And that day I saw lights. Hey, me too! They weren't feathery or anything. This could also fall under bunny-ip. This is the light bunny-ip. This is the Reddit story, which is from user DMBDreadmaiden. They stayed about 19 years ago near my hometown in country New South Wales. I used to get driven to catch a bus from a town called Parks about 1.5 hours from my hometown to go visit my them boyfriend in another town several hours away.
The bus I had to travel to get to left from Parks around 2am and arrived back late at night when my dad would pick me up. On two separate occasions we saw something strange. On the first occasion we were driving along the country road in between two towns, the road running in between farms fenced off from the road. There were hills behind these farms that were silhouetted against the often bright night sky.
We saw a big ball of light traveling down the hill parallel to our car, probably a couple of kilometers away, and we thought it was just a truck possibly driving along there, until we realized there wasn't a road there and it was one light, not two, like car headlights and it wasn't a motorcycle. Just because there wasn't a road there didn't mean it wasn't a vehicle though, but it moved so smoothly and quickly that we just thought it was odd.
We didn't really think much about it until a few weeks later we were doing the same drive late at night, possibly a bit after midnight and we saw the same light in the same area moving quickly and smoothly again. This time dad decided to stop the car and turn off the engine. When he did that the light came down the hill and hurled towards us across the farm fields and over the fence that divided the farms from the road. It was fast.
The ball of light was probably about 2 meters off the ground and had a diameter of around 1 and a half meters, it was gigantic, silent, a ball of light that kind of fluctuated and rotated as it moved. It slowed and hovered in the middle of the road behind our car, probably about 50 meters behind us. I got so scared but dad was fascinated in watching it inquisitively.
I was panicking and yelling to start the car and drive, I'm not sure what happened after that because dad turned the engine on and we started driving. We never saw the light again but that was the most bizarre thing I've ever seen and every now and again I mention it to my dad just so that I know I'm not going crazy and dad always confirms every detail of it with me. Yeah I'm not sure honestly if I were to see something like that what would set that apart from me thinking it was a UFO?
Maybe just that there wasn't any defining structure to it, it was literally just a light? Yeah it might just be a size thing too. Yeah. Because like will of the wisps are like considerably smaller than a spacecraft. Yeah that's true. So that's the Min-Min Lights. The next is the Hacksbury River Monster of New South Wales. I couldn't not include this. We need to hear of the Lake River Monsters that inhabit every area of the earth.
If you were looking for the Hawksbury River Monster I would start by looking in the apparently very deep Hawksbury River in New South Wales, a hotbed of weird things. I mean you could just say that of all of Australia but most of the population of Australia only lies in very small areas of Australia. And they're very widely separated. Yeah. It's said to be up to 24 feet long that is the River Monster not the river.
The Hawksbury River Monster resembles a dinosaur and like the Loch Ness has a large body, a long neck and flippers. They're underwater dwellers that resemble a prehistoric pleosaur. The Daruk people painted pictures of this aquatic monster on rocks thousands of years ago therefore it has been around for a long time. Depicted in the art is having a snake like head, long neck, large body and two sets of flippers with an eel like tail. It basically just confirms what we think of it as being today.
Because I said that twice. According to most reports the Hawksbury River Monster doesn't appear to be particularly hostile. It avoids people and gives them a curious look before submerging beneath the surface. Nighting of the creature have been reporting from Wise Man's Ferry at the western end of the river eastward to the broken bay Brisbane waters expanse at the river's mouth. And there have been reports of strange slide marks similar to that of a crocodile along the banks of the river.
I'm not sure whether there are crocodiles that could be making those marks. I'm assuming they've ruled that out if it's a strange sighting. Tony Healy has among his files a 1912 I'm not sure who Tony Healy is but he has a story in his files. From a 1912 story from the evening news Sydney called was it the bunny ip? That concerns an alligator like creatures seen in South Creek a tributary of the Hawksbury River in Windsor he said. The creature was seen by a boning party.
A strange object swimming a short distance from them about 4 feet in length and resembled an alligator. There have been reports of them a hell of a lot bigger than that. I haven't been able to establish to my satisfaction that the reports of the bigger ones are genuine but they may well be. Another report that sparked Healy's interest was one published in the Windsor and Richmond Gazette in 1924. Quote people were talking about seeing a titanic seahorse and there's a specific eyewitness
report by W.J. Riley who along with his brother saw this thing while walking along the terrace Windsor at midday. They saw something in the river beneath in a deep hole he said and quote re-quote he said we saw a big ugly thing 2 foot 6 inches to 3 foot in depth with a length of about 5 to 6 feet and of a yellowish or sandy color. Whether it's skin with scale covered or not we could not see.
We watched for 15 minutes it had a square looking fishtail it was not a pleasant looking animal I should certainly not care to be in the water and have it after me. End quote. I agree with you right there Healy. Yeah. I agree with you. Is there a chance that these people are all just seeing alligators that definitely are in Australia? It's appearing so. I mean Australians aren't known to be the soberest of people.
And I don't speak fluent Australian so is there a chance that Bunyip is just Australian for crocodile or alligator? It's true. But this one is the sea monster. They said it's not the Bunyip. It could be the Bunyip. It's not the Bunyip. It was related to the sea monster in this case. It just was too far outside of the normal parameters of Bunyip and this one's hot. So next is the land Bunyip the Yaoi. Okay next the Yaoi. So we're done with that one.
This is my longest portion of this and I'm surprised I didn't save this for last but I'm very surprising sometimes. And to myself I never know what I'm gonna do with my research. We're in life. If you were looking for a Yaoi I would start by going to Australia and then by going to New South Wales and the Gold Coast of Queensland, the Great Barrier Reef and the wilderness of the Moe Howe Range. So that's where most of the reports come from.
And also just anywhere in Australia really would be good enough where the population is because I saw on Reddit actually just as an aside here this isn't in my notes. Actually posted a picture of where all the Yaoi sightings are in Australia and everyone was commenting. Yeah that's just the population map of Australia. That's where people are. Australia's take on Bigfoot. The Yaoi's origins go back as ape-like humanoids usually do to Aboriginal myths.
According to some accounts the name Yaoi is a corruption of the derug word Yaoi which means demon or spirit. This Yaoi is spelled Y-O-W-I leaving the E out. The derugged people have a rich cultural history that includes many stories and legends about various supernatural creatures and it is likely that the Yaoi was included in these stories as a powerful and mysterious being. Other accounts suggest that the name Yaoi comes from the word Yaoi.
This one is spelled Y-O-W-E-E which is used by the Yuin people of New South Wales to describe a large hairy creature that is said to inhabit the area. The Yuin people also have a rich cultural history and many stories about supernatural creatures and it's possible that their legends also include the Yaoi. Well the normal way.
In either case it's likely that the name Yaoi has been passed down through generations of Indigenous Australians and has come to be associated with the creature that is said to inhabit the Australian wilderness. The Yaoi is described as being between 5 and 9 feet tall with a large red mouth and talon-like claws according to Aboriginal legends and arms that extend to or past its needs. Seems like it has some problems there with that. Well it's like most primates have longer arms than humans.
That's true. Because you know they're climbers so you need to be able to reach stuff. Exactly. We don't climb things generally. Just monkey birds. And aptly named based on that. It's also noted that the Yaoi contain two large fang like canines which distinguish the Yaoi from other big foot species. It usually has brown or red isp fur. Five toe footprints have been recorded up to 18 inches in length.
And while mostly bipedal and seem to be standing and walking someone like a human, other reports have described the Yaoi running on all fours in much the same way a great ape would walk. While still others report describing the creature crawling in all fours in a spider like fashion and seem to be able to move at great speed when either upright or on all fours. Which is a super creepy detail. There's some great websites documenting Yaoi sightings. Really good references.
I'll put them in the show notes. There was also in one of these websites that I read that do a lot of research on the Yaoi they said people report that it walks really strange but it can't put any reason to why it feels strange. They don't know why it feels strange. Yeah. They theorized at least one theory that it's moving strange is what I would say because it's crawling in all fours like a spider.
But they said it's because they moved instead of pushing yourself from your back feet like we do, it moved in a fashion of walking and then pulling itself up with the leg. That you step forward with which I think would be really hard to do. It made me really think when I read that that's weird. Okay. I wonder if it had anything to do with the arms just because they have longer arms and maybe they either sway them slightly different than us or don't sway them at all.
Although that would be something you notice. It really could be anything and just hearing somebody say they moved weird without any follow up on that. They're described as being one of the most aggressive Sasquatch species and they have been reported tearing the heads off kangaroos and dogs and attacking humans as well. Let me get to this account here. Oh, I'm so happy we have big foots and not yawies. Yeah. Okay. So this is an article from news.com.au.
I don't think this is owned by a cult, but you know, I'm caught off guard all the time by what news outlets called zone. So that's all I have to say on that. This one's titled meet the man who claimed he has been almost killed by a yowie. I think he'd stay out of the woods after that. You have probably never seen a yowie. You might have never heard of a yowie.
Well you have now because you've listened to this podcast, but one man has not only dedicated his life to hunting down the mythological beast. He says he's almost been killed by one twice. Yowie researcher Dean Harrison has described his two close encounters with the mysterious eight light creature, which is comparable to the North American Sasquatch or the Himalayan Yeti. He says it was nearly killed by a yowie on two occasions.
First in Ormo in the Gold Coast, Hinterland and again in Gilkevan near Gimpy. That was a game changer. I can't go back into the bush by myself. I just got hit with a big dose of reality he told QT and nearly got taken down by one at Ormo in 1997 and that was really scary. It was only by the grace of God that I survived. I made a phone call at 11pm in a clearing before going into the bush and if I hadn't I wouldn't be here today. This thing really meant business.
But the crunchier was in 2009 at Gilkevan and if a few guys weren't there to rescue me I wouldn't be here. That took a good 8 months to get over. The scary thing is that the yowies have a massive advantage over us because of their eyesight in the dark. The thing that knocked me over ran down a hill in pitch darkness past obstacles, trees and logs. The angles were so steep but it sprinted down. It didn't miss a beat. That one chased me at Ormo was the same.
The yowie is Australia's very own bigfoot. They're reputed to live in the wilderness and witnesses claim to have seen them in all states and territories on the Australian mainland. Okay, so he doesn't really go into any details about how it almost killed him. That's the end of this article. I mean it does go on quite extensively but I'm just going to read this one last excerpt that's much further down the page but it just caught my eye. That's not all.
Mr. Harrison, not sure who he is because we're jumping in just randomly in the article. Who has been researching yowies for 20 years also says many people who go missing in the bush were likely abducted by the creatures. Is even claimed he once saw a yowie get tagged with a tracking device by intelligence agents at a rural Queensland army base in the 1990s. Interesting. Okay, enough with that article. I'll post it up in the show notes, hopefully. Okay, back to my amazing notes.
Some farmers have reported stock being killed and legs being torn from sockets, bite marks and intestines being removed from the bodies of dead stock. Some believe the creatures have the ability to use infrasound which may be used in hunting and confrontations. Reports of witnesses being roared at and physically feeling the roar are not uncommon. And we see that a lot with the bigfoot. They seem to have the same interaction types as the typical bigfoot. I literally just said that.
That's what happens when I go off the script. Tree knocking, rock throwing, whooping, weird stick formations and large footprints among others that are reported with the yowie. He does also have some paranormal bigfoot qualities.
Some sighting reports, strange occurrences such as light orbs proceeding or following a sighting or encounter, feelings of sickness, dread and depression and some witnesses, failure of electronic equipment which worked prior to and after an encounter, glowing eyes have been reported and this may have nothing to do with the supernatural but a part of the creatures biology.
Ioluminescence is found in a variety of life forms but what the significance of glowing eyes is to these creatures remains to be understood. The yowie has an incredible amount of sightings along with the Min Min lights with the yowie I would say even more. I even found a thermal image video of a yowie which I've never seen before, funny enough and in the spirit of the podcast let's watch a video. This is yowie researcher Dean Harrison reveals proof creature exists.
I wonder if this is the same guy from the other article I read. A Queensland based yowie researcher has claimed he uncovered fresh evidence that Australia's version of bigfoot actually does exist. Dean Harrison who has been tracking the elusive creature for decades released a new video from a recent trip to the Gold Coast hinterland, reducing what he said is the most significant evidence of the yowie's existence to date.
A clip taking on May 4th at Springbrook National Park use thermal technology shows what Mr. Harrison said are two 9 feet tall yowie's in the wild. Speaking to Sunrise this morning, Mr. Harrison said the night vision shows something hugging a tree before two huge yowie's step out into view. Sorry they didn't say what the thing was hugging the tree. No I don't know if it's a yowie or a human. Or a bunyep yeah. It's a bunyep if we don't know what it is.
We estimate that they must have been at least 9 feet tall and they made no noise arriving and no noise leaving the area. He said we wouldn't have known if anything was there if it wasn't for the thermal cameras. Did you watch the video? I did. It's hard to tell what the hell is going on. We'll post a link up for that as well so you can take a look.
The yowie also has its place of part of an aboriginal people oral history going back thousands of years like we see with the Sasquatch and sightings have been documented not orally told. The first documented European report of a yowie or wild man as it was called at the time was in 1789. The creature had reportedly been captured and taken to England. When they originally recorded the yowie sightings in the 1850s the local media initially referred to it as an indigenous ape.
Sightings again there are many I'm just going to read a couple here. The first one I thought this was a really good one is Nightcap NP New South Wales 2022. Nightcap is the place name and this one goes like this. I would like to start off by saying my partner and I aren't the most experienced bush walkers so most of these finds were either on the side of the path or not too far into the bush and off the track.
We are always together during our finds and encounters and they occurred during the day all around Nightcap National Park area and surrounding. So 30th of December first find. Burley into my exploring wasn't taking pictures or documenting. It was our first time walking this track and as we were walking down the track we started finding multiple branches and sticks stuck to the ground with force.
They had clearly been done with intention as they are facing vertically and pushing pretty far into the ground. We also found two stick formations in the shape of antlers stabbed into the ground. We noticed them because they were actually very beautiful and symmetrical almost like artwork. My partner and I noticed every one of the sticks and he was pulling them out as we walked along.
We got to the falls near the end of the road and hung out there for about an hour just enjoying the rock pools and the view then began to walk back to the car. We were shocked to find new sticks forks into the ground and even one other antler formation. We were very observant and saw every one of the sticks on the way there and pulled them out. So to find new sticks and have been placed within the hour while we were at the falls was super strange.
There is no way there were people there we would have saw or heard them. Second significant event the same day, Rumory Park Campgrounds. Again this was our first time visiting this area and walking this track. After walking the track we were about to leave and we were walking across the road to the car and I heard this strange grunting noise coming from the pine forest about 20 meters up the hill to my left and my instant rational thought was that it was a pig so I screamed pig really loud.
Then out of nowhere a pine cone came flying out of the pine forest past our heads and hit the tree across the road from us with force. How dense was that pine cone? We went running into the pine trees to find the said pig but there was nothing there. We walked around for a while scratching our heads trying to figure out what it was but we couldn't find anything so we just went home. So I'm just going to leave it at that just due to time restraints.
These people do go on to have other encounters and I'm just going to read you the titles of them. The first one is the 2019 possible encounter tree knocking reply something big in the bush. Then there is the 16th of March which is titled stick teepees. So from this you get seeing that they're very akin to Bigfoot. Yeah we I find to be very interesting just like the Bigfoot stuff. Just there were tons and tons of documents of this.
So yeah I'll post up the websites that I found very helpful with the sightings and just the other sighting. I'd heard about this before I don't know if you have and this is former Queensland Senator Bill O'Chee recounts a Yaoi sighting he had when he was younger on his official government website. Interesting. He has a long thing about himself on his website. I'm going to post this one up as well. I'll have lots of links for you to look through. His encounter goes like this.
Well at school camp near Springbrook in 1977 O'Chee spotted a Yaoi. At the time he described the creature to the local Gold Coast paper. About 20 of us saw it. It was about three meters tall covered in hair had a flat face of walk to the side in a crab-like style. It smashed small saplings and trees like matchsticks as it careered through the bush. Nearly three decades later O'Chee remained convinced of the Yaoi's existence and that is the end of that sighting.
Last one we have the Warrigal Dingo Shapeshifter. Other variations of this include the stylusine shape shifter and the Tasmanian tiger shape shifter. I think at this point they're just looking for a shape shifter. Warrigal shape shifters mainly live in small packs especially in the city to remain inconspicuous. They live mostly in Australia but have also migrated to other parts of the world. There is at least one tribe of aboriginal Australians that is a larger pack of the Warrigal.
The Warrigal half-worms are basically a man-sized dingo that walks comfortably on its hind legs. The Warrigal who live with aboriginal tribes have the ability to work some native magic. I couldn't find a whole lot on this but I did find an interesting Reddit story of somebody theorizing that it could be the shape shifter so I thought I'd share it and it's by user LesbianGrowl13 and they're sharing their Australian cryptid story.
I live in the bushlands in New South Wales in a very small town like seriously in the middle of nowhere which is basically all of Australia. I was about 12 or 13 years old. It was around I would say 9 to 10pm.
I was walking my friend home and he only lived a few houses down from me but there was some distance between the houses so we were walking to his house and he stops and says watch out a snake and I'm thinking it's okay it's just a snake we just walk around it as Australians think but anyone else would be terrified. Then we see it go from a small snake to a possum almost to a wallaby then a dog that chased us all the way back to my house.
There were burnouts going around because it was summer and the grass and weeds were going to attract snakes. I think burnouts are when they burn the grass off. I still don't know what it was but it freaks me out. It could have been a dog or a really big possum but it was the size of a Saint Bernard but it was a black German Shepherd or something. Any ideas? It's around burripey land. I would say bunyip for sure. Probably a bunyip.
And then last one I'm going to share is Australia's UFO capital which is Wycliffe Well. Considered the best location to see a UFO if you happen to be in Australia it's way out of the way so if I mean if you're there. According to the Sun Herald and Time magazine they are ranked in the top UFO spots in the world. Interesting. Located in the middle of the desert this is a tiny settlement mostly visited as a stopover between the town Alice Springs and Tennant Creek.
Also close by is the Devil's Marbles which are its own paranormal hotspot I left out from this where individuals have reported mysterious wailing among other things at night. Associated with UAPs for decades some believe that it is closely tied to the nearby Pine Gap intelligent base and visitors to Wycliffe Well go back to the mid 19th century when this little oasis was a stop for telegraph linemen.
Fast forward to World War 2 and Wycliffe Well continued its run as a way station this time for servicemen. It was with the World War 2 soldiers that the sightings started. So many sightings that the folks who ran the roadhouse started to keep a log of visitors streaking through the night sky as practice still kept today. And there is a sighting there.
It is somebody relaying a long story about somebody who was passing through and they happened to see a lot of weird cars parked there and so they stopped when they were getting gas and was like hey what's going on and they were like hey we just saw a UFO came by last night and it caught a lot of attention and a UFO had hovered over a dam that's in the area and I guess sucked up all of the water and left. Interesting.
I know it was very long-winded to get that point across so I just thought that I would share that quickly and wrapping up. Makes sense and that is an episode I think we've always wanted to do at some point is UFOs in water because that's a different thing even than the USOs. And USOs yeah I think are two we could go two very different ways with those USOs and then UFOs in relation to water. But yeah that's paranormal Australia. Australia has a lot going on by the means of weird things.
Yeah. Yeah that's how I would describe it I think. Awesome. It really does and it may or may not be more than just a bunyup at the end of the day just because we still don't fully understand the concept. The Yahweh for sure is its own thing but the bunyup pretty much just encapsulates everything else I'm pretty sure. Yeah. Yeah. But while you ponder this if we should just give a friendly reminder that I have been Taylor here with Chelsea we are Journey to the Fringe.
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