Location: Mapleton, Queensland
Event: Yowie Sighting
Date: 2006
Time: Day
[Male Witness]
It was about 15 years ago. I was out for a drive with my girlfriend and I had my dog along. We went for a drive out the back of Mapleton where there were bush tracks and bush roads.
The dog was letting me know that he wanted to get out and do his business, so I pulled over in a little bit of a cutting on the road and let him out. He took off and ran down a hill in the bush. I've been down these tracks before, but you're not meant to.
I followed the dog and gone off a track. It went from a heavy scrub area to bush, and then it was a maintained garden. I wandered over there and watched him stop at the bottom, walk into a bush. He was like pointing as such, like as dogs do, like as in looking. And then this thing crawled out on all fours. Didn't know what it was initially.
I was concerned for the dog. It was a American Staffy.
The thing that crawled out of the bushes, stood up and it was pretty tall. It looked like it was about seven foot plus tall.
I was looking at it and I was a little bit dumbfounded. Didn't know what to do or say, so to speak. My dog just sat there. No wagging of the tail, nothing, just sat there. Could say it looked perplexed. Then I just called my dog and that's when this thing looked up at me. We were staring at each other eye to eye, but I couldn't see its eye balls.
And then it just casually walked off.
It was white, with large saucer -like black circles around its eyes.
All I can say is it had a tail. It was tall, it was slender. It had white fur or hair, I'd say not short, but longish short, short long fur. Couldn't make out the nose or mouth area.
Like I said, I couldn't see its eyeballs. The black circles, well, I looked at them, but I couldn't see any glistening or glint of light or anything like that.
Its hands were similar to that of a monkey’s.
They're long, long hands in a sense, and long fingers, same with the feet as well. Toes on the feet weren't as long as the fingers, if you know what I'm saying. They're still long, but not as long in a sense.
Its tail was from its butt sort of area, where the tail normally comes from, down to the ground and then out again. So I'd say it mostly would be close to the length of its body in a sense, or not quite the length.
Circles around its eyes, so it was banded.
As to whether it's stripes or stripe on the tail, I can't recall. I know there was at least one stripe.
It was a nice bright day, so I got a good look at it from about 30 or 40 yards. But like I said, it was a long time ago. It’s still something I always think about.
I've told a few people about it, because it's like one of them things, you only tell people who get you.
The creature was tall and standing straight up and down, I mean, if you ever look at a tall, tall fella, and they're straight up and down, that's what I mean, straight up and down, and it was solid.
There was no muscles protruding or anything like that. You couldn't see like if it was cut or anything like that. There's no protruding chest muscles. It was straight up and down, and it was completely white. It was fully covered in white.
I couldn't see nails, couldn't see claws of any sort.
It crawled out from bushes. I was on the side of a hill, and there’s a road cutting to that hill. It goes down into a valley, into a gully. It was virtually in the gully at the bottom. I'm looking down at it from the road.
It stood up straight, as in straight as an arrow. There's no hunching, no humping. Even when it walked it was straight, and it was slow when it walked. But in saying that, it might have been aware of the dog, didn't want a dog chasing it.
It had zero expression. The head of it was virtually round. No profile to go by in a sense, there were no ears visible. There's nothing. There's no nose. I couldn't see any mouth. It never made any noise. It didn't growl, didn't yell or whatever.
We had a face -to -face. We had eyeball -to -eyeball, so to speak. When I called my dog, it looked straight up at me. It was after that, it turned around and then walked away. This was all, say, a matter of like, say 40 seconds.
My dog came running back up again and we went back to the car, drove off. I was just trying to soak it all in, and it took a good 5 or 10 minutes to even say something to my girlfriend at the time.
If you had put a human head on it, you would have said it was a human. Take the tail off, put some clothes on, you'd never know, except for the head.
I was being very observant. I was just eyeballing this thing, eyeballing it, trying to make it out, work it out, couldn't.
It stood up and then I saw the tail from top of its butt, straight down to its feet and then out again. It dragged the tail along behind it.
If it was a female, it didn't have breasts. As soon as it hit that bush, it was gone. I couldn't see it.
From what I saw of this thing, I think it lives in the trees. I don't think it's a ground dweller. Looking at its hands and its feet, I'm thinking it's more monkey related.
My sighting was purely accidental, so to speak. My dog wanted to get out of the car and go for a piss. If you go looking, I don't think you're going to find it.
It’s been hidden this well for this long, I reckon good on it and keep hidden et cetera.
It helps me to talk to you about it. Like I said, I’ve been keeping it all to myself. It's hard. The people I've spoken to and talked to, it's not just anyone. I only tell people I've formed a pretty half decent relationship with in a sense.
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