Comments on: Another Hand of Unknown Origin?

By: YowieLover

YowieLover — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:15:42 +0000

Interesting Dermals??? Looks like someone made palm prints and then drew in claw marks. It would not match to any cat or bear prints and claw marks made on a dusty surface at all. These claw marks are from a finger drawing them not the sharp claws of an animal. The person who made these on the bobcat are having a huge quiet chuckle and telling their mates they have baffled the experts.

Some people see what they believe…others see what is actually there.

By: aqauntumdream

aqauntumdream — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 14:37:28 +0000

I have some local knowledge being that I live/lived in the area, where this was found, for all of my life.

Although this foot/hand/claw looks great with the claws and what not, I would say it is from a big wombat. And I can tell you they get big. Although they don’t often inhabit areas in this particular part of the north.

I have lived and worked in Gayndah and my home town Monto is just a few hours drive away.

I lived in an aboriginal community near Gayndah and heard a lot of stories about all sort of things to do with creaures mythical and “real” to the Aboriginals at least.

It is hard to make sense of what are essentially stories more com only told around a bar. But there are some stories of cryptids I guess you could call them, large dogs, massive kangaroos (not uncommon), ‘large cats’, bunyips is a favorite, and bear like creatures not surprisingly.

My father was a professional roo shooter in those parts for about 20 years before I was around and he doesn’t mind telling an interesting story or two either. And from what I gather locals are more worried about being called cookoo then they are about telling stories about something they saw in the scrub or in the dark.

By: Ceroill

Ceroill — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 03:00:45 +0000

Hmmm….one idea that occurs to my mind is the possibility this might have originally been intended as a kind of trophy or a lucky charm.

By: mystery_man

mystery_man — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 02:44:49 +0000

Yes, Kittenz, “appendage” is more fitting here. I was just using “hand” for convenience sake! I am kind of going with the prank story too. It is just so cleanly cut and so bizarre that no other sign of the rest of the body was found. I wonder if there was any other sign of a struggle? It seems most likely that someone left it there. It makes me a little angry to think that someone would butcher this poor animal just for a prank, regardless of whether it was alive at the time or not. Pretty bad taste if you ask me. If this was a rare or endangered type of kangaroo, then it seems to me that the authorities should be involved somehow.

By: kittenz

kittenz — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:40:18 +0000

mystery_man, to me it looks as though this … er… appendage was cut off at the wrist (ankle?) a little too cleanly to have been done by accident. I really think it’s a sort of prank.

I don’t doubt that it’s a real paw of an animal, but I do doubt its “back story”.

By: Maire

Maire — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:39:31 +0000

Well, I’ve seen many a roo get its hand, foot or even head caught in, and torn off by, the sparse barbed-wire fences favoured by farmers there. A mistimed jump often proves deadly for the poor things, especially when they thrash madly in an attempt to free themselves.

By: mystery_man

mystery_man — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:21:09 +0000

Yeah, but why just the hand? The account says they heard a commotion with growling and when they went outside, there was just this hand. You gotta wonder what happened out there. Where is the rest of the creature and more imprtantly what took its hand off? I don’t know about you all, but I sure am curious about that.

By: Maire

Maire — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:20:30 +0000

It certainly belongs to a kangaroo, that much is more or less obvious. However, assuming that the size of it has been accurately reported, one question still remains: Which species of roo? Perhaps a Procoptodon - to the non-Aussies, that’d be a kind of giant, short-faced roo considered to be long extinct - or something similar? I’d hazard a guess that its huge size and flat face could easily be confused with a “Bigfoot”-like creature.

By: Leto

Leto — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 06:50:56 +0000

Kangaroo feet. Here’s a pic.

By: Bexta

Bexta — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 06:49:53 +0000

that’s a drop bear paw if I ever saw one!!

bloody things, rip your face off