Time to take Rex Gilroy’s comments in the same vein as Mr Biscardi, although having lived in Australia for 6 years Yowies definitely exist and appear to exhibit a lot of Sasquatch traits.

Ummmmmmmm can you elaborate why you mix Rex with this person, they are different people from different countries researching different things!!!!

So you have lived her 6 years and know the Yowie exists, that’s great, care to elaborate what you base this remarkable discovery on??

Your painstaking research in the Australian bush??

Your knowledge of the vast Australian countryside??

Your vast knowledge of the Australian Aborigines/Kooris??

Time to take your comments for what they are, viral!! Most of you have ever met Rex, have ever looked at his evidence first hand, yet have this opinion based what again?

This continual dislike for a man who has spent 50 years researching these subjects. Maybe it is time some of you actually met the man your calling a liar etc…

See this is why, even though I enjoy reading Rex Gilroy’s stuff, I just can’t take him seriously. I’ve never heard of the pankalanka before, even in his books.

Ausiepath…Maybe because you have never read any of his books.

If you had you’d have read on page 93 of the 2001 book – “Giants from the Dreamtime-The Yowie in Myth and Reality”, about them and other names for them in two separate chapters..

The Aborigines of the Northern Territory also fear another race of hairy giants, the dreaded Pankalanka People.

Also called the Pungalunga by some tribes, there are many European inhabitants of the “Red Centre” who share the Aborigines belief in their existence.

Sightings claims describe the male Pankalankas as being between 2.6 and 3m in height, whiel their females are somewhat smaller.

Then there is another two pages on reports/sightings and other names for them. In another chapter Rex talks of them again.

Rex has also written articles on them. I’m not sure where your getting your info but it isn’t from reading his books-possibly your dis-like for Rex is more the reason.

The Australian Aborigines/Kooris have literally thousands of names Australia wide. That you have not heard of many of them could be because Rex has been travelling around Australia for almost 40 odd years researching them.

This is Rex Gilroy’s entire life, day in day out for most of his life.

Rex has also been fortunate to have met and became friends with many Aboriginal, elders, historians and actors over the decades who have also shared there own tribal stories of the Yowie, the pygmies, and other giants, including the hundreds of names they are known by Australia wide.

Unless you have traveled extensively around Australia researching these stories that you have not heard of, I cannot see how you can make a comment such as that.

Especially when it is obvious you have not read any of his books/articles, or been to any Yowie conferences etc…!

It seems Gilroy’s been written off too early. See here for information on a print made in 1981 by an Australian Aboriginal artist who passed away in 1999 and was born in 1921 (name withheld in respect of Aboriginal custom. Warning – the linked page – and the link address – display the artist’s name.)

just to check – are the Arunta people the same as the “Aranda” people of 1982 mentioned in the article?

archer1945, it appears you have no idea what you’re talking about.

Stories like that tend to be passed around, amongst the communities, but the rest of us don’t seem to pay too much attention to them unfortunately.

I am aware of a few interesting stories from this region, which is why I am very interested in what you discover – although I haven’t heard anything relating to yowies there. (But then again, yowies are certainly not my specialty!)

Cheers,

Chris.