Australia is home to many animals, some strange, some dangerous, all of them unique. But the creatures and monsters dreamed up by Aboriginal Australians and modern locals are even stranger, and some are far more dangerous! From bunyips, to yowies, to muldjewangks, to drop bears, this program will discuss some of the most frightening and bizarre monsters from Australian folklore!
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MYTHOLOGY HAS BEEN TOLD AND RETOLD IN MANY FORMS ACROSS TIME, STORIES AND ACCOUNTS MAY VARY.
MUSIC:
Australian Didgeridoo music
CLIPS:
Stock footage of Australian outback, red kangaroo, koala,
platypus, leopard seal, saltwater crocodiles, Daintree rainforest,
Blue mountains, monitor lizard, and the Hawkesbury river
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Anton Kalmykov
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David Stribbling
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Angus McBride
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John Bradley
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Heraldo Mussolini
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REFERENCES:
https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildlife/2018/02/australias-mythical-creatures/
https://exemplore.com/cryptids/Legendary-Creatures-of-Australian-Myth-and-Folklore
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/drop-bear/
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/australias-real-drop-bear
https://www.ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/australian-yowie-mysterious-legends-tribe-hairy-people-003605
https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Yowie
https://mythus.fandom.com/wiki/Yowie
https://cryptidarchives.fandom.com/wiki/Queensland_tiger#Reconstruction
https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Queensland_Tiger
https://recentlyextinctspecies.com/thylacine-archive/queensland-thylacine-reports
https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Blue_Mountains_Panther
https://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/blue-mountains-panther-spotted-again-20131214-2ze1p.html
https://mythus.fandom.com/wiki/Mungoon-Gali
https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Hawkesbury_River_Monster
https://pinebarrensinstitute.com/cryptids/2018/8/18/cryptid-profile-the-hawkesbury-river-monster
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/does-a-prehistoric-monster-haunt-the-hawkesbury-river-sydney-has-its-own-nessie/news-story/b77b47c46f6d225cb132f346c7f78f10
https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Yara_Ma_Yha_Who
https://pantheon.org/articles/y/yara-ma-yha-who.html
https://abookofcreatures.com/2015/06/17/yara-ma-yha-who/
https://www.astonishinglegends.com/astonishing-legends/2019/10/29/muldjewangk
https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/628563/
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you realise talking about them or depicting them in art or in the wrong place attracts unwanted attention from them
id like more indigenous art and less fantasy D&D art by ppl who are not really invested
Drop bear this is a joke not folk lore…
I wonder if mungugali is a megalania?
😂
You get a thumbs down because you have know idea how to pronounce names.
Australia: when your animal-kingdom is so batshit crazy that half the cryptids are regular ass animals
Sassy the Sasquatch “ whatar ya talkin bout “ 🇦🇺 🇦🇺🇦🇺
Yeah I grew up in a little country town called mungindi on the board Of NSW and QLD as we were kids our elders would tell us about story's bout the bonnup and the hairy man we were kids we hear freaky noises like how you are telling these sound and story's like we're never go near the river at night time as the elderly people would say they will get you and take you kids away from us so we would stay away from the river at night time Or soon as the Sun went down or He will get all of you and take you all away
Mungoon Gali is a miss identification of megalania
13:38 Australias mermaid
What a joke trying to sound educated but typical yank can't pronounce any Aussie names . Do some basic research
the panther is actually real though, my ye old pop has seen it
The Yowie is not just mythology. They absolutely exist. You pass through the country towns west of Brisbane and I promise you, you’ll find people who have encountered them. Abit over 10 years ago I first moved to a town called chinchilla and lived on a farm with family. One day I was walking down the road to our other block of land and had an eerie feeling of being watched, a car was comming and passed me then I heard a noise from the trees across the other side of the road and a yowie dropped from the trees and ran off, now I was a fit, fast 19 year old at the time, but this thing would have ran me down like ussian bolt chasing a child. It would have been 7-8 feet tall and massively built but ran so smooth and fluidly, as if it was more afraid of me than I was of it.
The bunyip is a cultural memory of the giant wombat,or seals that went far up the murry river,yarrama-yahoo is made up for tourists,an the yowie is real seen one back in 96 with my brother an mother at never never state forest
Black panther does occur in Australia up an down the great dividing range of eastern Australia seen one on the NSW table lands south of Guyra just inside a farmers paddock over knee high an about 2metres long brother seen it to locals an old timers always talked about the Guyra panther but didn't believe it till me an my brother seen it
There is actual footage of a real life Bunyip and his name was Alexander.
And we all thought he was great.
Taking the piss,it was a TV show , early 80s
Thylacine is not a feline. It's a marsupial
Loved the video. Jolly good show
This is the stupidest bloody video!
Why does the first Yowie pic look like Jason Momoa 🤣🤣
The venomous lizard was likely Megalania, which used to roam Australia. The lizard was probably way to much for the locals to deal with using their weapons, and probably went extinct due to climate change and lack of prey. Some living in Indonesia got trapped on some islands and shrunk due to island dwarfism and became Komodo Dragons.
Super interesting and very well made vid! Having seen/read weird subjects for many years I thought I'd heard of all the Cryptids, but most of these were new to me 🙂 I'd heard of the giant lizard.(relic from dinosaur age before (terrifying thought!!) and that humans were supposed to have lived along side them at one time, also the Yowie, but not the rest. Will share onto the Cryptid section at Fortean Times forum
Mate, dropbears are real and they will f**k you up
Just for clarification, Lithgow is pronounced “Lith-Go”.
I don’t think Australia need any monsters from folklores, just about everything that’s there kills you.
Bunyip
Yowie
Their entire wildlife is folklore… they have beaver ducks, jumping rats, and tiny leaf eating bears…
Drop Bear..🤔