S4 Ep45: A Beast by Any Other Name Would Smell as Rank: The Australian Bigfoot, Yowie

Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

True Crime, Society & Culture, Science

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🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Legend has it a humanoid, ape-like beast roams the Australian wilderness. Whether you call it the Yowie, Yahoo, or Joogabinna, my advice is to steer clear.

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0:00.0	Have you ever heard of a Quinkin? How about a Juga Binna? A Jing Daring? Tarawara?
0:12.9	Mingawar. Poutikon? Do Laga, Gulaga, or a Thulaga? Do the names Nukuna, Wawi, Pangarangu, Jimbra, or Changara mean anything to you?
0:27.4	Or what about Yawi?
0:32.9	Welcome to strange and unexplained with me, Daisy Egan. I am an actor and a writer, but not the Dr. Susiekind who writes in manic rhyming riddles with nonsense words,
0:43.8	sometimes using vaguely racist imagery.
0:46.8	No, the Dulaga, Gulaga, Jimbra, and Yawi are real names for a storied creature of the Australian continent.
0:55.2	The names are Aboriginal words, as the creature's origin is with the indigenous people of Australia.
1:02.1	So put on your side-brimmed hat, and I'll put on my Australian accent, which I know you all love so much,
1:08.4	and let's travel to the outback to find the elusive Australian Bigfoot,
1:13.3	sometimes known as the Yowie.
1:46.3	Music Where does Yowie come from? Whether you are in Queensland and hear about the Quinkin, or in New South Wales where the Jugabina roams, or if you refer to the cryptid by any of its many other names, stories of the tall hairy humanoid creature have been told for thousands of years. Depictions of the hairy man or the
1:52.3	Yawi appear in ancient Australian cave paintings. Some believe the Yawi and its counterparts
1:57.8	are an extinct or officially undiscovered species that has been hiding out
2:02.4	in the outback all these centuries, giving humans an occasional titillating glimpse and stoking
2:08.8	the fires of folklore. But why does such an old, well-established legend have more names than a gay
2:16.6	pride acronym has letters.
2:18.3	Well, it might surprise you to learn that not all Aborigines are the same.
2:23.3	While most Aboriginal cultures seem to share the Yawi and many of the descriptions of the creature are similar,
2:29.3	some details of how it looks and acts do vary from tribe to tribe. For example, the Kamala Roy, one of the
2:36.4	four largest indigenous tribes in Australia around New South Wales and southern Queensland,
2:41.9	defined the Yaui as a spirit that roams at night. Kind of vague, but ethereal and a definite
2:48.0	departure from the hairy ape man many of the descriptions conjure.
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