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The The Yowie Man 31 31 The The Yowie Man Who Ya Gonna Call? away from location. It was just an attempt by T about his adventures in several publications Who Ya Gonna Call? To help pay the bills, Tim also writes producers to make the outback seem more im The Yowie Man! T Tim The Yowie Man! dangerous for the contestants… The wildfire around the world, including The Sunday that was 'raging out of control' and threatening Telegraph in Sydney. He also presents lectures to endanger the contestants was nothing of the and tours at The National Museum of Australia. Continued from Page 30 sort. Many of the property owners in the area For more information on Tim The Yowie Man, were lighting fires to burn off undergrowth just please visit www.timtheyowieman.com. His next adventure took him to the before the start of the wet season to encourage In the fall of 2004, Tim encountered a Lotschental Valley in the Swiss Alps. It had new growth." serious problem with Cadbury, the famous been reported that a Yeti was terrorizing people Tim said he also watched challenges chocolate maker. It seems they did not like Tim in several small towns there. After arriving in being set up on the beach and backpackers from using the name Yowie, as they had created Blatten, he talked with the local chalet owner, Cairns being used to rehearse them. chocolates with the same name. After a court Erwin, about what had been seen in the area. "I was able to tell everyone the result battle that took several months, Tim emerged Tim was told that in 1991, a group of huge, four months before it appeared on television." victorious and with name intact. Tim had hairy men entered the village carrying spears Needless to say, he got show producers claimed that the name Yowie was uniquely and ringing cowbells. Apparently, the creatures and others quite upset with his antics. However, Australian and was actually an Aboriginal broke windows and stole livestock. Tim was many radio stations invited him to special name. He said no foreign-owned company had really psyched and thought that this time, he just promotions during the airing of Survivor II. In a the right to claim it as their own. [] might find the creatures. With the help of Erwin, whirlwind tour, Tim visited 10 major cities in Tim dug a pit and set a trap just outside the the United States in 18 days - thus spreading his village, in hopes of capturing something. name in America. But even then, he couldn't Threedays later, he heard those cowbells and the resist acting up. During a stint on CBS's Today two of them raced to the site. As they hid behind Show, he actually pulled a moon. bushes, they heard the cowbells coming closer. "I was also arrested in Kansas City for Tim trembled as he envisioned his sudden towing a blow up crocodile down a canal demise at the hands of whatever creature was through the center of the city. I was trying to out there. make the point that if there were large saltwater "Then I saw them. There were at least 10 crocodiles on the set of Survivor II - as it had in the group - a gaggle of hairy men. They were been reported - then it was just as likely that massive and had a serious set of teeth on them." they were in the Kansas City canal." Tim tried to run, but one of the creatures Tim was arrested for public mischief grabbed him by the arm and hoisted him on its and was shocked when a psychiatric unit shoulders! Tim was sure he was going to be showed up complete with long plastic gloves! eaten alive. While exploring the caves at the Rock of "After several minutes of terror in which Gibraltar in Spain, he decided to bypass security the other beasts took it in turn to hoist me above and spend the night there to see if reports of their heads and twirl me around, they finally let ghosts of dead soldiers in the tunnels were true. me go… at a door at the back of my hotel. However, the rock apes had other ideas and What????? The door opened and there was ended up attacking Tim in the night sending him Erwin, grinning cheekily at me. 'Did you enjoy crawling to the nearest hospital. your ride?' he said." Over the years, Tim has also Tim The Yowie Man shows up to court to Apparently, it had all been set up and the investigated such creatures as the alien big cat fight Cadbury over the use of the Yowie entire visit had been a ruse to get Tim to do a (a large black puma) in New South Wales, the name. Here, he sits in the back of Elvira, story on their local festival, including their Hawaiian Lava-Tube Monster, the Bunyip of while the press asks him questions. tradition of dressing up in the beastly and other Australia, An Australian sea serpent called the costumes. Tim was livid! Fortunately, he knew Moha Moha, the Loch Ness monster, the Tassie how to take a joke and in fact, has pulled some Tiger and extra-terrestrials. He has also The Truth Is Out There pranks of his own over the years as a crypto explored such famous sites as Stonehenge, as and so is naturalist. well as taken up ghost hunting. Tim is now a TIM THE YOWIE MAN In 2000, Tim wanted to find out if the favorite guide of Destiny Tours in Australia, site of the American show "Survivor II - The which features special tours in its haunted Australian Outback was really haunted. He hearses. Tim spearheads the Weird Canberra Martha Jette is an author/editor/researcher from managed to track down a descendent of the Ghost and History Tour, which offers Hamilton, Ontario, with four published books. Kirrama tribe, the Aboriginal people who participants a look at the more bizarre side of This story was taken from her third book: inhabited the area and was told of a legend that Canberra. "Glimpses 2" It Could Happen To You! For had been passed down for generations. The tribe information, please visit: believed that the spirits of their ancestors http://www.freewebs.com/paranormalbooks haunted the Herbert River gorge. Many men, women and children had been massacred on the CANINE QUOTES CANINE QUOTES cliff tops around 1900. A member of the tribe told Tim foreigners who go there often experience nightmares. “Outside a dog, a book is man;s best friend. Inside While he could find serious evidence of a dog it’s too dark to read.” this, Tim did have some fun. Not only did he - Groucho Marx hire a helicopter to drop chocolate bars to the contestants of Survivor II. He also prompted “My dog is half pit bull, half poodle. Not much of a guard dog, but a vicious gossip.” security from the set to chase him around with - Craig Shoemaker. guns. He also provided scoops to the media on what was really going on at the site. “Every dog should have a man of his own. There is nothing like a well-behaved person around the Busting Survivor house to spread the dog’s blanket for him, or bring "The footage of large saltwater crocodiles him his supper when he comes home from a man- was actually filmed several hundred kilometers tired night.” - Corey Ford