Queensland Yowie reports
- Date of account
- Indigenous traditions; European reports from the 19th century and a major modern wave after 1970
- Location
- Queensland and eastern Australia, including the Gold Coast hinterland
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
Yowie is used for a cluster of Aboriginal Australian beings and, in modern English-language usage, for an alleged large hairy hominid. Queensland reports became especially prominent during the late twentieth-century Australian bigfoot-style flap, with sightings, footprints, and expeditions. The lead matters for examining how Indigenous terms were repurposed within popular cryptozoology. The reports have not produced accepted biological evidence, and the word’s meanings differ by community and historical context. Original ethnographic sources and modern media accounts should be kept analytically separate.
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