", "During 1968 an old man told locals around Winmalee north of Springwood, that he had seen two Thylacines emerge together from a gully thereabouts that leads into the Grose Valley. The time was 11.30am. Last February, two visitors claimed an animal with a "stiff tail and striped back" wandered in front of their car at Corinna in the island's west. It looked just like that". It reminded them of a Fossa or a civet and definitely was not a fox, dog or cat. Rex Gilroy believes so, https://web.archive.org/web/20210225014002/http://garyopit.com/64-thylacine-sightings/, https://www.thylacineresearchunit.org/sightingreports.htm, https://www.mysteriousaustralia.com/australian_thylacine_mainpage.html, The continuing search for the thylacine on the Blue Mountains, NSW, http://campbelltown-library.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-minto-monster.html, http://www.tasmanian-tiger.com/guestbook.html, https://www.yowiehunters.com.au/index.php/76-/588-thylacine-sighting-kenilworth-qld-1998-thylacine-caught-1978-nundle-nsw, https://web.archive.org/web/20200216184608/https://www.angelfire.com/oz/thylacine/, https://www.mysteriousaustralia.com/australian_thylacine_casts.html, Tasmanian tiger sightings: 'I represent 3,000 people who have been told theyre nuts', https://web.archive.org/web/20070607040632/http://www.tasmanian-tiger.com/forum/Forum3/HTML/000012.html, Christian Kropp has seen two Tasmanian tigers in the Barrington Tops, https://www.thylacineawarenessgroupofaustralia.com.au/read-tagoa-witness-sighting-reports.htm, https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/browse.html%3Fnode=8498354051&ref=kcp_fd_hz. It ran almost 1ft off the ground on all fours. ", Source:https://www.yowiehunters.com.au/index.php/76-/588-thylacine-sighting-kenilworth-qld-1998-thylacine-caught-1978-nundle-nsw, "Mr John Gilmore phoned me in August 1986, to relate an experience he had back in August 1979, while driving along Putty Road towards Bulga. The date was Tuesday 22nd February 1972 at 10.15pm, when we were forced to stop, at the turnoff to Evans Lookout, on the Great Western Highway just south of Blackheath township. In 1957, a specimen was reportedly spotted from a helicopter. (1997). ", "26th February 2006, 3.15 pm, Redgate Road, South Golden Beach; Steve and Michelle and their family were riding their bikes when they saw a strange animal in the short grass. (2022). He recalled his father and other old hands from the Pokolbin area, saying there were two different types of native cat the spotted quoll and the rare striped tiger quoll. ", "February 2006, Tyalgum; Donna lives at Tyalgum and saw an unusual animal that ran through their paddock on dusk at great speed. These were only half-an-hour old and led deep into dense forest. Eight alleged sightings of the Tasmanian tiger in the wilderness have been reported to the state government over the past three years. It was about 18 kg, fawn coloured short dense fur. It was covered with tawny short hair with dark stripes across the back and its gait was noticeably unusual. They said that the depth of impression of the tracks suggested an animal of at least 75 lb weight. His teenage son has since set up a large live animal trap in an attempt to capture it. Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service acknowledges and pays respect to Tasmanian Aboriginal people as the traditional and original owners, and continuing custodians of this land and acknowledges Elders - past, present . We can't state an exact date but it seems that the dodo only died-off at the end of 17th century. We live in Upper Wilsons Creek and our property backs onto Mt Jerusalem National Park. I have also heard a report about six months ago from an elderly family friend. During the course of our search we uncovered a sandstone shoal containing water pools with ancient Aboriginal stone axe grinding grooves, and a rock shelter containing surface stone flakes manufactured around 6,000 years ago. He told Pete that early one morning recently while driving his tractor, he saw a pair of striped thylacines crossing his paddock. Our sighting lasted only seconds before the animal vanished into roadside bushes, said Darryl.". With all due respect I disagree with Nick Mooneys opinion and thats fine - thats perfectly OK - and he encourages me in his report to get as many opinions as I can because his is only one opinion, Mr Waters says in the new video. He noticed the ears were rounded and that it stood about 1/2m high, its mouth was open. It looked like a cross between a dog and a kangaroo. He describes the animal as "as long as a Labrador with a thin tail pointing backwards". The next day the farm owner brought up his rifle but the animal was gone and they never saw it again. We have been troubled by irresponsible dog owners whose pets have eaten our free range chooks (now all well fenced) so actually got out of the car to photograph the animal but it calmly loped off and it was too dark to get a photo. Although. ", Source:http://campbelltown-library.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-minto-monster.html. His wife was the first of the family to observe the animal, 3 months before while taking their child to the bus stop down their one kilometre long driveway. "It won't be much longer because we're very close to getting irrefutable proof the animal is still here," he said. The fur colour was light brown and there were dark stripes on the body that began at the neck base and extended to the tail rump. The following short blog post was posted to the A.C.R.O. Its body looked roundish and the head appeared out of proportion to the body with massive jaws.". Despite all official . ", "During April 1983 such an animal was reported making raids on a Kanimbla Valley farm.". Wendy Bithell recounted her possible thylacine encounter near Byron Bay on the documentary series Boogeymen, season 2, episode 11, entitled "The Tasmanian Tiger: The Tiger, Wolf, Kangaroo Hybrid". The animal moved in a way that I had never encountered before. It didnt run. The time was approximately 6.15 - 6.30 am and the sun had been up for about 30 minutes. It stopped looked at us approaching then ran off in to the bushes. She saw it a couple of times during the following days. I have no doubt that these animals are living somewhere out there in the Glenbrook National Park, from where they enter Glenbrook townships fringes at times in search of food, he said, in an interview with me in 1985. It was a bit after dusk. An anonymous report made to REPAD by a male witness: "I was driving home from work along Freemans drive about 3km from Freeman's waterhole at approx. The stone missed its mark and the animal, looking up, saw the people and ran at great speed up the slope with a very unusual gait. Two Tasmanian tigers in captivity at the Hobart Zoo. There were no visible markings on the body, although he thought the rump was perhaps darker than the rest of the animal, which had a tan colouring. The guy on duty looked at me as if I was some sort of crank who had just reported a Martian, but at least gave me a book to leaf through to see if I could recognize the species. Upon examining the cage, he found that the creature, whatever it was, had escaped by ripping through the chicken-wire covering, leaving a hole 8 by 11 inches in size. Researchers are looking for the Tasmanian Tiger in Northern Queensland after potential sightings suggest the species might not be extinct. ", "The Minto Monster was back in the news again in 1973 when claims that a mysterious creature had been 'terrorising' East Minto residents with its blood curdling screams. The owner remarked that they would have to kill the animal as he would not allow a monster to live on the farm. ", "2004, Clothiers Creek Road, Cabarita; Joslyn, of Kingscliff, saw a thylacine on Clothiers Creek Road at 9.30 am as she was coming into Cabarita. All of these species went extinct millions of years ago except for the Thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian Tiger or Tasmanian Wolf, which persevered into modern times. It was not striped but had 2 large bands or darker colour on its shoulders and hind section. They both wouldnt have believed what they had seen unless the other had confirmed it. It could have come from the Neck in the first place, up the waterfall gully from MegalongValley near the narrowest point of Narrow Neck, which is used by so many other marsupials. Its body was greyish-brown and when it got up we observed that it's hindquarters appeared "tucked in" and were marked with dark stripes. ", His second experience occurred in January 1983, when from his bedroom window he saw what may have been the same animal seen by him the previous July, or another one, as it moved beneath a street light in the early hours of the morning. . (1985). The front paw was lifted up near the snout. I saw it dash up a 4ft embankment into scrub, a greyish-furred, black body-striped animal. Most of them were fleeting glimpses of this Will-o-the Wisp, but sightings made by people on the western side of the Blue Mountains included the finding, on Sunday 31st July 2022 in the soil of a Newnes fire-trail of a paw and heel by me. Mr George Skinner, a maintenance painter who was working at Jenolan Caves back in the early 1980s, once told this author that he was driving home from work around 5pm one evening in March 1982. She was able to get a good clear look at it because it was so close. ", "In March 1982, a camper sighted a thylacine-like animal drinking from a creek in the Grose valleyThe camper described the animal he saw as being two metres long, with greyish body fur {coloration can vary} displaying about a dozen blackish stripes extending down the body. Robyn was driving near the Club House just before entering Cliff Drive, where a two-storied,shingle-roofed house stands amid pine trees, on the corner opposite the golf course and beside asecond house, when in the headlights glare they both saw a Thylacine moving slowly across the roadfrom the Club House towards two houses. Naturalist/Cryptozoologist Gary Opit's own thylacine sighting: "3rd February 2007, Jones Road, Yelgun; just after dark, Gary Opit watched, for about 5 minutes, an unidentifiable carnivorous marsupial that measured approximately 1.75 m in length and about .75 m in height standing in the middle of Jones Road, Yelgun, adjacent the Billinudgel Nature Reserve. The Tasmanian Tiger is to Australia what Sasquatch is to North Americaa creature that has often been sighted but never actually corralled, by deluded amateurs. In the series of images, the one photo Mr Waters is confident is a tiger joey, experts believe is probably a Tasmanian pademelon joey. The animals body fur, he noticed, was a gingery brown, with a large head. While Mr Waters says the larger animals in the photos - which he claims to be the mother and father - arent giving much away, he says the joey says it all. Each time it was in the same area, crossing the same road xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, heading into a sugar cane field. It was about 1 metre high and 2 and half metres long with high haunches at the back of the body. of a creature he believed to be a Tasmanian tiger. It looked like a female lion, but it had stripes on the flank and stripes on the tail. "At 10.15 p.m. on Tuesday, February 22, 1972, a friend and I were driving along thee Great Western Highway just south of Blackheath towards Katoomba in the NSW Blue Mountains. Spooky to see the drawing on the web site and realise what it might be!", "the tasmania tiger is thriving around bilambil Hieghts Inner bushland, it was spotted only a couple of weeks ago by 2 well educated people driving up hogans road, it ran across the road into the bushland, description was a huge tan brown dog cat like creature with black stripes down it side, they said it didnt look like a dog and was much bigger but did resemble a big cat panther like but simarlarities of both, thet said it was fast but they still got plenty of vision of this creature", "During May 2010 a female Thylacine and cub were seen moving through bushland not far from Wombeyan Caves by campers. We could not see stripes. My mother in the passenger seat (who grew up in B/Hill) could only splutter "what is that?!" He said other members of his family has seen the same animal on separate occasions, as had neighbours. I remember it had pricked ears, but nothing else because the whole encounter was over in seconds". That morning he made plaster casts of the paw prints and also found two small teeth, apparently left by the animal. However, I did get time to study the creature. We were driving on xxxx Rd at the time. In 1938, a Thylacine was said to be shot at Mawbanna. "16th January 2006, Monday, 3.30 am, Andersons Hill, Mullumbimby; Michael and Fabiola where returning home along Gulgun Road adjacent Everrits Creek, 400m north of the Mullumbimby intersection and the Uncle Toms Pies service station, when they observed a strange animal coming towards them along the eastern side of the road. By the 1920s, sightings of the Tasmanian tiger in the wild became extremely rare, and in 1930, a farmer from Mawbanna named Wilfred (Wilf) Batty shot and killed the last-known wild Tasmanian tiger. It was obvious to us that the creature was visiting the farm from the Kanimbla Valley [which lies directly north of Megalong Valley] by moving up the gully. READ MORE: Unearthed footage shows last-known glimpse of extinct Tasmanian tiger There have been hundreds of sightings according to the Thylacine Awareness Group which has this image on their website. Source:Cronshaw, Damon. Listen 7m northcoast-curious-tasmanian-tiger-0311 Since then, sightings of animals people believed to be thylacines have come from all over Australia, including more than 70 reported sightings in northern New South Wales. The body language of this animal was not canine. All the patients I mentioned it to were not surprised. At the time, none of my friends believed me and so I took it no further, she said. "On the 25th January 1982, about 10pm, Mr Darryl Morris and his wife Carrol were driving to Mount Riverview. After shaking our heads in disbelief, we were the ones who left, having finished our fishing and as we left we were able to see it walking around in the distance.", "Also around this time, Russel and Michael were walking within the Brunswick Valley Nature Reserve near the flying fox colony and both independently observed thylacine-like animals, one slinking past in front of them & one apparently following them. Had it been left by a thylacine? It was greyhound in size, covered in a dirty golden-brown short fur with no distinct stripes and a long tail that sloped down to the ground and back up again. The impression was healthy-lean. At the base of the tail there was an orange ring about 50 mm wide and it was followed by 6 to 8 yellow rings about 40 mm wide. The Tasmanian tiger, also known as the thylacine, once populated much of Tasmanian and mainland Australiawhere it is also still searched forbut few know that the animal was present on New Guinea as well. It was obvious that the animal had seen/smelt/heard or sensed my presence and simply vanished. Is the Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, making a comeback in the wild? Walkabout 34(12): 8. They were somewhat smaller than a German Sheppard dog, much larger than a fox and one individual was smaller and was standing in front of the larger animal. Robyn noticed the tail itself was 2ft [61 cm] in length. Tasmanian tigers were 39 to 51 inches (100 to 130 centimeters) long, and the tail added 20 to 26 inches (50 to 65 cm) to its length. Just outside the town was a small separate community called Brown Town by the locals. Later, back in Canberra, I came across an illustration of the Tasmanian Tiger, and immediately recognised it as the animal I had observed on my trip. This time I was traveling with 2 friends at around 2.30am in the morning and we were driving through the middle of Loch Sport with the lights on high beam when we saw a thylacine, slightly larger than a fox cut across about 20 metres in front of the car. , who has been hunting for the Thylacine for 26 years, captured video of what they claim is a Tasmanian tiger in Hobart. ", "I believe i saw a saw a Thylocene at the base of the Barrington tops near Wolemi brook on the 21/7/08 at around 11 am, whilst i was travelling to a remote a exploration drill rig site. He was camped at the old army hut and was driving to the logging coup on the western side of Peach Mountain lookout at 5 am on a Monday morning when he observed a thylacine cross the road 3 metres in front of his car. It was not a wild dog nor kangaroo". The Guardian (Australia), Thursday 1 December. As they passed through Medlow Bath, and just past the Foy Avenue turnoff, which is a busy area, about 6.1 metres ahead of his vehicle, illuminated by the headlights and standing on the left of the highway near street lights, they all spotted a dog-like animal of Alsatian size. She saw it for quite a while. In November 2017, three investigators including Adrian Richardson, who has been hunting for the Thylacine for 26 years, captured video of what they claim is a Tasmanian tiger in Hobart. Published January 11, 2023. It was illuminated by the headlights of my car approximately 20 m in front of me. 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"In September 1999, Mr Phil Smith and his wife Kassi were driving from the west on the Great Western Highway at 60 to 70 km an hour, slowing down as they approached a fruit shop at Linden on the left-hand side of the road. I know that because I have seen two," he writes. Robyn was driving near the Club House just before entering Cliff Drive, where a two, roofed house stands amid pine trees, on the corner opposite the golf course and beside a, when in the headlights glare they both saw a Thylacine, According to Robyn, the animal was as large as a, mewhat like a cat. I recognised them to be those of an undoubted Thylacine. By this time our car was but a few feet from the animal which just stood there staring at our vehicle, mesmerised by the headlights' glare. It didnt taper, or wag. The stripes appeared to extend from the nape of the neck, running barrel-wise down its back to the rump of its long tail. ground on all fours and had a body about 30cm in depth. It had sandy coloured fur, a stubby muzzle and a long tail. The location was 40 miles south of Singleton on the Putty Road. The animal was a tan-caramel color with pronounced dark stripes from shoulders to rump and had a ridged "kangaroo like" tail. Or, had it found its way up the cliffs via a steep slope, like the Devils Hole, to establish itselfsomewhere in a lair deep in the fern and bush-choked cliff tops on the western side of Cliff Drivewithin view of Narrow Neck Plateau? The report says both people in the car were "100% sure it was a thylacine". Christian Kropp has seen two Tasmanian tigers in the Barrington Tops | Newcastle Herald | Newcastle, NSW New Christian Kropp has seen two Tasmanian tigers in the Barrington Tops By Damon Cronshaw Updated March 8 2017 - 3:06pm, first published March 7 2017 - 5:07pm View + 20 Photos Christian Kropp knows what he saw. It had its tail out straight and it seems like the tail is very tense. On a bike ride to the beach they had a good look at what both thought may have been a Tasmanian tiger as ridiculous as that sounds, stated Andrew. I found fresh faeces that may be its (it was not obviously male) and have frozen a sample. Can you believe that? He had seen the animal in the glow of the car headlights when at a sharp bend. The snout & the tail were held straight & the round ears were cocked up. Ive been a vet nurse for 20 years. ", "15th January 2003, 9.30 am, Stock Route Road, Billinudgel; Mailman Peter drove right up to a strange looking animal standing on an earth bank on the southern section of Stock Route Road, just behind Billinudgel. It was an animal of similar size as I saw and it passed in front of their car so close that both thought it was certain to be hit. The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842), Sat 30 Nov 1811, p. 2. ", "6th February 2006, Mullumbimby, Left Bank Road, Sunday morning, 6:10 am; Alisha and her mother were going to the market and when they pulled out of Yankee Creek Road and went round the bend they saw a strange animal that was too big to be a cat and that was not a dog or a fox and it had stripes across the back, rounded ears & a long stiff tail.". "'There's nothing there that's concrete.'". He informed me that on the previous night, something had visited his farm [where he grew apples and raised poultry], leaving paw prints in mud around his dam, situated amid dense bush with a gully below it to the north, which led down into the Kanimbla Valley. ", "February 2006, Shara Boulevard, North Ocean Shores; Rayleen saw a thylacine-like animal crossing the road. Clive said that there were no foxes up there in the Whian Whian Range. In 1982, the species was declared extinctas there had been no proof of the thylacine's . It then ran into the vegetation. He had a second sighting in or around 2012 (NSW.c2012.xx.xx). Plaster casts were made and later matched with others found in Tasmania in 1974 whose peculiar paw structure identified them as thylacine. The length of the animal was something like 5ft from nose to tail tip. Her neck was longthe entire body lithe. ", Source:https://www.ski.com.au/xf/threads/thylacines-on-the-mainland.5777/, "He also reported that a friend, Jan, told him that many years ago she had watched for ten minutes, illuminated in the headlights, a pair of striped thylacines licking and preening each other on the roadside in the Snowy Mountains, in southern NSW. The most remarkable feature was the strange manner of running: although the animal was swinging regularly sideways, the hind part of the body made a kind of bobbing up and down movement; the impression was as if the animal was drunk, as I had never seen anything like it. It had a long thin pointed tail, which pointed down, almost the length of the body. Its physical appearance matched that of stuffed specimens preserved in government museums. On hearing from Mr Heath of some of the Thylacine sightings he had been told about, an academic at a Queensland . ", "15th February 2006, Hastings Point; Rose described a strange dog-like animal that she saw while driving to work in the morning. TASMANIAN TIGER SIGHTINGS CONFIRM THEY ARE STILL ALIVE (Thylacine) Blazing Wildlife 85 subscribers Subscribe 587 47K views 3 years ago TASMANIAN TIGER SIGHTINGS PROVE THEIR EXISTENCE.
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