From Scotland's Loch Ness Monster to America's Mothman, there are thousands of stories and alleged sightings of mystical cryptic creatures across the world. But what about Australia? What's lurking just beyond the bushes?

Join us we open the Aus-Files and have an unearthly yarn about Australia's greatest known cryptid the Yowie.

Video links:
A wild boar is found in Australia ripped into half along with huge foo... | #wildanimals | TikTok

Content resources:

-Book: 'The Yowie Files - encounters with Australian ape-men' written by Tony Healy and Paul Cropper

- Book: The Yowie in search of Australia's bigfoot, written by Tony Healy and Paul Cropper.

- Book: Australian Cryptozoology - the Australian Yowie, New Guinea Mermaid, Big Cats and other WildLife Wonders, written by Gary Opit.

- Wallace Line - Wikipedia

- Yowie | Cryptid Wiki | Fandom

- Chew on this! The diet of an extinct "panda-like" marsupial from New Guinea - The Australian Museum Blog

- Australian Yowie Research - Home (yowiehunters.com.au)

- Death rituals in the animal kingdom (bbc.com)

- Do foxes & badgers bury their dead? | Wildlife Online

- Meowfest: Why Do Cat Eyes Glow in the Dark? (carnegiemnh.org)

- Phantoms and Monsters: Pulse of the Paranormal

- The remote Queensland town where there have been more sightings of the Yowie than anywhere else | Daily Mail Online

- Yowie spotted in Nimbin, NSW on March 5 | Daily Mail Online

- Wilderness Society | 10 facts about deforestation in Australia

- A review of listed extinctions in Australia (nespthreatenedspecies.edu.au)

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This episode of Austranged is hosted, produced and edited by Cal, Dave, Rachel and Stevo. Opening song, 'Shivers in the Shadows' is composed by Victor Lundberg.

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