Monsters of Australian Folklore

Australia is home to many animals, some strange, some dangerous, all of them unique. But the creatures and monsters dreamed up by Aboriginal Australians and modern locals are even stranger, and some are far more dangerous! From bunyips, to yowies, to muldjewangks, to drop bears, this program will discuss some of the most frightening and bizarre monsters from Australian folklore!
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MUSIC:
Australian Didgeridoo music
CLIPS:
Stock footage of Australian outback, red kangaroo, koala,
platypus, leopard seal, saltwater crocodiles, Daintree rainforest,
Blue mountains, monitor lizard, and the Hawkesbury river
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[@ananslator3655]

2:35 were did i here that roar Before

[@raggsie100]

Get your facts right ! No such thing as Queensland tiger, TASMANIAN TIGER ! Pronunciation is mostly wrong aswell , never heard of Hawksbury river monster , someone is having a lend of you !

[@ananslator3655]

@@raggsie100 ok?

[@Beau1990]

Just to let you know "aborigines" is actually considered a derogatory word towards aboriginal people. Great video 🙂

[@raggsie100]

@@Beau1990 well they did not know what race they were ! Aboriginal means , people of the land , there are many around the world . Offencive when it is shortend to ABO . YOU DON'T THINK THIER RACE IS FIRST NATION 🤣

[@harrisonshone7769]

The fact that the Aborigional Australians were constantly surrounded by giant spiders and insects, huge birds and enormous lizards and still had time to invent fictional monsters is impressive.

[@electricstan8304]

I doubt some of these were ever fictional…it’s Australia after all..

[@garymaidman625]

Giant spiders? Hardly. Also most spiders in Australia are harmless to humans. Enormous lizards? America has iguanas. Massive birds? Emus are hardly seen as a dangerous threat and 95% of Indigenous Australians wouldn't have even known, let alone come in contact with cassowaries.

[@garymaidman625]

@@druid6452 only the flying foxes eat fruit. We have lots of other species of bats that eat insects and other small animals.

[@vulturedrawz]

@@electricstan8304 hi, they are fictional, I’m australia and I can confirm :)

[@Crow23346]

@@vulturedrawz i think theyre referring to aboriginal aussies who live in the bush

[@chefsam4760]

Just for clarification it's pronounced "bun-yip" not boonyip.

[@hellbentcentaur]

And lith-go not lith gow

[@flyingBarbarian]

Yep and This vid better have drop bears lol..

[@scottlette]

I am still laughing hard here. Boon-yip! Next they’ll say ‘Melle-bourne’ instead of ‘Melbun’!

[@robsonez]

Really paints the picture that this vid an absolute waste of time. Will watch for posterity

[@muntmachine6016]

I was trying not to laugh when he said boon-yip over and over 🤣

[@jwalk6891]

Being an indigenous Australian, I can tell you the bun - yip is more of a monster walrus/sea lion creature that lurks in fresh and salt water rivers/lakes.

[@nicholaslienandjaja1815]

Fun fact: Bunyip was one of the Titans awakened in Godzilla: King of the Monsters. He was previously contained beneath Uluru/Ayers Rock before being awakened by King Ghidorah.

[@GredelsRage]

Bunyip existed before the Titans though. He's actually one of the Great Old Ones.

[@officerearl3451]

@@duelforce6812 I bring guns into your country and sell them.

[@shreki08]

Bunyip ain't under Uluru tho it's the rainbow serpent so Godzilla got it wrong

[@GreaterGrievobeast55]

@@shreki08 the monsters in that universe travel around, it could've gotten displaced before its dormancy

[@diracflux]

Video should have included the terrifying Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, haunters of children’s nightmares.

[@Ethan243]

I'm Aussie and all the drop bear is, is what the early settlers called koalas because they used to shoot them out of the trees ... they did it so much they called them drop bears. Because they used to just drop out of the tree ... when you shot them.

[@crazydoggentleman7930]

I always thought the Dropbear was a modern urban legend we made up to scare backpackers.

[@Ethan243]

@crazydoggentleman7930 it was turned into that in the mid to late 80s, you start seeing silly tshirts and signs "beware of drop bear" lol. We did the Australian this of turning something terrible into something funny .. ish lol.

[@DipUniversal]

"they used to just drop out of the tree when you shoot them." I think that applies to many things.

[@Ethan243]

@@DipUniversal koalas are a bit bigger than a possum and there's nothing bigger than a koala that lives in trees in Australia. We don't have monkeys.

[@DipUniversal]

@@Ethan243 I'm taking about dropping after getting shot

[@flightlesslord2688]

surely the queensland tiger is the tasmanian tiger. also if the panther was there, thats another invasive species to add to the list. Also considering a giant monitor lizard did exist in Australia around the time humans first got there, itd be one hell of a coincidence if they made that exact thing up, unless its based on remains, but I doubt it. I suspect that one really is a mythologising of megalania itself.

[@lauratukey3584]

I'm so glad I wasn't the only one thinking of the Tasmanian tiger with the Queensland tiger

[@marieindia8116]

I have no doubts its the same kind of animals, they were more widespread before human interference. There are statues of animals in Indian temples that look exactly like malaysian tapirs.

[@Tomrobbo]

Brisbane once had tiger farms in fact a tiger once escaped and mauled Someone to death, though this was just before 1900 I would believe imports back then would of been a little more chill, so who is to say panthers can’t survive in hinterlands if they were also imported and stories have just trickled down through generations 🤷‍♂️

[@TrippyBawls]

Mate, aussie here. Giant lizards still exist. Down the rural hue-hue Rd outta wyee in nsw, late one night I had to slow my car as there was a log across the 2 lanes. Nope, big fk-off Goanna got up and walked into the bushes. From head to tail he near spanned two lane road. True story.

[@flightlesslord2688]

@@TrippyBawls oh aye. So it's not even a stretch nowadays 😂😂 thanks for banger of a story m8

[@yoholup19]

Given Australias history and their wildlife it doesn't phase me that these animals actually have a chance to exist in Australia

[@jaykeinnes6793]

Our space is a big factor too, we are about the same size as the continental us with less than 10% of the population

[@clintonmallard8447]

As an Australian I never understood this I'd rather spend a week out bush then spend a week in a north American national park. Yea yea all how stuff is venomous as fuck but you know the dos and don't growing up here. In America there's fukin bears and mountain lions and shit that can just jump you.

[@Kalashboy420]

They think the Bunyip might have actually been an old mega fauna, a giant wombat the size of a hippo.

[@jacklantern7479]

@@Kalashboy420 remnant populations of palorchestes, a large semi aquatic marsupial

[@jaykeinnes6793]

@@clintonmallard8447 THANKYOU I've always thought I'd mess up a snake or spider no worries with a stick but a bear!!! No thankyou

[@mathewkelly9968]

I live on the border of Bunyip and Yowie country in eastern Victoria near the Ranges . Grew up being scared shitless of stories of yowies and bunyips .

[@Mark-rc4wz]

How about tasmanian tigers? kzbin.info/www/bejne/pJ62haljfM5qiLc

[@thepigdogpigdog2770]

You must be a fucking dill!!!! Regards Tony from Australia!

[@Alexander-km8es]

Do the two fight if seen together in the wild

[@garveyneal1672]

1:28 Bunyip 4:15 Yowie 5:50 Queensland Tiger 7:21 Blue Mountains Panther 8:49 Mungoon-Gali 10:16 Hawkesbury River Monster 12:33 Drop Bear 13:45 Muldjewangk 15:43 Yara-Ma-Yha-Who

[@AnnaBridgland]

There are a lot of great folkloric creatures from Australia but very few know them, thank you for sharing!

[@jaded9087]

If you want to get less racist and more traditanal indigenous aboriginal stories of out beliefs and oral history forget everything you seen in this garbage as he uses racist slures , mispornouces names and made up a heap too while passing them off as our folk lore while showing animals that only became exstict due to white settlement . It would be a very safe bet to get dream time stories from channles like NITV if they have a KZbin, i know you can stream the tv channel and its a indigenous tv channel with programing for and about aboriginal Austrailans but just because they are called stories dosent make them myths. Tell a Christian the bible is a fictional novel and all myths and i bet you will unset them. Yet its been re written 6 times that is documentable and the only part of the bible thats remotely even close to the oldest texts is revelations and the rest is politicised proagander changed by kings to get their own way and no commoner could contest the teachings as its not been accessable as they could not read latin , let alone read in not so long ago history. In my life time i have known older genarations that where devout Catholics that could not even write their names. Compleat illiterates of my grandmothers genaration. And they have their creation story and we have ours. Befor when there was nothing , their was the dreaming and when we leave this exsistants we go back to the dreaming. In some of our traditional stories they have found scientific fact in one of our creation stories, may not have been the start of man kind but they know the massive crator hole thats part of it and the story has some fairly advance knowledge of the stars that are irrefutable to be where they where in these stories. Yet whites cant even get the colour of their saviours skin colour right... lol blone hair , blue eyed, fair skined Bjeuse . Think he may have looked like someone from the middle east actully. But if you are wanting to learn about our culture, get infomation from the people , not this click bait crap. You have to remember that Austrailan aboriginals are not just one people too. Over 500 diffent dialects where spoken alot are extinct due to white genocidal intentions stealing children away from culture and language and trying to breed us out as the goverment belived it only took 5 genarations of stonen children and forced breeding ( rape) with whites and we would not know who we are and this is our land . But diffent regions have diffent stories that are part of their local history and they could not steal all of us. Im a yorta yota woman and that means i dont speak or know pilbra oral history but i can tell you that any austrailan child over the age of 5,indigenous or from immigrant stock knows bun-yips are not called boonyips .... what a knob end And no one calls aboriginals aborigines here or their likly to be shamed for it . It the N word here. I would go as far to say that this content is misappropriation.

[@Woff-e]

I’m just annoyed he didn’t add the Rainbow Serpent. It’s (as far as I know) one of the best known.

[@gameboi360]

From an Australian, the drop bear is literally a joke.

[@nobody-go3cz]

Shhhh they don't have to know just sell them the insurance and stop talking

[@xavier32421]

Knowing Australia, all these monsters are real

[@JackieOwl94]

Likely, considering the ancient peoples saw many strange and wonderful megafauna and had a little bit of time to pass down stories before the scary ones went extinct.

[@christinespaulding8332]

Not sure how take that

[@kevinobill4818]

I really like the Tasmanian Tiger and I feel bad for them if there aren’t humans invading their home. My favourite creature in Australia is probably the most epic, Megalania

[@vinz4066]

Megalania is indeed very cool

[@CalvinTheCarnotaurus]

when it comes to living animals in Australia my favorites are the Perentie and the Bearded Dragon. when it comes to extinct ones I'd say Megalania is definitely one of my favorites.

[@wormworm580]

I always think the verbal storytelling traditions of indigenous Australia are crazy impressive in their accuracy, for example the stories of humans interacting with megafauna later backed up by fossil records, or sea levels rising and falling. Sometimes an elder will just casually mention “oh yeah that beach over there used to stretch 2km further west a few millennia ago” and then archeologists will investigate and find out these claims are super accurate. It’s such a shame to think we’ve lost so much invaluable knowledge about the past because of bigotry and genocide during the colonisation of Australia. I think there needs to be a greater effort to involve local indigenous communities in the studies of geography and archaeology.

[@steadybot]

Yep aboriginals have been here much longer than historians would like to admit

[@anthonytonythegeek5561]

Facts, I wish we had more respect for the lands we’ve colonized, so that we can learn more of these stories in better detail.

[@VitZ9]

Australian here. Just wanted to share a theory I remember reading in University, that the Yowie was introduced to Australia by Europeans. Basically the theory goes that after the Dutch discovered Australia, subsequent European visitors and merchants traded/shared stories, myths and legends with the Aboriginal people. One of which was the story of the Yeti, which the Aboriginals called "Yowie". Like I said this was just a theory, but the evidence for it was basically that the Yowie myth has only been recorded in Aboriginal communities on the east coast of Australia, where the Europeans first landed. This is in contrast to the Aboriginal Dreamtime story of the Bunyip, which is shared among all Aboriginal tribes across Australia. I'm going to try and look it up to see what information I can find, it may have been proven false already. Still very interesting to think about nonetheless.

[@pogpogpog7507]

cool theory! could also be that the east coast is where the bushy mountain ranges are - the perfect area for the yowie myth to originate.

[@SilverWolfMage]

So many interesting creatures from Australia. The Bunyip, Queensland Tiger, Blue Mountains Panther, and the Hawkesbury River Monster were my personal favorites to learn about. I also like the Australian lore on how the Mungoon-Gali is the reason snakes got their venom. Very well done, and thank you again for another wonderful video!

[@frankcarden4709]

Don't forget the babadook

[@appleman1159]

Aboriginal Australians have many more Dreamtime stories about stuff like that check it out

[@uberbeeg]

THere is no Hawkesbury River monster. I lived there for 20 years and this is the very first time I have ever heard anything about it. The Hawkesbury river wouldn't sustain a creature that size, it drops very low in droughts and if anything like that was there, someone would have seen it by now.

[@leaferikson8218]

​@@uberbeeg I also spent most of my life near the Hawkesbury, over 40 year's in fact and I never saw the monster, that just proves how sneaky it is 😉

[@uberbeeg]

@@appleman1159 I am well aware of Dreamtime stories, but this channel is implying that it's real.

[@tonywarren5089]

The drop bear is always a good one to scare tourists but it's the giant river gulls that you have to watch out for. Bunyip was pronounced wrong a few times as Boonyip but it's pronounced Bun-yip (like BUN in the oven) it's like how people miss pronounce Emu as "Emoo" when it should be closer to "Eem-you"

[@davidponseigo8811]

I know for a fact that after WW2 and even after the Vietnam War big cats were released in Australia by US Navy ships that kept them as mascots. My father in law was in the Navy for 30 plus years and he said he served on two different ships that did this and knew of of many more so it is possible people are seeing these big cats.

[@A_Black_Sheep94]

I'd be damned if I was to be stuck on a ship with a tiger and no where to run

[@thatridgekid5165]

I strongly believe this too, my Father used to work in the blue mountains as a truck driver and on-site chemist for a gardening supplies company and he told me about the panthers, apparently they were owned by some rich dude nearby but either were released or escaped, he apparently even saw one on the bank of a creek across from where he worked, but it ran before he could get someone else to see it (this was in 2001 so smartphones with cameras were basically non-existant)

[@noellehollar4347]

I was only familiar with a couple of these. Thank you for putting this video together - Australian Folklore really doesn't get the love it deserves. :D Also, I loved the plug on those couple tidbits of Australian lore, especially with how snakes got their venom. Another great little origin tale of a clever trickster. For any future "Monsters of" videos, something on Indian folklore/mythology would be great! :)

[@robbabcock_]

Fascinating tales! We don't hear enough about Australian mythology!

[@sarahhurst140]

Fascinating creatures in Australia & it's folklore! I'd heard of the bunyip before, but the other "monsters" are new to me! I was particularly intrigued by the Loch Ness Monster's cousin, the Hawkesbury River Monster! It seems reasonable to assume that Nessie may have many river monster cousins, across cultures & locales! I thoroughly enjoyed this wildly charming, & very educational video! Well done, my friend!🌈💜🌍

[@Scp716creativecommons]

Very cool channel! Great library of videos, subscribed, glad to have found this!

[@kynni7121]

I’m very happy to see that the Bunyip made it into this video! A few months back I posted a comment to see the Bunyip in a future video this is amazing!

[@sturg0353]

This is super interesting! I know a good bit about other mythologies, but I’ve never learned much about aboriginal legends. It’s really interesting to see the links between these myths and ancient animals like with the yowie

[@nazeersadek6705]

Most of these I didn’t know about really good video guys keep it up 😃

[@sharkchaos5160]

Great video and can't wait for next episode. Also, you should a video about Davy Jones Locker.

[@seanwallace1700]

I would like to see more mythological monsters. Maybe one of these choices (bunyip, mapinguary, grootslang, chupacabra, or phaya naga)

[@dinodude9532]

I would like to learn more about monsters from Norse Mythology or South American Mythology. That would be very cool and interesting.

[@kp-legacy-5477]

So basically the normal shit that gets talked about. Their are thousands of vids with European and American folklore Open your mind a bit

[@theredwhirlwin]

That would be really awesome, I'd love to watch something on Norse monsters.

[@ilikedooooooodes7963]

@@kp-legacy-5477 South America is the least or second least studied continent in terms of mythology 💀. And we’re still nowhere near as throughout of our understanding of Norse mythology as we should. Quit being a wuss.

[@TheGod2go]

Look it up. Plenty of videos

[@smurfylee]

@@kp-legacy-5477 Same thing I thought, same old same old 🙄

[@eclipselnight5791]

I’ve been looking for something like this! Thank you so much for doing one of these kinds of videos on my country this was an amazing video✨

[@debbieannsmith8962]

Great channel!!! Keep up the amazing work!!! 👍👍👍

[@God-Emperor_Elizabeth_the_2nd]

Seeing the panther isn’t as rare as you’d think. And as for the proof of its origins, there are news articles from way back when, outlining the escaped cats.

[@seancooney297]

Oh they are here. I saw one. Near childers Qld. Cliche to say I saw one. But I did. Never go into the bush without a weapon.

[@johnlt7026]

You should see the Lithgow Panther (the one he mentions), it's huge

[@bird3013]

There’s a story I learnt from my mum because she used to work at a pub she heard a lot of things so when I was a kid she told me it and I keep hearing it to this day (keep in mind my familys not spiritual (apart from my aunt)) the first story is that along the road from Richmond to Mount isa a trucker was driving along around midnight when he saw a big pig eating a roo didn’t thing much of it until he got closer then the (he said it looked like a pig) “pig” picked picked up the roo,stood up with the roo in its hands and ran away, the second one is when a group of five roo shooters and there dogs went out to the same area the truck diver saw the (what I’ll call) black thing, so the first day they didn’t find anything so they set up camp in a old building with one full wall and no roof so they set up there swags, tied up the dogs and went to bed after dinner but during the night they heard scratching but they thought it’s probably the dogs trying to dig something up and if it was a animal the dogs would get it. So after about 3 days they found nothing and the scratched got louder every night and they did one last look around the area and just as the sun went down they finally found a roo eating so one of them took the shoot and hit it right in the hart so they started walking to but when they finally got to the roo (they lost sight of it a couple times because bushes etc) it wasn’t there but there was a trail of blood leading into real thick brush, they thought it was weird but decided to try there luck one more time and that night the scratching was the loudest and finally one of the shooters said “what the fuck is that scratching?” so they talked about it for a minute then went to check and what it was is the dogs were scratching to try and get away from something so that night they decided to pack up and go. And that’s the story I know sorry if I misspelled something or it doesn’t make sense I haven’t heard it for a while so I can’t remember everything.

[@bird3013]

I was wrong it’s between Richmond and hughenden

[@birichinaxox9937]

Thank you for listing references as an Aussie know a few but some are new to me. They really don't do a great job teaching us our native folklore. Been on my list for years.

[@anyamiranda9452]

I live for this series 💚

[@bjgoodrich5864]

Thank you for making this video.🐱

[@blakeforrest9600]

The Yowie is not just mythology. They absolutely exist. You pass through the country towns west of Brisbane and I promise you, you’ll find people who have encountered them. Abit over 10 years ago I first moved to a town called chinchilla and lived on a farm with family. One day I was walking down the road to our other block of land and had an eerie feeling of being watched, a car was comming and passed me then I heard a noise from the trees across the other side of the road and a yowie dropped from the trees and ran off, now I was a fit, fast 19 year old at the time, but this thing would have ran me down like ussian bolt chasing a child. It would have been 7-8 feet tall and massively built but ran so smooth and fluidly, as if it was more afraid of me than I was of it.

[@tfordham13]

Show proof

[@blakeforrest9600]

@@tfordham13 I'd love to

[@EmptyTheTanks]

Boon-yip 😭😭😭😭 It’s Bun-yip, but great video! Australian mythology is oft overlooked.

[@LacertaZilla2024]

That vampire little dude creature reminds me of this vampire from a scooby doo movie

[@Pinefr0st]

Australia didn't have enough monsters they had to make up extras?!

[@altithoraxperotorum5133]

You should talk about alaskan legends. There are some interesting creatures like the torngasuk or the amarok

[@angusroberts2548]

I’m proud to be Aussie 🤟🏻 ( BTW he is right about the Drop Bears just a tale to scare the tourists 😂)

[@Thromash]

Shh you're not meant to tell them.

[@angusroberts2548]

Put a sock innit mate@@Thromash

[@MythologyUnleashed]

Ooh did we ruin the surprise?

[@al145]

This person was fired from the tourism board and is disgruntled and does not represent Australia

[@angusroberts2548]

@@al145 Mate I don’t work for the tourism board.

[@EmptyTheTanks]

I know a few people who claim to have seen a panther up in the hills. My thought is that there are stray cats that escaped and have grown large due to the abundance of rabbits and other small prey

[@tfordham13]

Nah pet cats can't get that big plus it's probably big cats set from from ww2

[@johnlt7026]

The Lithgow Panther is very real. And it's huge. My dad used to work at the Lithgow Correctional Centre when they caught it on their security cameras just outside the fence. It was in the local news and everything

[@alicecuriosityoftenleadsto6288]

This was AWESOME!!1

[@startheangel9760]

Nessie went on holiday to Australia once

[@arcsaber1127]

Of all the creatures I find the Bunyip most interesting. A decade or two ago, as shown in Jurrasic Park, dinosaurs were thought to be giant scary reptile like creature with a scaly body. Now we know many of them were covered with feathers. The Bunyip seems to match closely the modern known concept of many dinosaurs with its feathers, claws and a duck-beak and a short tail (representing an ancestor of modern day birds)

[@Necrowolf81]

Central American natives had a feathered serpent deity. Not going to even try spelling it though.

[@n.u.k.2188]

Can we just take a second, to appreciate that the bunyip is also known as a wowie wowie or a yahoo.

[@uberbeeg]

Anyone who has been to the Hawkesbury river would easily see that the river could not hide an animal as big as a plediasaur. It gets quite low in droughts and very shallow, it just isn't that deep. The only area where a creature of that size could exist on the Hawkesbury river is it's mouth in Brooklyn waters, which is a bay that opens to the Sea, it is not a lake or ' loch '.

[@Necrowolf81]

maybe it has an underwater cave like the ones that supposedly exist in loch ness.

[@uberbeeg]

@@Necrowolf81 The Loch Ness monster isn't real either. All started by hoax using a toy submarine with a fake head attached in the 1930s.

[@jaketeunczak6337]

My uncle might have seen a blue mountains panther. Also I'm Australian.

[@seancooney297]

They are hear. Don't let your guard down in the bush.

[@spindoggytheexplorer2915]

Loved the video. Jolly good show

[@xandan1668]

Snake monster: haha I stole your venom sack. Monitor monster: oH nO luckily I keep a spare.

[@LukeBunyip]

I approve of this, but I feel I should point out that it's pronounced BUN-yip, not BOON-yip.

[@christianchauhan23]

❤ all your video's mate 👍.

[@ngoctrand.6032]

Here is the catch. Every wildlife in Australia is folklore monster

[@jessicascoullar3737]

I’ve always heard Bunyip pronounced the way it is spelled; bun-yip. Not boon-yip. I’ve never heard it said like that. I grew up in Victoria. Is it pronounced differently in other states?

[@angelawossname]

Nope, I have always said and heard it the way you do, I'm from rural S.A. but I live in Adelaide now.

[@jessicascoullar3737]

@@angelawossname thanks. I thought, ‘hey he is saying it wrong,’ but no one else mentioned it which made me think, ‘hang on, have I been saying it wrong all this time?’

[@TheEmeraldNight]

Same here in Queensland as well.

[@musicwelikemang]

@@jessicascoullar3737 mah mate all good. He's just reading it like a yank. No Aussie says Boon-yip

[@calisthenicsmadness1]

The mysterious world we live in hmmm, there is so much more that we haven't heard about.

[@morriganmhor5078]

It looks as if at least two of those monsters are some remembrances of Megalania lizard of megafauna.

[@renaldoking6]

I know come to realize that the 2 only creatures I'd like and favor from Australia, the Queensland tiger 5:50 and the Blue Mountains panther. 7:21

[@al145]

Probably the same animal, although extinct now. Tasmanian tiger

[@pogpogpog7507]

@@al145 nah mate the blue mountains panther is real and not as tassie tiger. there's old news articles from when the og panthers escaped, and current security cam footage of the panthers hanging around. heaps of people have seen them. queensland tiger is definitely a tassie tiger though

[@FunkyTomo]

Super interesting and very well made vid! Having seen/read weird subjects for many years I thought I'd heard of all the Cryptids, but most of these were new to me :) I'd heard of the giant lizard.(relic from dinosaur age before (terrifying thought!!) and that humans were supposed to have lived along side them at one time, also the Yowie, but not the rest. Will share onto the Cryptid section at Fortean Times forum

[@obskewerd3992]

Firstly, it's BUNyip, heavy emphasis on the U, lesser on the I. Like Ham bun. Also, Drop Bears, while we scare tourists with it, id argue it's also the technical term for any of our various angry marsupials when you encounter it in your sleeping bag at 1AM. 😆 😂

[@Steve_P_B]

No mention of the Wagyl or Rainbow Serpent that is meant to inhabit the Swan River?

[@MythologyUnleashed]

We made a full episode on the Rainbow Serpent some time ago! Check it out! kzbin.info/www/bejne/i2momoyKpM-SiJY

[@Steve_P_B]

@@MythologyUnleashed Thanks. As someone who has lived in the Perth area for over 40 years I have seen how even today this belief influences life here to the point where if we want to build along the Swan River, we have to approach the Noongar elders and get their approval that doing so doesn't interfere with the Rainbow Serpent

[@warwicklewis8735]

@@Steve_P_B that's more to do with the green eyed monster of envy and greed than any spiritual belief.

[@Steve_P_B]

@@warwicklewis8735 I disagree. There has to be respect for the indigenous peoples and their beliefs even if you don't hold the same beliefs as them

[@warwicklewis8735]

@@Steve_P_B no sane person of any ethnicity believes that a giant snake God lives in the Swan River. It is like saying that the Greeks still fear the gods who live on Mount Olympus or that the Nordic people still think the thunder is made by Thor beating his hammer. We all live in the present day world. How racist are you to believe that aboriginals are like primitive superstitious savages or niave little children believing in fairytales ????

[@lunamaria1048]

Excellent video

[@yomuthabyotch]

it's really interesting how stories of cryptids and large mythological beasts are remnants of our ancestors' memories of megafauna passed down from generation to generation.

[@dacrosber]

Interesting theory

[@MADSAHAD]

🥺😲😳the look on my kids faces as they listen to this at Breakfast.... priceless

[@aidanhever3369]

I think Stitch is based on a Drop Bear.

[@Necrowolf81]

Always reminded me of an alien koala

[@vulturedrawz]

So cool to see our beautiful culture shared! By the way, who is the artist of the thumbnail? Never seen a bunyip depicted like that before it’s super cool! :)

[@kaidorade1317]

Thanks for the video! Maybe we can learn about monsters from India folklore/mythology at some point?

[@Hollow_moon706]

Pretty sure the “Queensland tiger” might’ve been just a thylacine before they went extinct because they fit the description pretty well. They didn’t go extinct thousands of years ago. It actually was hunted to extinction quite recently.

[@tfordham13]

Nope it's a Tasmania tiger

[@Hollow_moon706]

@@tfordham13 they are the same thing basically maybe they just moved into the mainland

[@pogpogpog7507]

i'm pretty sure they used to exist in victoria for a bit too, though they went extinct before the tassie population. wouldn't be surprised if one made its way up to queensland

[@Hollow_moon706]

@@pogpogpog7507 yea

[@brandonedwards-catt4488]

Every time I hear about someone outside of Australia talk about a drop bear, I just can't help but start laughing hysterically. The real "drop bear" is actually our temperamental brush and ringtail possums. They have extremely sharp teeth, and claws, along with acting aggressively. Roof rats mate, angry roof rats.

[@mattanderson1479]

Actually quolls drop onto prey from trees, they are quite aggressive

[@trackerjacker0013]

My ex wife’s college roommate was an Ozzie. Her brothers came to visit. One was a “shooter” or Wildlife controller.” I do the same here. Over many round’s we discussed our best hunts and as we drank more got into this sort of thing. This makes my heart soar!

[@michelleedwards2392]

Bunyip is literally pronounced bun-yip not boonyip, I have trouble with north american vowel sounds. So do you pronounce a u as in yup as oo as in boo?

[@imthegoat94]

Monsters of Australian Folklore: Literally everything...

[@obamacare9681]

One of the Yowie images was from a book we used to have in our primary school library. When I was a child that book made me scared of Yowies

[@SquirrelGamez]

Very cool, the only one I knew about was the bunyip.

[@jords844]

It’s funny as an Australian to think how the drop bear is taken seriously lol. The “alleged” ways to prevent it is the funniest things I’ve ever heard

[@drewmarteny1495]

the sad bit is the yowie used to be a more interesting monster before european immigrants turned it into a bigfoot equivalent

[@donovanteale6502]

This was hilarious as an Aussie, but good job dude

[@f00I]

me and my cousins a couple years ago had an encounter with a panther in australia but it wasn't near the blue mountains

[@bwowzah]

The last one was really funny. Like "uh oh, here I go getting eaten again!"

[@dragowolfraven3806]

Alright. Monsters from Australia.

[@jasonsantos3037]

Everyone Set Australia has dangerous wildlife but scary monsters from folklore too

[@user-di1rl9zp4d]

very interesting and fascinating strange as different then most other mythical creatures from elswhere.now i know some of the most unique and bizarre mythical creatures ever have learned for the first time.

[@capitalbastard6712]

As an Australian I can tell you that drop bears are real. Deep bush creatures you got to run for your life and pray it doesn't get you.

[@willjames1124]

Let's face it.. nothing in mythology can beat that venomous spider that lives in your toilet. Redback? That's terrifying..

[@jaykeinnes6793]

There was a circus that lost multiple big cats one of which was a panther back in the late 1800s so panther could be legit, a lot of people I've met reckon they've seen one, i think it's probably wildcats because I've seen some hugeeeee feral cats so could be. Also the blue mountains is not the outback

[@When_did_they_add_handles]

"Okay here's my venom, what's the plan to destroy me?" "This is the plan, genius. Bye!"

[@MrDj232]

Monsters? Pretty sure you mean animals. No mythology needed to make Australia terrifying.

[@trentoskivich4211]

A little disappointed the Nannup tiger didn't make the list...

[@ashlynbrown3728]

Hell yeah some representation for us Aussies, jokes aside I love these monsters from my lovely country

[@realdaggerman105]

It astounds me how for most of these you mention possible real, released, or ancient animals, but for the Mungungali you don’t bring up Megalania. The largest monitor lizard ever, which lived in Australia and only went extinct ~40,000 years ago. So, would have definitely come in contact with the Aboriginals.

[@LadySharon3710]

This is what I was thinking. I scanned through the comments and saw a few that mentioned this but yours is most direct. The Mungungali is a dead ringer for Megalania.

[@garrettfairley3401]

(5:44) Queensland tiger( for anyone who missed it. )

[@shadowsong_777]

Absolutely loved the video!! I just had to say, the Bun in Bunyip is pronounced like a bread bun, or tie hair in a bun. That kind of bun :P

[@CJM-rg5rt]

Megalania could be the lizard they're talking about. It was a gigantic komodo dragon-like creature that only died out a few thousand years ago but who knows when the last population was killed off.

[@sapwharton6592]

The origin of the Drop Bear according to my mum is that a group of guys were camping with some girls and made up the story to scare and convince the girls to sleep in their tents for 'protection'. I can honestly see both reasons being true.

[@barry-allenthe-flash8396]

I've heard of most of these from, like, Josh Gates' various TV Shows. I've heard of Bunyips from Ty the Tasmanian Tiger though, where they're um.... rideable battle mechs, lol. I am shocked - _SHOCKED,_ I say! - that that cartoony video game mascot lied to me about what a Bunyip actually is. 😅

[@TheEmeraldNight]

Queensland tiger is a sub species of Tasmanian tiger.

[@JustSomeRando1331]

My hypothesis is it was the Thylecoleo (marsupial lion) which was eventually made extinct by the Aboriginals. If you study the cave drawings of Thylecoleo, they match some of the descriptions of the Bunyip

[@anghbalahr2971]

Australia: when your animal-kingdom is so batshit crazy that half the cryptids are regular ass animals

[@mitchmills7401]

I would love to see movies about these creatures