Slim Dusty - Something in the Pilliga

[@michaelrose8897]

My father wrote this song based on his experience as a truck driver in Australia and the stories he'd heard from his truckie mates.

[@sammcgowran6782]

surely not, say on god.

[@terrymorris6046]

Slim. Dusty. Is. The. Best. Country. Singer. I've. Heard. In. My. Life. Time. He's. Great.

[@La-vc6nt]

@terrym..... Yes, how Great was Slim

[@mickeyhughes2280]

Some 30 years ago or so a truckie was driving from Coonabarabran to Narrabri. He stopped when he heard a tyre burst. He got out of the cab to inspect and change it when a whole family of Yowies appeared. Totally shaken he drove the truck flat out all the way to Narrabri. Nothing was left of the tyre or the rim. It was National News all over Australia. I guess that info would be real hard to find these days. Sure would like to read it again !

[@elizabethtaylor9321]

Mickey Hughes He should have asked them for a hand to change the wheel, now that would have been a story nobody would have believed .

[@jrmathes6567]

I was born and raised near the Pilliga and I know truckies who won't pass through it after dark.

[@davidbeale1420]

I am as toey as f#@k if I have to drive that road at night.

[@ilikecats392]

Yep me too.

[@Sleemopings]

I know blokes who would take Kamilaroi Highway to Gunnedah and then take the Oxely higway to Coonabarabran just to avoid going through the Pilliga. Even though it takes twice the time as it would to just drive the Newell highway stretch between Narrabri and Coonabarabran. Zero first nations people stayed in that land becasue they believed it was full of bad spirits. One of the only first nations people who stayed there was the Piliga Princess.

[@CarolynMCash]

I grew up in The Pilliga but I never saw the Yowie.

[@joluttringer4450]

Since many many Years I like Slim Dusty. I purchased LP'S, CD'S, DVD'S in Germany.T For me, this Singer is the "australian Lonnie Donegan" - king of skiffle in England. Best Wishes from France. Jo Luttringer

[@La-vc6nt]

@jo...... Yes Slim was a One of, amazing

[@texaskidzuk]

Hey mates I grew up in an area of South East Texas USA called the Big Thicket that's creepy as hell at night and full of wood apes. I can relate to this song very well.

[@davidbeale1420]

The road from Mundubbera through to Miles is the same at night........creepy as all f#^k......and ghost cattle.............

[@bolge7777]

Wood Apes, kinda like Biden hey.. 😂😂👍👍👍

[@Rene-up1dl]

@@bolge7777 He said Wood Apes, not Shitpile.

[@texaskidzuk]

Back in 2008 or 2009 in Central Mississippi, I parked my truck at a small store/truck stop for the night. Around 1am, something shook my 40-foot truck hard. I feared a tornado was one me. I got in the driver's seat with a cigar. There was no wind at all. I had an eerie felling not to investigate. I found a lot of Bigfoot and Dogman activity in that area when I got home.

[@sherryfuller8580]

Good song though. Love playing it to people i see camping there.

[@patsytrigg9427]

I've been warned about the Pilliga. 😮😨 like don't........ Love it! 👍😎💗

[@JacktheCryptozoologist]

as a Yowie researcher I must say that I'm very impressed about this song

[@northeastfencing-sales3966]

As one that has gone through the Pilliga Scrub (Not forest as it I now known) some 60 years ago (not the highway between Coonabarabran and Narrabri. Don't know, but the hairs stood up on the back of my neck. Scared but saw nothing. Will not go back. Good luck. Go to the real Pilliga.

[@salaltschul3604]

I reckon there's a lot of things about our sunburned country that we know nothing about...Things out there more clever than we are by a long shot. I'm interested to find out more about what's out there but there's no way you'll catch me camping in those areas or putting myself in danger...Definitely an armchair cryptozoologist.

[@JacktheCryptozoologist]

I believe so to I have received freightning reports from eyewitnesses who refuse to go out in the bush again

[@swiftieforever1387]

That is so cool Jack! I live near Pilliga & my cousins family lives there and has caught Pilliga yowie on tape!

[@JacktheCryptozoologist]

Swiftie Forever 13 that is cool I'd love to take a look you can email me at [e-mail]

[@Pajeroexploring4x4]

Anyone listening 2021 Also does anyone know where I can find guitar notes for this song?

[@fionaadams5210]

Yes we had a truck driving opperation in the 1980s and our drivers never wanted to go thru the Pillaga scrub after dark. The Lochniess monster in Scotland!! Wow legands abound.!!!

[@CarolynMCash]

Or the Aussie version of Big Foot!

[@elainechapman6305]

I grew up in Pilliga and i believe there is something out there.

[@keithschmidt6418]

There is something in the pliliga. RIP SD.

[@barrykibily4091]

country western slim dusty he is best😂

[@Jobergg]

A great song i never heard before, thanks.

[@worldbigfootcentral3933]

Great song, loved the lyrics!

[@roadrebel1]

the pilliga princess and the yowie............boy brings back memories

[@taniaconnor1442]

Apparently, her daughter still lived there.

[@sherryfuller8580]

Been through there 100's of times north south and east west and have never seen anything.

[@roadrebel1]

saw it 1 night run across the road about 3 in the morning

[@wolf4076]

Would love to hear the details?

[@trooper44069]

never been there and don't think i will be going lol, but the songs a good one, as are all of Slims

[@swiftieforever1387]

Haha I live right near Pilliga! its not that bad!

[@craigoneil8474]

Its a beautiful part of country N.S.W All around the Pilliga is absolutely beautiful. Coona, Baradine. worth a visit i reckon.

[@swiftieforever1387]

Craig Oneil Yes certainly is! ☺️

[@tunaboy1986]

Loved it!!! excellent upload! God love you Slim!

[@derpythegiraffe9053]

Coona is my home town! When i first heard this song i asked my father had he ever been there seeing he was a truck driver he said yeah he slept in the truck there a few times! He seen a few creepy like things but nothing like this! Love this song

[@bradwoods7321]

Kaila Dowsett bugger that blow straight through lol

[@gassonteddy1203]

Love this song.

[@roseanne74]

The very first time I travelled through the Pilliga, we DID stop at the particular Tooley Creek stop - even in the middle of a hot January morning it was very still and very creepy ... not to mention putrid lol

[@davidbeale1420]

E-Yup!!

[@taniaconnor1442]

I have been threw there twice. First time we stopped there I heard noises. Second time during the day, so quiet second time round

[@sumomaniac]

I seen eyes when I was spotlighting that didnt meet up with any ferals that I have ever hunted, I left the piliga not to return.....

[@WilsoYUN0DI3]

I honestly don't know what your all talking about lol I grew up in the pilliga between Baradine and coonabarabran the bush comes alive at night, scariest thing I've come across was a cranky old boar lol

[@pattersonfilm9117]

You got lucky…

[@Pajeroexploring4x4]

I love the Pilliga I have a farm there I love to drive pass the Pilliga I love to hunt and have fun other then being scared of the story’s of the Pilliga yowie and the Pilliga princess

[@sandimoroney4118]

I'm from near kilcoy where they have a statue dedicated to the yowie!!

[@kingmopey7937]

yea that bad boy is falling apart haha

[@utang96]

The lady he talks about in this song "Pilliga Princess" is actually my great great grandmother, Her name was Eliza Alice Payton. Before she died she had a horrible life, She was an Aboriginal Black Woman who married a white man, that was later falsely accused of murder. Many years later he died and she had her children removed from her (Stolen Generation) which sent her mad really. She would just wander and sleep on the bonnets of trucks at night to keep warm until she herself died from getting hit. So her Ghost was stuck in the pilliga, but i am unsure why she was nick named Pilliga Princess. Hope you enjoyed this little story i am able to share with you :D

[@peterbellelectricalsolar2289]

great share. respect to you. forgive the white history but don't forget. I lived in Cloncurry as a pre-teen. My mates were Doomadgee. I believe more inter conection is essential to understand a little of the large amount of union we need.

[@swiftieforever1387]

Hi I actually live right near Pilliga and I do believe in both Pilliga Yowie and Princess! That is true what is in the song and what you said! Ive seen proof of both and it does scare me though its our protector! Have you ever been to Pilliga?

[@lukasbeazley7367]

I'm sorry about your loss and the reason why your great great grandmother is nick names the "Pilliga Princess" is because people think of her as a princess and past away in region called The Pilliga

[@ronmackenzie7126]

Peter , you speak with forked tongue . I know you ..

[@traceyglasse5649]

Respect and love

[@khongbiet1000]

SlimDustyMusic Well done old son.

[@andrewproctor1681]

Have you ever noticed the lack of road kill through the pilliga? ?

[@mackenziejones2992]

OMG YES! I live on the Pilliga road from Wee Waa NSW to Pilliga, its ridiculous

[@badpossum440]

the truckies killed them off years ago

[@yapyap66]

Yes: but you can see where its been

[@blokebeershed7651]

I was flying through there at night when it was raining, i hit a good 10 odd roos

[@davidbeale1420]

Bloody Hell Andrew, you are totally correct. There's nothing! Ever!. And I have drivn that road enough to have noticed.

[@Jacobbray1]

Very good song thinking of going to the pilliga see if the rumours are true

[@janetbarden2387]

Cheez 1991 th

[@peterclarke127]

Been there ,definately creepy,tarps were damaged, several ropes snapped,you work it out, I'll go back there some day.

[@bradwoods7321]

@Peter clarke I wont and i didnt even stay there. didnt rven know this song back then.

[@wez65]

I have pulled up there heaps of times since lucky they have a dunny now lol,,,,,,,,,,

[@pgs6142]

God bless her Utang. I came from coonamble nsw and I did a great deal or work in and around the pilliga scrub and I've heard about ure Dear Grandmother. I've known many of my Aboriginal friends who's grandparent were stolen Utang and it's vety sad. my parents raised me to NEVER judge aboriginal people because of their skin Color. He'd say treat them all well Pete. At 56 now I always have and did. These people were like family to me and treated me with the same respect in Return. Dad rest his soul always said he'd seen indigenous people treated shockingly and it broke his heart mate.

[@davidsimpson9093]

My grandfather cut timber There 4 a living he was a Simpson from Wellington Nsw my father use 2 go with him & help & hide in the bush if they came looking for him being a halfcast in the 40s very sad told me of scary noises at night out there.😢miss him

[@brentpearson6993]

I attended a wedding in Coen and drove to Lakeland after it. I saw headlights in my side mirrors, it would come up close then back right off. It never passed so I pulled over in a stop not far from Laura and waited for it to pass, but it never did.

[@timefilm]

yeah, its there!

[@truckinjames]

This song is scary, cause my dad has told me many stoies form the young days out at the piliga. Like the lady who lived there and even my mate heard that. and he saw her standing at his truck. And my ,maates uncle saw her at his door.

[@Banana_man_537]

Hubby has been driving 34 years and has told stories of this too.

[@woostaaaa]

Yea the Pilliga Princess, homeless girl that walked along the hwy and in ‘93 got hit by a truck, ever since then trickiest have said she still walks the hwy

[@michaelraymond542]

@@woostaaaa She was middle aged. Her husband died and she lost her shit and went insane and ended up living homeless out in the Pilliga scrub in a humpie she had made. She used to sell her hole to the dirty truckies that drove the Newell Highway for food.

[@roadrebel1]

yeah mate.............that lady is the pilliga princess.........i wont pull up in the pilligas any more

[@rabensrking5695]

haha I love it r I p slim we love u here in n l Canada ruben

[@kingmopey7937]

wish he did a mt glorious song because theres something too

[@James-yx1bh]

🕊😇🕊

[@roseanne74]

PS - that was AFTER I'd heard the song ... made it just that bit more creepy. Won't stop there ever again lol - we just shoot straight past between Moree and Coonabarabran now.

[@Maza675]

Sounds like there is a big lonely girl lookin' for love in the Pilliga

[@davidbeale1420]

mundubberra to Miles as welll

[@julieshepherd613]

I love you

[@fontheking5]

Yes nothing wrong whit this song . , never heard it eighter .

[@Decopunk1927]

Theorizing: this is a prequel to Lights on the Hill. After encountering the Pilliga Yowie he continues driving sleep-deprived and crashes his truck in a rainstorm. Notice the mentions in both songs of checking the balance of the load.

[@sh5248]

A bit of folk lore by a great artist...

[@jakecook716]

Some environments just have a creepy vibe, at night it gets amplified. Almost certainly a case of people's paranoia and imagination getting the best of them. They'll hear a noise or catch a brief glimpse of something that startles them. People tell stories and then everyone gets even more paranoid about the place

[@johnblyth9787]

A young man at the time I knew was driving through the piliga one night, the truck for no reason slowed, all gauges on the dash normal. A few minuits latter the truck came back up to speed and all was normal. I knew this family well including his parents, he would not have made this up. Scary

[@robertjackson4505]

James Hadley i grow up at Coonabarabran the Pilliga princess was that lady's name she got around truck drivers getting lifts and other things from them i travelled the roads with my mum and dad and from time to time you would see her she worked in a roadhouse and husband was a truckie he died in a truck wreck so when she heard of this she just walked out and never come back she just travelled the road with truckies trying to fined her husband

[@jamesmcneight984]

+robert jackson True story Robert I am a retired driver and knew her

[@swiftieforever1387]

Yes that is true!

[@swiftieforever1387]

That is so scary!! I live near Pilliga and yeah!

[@foz1792]

Anyone know of any other Aussie goonkie songs?

[@deusvult8251]

The Hairy man

[@SLMoore13610]

@shaggyfeller yes that's right

[@jefframblerman8268]

COOL to learn that even down under they have their own version of bigfoot

[@jermerygrug3090]

I survived one runnin at me yesterday.

[@stoltobot]

Was it a yowie or the princess?

[@swiftieforever1387]

Its Both but the songs about the Yowie!

[@acer6669]

The Yowie

[@twistyjay8686]

Yowie

[@Shane_O.5158]

yowie sighting in pilliga: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nqG2nIeqrdCErac

[@susanl169]

Jeez, he really hit some peeps, thats awesome.

[@janetbarden2387]

susan l 0

[@wez65]

shit myself one time at pilliga No 1 before I heard this song....

[@jefframblerman8268]

I like that on every continent, there is something like our "bigfoot" makes you wonder???//

[@pgs907]

Great Song as usual Slim. But I think Yowies are about as real as Elephant's in the Pilliga. Not a remnant of a bone left after they die if true and any fotos are always very grainy blurry from a distance! !!! especially since everyone has mobile fones surely traveling thru the Pilliga by now someone would v taken a or many very clear close up fotos at worst. I'm not calling truckies and other travelers liars but I think it's no more geniune that big foot. Good yarn tho slim and rest in peace old mate

[@joshme8144]

Yeah whatever u say lol just don't camp there the stuffs real as u and me!

[@davidhusband5022]

@@joshme8144 prove it.

[@HRRRRRDRRRRR]

​@@joshme8144 I rode in there on a WR250 back in 2019 and camped alone for 2 days, guess what I found... Roos.

[@danstevens2204]

Coming from someone that uses f instead of ph you’re opinion holds little validity.

[@risingvibes100]

1. Not a bone left. Here's something to think about. Plenty of humans get lost in the bush and die. Try to find a human bone and see what you come up with. They're in some areas which are too thick for us to get to. Very hard to foot survey so naturally, we won't find their remains just laying about. If they exist and remain undetected (mostly) they might be intelligent. They don't die by accident in the bush because they're built for that environment, so they probably nestle themselves in a cozy place, far away from any human settlements before they die. Even then, we know they communicate with eachother in some way, and some live in familial groups, so they might have a way they get rid of their bones. Maybe they bury them and have their own ritual? As for the footage, there's footage already in existence from around the world of these creatures, grainy or not, you just need to look for it. I doubt this has become a world wide phenomena from every continent on the earth without a speck of truth to it. Not everyone who puts a video up is thinking they're going to get rich and famous from a sighting. There's really nothing to gain at this point from getting footage besides bragging rights, and even then, you'll just make yourself look like a wacko. Not saying there are not idiots that go out there and make fake videos and dress up in gorilla suits, because there are, but where there's smoke, there's fire. On that point, if you do encounter one of these creatures close up, the last thing you're gonna be thinking of is pulling out your phone and standing still to get the perfect shot, while a potentially dangerous predator is right in front of you & you don't know what the heck it is. Fair enough people don't believe in it but people do encounter them, get the shock of their lifetime, and never speak on it again. People didn't believe in Panda bears before someone actually went to china and shot one, bringing back it's skin. Black and white bear thst eats bamboo? Not possible.