The Bunyip Song

The Bunyip song from Dot and the Kangaroo. It used to scare me when I was little. And that's why I love it today.
Music and Lyrics by Bob Young, John Palmer, Marion Von Alderstein
Performed by George Assang (with chorus)
Lyrics below.
Oh, the Bunyip's very bad
And the Bunyip's very bold
And they tell me that the Bunyip's
Now a thousand years old.
(Chorus)
So you better come home quickly
And you better hide very soon
Or the Bunyip's going to get you
In the Bunyip moon.
The Bunyip's partly animal,
The Bunyip's partly bird.
The Bunyip makes the strangest sounds...
That you have ever heard.
(Chorus)
The Bunyip's always nasty
And the Bunyips very mean.
He's the most unpleasant monster...
That you have ever seen.
(Chorus)
...in the moooooon (x3)

[@scoutrautman4911]

This was by far the most traumatic part of my childhood.

[@dragongirl7978]

I mean, look on the bright side? If a song was the most traumatic part of your childhood, you probably had a pretty good childhood.

[@MyYTaccountName]

Scout Rautman same! It terrified me as a kid.

[@luvmysugar1]

@@dragongirl7978 Good point!!

[@eudorabarker2161]

Same here. I even found some drawings from my kindergarten time the other day. That was obviously my way of processing this trauma. As a grownup I can laugh about the cheap way it's animated, but the creature itself still stirs the same fears I experienced as a child...

[@scottdeyett7840]

True story. This outdid Watership Down and Atrax in the swamp.

[@jayselvig4382]

did this scare anyone else so much as a kid it still bothers you to this day

[@LadyW7609]

Just watched it and yes, I am seriously creeped out, still to this day!

[@makototachibana7759]

Pfffsh! I found this video two years ago, it's giving me nightmares *now* I'm 19.

[@orom6581]

yep

[@jenphillips661]

YES

[@classicrockdad]

YES

[@OmegaSoypreme]

Well I'll be damned. I can't believe I found this. This song is actually one of the earliest memories I have. Or at least the line "or the bunyip's going to get you", and the creepy animation. It must be from when I was about two years old. It's just always been there in the back of my mind, occasionally resurfacing. This is the first time I've ever thought to look it up. Sure enough, second result on KZbin. It's just like I remember.

[@TheBrandimiles]

Oh my gosh, me too! this song was something that was locked away in the back of my mind as being terrifying. I never could quite place it or fully remember it (I might have blocked it out). but then one day I heard the word "Bunyip" and one Google search later I had my hands on it. thankfully now my subconscious can let it go. LOL

[@chugeta]

I agree, this scared the shit out of me and my brothers when we were kids. We still get goosebumps when we hear that piano start up in the beginning.This was also locked in the back of our minds as well until I found it on DVD and had to buy it and watch it as an adult. I showed it to my daughter when she was younger and she asked me what the big deal was, kids these days. So desensitised. LOL

[@Saffy2099]

superchief86 I thought I was alone.

[@invisigothphone9696]

Are all of you people from australia ?

[@skootamann]

Why do I still have this in my memory like seriously! I was at least 6 years old when I saw this....

[@deusxo]

this scared me so much as a kid.

[@Mrplubear]

Gotta love how no matter what video, no matter how old, there are always people who commented only today

[@losvill5799]

Same

[@armynurseboy]

Yeah, this scared the shit out of me too when I was a kid.

[@indeed7289]

try growing up in a remote town surrounded by wilderness where the older generations legitimately believed Bunyip and Yowie existed and would rush home before dark

[@erikbrack8442]

Average Guy same here...

[@TheDiabolicalWaffle]

Never has nostalgia been so terrifying.

[@raisingflowers8018]

I think where the kangaroo tells the story was more creepier then the song

[@dragongirl7978]

@@raisingflowers8018 I literally didn't even remember anything about a kangaroo, or the name of the movie or anything. All I remembered was this song. It must have scared the living daylight out of me.

[@flutterguy2258]

agreed

[@MarktheLandlockedSurfer]

25 years later and those opening piano notes still give me the chills

[@NathanBRing]

Mark Baldwin this is why I was afraid of thunder storms when I was little

[@MyYTaccountName]

It's so haunting. At 36 years old, I still get chills hearing it.

[@JonnyInfinite]

Very John Carpenter

[@twinkthatloveslotrtrilogy7676]

Its creepy

[@mcrow3856]

This was on cable a lot when I was little. The piano was my cue to find somewhere else to be for 5 minutes.

[@-schattenpflanze-3755]

Bunyip eat a snickers, your not you when your hungry

[@Eclipsio]

XD

[@randarian62013]

- Schattenpflanze - You: Better? Trump: Better.

[@whiterosevideos453]

- Schattenpflanze - After who knows how long this is literally the only thing that can make this seem not scary XD

[@crepsecularcorvus1674]

Randolph1824 And this man is now the president of the United States. Fuck me.

[@randarian62013]

Jhon Carter We should have let him stay the bunyip. :(

[@robelkton7800]

As if there weren't enough deadly animals in Australia already ...

[@polygoniccarnosaur7419]

Yeah, this one's the most dangerous (without venom or poison)

[@valetyl5673]

I wouldnt want to meet bunyip myself tbh

[@evanmiller2562]

There's also the Yara ma yha who, yowie, hawkesbury river monster, muldjewangk and stop bears!

[@knightofarkronia8652]

Evan Miller Don't you mean 'drop bears?'

[@evanmiller2562]

@@knightofarkronia8652 yes. Stupid auto correct...

[@redheadsadako]

An animated 2D creature looking like a dirty blanket-ghost. A nice old man's voice. A slow, calm tune with an almost cheerful sounding refrain. A cute name sounding like a breed of the sesame street's funny yip yips and a bunny. Mix all this and you get - one of the most creepy and scary scenes I ever watched when I was a child and that still sends shivers down my spine now that I'm 30.

[@harryarteza3435]

😂😂😂 🙏🏼

[@dino_lander]

Emu kangaroo dingo

[@nick2523147657]

Yep still

[@savlort]

I can't believe someone found this clip. This used to scare the living daylights out of me when I was about 4. Dot and the Kangaroo, I haven't seen that in so many years.

[@xLPSUnderDogx]

Ikr, it the white ghost thing scared the crap outta me

[@joeweber8061]

For 30 years or so I could never remember the name of the movie or the song. I just kept telling people ablut this white thing with brown spots in a movie that scared me shitless. I could never remember what it was from until someone mentioned it on a list. Amazing how you see things as a kid. I never thought I would EVER figure it out. Haha

[@lydiatriegaardt7256]

i still hhave the movie :P

[@renataanniejanerebeccaamet4340]

savio roy I remember this from Dot and the Kangaroo aswell. The song but mostly the piano tune has haunted me ever since I last saw the cartoon about 26 years ago (when I was 8); the lyrics were quite blurry until now. I scrolled down to see others' comments, one also made a remark on the piano: saying it sounded like that from "The Fog" theme - which I looked up on KZbin and found what I think was the correct one: by John Carpenter. Yes, I could hear it.

[@michaelhouston1235]

For years I’ve had the imagery of this scene in my head without fully knowing where it came from. Was like a trip back in time to find this song today, powerful shit to stay with me 30 years later 🙏🏻

[@jesusjimenez6755]

Ikkk xD

[@lauracid6678]

Hi I am from Argentina. I saw Dot and the kangaroo when I was 7 years old (28 years ago). It was a sweet movie until this scene appeared that traumatized us all :D

[@WednesdayWinchester22]

Exactly what I came to say!!! I thought I’d imagined it, I just remembered ‘’the Bunyip’s going to get you’’ with a weird squiggly monster. Must have been 30 years ago that I saw it and it terrified me, but I couldn’t remember where on earth it came from! So glad I found this!! then during an episode of the Lore podcast they mentioned the Bunyip!

[@ovolegend4311]

was this from a movie or something because i remember seeing something like this when i was very little but i swear it was in a movie

[@bbbaibell]

omfg me too i’ve been trying to search for what this movie was for so many years all i had was vivid but faded memories in the back of my mind in the vault. can’t believe i found this

[@longgonelocust2333]

This seems like the kind of song that would become lost media, and would come up on some random forum where someone's talking about how much it scared them as a a child, only to find out it was real when other people remember it to.

[@jamesaustin1988]

"I am Crack Master!"

[@ymhyhybaybay1958]

this WAS lost media though

[@tannerin]

That slightly warbly piano and the way the bunyip's face crudely morphs into the rock at the end...

[@renataanniejanerebeccaamet4340]

tannerin yes, that last bit reminds me of the story of the witch at Wookey Hole Caves .. I heard that her face got morphed into the rocks and could be seen after Father Bernard turned her into stone

[@Smirvodka4]

Man, this song scared me sh*tless when I was a child! Heck, I'm 39 & it still DOES! As if the music & colors weren't enough, for some reason when the Bunyip 'turns' into the rock wall it chills me even more. The idea that it could be....anywhere...

[@FilmmakeroftheFuture]

The fact that the people and dogs were so scared and that the creature had no redeeming qualities was enough for me.

[@Smirvodka4]

FilmmakeroftheFuture True there! When we hear the words "The Bunyip is always nasty..." that pretty much says it all.

[@Bennyboy1985]

EXACTLY! It gives you the impression that he could just suddenly appear like a ghost- and chase you down and eat you. It's creepy as hell...

[@yippedoodah]

My brother said that was the scariest part too

[@commandercaptain4664]

I'd call it timeless composition and performance.

[@PinkydaFunky]

I like how this has more views than any other clips of Dot and the Kangaroo. Really shows how horrifyingly memorable this scene is compared to other scenes in the film.

[@millieparker7259]

Still scares the crap out of me. The piano is so haunting

[@bbhtrap5856]

Piano?what about the thing itself?

[@marslan6960]

"Momma had to coddle you" -Bunyip

[@marielaisaac6502]

Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun

[@Doors_rainbow_friends_beater9]

Many sleepless nights as a child because of this. Our home was set on the edge of a forest in New Hampshire with larger than normal windows. HATED to get up in the middle of the night to get water and or use the bathroom. Folks never shut the shades or curtains. Lousy overactive imagination!

[@huggoweaver2851]

Try living in Australia as a kid watching this

[@sheffieldgregory]

I saw this as a child and i never picked up that movie again. No joke, I literaly broke the dvd a couple years later.

[@AlienWithABox]

You watched it on DVD? You lucky thing, it would have been redone. I watched a very old VHS; Lo-fi. I think we still have it somewhere.

[@minneapolisfirefightersloc4672]

So I thought about the bunyip all the things scared the shit out of me

[@raisingflowers8018]

I still have one

[@normacenva8756]

@@AlienWithABox We had a bootleg copy recorded by my cousin from HBO on a Beta tape.

[@playasadonejoe]

@@AlienWithABox Did they keep that racist bit where aborigines commit ritual murder?

[@lukebrown28393]

Can't believe they put this in a kids flim, im now 23 and still have nightmares over it

[@playasadonejoe]

What the fuck, are they still showing this to kids? I am 36 and still traumatised.

[@commandercaptain4664]

Those make for the best kids' movies, I believe. Better to be scared with fiction than reality.

[@SethAurelius94]

What movie?

[@pastapig8738]

@@SethAurelius94 Dot and the kangaroo

[@renataanniejanerebeccaamet4340]

There should've been a pg warning on this video seeing it had a really scary scene that could easily traumatise a young child.

[@rodanthefiredemon3016]

Fun fact: if you guys didn't know that the bunyip is a mythical creature from australia its a swamp monster resembles a hippo,a tiger, a dog, a seal, a platypus,an otter and a wombat. The word bunyip is translated to "devil" or "evil Spirit" described by natives as amphibious, nocturnal, and inhabiting lakes, rivers, and swamps. Bunyips, according to Aborigines, can swim swiftly with fins or flippers, have a loud, roaring call, and feed on crayfish, though some legends portray them as bloodthirsty predators of humans, particularly women and children. Bunyip eggs are allegedly laid in platypus nests.

[@christianmoralesortiz4688]

HORRIFYING!!!!!

[@bruhokverycool9325]

Plus in Australia they built the Bunyip Bridge the Bunyip itself was Animatronic it was also scary it didnt resemble the Dog or Tiger, Seal but similiar to this Bunyip in song, he was putted in Sewer which had dirty mussy water and it has also child, the bunyip later was replaced with little friendlier looklike. Today the Bunyip name was replaced with "Bert". If you want to see how did Bunyip Animatronic looked like here Old - kzbin.info/www/bejne/b4uymHtsa5Z6qMU New - kzbin.info/www/bejne/qnbEdZR3gLOHmM0

[@JazziopeiaGirl]

​@@bruhokverycool9325The old way is so much better!! Both are cool though!

[@ezrastardust3124]

I didn’t grow up with this film and I’ve only seen this clip a few odd times, but it still gives me goosebumps The Bunyip sounds like the original eldritch abomination

[@TheBrandimiles]

I have LITERALLY had this song and images in my head since I saw it as a child. But I could never place it. Finally I heard someone say "Bunyip" on Tv and I decided to look it up. So now I finally know where it came from in my memory. Thank goodness!!!! Now I can go back to never seeing that shit again.

[@Throckmorton723]

Exactly!!!!

[@K0rr0d3d]

Same

[@Jakerocksteady]

Same here! I remember this song and imagery from a video we used to watch in preschool. Never could place it. Then stumbled across this.

[@nicksuazo4377]

Same, bruh. Same 😐

[@nicksuazo4377]

@@Jakerocksteady Yeah, I have the DVD with me at home. It scares me as an adult, or at least as a teen, but I still enjoy the song. This how you make a monster sinister and scary as hell without actually showing it once. A powerful name drop, if you ask me.

[@xylopiano3]

Is it bad that I think this song is really cool? The song's low-key, menacing tone makes it sound oddly powerful.

[@SabrinaLWilliams]

I've always loved it

[@ciphymasterofmedia9104]

Honestly it really is a good song both visually and sound editing wise.

[@dixond2110]

It's amazing actually but so very cursed

[@genevieveapodaca2713]

It’s what makes it so scary :)

[@rabbit0664]

Actually like it myself.

[@soterioncoil2163]

I was terrified of the Bunyip for years when I was little! I used to see red phantom limbs in the darkness reaching for me through the doorway of my bedroom! Sometimes I would scream until my parents came. The animated movie Watership Down had some scary elements too. This is like a Dot and the Kangaroo: Bunyip therapy room! Other children used to laugh at me when I said I was afraid of something called a bunyip. Sounds like ya git bit on yer buns and yip like a pup or sumpthin!

[@Simon0]

+Soterion Coil the bunyips comign to get you tonight! be prepared.

[@soterioncoil2163]

Simon0 lol :p the bunyip had me already - it dead meat now

[@nomadfallout]

so glad im not alone in this, because of this movie i never forgot the word bunyip

[@soterioncoil2163]

my friends thought I was ascared of some kind of 'ass-biter' creature.

[@rustedlemon3834]

Same omg

[@caderamsey8878]

Moral of this song: Watch out for That Dadgum Bunyip

[@commandercaptain4664]

Also the moral of the song: You can summon the Bunyip if you put a shrimp on the barbie...

[@amyconnelly7895]

@@commandercaptain4664 O.O

[@anjishnupurkait2918]

I never visited Australia, but have some deep rooted connection with Aussie culture, I know not why. I can imagine a bunyip lurking in a billabong on a foggy winter morning, in a remote countryside of Australia. This song paints exactly this in my mind. I know not why.

[@RescuedRhythms]

try the brian weiss past life regression exercise on youtube and you might find out why

[@anjishnupurkait2918]

@@RescuedRhythms thanks mate

[@huggoweaver2851]

This was so much scarier if you were Aussie... There's a "waterhole" near the foot of the Blue Mountains in NSW I would never go in thinking there was a Bunyip in there

[@tkraft82]

30 years later and I remember the horrors this brought me as a child. Unimaginable horror

[@insertgenericnamehere2077]

That thing looks like a giant walking pizza

[@toddsmith230]

Lmao

[@PinkiePieIsBestPonyTheFirst]

Edward Assassin PLOT TWIST: IT IS BUM BUM BUUUUM

[@insertgenericnamehere2077]

Electro Hipster XD

[@johndouglas3134]

Ikr

[@dragonroar5342]

Antasma Has Swag it does

[@ArtsyWolf0612]

Okay so literally I was obsessed with this as a kid. I watched Dot and the Kangaroo almost every night, so watching this is like a punch in the face of nostalgia omg wow

[@aarononeil9832]

As a kid, this song terrified me, especially with the imagery. I always had this haunting moaning and the memory of that figure coming towards me which, even though before I thought "Bunyip" was a silly sounding name, still left me with a feeling of horror and dread that's persisted to this day, and watching it again for the first time in years now, I'm glad to see that the creepiness still holds up pretty well. Now I wonder whether the Bunyip would work as a good monster for a movie. I'm not sure anyone could really do it justice, seeing as this is a creature that apparently terrified Aboriginals so much they couldn't even describe the creature with any real consistency. At least I can take pride that one of the most mysterious and haunting creatures of myth came from my own country (even if I do have to have nightmares as a result of it).

[@EphemeralProductions]

I think if he was represented right with the same level of creepiness and menace as shown here, he could be a pretty scary monster in a movie or TV show! :) and about this scaring the Aboriginals, you do realize the real-life bunyip wasn't a spirit thing like this right? It was supposedly a fearsome cryptid (strange and bizarre animal).

[@aarononeil9832]

tall32guy I know it's not supposed to be a spirit, I never said it was. But the lack of consistent description of what it's actually supposed to look like does partly stem from fear. They didn't know what it was, heck we can really only guess for the most part.

[@nandoflores6902]

the Song is catchy af thou

[@aarononeil9832]

***** Nobody said it was.

[@ShawnMadeInUSA]

***** mysterious n haunting? U need a tinfoil hat go to magical school of hogwarts

[@Flufferz342]

My parents watched this when they were kids then put it on for my brother and I. Sometimes the song pops into my head as an adult from time to time and I begin humming it. I’m glad you posted this 💖

[@seastack9844]

I sent this video to my buddy that was broke down in the middle of nowhere (no idea how he got reception) but he was pissed. Said he quit working on his car and sat inside with the doors locked. Lol.

[@goobergreg001]

I couldn't sleep at night when I was younger because of this.

[@struanmackenzie3849]

Smae here

[@LchanOtakudom]

Creepy thing still scares the hell out of me even after all these years!! Also, WHY THE HELL AM I WATCHING THIS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT?!?!

[@Dragontamer135]

*gives you a hug and some chocolate because chocolate fixes everything lol*

[@LchanOtakudom]

@@Dragontamer135 *returns the hug and happily munches chocolate* thank you! *shares chocolate*

[@Dragontamer135]

@@LchanOtakudom =^.^=

[@toonsaroundtheworld660]

It's a scary scary monster 👹👹👹👹 it lifted in Australia on lakes rivers and swamps but they could be monsters around the world 🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍 really might be really freaking scary 😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨

[@awherin]

I remember when I was younger my grandma's friend ran a consignment shop and she gave us a box of free things she couldn't sell. In the box was this movie. I remember watching it and being terrified of this. That movie always gives me an eerie feeling.

[@ginasebastian2900]

This scared the shit out of me when I was little! I'm 38 and it still gives me the creeps. Seriously why did they put this in a kid's movie? Any time I was scared as a kid the Bunyip would pop into my mind and the part of the song "the bunyips going to get you"....Ahhhhh! Why the hell did I watch this?

[@normacenva8756]

Probably the same reason Nicodemus the rat was killed by a falling cinder block in the Secret of NIMH.

[@MyYTaccountName]

Hey are you still 38?

[@Sub___Zero]

If there's something strange in your neighborhood Who ya gonna call? *GHOSTBUSTERS !*

[@katmcgee8567]

SUB ZERO LIN KUEI LOLXD I should have seen that coming. =)

[@jaxv94]

NUT BUSTERS!!!!

[@bristinatalman420]

Get Five Nights At Freddy`s to take care of that Bunyip guy.

[@abrador787]

+SUB ZERO LIN KUEI GHOST FUCKERS! Did I Get That Right?

[@abrador787]

Jakob stasen Life Isn't Monopoly

[@darkuser9992]

It's funny how something like this would affect you decades later. I am in the Australian outback right now and had this in my head. Being surrounded by nothing other than the bush, animals, caves and stars, you'd certainly imagine something like the Bunyip!

[@El1t3HUNT3R13]

this thing is a no joke monster. i see this in real life i am bolting.

[@raisingflowers8018]

El1t3HUNT3R13 I believe you better keep that flash light aside you every night

[@commandercaptain4664]

I desperately need to see _Crocodile Dundee vs The Bunyip._

[@h8term842]

Let my nephew watch this, poor lad refuses to go in the woods now.

[@firebirdchild975]

Mika Kitsune may i ask way the woods the legend seeks of swamps wear the bunyip lives not the forest

[@firebirdchild975]

Bunyip swamp seeks im sorry auto correct

[@Belicure]

This song makes me feel very strange.....

[@ezrastardust3124]

IKR it’s somehow both calming and terrifying at the same time

[@blackcoffee8435]

Do you know what the magic ingredient is here folks? Simplicity. Listen to the subtle piano tone. Listen to the lyrics. The simplicity of the animation. No cgi. Nothing overdone or overwrought. Nothing screaming for your attention. Tones and vibrations everything just set to a murmur not a scream. That is the secret sauce. Subtlety. Your imagination fills in the gaps.

[@whositsnamewhatsitsname3269]

I would love to see a movie about the Bunyip, it's such a good monster. It doesn't have a definite design, a film like that could explore the fear of the unknown and even dabble a little bit in cosmic horror. One of these days a film will do this mate justice. I swear on my Aussie soul.

[@MarioMatt19]

I'm 17 years old and this scared the absolute crap out of me.

[@FilmmakeroftheFuture]

I'm 22 and was afraid to go to sleep afterward.

[@EphemeralProductions]

It freaked me out in a bad way a couple of weeks ago when I watched it, but now I'm watching it again and it's not having much effect on me. The reason I'm watching it again, believe it or not, is to get over my fear of it! That's how they say one gets over a fear of something, to expose yourself to it! LOL :-D

[@FilmmakeroftheFuture]

Be careful though, I've learned from experience that sometimes exposure can make it worse (but mostly if it's combined with shame),

[@EphemeralProductions]

well, I sure as hell ain't plannin' on watchin' it anymore! maybe once or twice in the future, if I get a wild hair, if that, but nothing else! Because, even if it don't scare me anymore, it's still creepy and dark, and I try to stay away from such things.

[@FilmmakeroftheFuture]

Good for you tall32guy.

[@asylumnurse88]

This was one of my favourite but scariest childhood movies!! The bunyip song traumatised me

[@rubenv0531]

Same. Honestly I watched the beginning of it and I got so freaking scared like it opened a sacred memory in the back of my head. Watching it now I'm not that terrified, but it gave me such a traumatic moment as a kid that I still kinda get scared 😅

[@dizzydee9939]

That brought back memories, I totally remember this part captivating me as a child, especially the moment the bunyip faded into the rock.

[@struanmackenzie3849]

That was so fucking scary

[@craigroberts4128]

Im so glad u posted this, I've been trying to think of the Bunyips name as i kept thinking it was the Bunyan,lol. Anyway i was probably 8, now Im 43 and this has haunted me my whole life

[@yueshijoorya601]

Are you thinking about Nick Bunyun? The CS: GO dude?

[@MattHoke]

Saw this when I was 5 and this song/sequence absolutely frightened the hell out of me. Never forgot it and quite a few nightmares in my youth because of it.

[@NoteYeSpelling]

So it's actually a real thing that exists holy shit. I always had this memory of a strange dream about a terrifying monster screaming "I'll get you in the light of the moon" or something along those lines, and I remember having this dream night after night for quite some time as a kid, but I always kind of assumed that it was something that my imagination made up, but actually I must have watched this and it really stuck in my subconsious and basically played back this video in my dream every night xd I couldn't remember the word bunyip though, so I had no way of looking up if it is from something, just now after many years I accidentally stumble upon this song and finally everything makes sense!

[@EphemeralProductions]

Well the aboriginals CLAIM it’s a real thing. Obviously it doesn’t look anything like this, but whatever it looks like has always said to be quite menacing. They said it has the look of several animals at once.

[@parallaxnick637]

Actually a linquist thinks he cracked it. There was one tribe of Aborigines that used the word "bunyip" for an actual animal. The leopard seal. Thing was, they had a word for "seal" and a word for "leopard seal" but they didn't consider a leopard seal a seal. Not hard to see why: Leopard seals are terrifying monsters that are basically intelligent amphibious sharks, and back in the before time, they used to swim up rivers inland from the coast which would then dry out. Trapped, starving and dehydrated, they would very likely scream at and attack anything that came near them.

[@nermal5416]

When I was younger this scared me so much! In fact it affected to this day.

[@shelbydrury144]

Just woke up from a dead sleep and remembered this from when I was a kid, took me hours to find it. Why did my mother let me watch this, this is terrifying.

[@beautyfrompainxxx]

Didn’t help that I sat alone in the dark and watched this while abuse happened in my home as child lmao. I associate this video with so much trauma, especially the song and images. My childhood was scary enough, I didn’t need this. I also hate how I’d blocked this out and just heard the word ‘bunyip’ and went to my search bar and typed in ‘ Dot and The Kangaroo’. I have amnesia, how tf did my brain remember this movie so suddenly?

[@childrenofminervaofficial4316]

I haven't seen this in over 35 years and I am so glad to see it again. The phrase "the bunyip's going to get you" stayed in my head all those years. However, I thought the bunyip was cool and I would have given my eye teeth for a plush toy of him.

[@forensicforager5589]

when I was little, I had a portable DVD player that I used on road trips and long car rides, but I only had like three movies. one of them was Dot and the Kangaroo. for some reason it was always nighttime when we came home from these long trips out of town, and I would watch this movie. since I was unable to "come home quickly" and hiding was impossible because we were in a car on the highway, this was terrifying. many nightmares were had.

[@jonathanalvarez5921]

They should make a high budget movie with The Bunyip!

[@archanea-8862]

It’s even creepier because it’s like an Aborigine cave painting

[@TvConfusionn]

This looks like something you would randomly wake up to in the middle of the night on some random cartoons channel

[@legendonyxtaco]

Si senor

[@thephilosophyofhorror]

I particularly like how everyone can't help but staring at it, even as they run. That spells fear alright :)

[@Eroxi3]

I remember like 15 years ago looking up what a mermaids natural predator would be (hypothetically of course) and the first real answer I could get was the Bunyip. This was the first thing that came up when I searched simply the Bunyip and holy hell this song still gets to me years later. It's about time I sit down and actually watch the movie it's originated from.

[@ghrammyboy]

This video takes me back 25+ years. Whoever made the original Dot and the Kangaroo movie, you guys are freaking awesome!

[@zinnixtoma1]

this never left me. i still remember it was the day after Halloween and little 10 year old me was chowing down on Halloween candy's. i was up at 6 in the morning before anyone else and there wasn't much to watch so i scanned trough the channels until i saw a cartoon and it was this.... it terrified me so much i never forgot i am 26 now and went on the hunt to find this clip i honestly never thought id find it... but it still gives me the chills

[@angeljones6346]

I'm 35 years old and I loved this song when I was a little girl and I still love it today. Just goes to show you how awesome Australia really is. I feel blessed being born here. Lol.

[@FallenAngel9979]

I remember watching Dot & the Kangaroo at school as a kid in England maybe twice… and seem to recall it had a sad ending…but the Bunyip is the only part I really remembered- “You’d better run home quickly or the Bunyip’s going to get you…” this scared the Hell out of me then, & decades later….it still does.

[@DoomedDiceThrower]

Nah that's okay, I didn't plan on sleeping tonight anyway.

[@raisingflowers8018]

DoomedDiceThrower you fucking crack me up😂😂😂😂

[@pietrayday9915]

I'm in my 40's, I saw this with my younger brother and sister way back in the '80s - kids back then loved to be scared and loved monsters (I'd already seen tons of horror movies by then), and you bet we ate this up - I haven't seen the movie since then (it's a bit hard to find), but my brother and i could still remember the song and video decades later. You could find plenty of "kid movies" from the '70s and '80s that had eerie or scary parts like this in them - seems like that's not as much a "thing" anymore, but it was completely normal to mix a little old-fashioned ghost-story-around-the-camp-fire style horror with the kiddie entertainment when I was a kid....

[@stephenjohnson4922]

OMG! I remember after watching Dot and the Kangaroo on HBO and this was the only part that terrified me when I was little but that’s not the worst of it, I COULDN’T GET THAT SONG OUT OF MY HEAD!! I’m no movie director or author but It would be cool if someone made a R rated movie about the Bunyip and it would have to have a surprise jump scare unexpected scenes that have to be more frightening than the Conjuring or something oh and use this bunyip song for the title of the movie too 😎👍🏼

[@struanmackenzie3849]

Songs catchy as hell and after 30 years I still remember the words

[@rabbit0664]

@@struanmackenzie3849 Definitely agree with that

[@MarerosA]

I don't remember being scared by this, but I WAS SOBBING SO HARD everytime this movie ended.....

[@GreatJinjonator]

This is so interesting to stumble upon. Being from America, I’ve never even heard of the Bunyip, but I’m just as certain I would be scared of it if I had seen this when I was younger

[@romulusnr]

I'm American, I definitely remember seeing Dot and the Kangaroo if only once. Not sure what it was on. I want to say Nickelodeon but not sure?

[@smallfry7743]

@@romulusnr ..HBO played it

[@patriciathomas9669]

My mom had to leave the lights on and my bedroom door open for days. Thanks Australia. This Texan was actually traumatized for life. Who knew?

[@rin8558]

This was the first youtube video I ever watched on my own & the first thing I ever googled!

[@rin8558]

***** I was 7 and I watched it because we were learning about the dreamtime stories at school

[@SheilaRamseySoprano]

I cannot believe I actually found this ... I wasn't even sure I knew how to spell "bunyip" in my search, but it popped right up. Thank you for posting this, because I was such a small child when I watched this. Brings back a lot of memories.

[@kadriyabikbova]

This has to be the CREEPIEST, SCARIEST, MOST UNPLEASANT thing I have ever seen in my whole life... I'm not sleeping tonight

[@raisingflowers8018]

I was 5 shit didn't get that far and when I found out that I lived in Australia Sydney and understood what this movie was really about, holy fuck you better go to church now.

[@JonnyInfinite]

This was on at like 7.30am when I was about 6 years old. They really didn't care what kids saw in the 80s

[@twinkthatloveslotrtrilogy7676]

Same

[@sagnikmustafi2374]

@@JonnyInfinite What if I told you that the bunyip is real

[@JonnyInfinite]

@@sagnikmustafi2374 oh god no

[@108POPCORN]

Ahhh I remember this from my childhood Good memories Good, horrifying memories

[@crappyaccount]

😔

[@jables3211]

this doesnt set me off but i can totally see how this would traumatize someone younger

[@ocarinagirlandthestories648]

I’m from Sweden. I never Heard- of the bunyip until I saw a video were a girl was talking about the mythical creatures of Australia. I’m only seeing this video and hearing this song for the first time now, yet it gives me both chills and a strange sense of nostalgia I think it might have to do with the fact that the design is similar to different monsters in children’s books. And then there’s the neckless oval head with a freaky face bearing similarities to that black monster from moomin valley who brings about winter and death wherever he goes, and also an image of black madame (basically like Swedish Bloody Mary). When we’re kids we get fed with these ideas of what a monster should look like and then in the dark of night as we lay in bed that is what our minds make us believe we see, or when we’re asleep, that’s what appears in our nightmares

[@ItsAmazingHowIAm]

The piano reminds me of the theme from The Fog.

[@thatonetictac3998]

Sleep wasn't that important anyway

[@Disneyfan82]

I almost don't know which version of the bunyip is scarier and creepier. That one version describes it as a prehistoric creature that somehow survived extinction and lurks in the swamps undetected until it comes up to devour its prey of humans that get too close. Or that there is one story someone mentioned that the bunyip was once an evil Aboriginal that ate its totem animal and was banished from the tribe to the murky swamps, cursed by the spirits, and later transformed into a shapeshifting abomination that will attack and eat anyone that encounters it...or something like that.

[@crowman9096]

Disneyfan82 probably the second one

[@EphemeralProductions]

it's funny. Back in probably 78 (long before I saw this movie or this part of it), I was aroun 4 or 5 and was scared by an occurrence at a babysitters house; it was Halloween and my mom had just dropped me off to attend a little Halloween party the babysitter was doing for the kids. I walked through the house, unable to find anyone, even though all the lights were on. I heard noise in the garage, went to the door that led from the kitchen to the garage, and upon opening it found the perimeter of the entire garage lined with lit candles (with the lights off), and the babysitter as well as a huge group of kids staring at me with wide and I think holding up their hands or something, and making a spooky OOOHHHH noise. I burst into tears, hysterical with fear, and ran back out to my mom (who was still in the driveway and I think about to leave). My mom was VERY concerned and freaked out, and said we were leaving and she was never bringing me back to that house again. and she didn't. The funny thing, neither the babysitter OR any of the kids came out to see how I was or what was going on. My point in all this is, that is one of my most traumatic memories I have as a kid. For some reason when think of that, it makes me think of this scene. Even though I didn't see this until a few years after the Halloween occurrence.

[@daphnerogers4277]

This makes me feel strangely nostalgic and I don't know why because I never watched this.

[@jamesaustin1988]

I feel exactly the same about Dot and the Kangaroo. I don't think I ever watched it as a kid either (unless I did and it's locked in the deep recesses of my subconscious). Maybe because Dot and the Kangaroo feels similar in a lot of ways to shows I did watch, so I know how my kid self would have reacted to it.

[@itzsmore2824]

I’m 17 and my father had me watch this when I was very young 😭😂😂 I’m so “old school” that I still watch water babies... I still cry at the ending of this movie 😭

[@SunFlower-xt4ps]

I saw this is recommended, and the minute I heard that music a wave of nostalgia washed over me, my dad used to torture me with this song. It terrified me so much as a little kid and he used to play it all the time and I would run screaming out of the room, but I haven’t seen it in like 10 years

[@Say_No-2_Animal-Abuse_]

It's that clanging piano, the man's pronunciation of Bad & the way the song starts off loud, then decreases, then is loud again! 😉

[@Rurike]

Not very scary seeing it as an older person, but its certainly a very eerie tune

[@damotoneko1500]

I hope you're speaking for yourself cause i'm 23.

[@Valentinelove33]

This is Still better than Anaconda.

[@playmoshi124]

Still a better love than twillight. XD

[@haamurabaigreygate19]

I found this quite eerie as a kid and when I asked my dad if the Bunyip was real, he says yes, of course. I think he said it lived in the bush and had been around for a long, long time, according to the aboriginals, who knew better than anyone how to escape it, though not all did - not those who couldn't run fast enough. I thought about that long into the night..

[@laughingatthesky7]

THE BUNYIP'S FACE THOUGH!! I AM PROBABLY NOT GET TTING ANY SLEEP THIS WEEK!

[@EphemeralProductions]

he would have been easier to deal with if he didn't have those damn red eyes! O_O :(

[@ClareMcFearless]

Thank you, Cracked, for making me curious enough to relive one of the most terrifying things I ever saw as a kid. Still terrifying.

[@firebirdchild975]

well i know wat is my new ringtone

[@TeeheeCat]

Imagine somebody calling you in midnight and this started playing

[@firebirdchild975]

i once fell asleep during nightmare on elm street woke up on the big fredy kill moment and was like o darn i mist the scary things

[@lauragrace101]

Don’t do it!!

[@firebirdchild975]

Laura Wallace too late the bunyip moon shines over here

[@AnAngryMagpie]

Words can never describe the unbridled joy I felt watching this now, but back when I was a little kid,, BOY OH BOY

[@gabrielmendoza8567]

Creeped me out as a kid in late 70's... So i bought the dvd for both my kids. They were terrified. Haha! Passed on childhood fears!

[@davidharris4652]

I remember watching this on HBO when it first came out. That had to be like 40 years ago. To me this was very scarey. But the movie itself was very good. The song was always catchy though. I just searched under Bunyip because I couldn't remember title

[@ThomasMurphyCosplay]

the Bunyip is actually a over sized Wombat

[@NocturnalWrath]

I thought it was a deformed horse

[@ThomasMurphyCosplay]

DEFCON G20 that's Jersey Devil you might be talking about

[@NocturnalWrath]

Thomas Murphy if it's also from Australia then maybe

[@ThomasMurphyCosplay]

DEFCON G20 i don't know but just to let you know i am Australian too

[@NocturnalWrath]

Thomas Murphy I'm aboriginal, I feel imbarassed that I got that wrong

[@Stephenboi77]

This terrified me as a child, yet every time it played on HBO I was right there to watch! So glad to find this piece of my childhood!

[@quinnbrando]

I watched this movie when I was maybe three years old. It scared me so bad I never opened the DVD case again, and I didn't remember any of it except this song. For the past fifteen years, I've thought about the clip of the singer going "or the bunyip's going to get you..." every night before falling asleep. I can't get it out of my head. Watching this again now is so strange, and I don't know how I feel about it.

[@Arixwillis]

This traumatized me as a child lmao.

[@colepirrello]

when it comes close to the screen it just freaks me out

[@julieporter7805]

Well thank you, Australia, I hope you're proud of yourself for traumatizing me when I heard this song for the first time-in my 20's. I can't imagine what this would have been like to hear this as a kid. (It doesn't help that it comes from a movie with the premise of a 5 year old getting lost in the Australian Outback! A 5 year old!)

[@darthrowsdower3554]

i still cant watch this without shivering