DICTIONARY ENTRY001 / PUBLIC
SUPERNATURAL HUMANOID FIGURE
Yowie
Also indexed as Australian ape, Australian gorilla, yahoo, Yahoo, Yahoo-devil-devil.
PUBLIC-TEXT OCCURRENCES1,04724.55% OF PUBLIC CORPUS
LEADING REGIONNew South Wales484 coded records
DOCUMENTED SPAN1825–2026accepted dated records
MAPPED EVIDENCE92087.9% geographically mapped
Across encounter reports, Yowie is usually described as a large, heavily haired, upright or human-shaped figure seen briefly in bushland, beside roads, or near the edge of settlements. Accounts commonly emphasise height, an ape-like outline, tracks, calls, or a rapid retreat from witnesses. The accepted archive contains 1,047 records from 1825–2026. The largest coded regional group is New South Wales (484), and the largest source group is Australian Yowie Research (1,010). These distributions describe archive coverage, not real-world incidence.
OCCURRENCE TIMELINE
records by decade1820sPEAK 2672020s
REGIONAL FIELD
977 region-coded records93.3%of this figure's records include a coded region
- 01New South Wales48449.5%
- 02Queensland33234.0%
- 03Victoria848.6%
- 04Northern Territory232.4%
- 05Western Australia181.8%
- 06Australian Capital Territory171.7%
- 07South Australia111.1%
- 08Tasmania80.8%
SOURCE CONCENTRATION
9 organisations96.5%held by the leading source
- 01Australian Yowie Research1,010
- 02Australian Broadcasting Corporation16
- 03Internet Archive9
- 04OpenAlex6
- 05Territory Stories2
SELECTED PUBLIC RECORDS
6 OF 1,047- 01Yowie2026
- 02Yowie in Litchfield National Park yowie speculation2025 / Northern Territory
- 03Nightlife - Yowies and Bunyips and Australia's mythical history uncovered, expedition cruising for travel and water myths debunked2024
- 04The Mythical Creatures of Australia2024
- 05Track: The Search for Australia's Bigfoot | Conspiracy | Unexplained | Full English Documentary2024
- 06Ep 114 The Yowie2024