Northern Territory
These public-text records carry a reviewed Northern Territory association. Locations describe narrative or source geography and must not be interpreted as verified supernatural distribution, habitat, frequency, or tourism guidance.
- Search-ready records
- 188
- Public sources
- 7
- States / territories
- 1
- Dated span
- 1899–2026
Map and place labels identify public-record context, not proof of an event or being.
Representative records — first 60
- ghost in Mix 104.9 FM studios ghost#4080The Northern Territory News item reported that announcers would be joined by Darwin's Most Haunted, broadcasting to find the ghosts haunting the building. It added that the ghost haunting the Mix 104.9 FM studios gets t…
- Yowie in Litchfield National Park yowie speculation#4075I am wookiee hear me roar Tales of Bigfoot, Yowies and the Hairy Man have long been rumoured in the Territory. Now, one visitor to Litchfield National Park reports of hearing 'Wookiee-like screams' have caught the atten…
- Spirit People in Ngabaya Spirit People#4148ABC Education's public Ngabaya: Spirit People resource presents a transcript in which Wanjarrarra is described as a small island where there were many Spirit People. The story names one old Spirit Man as their leader, s…
- Urban legend, Asian myth, or historical figure: Who was the ghostly Poinciana Woman?#4019Urban legend, Asian myth, or historical figure: Who was the ghostly Poinciana Woman? - ABC News Skip to main content Skip to news navigation, settings and search Explore the ABC ABC News News Home Curious Darwin Urban l…
- Yowie in Acacia Hills yowie sightings and damage speculation#4073Yowie! Let's hope the bark worse than bite. It's hard to imagine what could cause this sort of damage. A Yowie expert, who preferred to remain anonymous, has examined the photos and recognised the distinctive marking on…
- 2014 - NT News Yowie Article#967Public AYR report page for 2014 - NT News Yowie Article. Location cue from public page title/path: Northern Territory, Northern Territory.
- ghost in Darwin Ambulance Centre resident ghost#4074Ghost Story - Part 2. A couple of years ago Vollie News ran a story about the ghost in the old Palmerston Ambulance Centre. The Darwin Ambulance Centre on Ross Smith Avenue also has its resident ghost. Paramedic reports…
- ghosts in Ghosts in the old Palmerston Centre#4081Vollie News Thursday 26th May 2011 included "Ghosts in the old Palmerston Centre" and "Another ghost story". Peter Poole asked whether the old Palmerston Centre was haunted and said he never had trouble sleeping there.…
- 2009 - NT News Yowie Article#958Public AYR report page for 2009 - NT News Yowie Article. Location cue from public page title/path: Northern Territory, Northern Territory. Body excerpt retained for review: # ape, andrew mcginn, acacia hills, katrina tu…
- Kings Canyon, Northern Territory 2001#39Public AYR report page for Kings Canyon, Northern Territory 2001. Source-stated location: Kings Canyon, Northern Territory. Event field: Mysterious Vocalisations. Body excerpt retained for review: I am writing this emai…
- 2000 - Northern Territory News#948Public AYR report page for 2000 - Northern Territory News. Location cue from public page title/path: Northern Territory, Northern Territory.
- 1998 - Northern Territory News#942Public AYR report page for 1998 - Northern Territory News. Location cue from public page title/path: Northern Territory, Northern Territory.
- 1998 - NT News Article#841Public AYR report page for 1998 - NT News Article. Location cue from public page title/path: Northern Territory, Northern Territory. Body excerpt retained for review: The NT News of 23 November 1998 reported 'Yeti Beast…
- Tanima Desert, Northern Territory 1998#38Public AYR report page for Tanima Desert, Northern Territory 1998. Source-stated location: Tanima Desert, Northern Territory. Event field: Yowie Sighting. Body excerpt retained for review: Source: Article by Randall Flo…
- Adelaide River, Northern Territory 1998#37Public AYR report page for Adelaide River, Northern Territory 1998. Source-stated location: Adelaide River, Northern Territory. Event field: Yowie Sighting. Body excerpt retained for review: Date of Sighting: Wednesday…
- Acacia Hills & Humpty Doo, Northern Territory 1998#36Public AYR report page for Acacia Hills & Humpty Doo, Northern Territory 1998. Source-stated location: Acacia Hills, Humtpy Doo - Northern Territory. Event field: Possible Yowie Encounter. Body excerpt retained for revi…
- 1997 - NT News Yowie Article#941Public AYR report page for 1997 - NT News Yowie Article. Location cue from public page title/path: Northern Territory, Northern Territory. Body excerpt retained for review: # northern territory
- 1997 - Litchfield Times Yowie Article#940Public AYR report page for 1997 - Litchfield Times Yowie Article. Location cue from public page title/path: Litchfield, Northern Territory. Body excerpt retained for review: # accicia hills, katrina tucker, yowie, nt, s…
- Acacia Hills, Northern Territory 1997 (2)#35Public AYR report page for Acacia Hills, Northern Territory 1997 (2). Source-stated location: Acacia Hills, Northern Territory. Event field: Yowie Causing Havoc. Terrain field: Farm near heavily wooded rainforest/ Hilly…
- Acacia Hills, Northern Territory 1997 (1)#34Public AYR report page for Acacia Hills, Northern Territory 1997 (1). Source-stated location: Acacia Hills, Northern Territory (approx. 70km south of Darwin).. Event field: Sighting. Body excerpt retained for review: Ot…
- Berry Springs, Northern Territory 1995#33Public AYR report page for Berry Springs, Northern Territory 1995. Source-stated location: Berry Springs, Northern Territory. Event field: Yowie/Strange Sightings. Body excerpt retained for review: I have had two sighti…
- 1990- People Magazine Yowie Article 27-02-1990#1088Public AYR report page for 1990- People Magazine Yowie Article 27-02-1990. No state or locality is asserted in the public page fields; retained as an Australia-level corpus record for dashboard/density only and excluded…
- 1987 - Sunday Press Yowie Article#925Public AYR report page for 1987 - Sunday Press Yowie Article. Location cue from public page title/path: Northern Territory, Northern Territory. Body excerpt retained for review: # yambah station, gorilla, northern terri…
- 1987 - NT News Yowie Article#923Public AYR report page for 1987 - NT News Yowie Article. Location cue from public page title/path: Northern Territory, Northern Territory. Body excerpt retained for review: # yambah station, ronald dodd, daniel kenny, p…
- 1987 - Yambah Station Yowie Article#834Public AYR report page for 1987 - Yambah Station Yowie Article. Source-stated location: Yambah Station, Northern Territory. Body excerpt retained for review: Title: Desert Family Sticks to ‘Monster’ Claim.
- Yambah Station, Northern Territory 1987#32Public AYR report page for Yambah Station, Northern Territory 1987. Source-stated location: Yambah Station, Northern Territory. Event field: Yowie giving Chase. Body excerpt retained for review: Source: Alice Springs Ad…
- Darwin (Fannie Bay), Northern Territory 1979#31Public AYR report page for Darwin (Fannie Bay), Northern Territory 1979. Source-stated location: Darwin – Fannie Bay. Event field: Yowie Sighting. Body excerpt retained for review: I was living in the NZ and came to Dar…
- 1932 - Northern Territory Times Yowie Article#887Public AYR report page for 1932 - Northern Territory Times Yowie Article. Location cue from public page title/path: Northern Territory, Northern Territory. Body excerpt retained for review: # bunyip, bright, yackandanda…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#4218ungarai tribe, the sexes are supposed to alternate at each successive re- incarnation. In the Nullakun tribe the old times, during which the ancestors walked about the country, are called Musmus, and each of them has hi…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#4217the sexes are supposed to alternate at each successive incarnation. In the Yungman tribe there is precisely the same belief in regard to the origin of children as in the Mungarai. For example, a Nanung, or sugar-bag (ho…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#4216and always, so my native informant told me, on the look-out for the right lubra. Again, at Crescent Lagoon, the old ancestor Namaran, the thunder man, deposited numbers of spirit children, and, if a Ngaritjbellan woman…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#4215RD TO ORIGIN OF CHILDREN 267 bar, on the Roper River, there is a large gum tree full of spirit children, all of them belonging to one of the totems associated with the Nakomara sub-class, and always, so my native inform…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#4214As in the case of the snake Uruanda,^ they made the country with all its natural features as they walked along. Wherever they stopped they performed ceremonies, and, when doing so, shook themselves,^ with the result tha…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#4213he Arunta tribe — is called Kurnallan. During this time the old ancestors walked about. Each one had his original home, called Burnamandu. As in the case of the snake Uruanda,^ they made the country with all its natural…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#4212m them on points such as these, and I did not have the opportunity of coming in contact with less civilised members of these tribes. The Port Essington natives believe that, at first, there were no real human beings, bu…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#4198grass, the ceremony is at an end, and they go back to camp. Anyone coming across the remains of the trench, and seeing the stones and log piled up above the small mound, knows that evil magic has been performed. It is s…
- Medicine man in Magic and Medicine#4183nd said to the old man, ameina; ngai wariji? what is it; shall I die? The old man answered, owoi, kutjeri ngeinyimma pari, wariji, yes, by and by you (will be) very ill, (you will) die. Nothing happened for a long time,…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#4171the peindi, the front man knocks the stick representing it into the fire on the top of the korno. All of them shout. Ah, Ah, Ah; Ach, Ach, Bmg, Bmg ! at the top of their voices. Without a moment's pause, stones and eart…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#4170p quiet," the idea being that the birds they represent will thereby be persuaded not to give notice to the victim that any danger such as a snake or crocodile threatens him. Then the men sway about, looking as fierce as…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#4169led Mormo. 3. Wax sphere made from Murkailpu sugar-bag. 4. Wax sphere made from TjaillDa sugar-bag. 5. Wax sphere made from Tjinangu sugar-bag. 6. Feather of Jimeribunna (native companion). 7. Feather of Kaleiyu (yellow…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#4168the other end. The performers squat down at one side of the fire, the men in a line, one behind the other, the woman slightly to one side (Fig. 64). The general arrangement can be seen in Plate XI. When the fire is hot…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#4167certainly enjoy, is over, the bones are carefully collected, wrapped in paper bark, and placed on a tree platform called kalla- kalla} If, for example, a Mumbali man dies, then Murungun men actually put them on the plat…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#4166l des- troyed. ' The Kakadu have a word, ardi, which means the total personal belongings of any individual. R 2 244 NATIVE TRIBES OF NORTHERN AUSTRALIA chap. After the water pouring is finished, the men take the charcoa…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#4165rit of the dead woman : — 'Tjukororu, lie down ; koyada, don't, ngeinyimma, you, workai, come back ; tjukororu, lie down ; kala, a word meaning all right, just so, etc. ; bialilla, children ; unkore- gora, see ; iwaiyu,…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#4164Grave. Kakauu Tribe. \_Face page 24J. VI BURIAL AND MOURNING CEREMONIES 241 following words, which were supposed to be addressed to the spirit of the dead woman : — 'Tjukororu, lie down ; koyada, don't, ngeinyimma, you,…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#4163e file round the grave. This walking round is called Kulorbuto. As they walked round they sang the I'ig- 57- Cakkyi.N(; the Konv, wkal'Ped in Taper Bark, to the Grave. Kakadu Tribe. Fig. 58. Placing Stones on the newlv-…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#4162t from the short final scene, when they were clearly supposed to be mourning, there was certainly not the slightest indication of sorrow. Everyone was very excited, but, between the dances, they laughed and talked as if…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#4161g himself, joined the audience; he was nearly played out and the two men, the black and the yellow, took up the running, rushing round and round, pausing [*y-a3!. r VI BURIAL AND MOURNING CEREMONIES 237 every now and th…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#4160ribal fathers of the dead man, went into it so as to singe the hair off their legs and arms. They must do this or else they will be seriously ill. Then all the men ran round and round in the smoke, after which they gath…
- spirits in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3872ot, the women may eat. The old men also can make it fit for younger men to eat at this place by breaking the fish's neck. Mischievous spirits, belonging to another tribe, some- times place Nuppadaitba bones that they ha…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3871alled Mungauilada, only Kakadu men may eat them, no one else may do so under very severe penalties. If anyone should venture to break this rule and to attempt to catch and eat them there, his eyes and ears would swell u…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3870rub. While he is asleep, the friendly Yalmuru, or Iwaiyu, who 3i8 NATIVE TRIBES OF NORTHERN AUSTRALIA chap. has rescued him, tells him that he has been taken away by a Yalmuru who belongs to another country or, as he sa…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3869ey also talk to him. Sometimes a medicine man happens to be close by when he comes back to the Banyan tree after one of his fishing excursions. Bubba Peibi says, Koyada ngainma bo, don't hit me. The medicine man says, K…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3868nd cooks his fish there. Within the tree, also, he has a wife and children. The ordinary black-fellow cannot see him, but the Margi, or medicine men, can, and they also talk to him. Sometimes a medicine man happens to b…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3867, and, when once he has passed, either in or out, it closes up. At the top of the trunk there is a hole through which air comes in. He makes a fire inside the trunk and cooks his fish there. Within the tree, also, he ha…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3866min, handing the snake to Mukurlul, said, kara pierda, hold it hard. Koregora pierda, balera, poro mornda, look hard (or) afterwards your eyes will be bad. Then he put the snake under Mukurlul's arm, saying, the snake i…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3865Mornun, and Gunumaramila, are kumali to a man who is being made into a doctor. They all belong to what are called " hot " yams, which must be specially treated before being eaten, or else they cause much irritation in t…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3864min had a son called Mukurlul. When he grew old he said to the latter, balera ngaiya^ wariji, later on I die ; balera ngeinyimma unkoregora Numereji, later on you look out Numereji, which meant that the son was I The wo…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3863got a new Numereji. In the Kakadu tribe there is a close association between Numereji and the medicine men. They alone are sup- posed not only to be able to see him, but to have eyes that can withstand his glance ; othe…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3862his younger brother. Joemin had a son, called Mukurlul, and Numuraupu had one, called Kardimenjil. Joemin had stolen a small Numereji snake which he cut in two. The front half grew a new short tail, the hinder half died…
This collection contains 188 search-ready records. The complete record set remains discoverable through the paginated public record index.