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Last Words on the #Yowie - #Australia's
#Phantom #CryptidApe

Last month, Tony Healy and Paul Cropper launched their fourth book, The Yowie File: Encounters with Australian Ape-men. It’s a companion volume to The Yowie (Anomalist Books, 2006) with many more historical cases and a stack of additional modern era reports. It is available in hardback, softcover and e-book.

An entire chapter to #Indigenous Yowie #Folklore, showing that many, if not most, #AboriginalPeople, from Cape York Peninsula right down the east coast to Victoria, across to South Australia, Western Australia and up to the Northern Territory, strongly believe in the existence of hair-covered, man-like or ape-like creatures. Their many cultures have different terms for them – doolagarl, thoolagarl, nooncoonah, jimbra, tjangara, puttikan and jurrawarra, to name but a few.

Cropper's 40-year search for an explanation for stories and reports, that include folklore, reportage from Australia's colonial era (1788-1900), to the present has had him reinterpreting the sightings phenomena and the #HighStrangeness #Anomalies. He has viewed and attempted to understand the Yowie reports in the context of #CryptidEncounters, Parapsychology, and Folklore & #FolkMemory.

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https://www.thefortean.com/2023/05/23/last-word-on-the-yowie/

BEYOND THE BOGGLE Jack Hunter (ed.) #DeepWeird; the Varieties of #HighStrangeness Experience. August Night Press, 2022.

The term 'high strangeness' was coined by #JAllenHynek in his 1974 book, The UFO Experience. He used it to describe accounts which seemed to stray beyond the limits of his Type One, Type Two, etc. classification system for #UFOReports, and which were being ignored by #UFO researchers who were fearful of stepping outside a 'scientific' approach to the phenomenon.

It was not long, however, before some of these #HighStrangenessExperiences were granted admission to UFO respectability, with the expanding categories of '#CloseEncounter' reports, but researchers like #JohnKeel and a young #JeromeClark were pushing the limits further with their exploration of stories such as '#Mothman', and accounts of psychic and #ParanormalExperience & involvement in UFO and #CryptidEncounters.

The 'Deep Weird': “These are experiences that push, and often far exceed, the boundaries of what the dominant models of Western #Science and #Culture allow for, and yet are relatively commonly reported worldwide.”

#Paranormal #Fortean #Cryptid #Anomalies #Parapsychology #Perception #CulturalBeliefs #NatureOfReality #Parapsychologist #Book #BookReview

https://pelicanist.blogspot.com/2023/04/beyond-boogle.html