By Tim Binnall
A trio of Australian men claim that they spotted a Yowie while driving home from work and that their encounter with the country's equivalent to Bigfoot left them understandably unsettled. The remarkable sighting reportedly occurred earlier this month after Seamus Fitzgerald, Stirling Slocock-Bennett, and a third unnamed coworker had finished at their job on some farmland in the rural community of Jimna in Queensland. As they drove down a desolate road, the tree men noticed something out of the ordinary beneath a streetlight ahead of them and they could not believe their eyes when they finally reached the curious sight and realized that it was a mysterious figure that they described as being slouched over.
"As we got closer and closer, it didn't make sense like you'd hope," Slocock-Bennett mused, indicating that their bewilderment was compounded when the hair-covered being, for lack of a better term, turned its head to their vehicle and they saw that it had a face resembling an ape. According to Fitzgerald, the sizeable creature, which he said sported "very long arms," then fled the scene "in a very apelike way." The remote location of the incident coupled with what they observed of the animal's mannerisms and appearance has led the coworkers to conclude that they witnessed the legendary Yowie said to lurk Down Under.
The experience has seemingly left an indelible mark on the men as Fitzgerald revealed that "I hardly slept that night and the feeling was overwhelming that I had seen something that I never believed in previously." That sense of wonderment was echoed by Slocock-Bennett, who recalled how, in the moment, "we were in utter disbelief of what we were seeing." Since their sighting, the men have attempted to explore the area in hopes of seeing the elusive creature once again, but their pursuits have been futile as is so often the case with Bigfoot encounters which seem to be a once-in-a-lifetime event for most witnesses, whether they wish for that to be the case or not.