Other Humanoid · New South Wales, Australia · 2008
AUS-2008ID case-c8a137d67eFirst-hand accountAdded to map Nov 10, 2026
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- When
- Jan 1, 2008to the day
- Where
- New South Wales, Australiato state level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports a tall, hairy, ape-like creature with orange hair running alongside their car at high speed before standing up and crossing the road.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- Where
- New South Wales, Australia
mapped to state level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Jan 1, 2008
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Nov 10, 2026
- Case id
- case-c8a137d67e
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Source trail (1)
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- Bongil Bongil, New South Wales 2008
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Further reading
- On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Abominable Science!, Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (2013)
Skeptical history of the Yeti, Nessie and others.
Borrow on Internet Archive - In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, Karl Shuker (1995)
Borrow on Internet Archive
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.