", "20th August, 2008, Coast Road between Lennox Head and Suffolk Park; David Hall emailed the ABC North Coast Radio station to describe his sighting. It gave a strange coughing bark-like call and bounded away. ", "1999, Brunswick Heads; Jodi saw a striped animal cross the road between the fish co-op and the highway. The animal "turned and looked at the vehicle a couple of times" and "was in clear view for 12-15 seconds.". ", "2003, Upper Main Arm; bush regenerator Mark had a close observation of a thylacine-like animal at midday and observed its striped back and stiff tail as it stood near the roadside. Nationwide News Pty Ltd 2023. He told Pete that early one morning recently while driving his tractor, he saw a pair of striped thylacines crossing his paddock. Had it found its way across country, movingat night, from the Medlow Bath-Grose Valley region, keeping to the water catchment scrub intoKatoomba, or else along the Megalong Valley cliffs side, avoiding houses to reach the area it wasseen in? I had my large driving lights on which clearly picked out an animal in front of my car about 2 kms north past the Lennox Head turnoff. ", "1997, 4am, Uki; Peter described his sighting of 1997 on the Murwillumbah Road to Uki near the intersection with Mount Warning Road at 4am when he observed what at first he thought was a fox on the side of the road. The front legs were longer than the back, but shorter than those of a greyhound. No sex identifiers noticed. The location was 40 miles south of Singleton on the Putty Road. However, reports of thylacine sightings continue. A huge population of mutant tiger snakes has inhabited a small island off the coast of Tasmania to the point where tales of fleeing tourists are routinely regaled like . Abel Tasman's party recorded seeing footprints of "wild beasts having claws like a tiger" in Tasmania in 1642. Just outside the town was a small separate community called Brown Town by the locals. Two adults and a juvenile. I am a geologist and had another geologist see it too. The tail went downward toward the ground, said John. The largest remnant bushland in western NSW. She then saw it run as fast as it could down the street towards the cane fields. It emerged from the vegetation 70m ahead, running across the road, travelling north and then stopped to watch his approach. "Further west beyond Blackheath lies the town of Mount Victoria, on the western edge of the Blue Mountains. It had 10 to 12 very pale stripes across the rear portion of the body with slightly wider stripes on the back & narrower stripes on the rump. I tried to explain it to people for years but couldn't. My friend who was with me describes it as follows, it looked like a kangaroo but it walked rather than hopped. They phoned and spoke about their experience on my Wildlife Talkback programme.". We also found two unusual sets of tracks. Efforts to track the animal or animals down were made, it is said but all failed due to the general inaccessibility of the forest country. Questions do arise about this bizarre revelation. The Tasmanian tiger, also known as the Thylacine, has been presumed extinct since 1936 . A fuller account of his sighting can be found on his website: "On Tuesday 22nd February 1972 at 10.15 pm, a female companion and I were driving along the Great Western Highway just south of Blackheath toward Katoomba in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. The animal vanished off the highway into the darkness in seconds into roadside scrub. Researchers are looking for the Tasmanian Tiger in Northern Queensland after potential sightings suggest the species might not be extinct. It was not afraid of me but backed away whenever I approached closer than 2-3 m. The tail was the least dog-like feature. We all agreed, the animal looked like a Tasmanian Tiger, body stripes and all, and about the size of a large dog. "The same type of animal was seen killing a sheep in Megalong Valley in January 1987. He had seen the animal in the glow of the car headlights when at a sharp bend. Between 2016 to 2019, the report notes seven sightings of the Tasmanian tiger. My mother in the passenger seat (who grew up in B/Hill) could only splutter "what is that?!" . Im dead-set sure the damn thing was not a fox, dingo or dog and Im positive about the zebra-like stripes down the back. It continued to sniff the dirt road unconcerned by the presence of my vehicle. It was probably heading for the nearby Grose Valley, he said.". We observed it for about 10 minutes from between 10 to 20 meters away. Although. ", "Late 2007, New Brighton; Don was driving a bus with 8 passengers between 2 and 3am when they all observed a large unusual thylacine-like carnivore eating a small animal on the road, probably a bandicoot struck by an earlier vehicle near the speed bump. A couple were spotlighting near Torington, when they saw three thylacines. Nearby we found a pile of day-old excrement containing pig bristles and crushed pig bone. Anyone who has seen the earth around Broken Hill it was that colour. He only saw the Thylacine twice during the same week, approximately 3 years after he began working in those ranges. A tassie tiger hunter said he has 'irrefutable proof Tasmanian tiger is not extinct He released three images, one of which he claims is solid proof they're alive The images show a small. The animal was so close that he almost hit it as it reached the other side of his vehicle. Neil Waters released a video last week teasing fans about the photos which he claimed were proof the extinct animals were still alive. Apart from its size, it was greyhound-like in appearance with narrowing flanks, its body sloping downward to a long, thin tail which followed the slope of the back and seemed kangaroo-like in that it did not appear to wag. I walked to the spot were the animal had been and found a small dead wombat "gutted", a very strange sight for the plains. I found fresh faeces that may be its (it was not obviously male) and have frozen a sample. Despite the dog-like animal, native to Australia seemingly disappearing all those years ago, there have been a number of sightings of the animal over recent years. The head, he observed, appeared too big for the body, and from the mid-back to the tail rump were faint black coloured body stripes.". These superficially resembled those of a dog, but displayed marsupial features. "In October 1995, Mr Bob Donaldson was driving friends to Blackheath from Katoomba around 1am. Mr Pereira also found a pile of excrement left by the animal. Wildlife Tasmanian tiger sightings: 'I represent 3,000 people who have been told they're nuts' The Thylacine Awareness Group is 'dedicated to the research, recognition and conservation of our. Its body fur was a greyish-brown colour and the body stripes, a blackish-brown colour, when first observed, ran from the middle of the back onto the tail rump. We were driving at 20mph speed, when, turning a corner I saw this strange dog-like animal as did Carrol, as it emerged from bushes on the right-hand side of the road. It was not a dog sound she madenothing like it. ", "In 1986 the Gilroys were contacted by Mrs Patricia Marson, to say that, in October 1972, she was on a camping trip with the Sydney Bushwalkers Club at Mount Wilson, which like nearby Mount Irvine, overlooks the Wollemi National Park/Wollangambe Wilderness country, from out of which tigers have been known to emerge to be seen hereabouts and at nearby Bilpin. The last captive tiger died on September 7, 1936 at the since-defunct Beaumaris Zoo. Tasmanian tigers were 39 to 51 inches (100 to 130 centimeters) long, and the tail added 20 to 26 inches (50 to 65 cm) to its length. He described it as the size of a greyhound with distinctive brown stripes on its back He saw it eating some meat by the side of the road and got a a good look at it before it ran off. 'Tiger' now in baby mystery. We are still seeking to verify more recent sightings. ", "One night during June 1984 Mr Cedrick Mansley was driving on the Jenolan Caves Road, when a striped-bodied animal ran across the road ahead of his vehicle, clearly visible in the glare of the headlights. They decided that it could only be a Tasmanian tiger and phoned the national parks service to report the sighting and where most annoyed when they were not believed and told that they could not possibly have seen such an animal because it is extinct. ", "5th March 2006, Sunday, Left Bank Road, Mullumbimby; Elle and her family saw a strange animal in their garden close to the house and watched it as it ran down to the creek. Both were of a buff colour with distinctively rounded ears, hunched backs and remarkably long thin straight tails. We failed to find any other prints hereabouts, yet it is very likely that these mystery marsupial carnivores will return to the area at some stage. Another search of the farm and its surrounds failed to turn up anything new, and the creature did not return.". ", "January 2008, Byron Bay Andrew and his wife were on holidays from Victoria, staying at an apartment off Cemetery Road in Byron Bay. But why the hell would a baby thylacine, which I am absolutely confident that this animal is, be following a pademelon and be being followed by a pademelon?, he asks viewers. "In November of 1997, about 30 - 60km south of Broken Hill at 7.30am on the Silver City Hwy I too saw what can only be decribed as a Tassie Tiger, much to the 'joy' of all who I have told. A group of residents conducted an armed search of Myrtle Creek but found nothing. ", "18th September 2011, 8pm, Cape Byron; observed by zoologist Mary Gardner on the way to the Cape Byron lighthouse. All of these sightings occurred in a small valley we were crossing during this period of the survey, and on this final occassion I happened to be some distance from the others in the party, setting up some wires, when the others accidentally spooked the creature from a spot nearby where it had apparently been hiding not realizing where I was it came tearing straight at me through the salt bush and blue bush and only veered away at the last minute when it sighted me. To this day I wish I had have got out to speak to the driver of the 'cruiser, but my head was just spinning! It was 11 am, and I observed the animal for 1-2 minutes from a distance of about 15-20 metres; it ran along the sand which was covered with some very small bushes, the rest of the area being sandy. In 2018, three cyclists said they witnessed a thylacine crossing the road in front of them. My brother was asleep in the back. At first she thought that it was a wallaby. The farm owner yelled out Its a monster, we will have to kill it and picking up a stone, threw it at the strange animal. ", His second experience occurred in January 1983, when from his bedroom window he saw what may have been the same animal seen by him the previous July, or another one, as it moved beneath a street light in the early hours of the morning. With all due respect I disagree with Nick Mooneys opinion and thats fine - thats perfectly OK - and he encourages me in his report to get as many opinions as I can because his is only one opinion, Mr Waters says in the new video. The date was Tuesday 22nd February 1972 at 10.15pm, when we were forced to stop, at the turnoff to Evans Lookout, on the Great Western Highway just south of Blackheath township. #6.1-6.3), "Pete was next talking to the father of one of his childrens friend at The Pocket School, who owns a cattle farm opposite the school. Rex Gilroy believes so, https://web.archive.org/web/20210225014002/http://garyopit.com/64-thylacine-sightings/, https://www.thylacineresearchunit.org/sightingreports.htm, https://www.mysteriousaustralia.com/australian_thylacine_mainpage.html, The continuing search for the thylacine on the Blue Mountains, NSW, http://campbelltown-library.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-minto-monster.html, http://www.tasmanian-tiger.com/guestbook.html, https://www.yowiehunters.com.au/index.php/76-/588-thylacine-sighting-kenilworth-qld-1998-thylacine-caught-1978-nundle-nsw, https://web.archive.org/web/20200216184608/https://www.angelfire.com/oz/thylacine/, https://www.mysteriousaustralia.com/australian_thylacine_casts.html, Tasmanian tiger sightings: 'I represent 3,000 people who have been told theyre nuts', https://web.archive.org/web/20070607040632/http://www.tasmanian-tiger.com/forum/Forum3/HTML/000012.html, Christian Kropp has seen two Tasmanian tigers in the Barrington Tops, https://www.thylacineawarenessgroupofaustralia.com.au/read-tagoa-witness-sighting-reports.htm, https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/browse.html%3Fnode=8498354051&ref=kcp_fd_hz. Steve mentioned to Pete that he and his family have seen thylacines on his farm on occasions. Towards the end of Shara Boulevard he noticed an animal walking head-on toward him, along the side of the road. At that time sheep were being killed and torn up in Hartley Valley by a Tasmanian Tiger-like beast, and that is what I believed ran in front of my car. They noticed that another passing motorist also saw it. Potential sightings of the Tasmanian Tiger in Northern Queensland make researchers question whether the species might still exist 80 years after its supposed extinction. Hunting, the introduction of dogs and the loss of habitat were to blame for its demise. Leaping from his bed, Mr Pereira went torch in hand to investigate his trap. It didnt run. These were mostly reported by motorists.". This time it was coming down the slope from the right, jumped down the bank onto the road & continued down the slope as if it regularly used the same animal track. He says it comes back to the foot of the animal and asks what else could it be, with most features ruling anything obvious out. There was very little traffic on the roads. There were body stripes, back to the tail rump. Then I screamed you know let it go and then it just ran off. It ran off into the vegetation adjacent the road.". However in the dense scrub we came across signs of a scuffle over a large area, between a wild pig and a thylacine, as indicated by thee dozens of tracks embedded in the soil. It's Rob here, I just had another sighting of a Tasmanian Tiger on Friday 24th Jan 2020. It was greyhound in size, covered in a dirty golden-brown short fur with no distinct stripes and a long tail that sloped down to the ground and back up again. ", "The Minto Monster was back in the news again in 1973 when claims that a mysterious creature had been 'terrorising' East Minto residents with its blood curdling screams. "It won't be much longer because we're very close to getting irrefutable proof the animal is still here," he said. ", "8th October, 2005, 12pm, Shara Boulevard, North Ocean Shores; Russel saw what looked like the same animal that he saw in September and believe it may have been sitting as he only saw its head and shoulders in the grass but was struck by it having rounded ears. ", "During 1968 an old man told locals around Winmalee north of Springwood, that he had seen two Thylacines emerge together from a gully thereabouts that leads into the Grose Valley. The animals face was like a dingo/dog/wolf but with rounder ears. A short time after she saw the animal, while talking to her neighbours, she was surprised to find that three of them had also observed an animal of a similar description. The back legs were also shorter than the front ones. Share your thoughts in the comments below or vote in our poll above, To join the conversation, please Until recently, the last confirmed dodo sighting on its home island of Mauritius was made in 1662, but a 2003 estimate by David Roberts and Andrew Solow placed the extinction of the bird around 1690. The Tasmanian tiger or thylacine . The tapered tail and we could see the faint stripes. The dog rushed in to attack the animal & Mark, the farm owner and several other workers were surprised to see the dog backing out of the shed with an animal almost as large covered with brown stripes across its back and a thick, stiff, kangaroo-like tail. It disappeared behind the fig tree and did not re emerge. In both cases the animals had brownish body fur and dark body stripes, and looked exactly like photos of the Thylacine in books". She stated Im an artist and I paint native animals and the gait of this animal meant that it was a marsupial, not a dog or a cat. Three years later the last of its kind in captivity, named Benjamin, died a lonesome death in the Hobart Zoo. Rod and I later staked out the site overnight with cameras, in the hope of capturing a tiger on film as it came to drink at the swamp, but failed to see any. It had the strangest tailvery long, like a broom pole. "On the 25th January 1982, about 10pm, Mr Darryl Morris and his wife Carrol were driving to Mount Riverview. Peter had been involved in greyhound racing for many years and so was positive that the animal was neither a dog nor a fox and appeared to be a carnivorous marsupial.". (2016). At one particular spot we came across paw prints unlike any of the others and certainly not those of any dog. newspaper articles, books, CD's etc.). Im totally convinced I witnessed a Tassie tiger on the coast road between Lennox Head and Suffolk Park NSW. "'There's nothing there that's concrete.'". I had slowed for a couple of hundred rabbits and was just starting up again in my old morris minor 1000 when I came at slow speed, 15mph in 1977 upon a second group and right in the middle was a young tasmanian tiger with a poined head, kangaroo like fur and a long thin tail it sat facing me mesmerized by the lights as were the rabbits. We live in Upper Wilsons Creek and our property backs onto Mt Jerusalem National Park. Locals even today believe that Thylacines spotted near the mountain are coming from there. The first day we spooked it as we drove by a sheep carcass, which it seemed it was feeding on. ", "October 2005, Terragon, south of Uki, near Kunghur; Shirley woke very early to the sounds of her chooks going right off. Earlier last year, on the road between Ballina and Eltham, just after the Alstonville turnoff, dad and my brother saw something similar. Denis Millar, 49, of North Tumbulgum near the NSW-Queensland border, said yesterday he saw the mysterious animal on a neighbour's property. ["Two animals of the hyena kind"]. Upon examining the cage, he found that the creature, whatever it was, had escaped by ripping through the chicken-wire covering, leaving a hole 8 by 11 inches in size. The tracks were situated beneath a small embankment close to the waters edge. These were only half-an-hour old and led deep into dense forest. Years later I mentioned it to locals in Wee Waa when I worked there as a doctor. The strange animal had a huge jaw that opened to an extent, greater than the dog, and it gave forth with a bizarre cry unlike anything that they had heard before. It has a distinctly grey striped torso, long pointed muzzle, and a thick rigid tail. Mysterious Australia Newsletter 2022(August): 5. It was the vocalization that really threw me. (1985). The animal, an obvious Thylacine, then began running along the edge of the highway to vanish into nearby bushes. Mr Waters says these signs include the way the tail sits, the fact the feet are broad and there are four toe pads with claws. And I identify animals all the time, and so I'm used to looking at something and trying tuh, and working out what it is I'm seeing. Just as we drove up the one way road a creature darted across the road. Unexplained! It stood there looking towards my vehicle as I stopped to see if I could get a good look at it. I have no doubt about what I saw. An Ambulance officer related this story to a colleague sometime after 1998. Kim Falconer wrote I heard a loud sound like a cross between a guttural possum noise and a large dog retching. His wife was the first of the family to observe the animal, 3 months before while taking their child to the bus stop down their one kilometre long driveway. The colour was golden-fawn, 60 cm in height and the ears were rounded. She was in good condition, no ribs showing. His teenage son has since set up a large live animal trap in an attempt to capture it. Thylacine winter. This species, also called Thylacine, was declared extinct after the last known specimen died in captivity, in an Australian zoo in 1936. By the 1920s, sightings of the Tasmanian tiger in the wild became extremely rare, and in 1930, a farmer from Mawbanna named Wilfred (Wilf) Batty shot and killed the last-known wild Tasmanian tiger. Shannon later described the animal to me as being about 1.5 metres in length from head to tail. ", Source:http://campbelltown-library.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-minto-monster.html. Two days later their teenage son observed it and described it as being a cross between a kangaroo and a greyhound. (15 to 30 kilograms), according to. which is not far from Sydney's International airport and along the shores of Botany Bay. "(The department) occasionally receives reports of thylacine sightings," the Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment said in a statement. (1977). Biologist and wildlife expert Nick Mooney has for years reviewed thylacine accounts and apparent footage and images. The front paw was lifted up near the snout. She seemed extremely curious-cautious. He said it looked exactly like the Tasmanian tigers he had seen pictures of in books except that it was a lot darker in colouring. Id love to know., READ MORE: Unearthed footage shows last-known glimpse of extinct Tasmanian tiger. They did not believe that it was a dog, dingo or a fox. It looked like a stretched-out greyhound, 30% longer in the body than a dog. While some of these tracks were indistinct amid small twig and leaf fragments, two were not, and I cast these. There is a lot of bush and a lot of cover and I think it's living quite comfortably there. He described the specimen as funny looking with a big long tail and stumpy ears. 7:30pm when in front of me on the side of the road, eating a dead kangaroo, was a medium/large long, slender dog shaped animal with a kangaroo-style tail. Robyn says the animal appeared to know where it was heading, as if it were used to a particularroute. It moved on all four legs and had a tail similar to a wallaby. Daily Telegraph (Australia), 19 November, p. 3. Two of the men who hounded the above woman out of town, who later saw it themselves. They said there have been sightings in the Pilliga in the past. ", "2003, Stock Route Road, Billinudgel; Joan saw what looked like a thylacine. Last February, two visitors claimed an animal with a "stiff tail and striped back" wandered in front of their car at Corinna in the island's west. But what made the creature quite distinctive was the dark body with stripes on the sides, not too dissimilar in fact to the pattern of a Thylacine. "Back in 1960 Mr Gordon Pereira [of whom more will be said anon] was a NSW Government Railways station assistant, driving his car home from work at Medlow Bath railway station about 10pm when, 1 miles east of the [since demolished] Caltex depot on Whipcord Hill, on the Great Western Highway, an animal which he described as being about greyhound size with a large head, was caught in his headlights as it ran across the highway from the scrubland on the western [Megalong Valley] side to the railway lines, disappearing within seconds. ", Source:https://web.archive.org/web/20210225014002/http://garyopit.com/64-thylacine-sightings/, "During April 1967 sightings of a tiger were being made at Putty Road farms, particularly in the Howes Valley area, where some poultry had been claimed snatched by one, perhaps two of these creatures. Listen 7m northcoast-curious-tasmanian-tiger-0311 Since then, sightings of animals people believed to be thylacines have come from all over Australia, including more than 70 reported sightings in northern New South Wales. We were baffled. Sometimes you just need to know when to let the squirrel win the day. It was an animal of similar size as I saw and it passed in front of their car so close that both thought it was certain to be hit. He said the animal, which he claimed could not be confused with a dog, was the size of a fox, with the head of a kangaroo and had a thick striped tail which tapered at the end. It had a long thin tail about the length of its body. So many people, local and others, came in to describe their sightings. Of particular interest was that the animal that he saw had no stripes on the body, though it did have pale bands along the tail. There is no doubt in my mind that the animal was a living thylacine. Mr Pereira dispatched the casts along with the teeth and blood samples to university zoologists in Sydney, but received little response, other than the explanation that the creature was probably a domestic dog. After several fruitless nights, however, he retired to bed on the evening of 14th June. He was Boss Cass's best henchman Christian Kopp had a second encounter with a thylacine (first: NSW.c1992.xx.xx) while out riding his motorbike. 2023 Aston Martin DBS 770 Ultimate revealed, The text message that saw young Melbourne couple lose $100,000. While searching the muddy bank of a remote swamp for signs of animals, we came across tracks left by various marsupials. She saw it for quite a while. I know it's a Thylacine," Richardson said. Source:Paramanov, S. J. Fortean Times 25: 36. It was early morning around 5.30 to 6.00 a.m. when she heard a commotion outside the house as if a dog was fighting with our cats. The bands were about 2 cm wide & about 6 cm apart. Suddenly, at 5am he was woken by sounds coming from the direction of the cage, situated at the far end of his property on the edge of thick bushland. We could see the shape. It then took off but didn't bounce like a kangaroo. TASMANIAN TIGER SIGHTINGS CONFIRM THEY ARE STILL ALIVE (Thylacine) Blazing Wildlife 85 subscribers Subscribe 587 47K views 3 years ago TASMANIAN TIGER SIGHTINGS PROVE THEIR EXISTENCE. In the series of images, the one photo Mr Waters is confident is a tiger joey, experts believe is probably a Tasmanian pademelon joey. Busy mum, blogger and musician, trying to thrive in Scandinavia. (1811). The sighting occurred on the NSW/Vic border, and so is listed twice in the respective state databases. I know it's a Thylacine," Richardson said. With the bag over the animals head they were able to safely release it back into the wild. "On the morning of Thursday 24th March 1983, I received a phone call from Mr John Turner of Shipley, located on the west side of Blackheath close to the Kanimbla Valley cliffs. She loped away, heading west towards the golf course. He also noticed the body tended to slope downwards and the long tail followed the slope of the back. , who has been hunting for the Thylacine for 26 years, captured video of what they claim is a Tasmanian tiger in Hobart. The salted skin of a freshly shot tiger cat was pegged on the dunny door, Max said. There is no doubt in our minds that the creatures we saw were Tasmanian Tigers, said Sam.". I stopped to check out the area but couldnt see anything due to thick Bush but the dead kangaroo had all its groin and throat Eaten out. 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