Case file · Cryptid
Springbrook yowie (Bill O'Chee)
Bill O'Chee, later a Queensland senator, said that on a school trip to Springbrook in the Gold Coast hinterland in 1977 he saw a tall, hair-covered creature cross a clearing.
1977 CE · -28.19, 153.27 · status: account
The account
O'Chee repeated the account publicly as an adult, which gave it unusual weight. The Springbrook–Lamington rainforest has produced a steady stream of yowie reports since the 1970s.
The sceptical view
A brief childhood sighting recalled decades later is vulnerable to memory shaping; large grey kangaroos standing upright are often misread in dense forest.