I lived up in the Atherton table lands and Daintree forest for a couple of years back in the late 80s,I made friends with a few aboriginal people while I was up there working doing feral animal control and management for land owners. I was told by a few aboriginals that these giant monitor lizards called megalania are in remote pockets of these rainforests and to never hunt in these areas. These aren’t just storytime or Dreamtime stories these lizards are still living in far northern Queensland and probably other areas of bush lands too. I believed what they told me and I avoided these parts of the forests,luckily the places I was working on were a fair ways away from where they had told me never to go. There is an abundance of food and water to sustain these huge reptiles so it’s no surprise that they are out there,large parts of these forests are completely unexplored by white man and have remained untouched for probably thousands of years.
My wife and I traveled around the East coast of Australia in our Kombi camper van, about 35 years back. One time we camped up in the Boarder Ranges National Park, at a lookout called Blackbutts. When we woke for breakfast we were joined by the biggest Goanna I had ever seen. It was eadly 6 to 8 feet in length and stood as high as these people described there lizard. It had a head as big as an average size dog. Scary bugger, but quite friendly. Goannas can grow very large, but I have never seen one as large as that before, or ever since. I had a mate around the same time, who worked for the Gold Coast (Qld) Council. He was up in the Hinterland area at the back of the Gold Coast clearing weeds out of the water catchment region, which is vast wilderness area and off limits to the public. He reckons he saw a python which had a head the size of a dog and a body that disapeared back into the bush for about 6 metres +. He said its circumference was a foot across. He said, he had seen some big snakes before, but this thing was like Mega Fauna. There could be remnants of Mega Fauna, especially the reptiles. They could have hung on in the most remotest areas on this vast continent. David from Melbourne.I 😉👍
Nexus magazine, circa the 1990s, had a letter to the editor describing sightings in Northern Australia of actual T-Rexs, with ranchers claims of occasional cattle being eaten.
Gigantism does occur in nature, even among humans . So it’s not out of the realm of probability that people are encountering an unusually large Lizard like reptile.
Maybe they are long livers and older they get,plenty of food and keep on getting bigger as Crocs do I believe.Red belly black snakes get pretty large if well fed and feed on other snakes,particularly brown snakes of which there are plenty around my area.
I saw a giant sized monitor lizard just north of Denmark WA in the year 2000. It had crossed the road directly in front of me (on the highway to Mount Barker 15km north of Denmark). I measured with my eye that from nose to tail it reached the entire lane. I got a real good look at it but didn't have a camera on me. It was a few feet from my car. I went back later to the exact spot and measured the lane at 3m (10 feet). I saw the forked tongue, the teeth, the legs were as thick as small tree trunks. I told Perth Zoo but they thought it was a Komodo Dragon let loose, but it didn't look like that. It was definitely a native.
I was on the tractor fallowing a paddock in the Mallee Region of Victoria, Beulah/Birchip area. It was around March the mornings were cool and dewy. I saw a huge Perentie, goodness knows how long, it was difficult to tell from where I was. He was sunning himself on a sand hill, I got to maybe 100 m from him in the tractor and he stood up and took off down the fence line and out of sight. He was almost half as tall as the ring lock fence. I think he was hanging around to eat what animals I unearthed with the scarifier. Perenties are very uncommon in Mallee Vic but not unheard of. But at that time of the year it's extremely rare to see any reptiles whatsoever. The farmer I was working for confirmed that he and others had seen it before too, and that it was a Perentie. Most of the Goannas seen in there area are 6 to 7 ft long but this l bad boy was much much bigger.
G'day Jamie, my cousin in the 80s seen one out the back of Armadale 12 foot long, he said it might of been longer even! He ran as fast as he could back to his dad and our old indigenous great uncle " who lived off the land" frantic telling them about the giant and all he said to him was "settle down boy we believe you it's alright they get pretty big out here" and just continued talking like it was nothing! like he knew all about them and wasn't phased in the slightest 🤯🙂👍🏽👊🏽
Komodo/Megalania?. The father of a girl I had a teenage crush on claimed to have seen a huge Komodo in the Northern territories! He was rather a dour blunt Scot (quite terrifying to a 17 year old boy), an ex Captain of a merchant ship. I wouldn't say prone to fabrication. He initially though it a huge crocodile eating a rotting cow, but it was about half a mile from a river on the edge of a clearing in otherwise dense forest. His part Aboriginal guide said he'd heard of them but never seen one, and said they had an evil spirit.
This was an excellent one mate, even included a mention of lassaders Reef, very well done! I recall hearing Rex Gilroy seeing a megalania once also and made casts of a three toed track one foot across.
Is there any tales regarding Bunyips? Id be fascinated to hear anything about them. Interesting channel. Australia has its fair share of the odd and weird as it should being such a massive expansive country. Tough hard people living in a tough hard country. All the very best from Kent, England. 👍🏴🇬🇧.
Saw one around 10ft up Cape York in 2005, driving a 4wd canter motor home 7m long it was ambling up the middle of the developmental road just after Coen. We drove beside it for 5 minutes it didn't worry it a bit having a 5 ton truck driving next to it. Reckon it was bigger than 10ft it had a 400-500mm height between its belly and the ground. My missus and 3 year old daughter totally freaked at me wanting to stop and take photos...I kept driving ,maybe for the best 🤔
1981 Crescent Head New South Wales had one laying next to my Kombi bus we measured the Kombi bus it's 14 ft 3 inches and this thing was head and shoulders above the bus longer than the bus I should say
Sounds incredible, great coverage on this one, a lot of great details on this story, and the reports are very intriguing and fascinating. Wonder what this animal was? A giant Perentie, or perentie sub species, a survivor of the Pleistocene, a megalania? Or or another giant goanna related to megalania, or perhaps something else entirely? The report of this animal making bark and roaring vocalizations and sounds makes me think this might be is something else entirely but similar to a monitor lizard in appearance to some degree, could be some kinda of burrunjor perhaps, or maybe some kinda of archosaur, or monitor like species, or a very distinctive monitor unlike its living contemporaries. Also awesome analysis, hopefully species such as giant goannas, burrunjors, and other surviving megafauna are still surviving well.
RM Williams claimed he found Lasseters reef. It is a hole in the ground which below was a subteranean aquifa lined with gold. Williams discovered it when he saw small birds flying in and out of the scrub which led him to the entrance of Lasseters reef.
As a child (8) I was walking down the banks of the Wakulla River and tried to step over what I thought was a large mossy log which jumped up and dove into the river...15 ft. If an inch.
Thank you for all of the interesting videos. There is so much we don't know about our world. It's great that you are presenting these sightings and reports.
I am convinced that in some areas of our planet (forests and deserts) there are still large reptiles that are mistakenly believed to be extinct. I also believe that it is absolutely improbable that no bipedal reptilian (even of small dimensions) has not reached our days! As mammals are present both in the sea and on land, but also in the sky (bats), the same must be the case also for reptiles.
In the early 80’s out at Tara, my brother and I saw a big pale one about 9ft long. We climbed a tree to get out of its way (as if that would save us!).
I saw three massive lizards just north of Coffs harbour in the bush between the highway and the beach. This was in the early 80s, the small one witch look like the two big ones baby but it was a big as the biggest goanna . The big ones where easly 15 foot long and they were black in colour.
🎉This account of 15 odd yrs ago,walking in hills followig rd to telecom tower on hill on outskirt of town about 1-2 km out of built up area with dog,a doberman/weimeramer and we came across a big Goanna( i thought,i am no lizard expert),plenty of snakes up this hill,browns and some red bellies. Now it looked big,i heard goannas can grow to 6' and this looked 6',it came towards us aggressively i thought and i threw stones at it and it climbed a bare dead tree and then growled like a bear/dog towards us,it was scary,unlike anything i had heard or expected and it sounded like it meant buisness . The sound was genuinely scary and deep,we trotted on past keeping an eye on it as it sounded as though it could attack and was obviously athletic.Looked like a goanna but by god it had an eerie,frightening growl. I learnt dont doubt native wildlife when it is stirred up.
@@wheresmyyowie Thanks for reply,Goannas do growl from that encounter,now Koalas give out a fair growl I believe and the growl from Goanna was kinda bear like but native,unusual,never heard it before from a lizard,aggressive as per dog growl but different. Actually a good show,I will watch more vids on your channel and read more of comments on this vid,some interesting ones amongst them,too many to read in one go though. Monitors could live long times and if get bigger as I believe Crocs do with age and lots of food who would know how big they get So I do believe these creatures reach large sizes given enough food and time to live into older age. Wonder how long these kamodo dragons live? Maybe 100's of yrs,turtles live along time as do cockatoos,maybe an Australian wildlife thing living long ages,the Aust the timeless land,the land time forgot,maybe some truth in it.
Australia must have lots of missing peoples(imigrants), cases from 1860s-2000s with so many reports of giant lizards, thylacines, crocodiles, bunyips and jugi beasts. No doubt they do.
I wonder if they still have the specimens stuffed somewhere in the museum. I’ve never heard of these before. I’ve heard goannas getting pretty pretty big. My mum reckons they used to have an 8 ft one lived in the wood heap.
We lived down behind Bermagui in thick forest and once temps hit 27 degrees the lace monitors would get about the place.. There were a few 8 foot plus individuals & they are not to be messed with I can tell you. I would lose the odd chook to them & my dog would leave them well alone..😉 And they are just lace monitors..
Perhaps the fifteen footer was a juvenile Megalania!? Which would not have been know from the fossil record only from what the Aboriginals could tell them.
A few good stories today I never realize that those types of Lizards where on Australia at one time and could grow that long... there not around there any more are they?
Seen one north of Alice Springs about 35 years ago, must have been at least 10’ long , was stopped until it seen us and ran super fast , 4 of us all agreed it was over 3 metres long
Yeah, have heard of them. Some had managed to cross the Great divide however on the coast we’ve heard of the Drop Bears crashing out of Gum Trees would take care of ‘em by biting behind the head them swinging them round & round Drop Bears head. The Drop Bears swung these things so hard they pulled the skin off these beasts
look, a perentie is a existing type of monitor lizard that people keep as pets, from australia and they still exist. i believe, this story, would be more so related to the Megalania Prisca which is thought to be exinct, and, in relation to that since there has been many many sightings of megalania prisca over the past few hundreds years, you might want to reconsider how you told this story for anyone who knows about reptiles because, for me i cant even listen to it. i keep thinking of, a much much smaller lizard, than you wish for me to think of, when listening to this, because i am a keeper of monitor lizards and big fan, of reptiles ok thanks
I lived up in the Atherton table lands and Daintree forest for a couple of years back in the late 80s,I made friends with a few aboriginal people while I was up there working doing feral animal control and management for land owners. I was told by a few aboriginals that these giant monitor lizards called megalania are in remote pockets of these rainforests and to never hunt in these areas. These aren’t just storytime or Dreamtime stories these lizards are still living in far northern Queensland and probably other areas of bush lands too. I believed what they told me and I avoided these parts of the forests,luckily the places I was working on were a fair ways away from where they had told me never to go. There is an abundance of food and water to sustain these huge reptiles so it’s no surprise that they are out there,large parts of these forests are completely unexplored by white man and have remained untouched for probably thousands of years.
My wife and I traveled around the East coast of Australia in our Kombi camper van, about 35 years back. One time we camped up in the Boarder Ranges National Park, at a lookout called Blackbutts. When we woke for breakfast we were joined by the biggest Goanna I had ever seen. It was eadly 6 to 8 feet in length and stood as high as these people described there lizard. It had a head as big as an average size dog. Scary bugger, but quite friendly.
Goannas can grow very large, but I have never seen one as large as that before, or ever since.
I had a mate around the same time, who worked for the Gold Coast (Qld) Council. He was up in the Hinterland area at the back of the Gold Coast clearing weeds out of the water catchment region, which is vast wilderness area and off limits to the public. He reckons he saw a python which had a head the size of a dog and a body that disapeared back into the bush for about 6 metres +. He said its circumference was a foot across. He said, he had seen some big snakes before, but this thing was like Mega Fauna.
There could be remnants of Mega Fauna, especially the reptiles. They could have hung on in the most remotest areas on this vast continent.
David from Melbourne.I 😉👍
wow, did a video about a huge snake a couple of weeks ago
ruclips.net/video/INO8fwK1F5Q/видео.html
I have pics of the snake you mentioned , taken gold coast hinterland a few years ago ,
Nexus magazine, circa the 1990s, had a letter to the editor describing sightings in Northern Australia of actual T-Rexs, with ranchers claims of occasional cattle being eaten.
Gigantism does occur in nature, even among humans . So it’s not out of the realm of probability that people are encountering an unusually large Lizard like reptile.
Maybe they are long livers and older they get,plenty of food and keep on getting bigger as Crocs do I believe.Red belly black snakes get pretty large if well fed and feed on other snakes,particularly brown snakes of which there are plenty around my area.
I saw a giant sized monitor lizard just north of Denmark WA in the year 2000. It had crossed the road directly in front of me (on the highway to Mount Barker 15km north of Denmark). I measured with my eye that from nose to tail it reached the entire lane. I got a real good look at it but didn't have a camera on me. It was a few feet from my car. I went back later to the exact spot and measured the lane at 3m (10 feet). I saw the forked tongue, the teeth, the legs were as thick as small tree trunks. I told Perth Zoo but they thought it was a Komodo Dragon let loose, but it didn't look like that. It was definitely a native.
I was on the tractor fallowing a paddock in the Mallee Region of Victoria, Beulah/Birchip area. It was around March the mornings were cool and dewy. I saw a huge Perentie, goodness knows how long, it was difficult to tell from where I was. He was sunning himself on a sand hill, I got to maybe 100 m from him in the tractor and he stood up and took off down the fence line and out of sight. He was almost half as tall as the ring lock fence. I think he was hanging around to eat what animals I unearthed with the scarifier. Perenties are very uncommon in Mallee Vic but not unheard of. But at that time of the year it's extremely rare to see any reptiles whatsoever. The farmer I was working for confirmed that he and others had seen it before too, and that it was a Perentie. Most of the Goannas seen in there area are 6 to 7 ft long but this l bad boy was much much bigger.
G'day Jamie, my cousin in the 80s seen one out the back of Armadale 12 foot long, he said it might of been longer even! He ran as fast as he could back to his dad and our old indigenous great uncle " who lived off the land" frantic telling them about the giant and all he said to him was "settle down boy we believe you it's alright they get pretty big out here" and just continued talking like it was nothing! like he knew all about them and wasn't phased in the slightest 🤯🙂👍🏽👊🏽
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Komodo/Megalania?. The father of a girl I had a teenage crush on claimed to have seen a huge Komodo in the Northern territories! He was rather a dour blunt Scot (quite terrifying to a 17 year old boy), an ex Captain of a merchant ship. I wouldn't say prone to fabrication. He initially though it a huge crocodile eating a rotting cow, but it was about half a mile from a river on the edge of a clearing in otherwise dense forest. His part Aboriginal guide said he'd heard of them but never seen one, and said they had an evil spirit.
Heard stories of men in the bush , out in the remotest areas , go to sit down on a large rock, only for the “rock” to get up and walk away.
This was an excellent one mate, even included a mention of lassaders Reef, very well done! I recall hearing Rex Gilroy seeing a megalania once also and made casts of a three toed track one foot across.
That was the burrunjur
I encountered a lizard south of Paynes Find Western Australia about 30 years ago that took up both lanes of the highway as it crossed the road
Is there any tales regarding Bunyips? Id be fascinated to hear anything about them. Interesting channel. Australia has its fair share of the odd and weird as it should being such a massive expansive country. Tough hard people living in a tough hard country. All the very best from Kent, England. 👍🏴🇬🇧.
ruclips.net/p/PL9PTvmmsaZOXUwdKju22lO5C_2LqKaJja
Saw one around 10ft up Cape York in 2005, driving a 4wd canter motor home 7m long it was ambling up the middle of the developmental road just after Coen. We drove beside it for 5 minutes it didn't worry it a bit having a 5 ton truck driving next to it. Reckon it was bigger than 10ft it had a 400-500mm height between its belly and the ground. My missus and 3 year old daughter totally freaked at me wanting to stop and take photos...I kept driving ,maybe for the best 🤔
So you had a camera and didn't get someone to take the wheel while you snapped a few photos? Yep, sure buddy. Bullshit much 🤦♂️
Better call Scooby Doo. Prospectors scaring people with stories to keep them away.
Hi. In the 1990"s,. saw a perrentie, 10 ft long in the Emily Gap area. Central Aus. Magnificent old fella.
1981 Crescent Head New South Wales had one laying next to my Kombi bus we measured the Kombi bus it's 14 ft 3 inches and this thing was head and shoulders above the bus longer than the bus I should say
Sounds incredible, great coverage on this one, a lot of great details on this story, and the reports are very intriguing and fascinating. Wonder what this animal was? A giant Perentie, or perentie sub species, a survivor of the Pleistocene, a megalania? Or or another giant goanna related to megalania, or perhaps something else entirely? The report of this animal making bark and roaring vocalizations and sounds makes me think this might be is something else entirely but similar to a monitor lizard in appearance to some degree, could be some kinda of burrunjor perhaps, or maybe some kinda of archosaur, or monitor like species, or a very distinctive monitor unlike its living contemporaries. Also awesome analysis, hopefully species such as giant goannas, burrunjors, and other surviving megafauna are still surviving well.
We have a tortoise of 6 years and it has a voice, the european Marsh turtle sings in May like bells ringing, as my aunt telled
Hey great video thank you for making this. It's the first one of yours I have seen. Really good video
Awesome, thank you!
Another great story. Thanks.
RM Williams claimed he found Lasseters reef. It is a hole in the ground which below was a subteranean aquifa lined with gold. Williams discovered it when he saw small birds flying in and out of the scrub which led him to the entrance of Lasseters reef.
thanks Jamie :)
As a child (8) I was walking down the banks of the Wakulla River and tried to step over what I thought was a large mossy log which jumped up and dove into the river...15 ft. If an inch.
WMY 👍
Great content ty👍🏻
Thank you for all of the interesting videos. There is so much we don't know about our world. It's great that you are presenting these sightings and reports.
Wow thanks again Jamie 🙈🙊🙉
its megalania - supposedly extinct - but obviously not
I am convinced that in some areas of our planet (forests and deserts) there are still large reptiles that are mistakenly believed to be extinct. I also believe that it is absolutely improbable that no bipedal reptilian (even of small dimensions) has not reached our days!
As mammals are present both in the sea and on land, but also in the sky (bats), the same must be the case also for reptiles.
Cool channel!
Very informative video, thanks Jamie.
In the early 80’s out at Tara, my brother and I saw a big pale one about 9ft long. We climbed a tree to get out of its way (as if that would save us!).
my dog "Strawerry Unicorn" is from Tara
my great uncle used to go search for lasseters reef back in the 60's leaving from ceduna sa. many stories were told
I saw three massive lizards just north of Coffs harbour in the bush between the highway and the beach. This was in the early 80s, the small one witch look like the two big ones baby but it was a big as the biggest goanna . The big ones where easly 15 foot long and they were black in colour.
🎉This account of 15 odd yrs ago,walking in hills followig rd to telecom tower on hill on outskirt of town about 1-2 km out of built up area with dog,a doberman/weimeramer and we came across a big Goanna( i thought,i am no lizard expert),plenty of snakes up this hill,browns and some red bellies. Now it looked big,i heard goannas can grow to 6' and this looked 6',it came towards us aggressively i thought and i threw stones at it and it climbed a bare dead tree and then growled like a bear/dog towards us,it was scary,unlike anything i had heard or expected and it sounded like it meant buisness . The sound was genuinely scary and deep,we trotted on past keeping an eye on it as it sounded as though it could attack and was obviously athletic.Looked like a goanna but by god it had an eerie,frightening growl. I learnt dont doubt native wildlife when it is stirred up.
G'day Kevin , that's an awesome account , i would have loved to have heard and seen that
@@wheresmyyowie Thanks for reply,Goannas do growl from that encounter,now Koalas give out a fair growl I believe and the growl from Goanna was kinda bear like but native,unusual,never heard it before from a lizard,aggressive as per dog growl but different.
Actually a good show,I will watch more vids on your channel and read more of comments on this vid,some interesting ones amongst them,too many to read in one go though.
Monitors could live long times and if get bigger as I believe Crocs do with age and lots of food who would know how big they get
So I do believe these creatures reach large sizes given enough food and time to live into older age.
Wonder how long these kamodo dragons live? Maybe 100's of yrs,turtles live along time as do cockatoos,maybe an Australian wildlife thing living long ages,the Aust the timeless land,the land time forgot,maybe some truth in it.
The Crikey Man & His Dad have come across them on a few occasions
Australia must have lots of missing peoples(imigrants), cases from 1860s-2000s with so many reports of giant lizards, thylacines, crocodiles, bunyips and jugi beasts. No doubt they do.
The old, I haven't seen one so it can't exist' This is typical of a narcissist.
I wonder if they still have the specimens stuffed somewhere in the museum. I’ve never heard of these before. I’ve heard goannas getting pretty pretty big. My mum reckons they used to have an 8 ft one lived in the wood heap.
Eye opening story, thanks Jamie
We lived down behind Bermagui in thick forest and once temps hit 27 degrees the lace monitors would get about the place.. There were a few 8 foot plus individuals & they are not to be messed with I can tell you. I would lose the odd chook to them & my dog would leave them well alone..😉 And they are just lace monitors..
Some lizards were reported to be 20' long and 4' high. They ate children.
Perhaps the fifteen footer was a juvenile Megalania!? Which would not have been know from the fossil record only from what the Aboriginals could tell them.
" Big Jim " doesn't look too well.
He seems to have taken the hump.
A few good stories today I never realize that those types of Lizards where on Australia at one time and could grow that long... there not around there any more are they?
Yes they still exist.
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Seen one north of Alice Springs about 35 years ago, must have been at least 10’ long , was stopped until it seen us and ran super fast , 4 of us all agreed it was over 3 metres long
And we are not that far from the island of komodo..
I saw Goanna about nine foot ..I'm sure there is bigger ..and also just like human . Rarely an animal can suffer from gigantism..
More things out there than we no 👹👽👾👿
I've seen a Parentie on a bbc doc once, impressive looking, like a smooth & golden komodo.
Lizards do not roar.
G'day @fiddleback1568, exactly !
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The aboriginals talk about a huge up standing lizards . I would like to C one .
I had to watch this to find out if someone mistook a camel for a gigantic lizard. Then realized this story predated the tiktok generation by decades.
gotta belive that guy really at least thought he found that reef or he wouldnt have died alone out there after everyone left
Sounds like the megalina
They are probably closey related to reptilens .
Probably Dutton's grandfather.
Yowie is real ❤
Yeah, have heard of them. Some had managed to cross the Great divide however on the coast we’ve heard of the Drop Bears crashing out of Gum Trees would take care of ‘em by biting behind the head them swinging them round & round Drop Bears head.
The Drop Bears swung these things so hard they pulled the skin off these beasts
Ooooohhhhh! Drop bears are soooooooo dangerous! 🐨
Greetings is your name Gary
G'day @dannystaton5386 , it's Jamie
🙏💜💪🇭🇲✅
Has anyone seen my FREAKING yowie?!
PS any dragon eggs found in this area, they're mine. I simply misplaced them. Please let me know if found.
I have
Could be nasty customers...🤣🤣🤣
look, a perentie is a existing type of monitor lizard that people keep as pets, from australia and they still exist. i believe, this story, would be more so related to the Megalania Prisca which is thought to be exinct, and, in relation to that since there has been many many sightings of megalania prisca over the past few hundreds years, you might want to reconsider how you told this story for anyone who knows about reptiles because, for me i cant even listen to it. i keep thinking of, a much much smaller lizard, than you wish for me to think of, when listening to this, because i am a keeper of monitor lizards and big fan, of reptiles ok thanks