Yowie Photographed?

Has a Yowie been spotted and photographed in Australia?

The Daily Mail reports:

A hiker has taken a suspicious photo at an ancient massacre site, with some swearing he's captured an image of the elusive yowie.

Kingaroy photographer Christian Anderson captured the photo at Maidenwell's Coomba Falls, about w200km northwest of Brisbane this week.

Mr Anderson said he showed the image to Maidenwell locals who believed he netted an image of the age-old folklore creature.

'Tell me what this is?! I'm curious,' he said.

 Speaking to Daily Mail Australia on Tuesday, Mr Anderson said he always got a 'spooky' feeling when he visited Coomba Falls.

'This place is a spiritual place and whenever I take a photo there I always capture something,' he said.

Coomba Falls was home to a massacre of 300 Aboriginal people in the 19th century.

European settlers reportedly killed hundreds of Indigenous people, including women and children.

Some reports say the bodies of those killed were thrown into the water hole, and were never uncovered.

Legend has it Coomba Falls is a bottomless hole.

As a result of the massacre, local aboriginal people avoid the water hole, as Coomba Falls has become known as a place of deep sorrow.

Is there a yowie in this picture?
(Daily Mail)

When Mr Anderson posted the suspicious photo to his Facebook page, it garnered mixed reaction from his followers.

'Oh wow! I'd be staying away, freaky,' one woman said while urging Mr Anderson to 'be careful'.

'Scary, definitely has a feeling at Coomba Falls,' one man said.

Others thought it could be the ghost of someone who list their life at the sight. 

 'It would be one of the local ghosts before a yowie,' one woman wrote.

Others threw doubt, saying it was nothing more than a shadow or a person in the distance.

'I see a man with a backpack on one shoulder. You may not have been alone. Fellow hiker?' one woman said.

Another man suggested it was just a 'blurry shadow'.

Mr Anderson vowed to go back to the site with a better camera to get 'clear photographic evidence' next time.

(Daily Mail)

 

Did Anderson really photograph a Yowie while at Coomba Falls? It's really hard to tell, though it looks like it could just be a person to me. I also find it suspicious that he said he "always captures something" while at Coomba Falls… could he just be thinking he photographed a yowie or ghost because of that?

What do you think?