Region // 5 files

Oceania

Millennia-old Aboriginal traditions and recently vanished fauna: between the yowie, the bunyip and the Queensland tiger, Oceania blends living cultural memory and the zoology of extinction like nowhere else.

• Case file Nº066 Folklore ancien

  Yowie

  Hominid / 33.72°S 150.31°E

  Australia's hairy bush giant: ancient Aboriginal traditions, modern sighting waves, and no physical evidence at all.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº067 Folklore ancien

  Bunyip

  Entity / 35.43°S 139.13°E

  An Aboriginal water being turned colonial monster; stray seals and booming bitterns account for most reports.

  Class 4

• Case file Nº068 1871

  Queensland Tiger

  Phantom cat / 18.27°S 146.03°E

  A striped cat reported in Queensland since 1871; some saw a surviving marsupial lion, but nothing tangible ever surfaced.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº069 1994

  Ropen

  Aerial / 5.59°S 147.87°E

  A glowing “living pterosaur” of Papua New Guinea pushed by creationist expeditions; frigatebirds and bats explain most of it.

  Class 4

• Case file Nº093 1936

  Thylacine (alleged survival)

  Relict / 41.05°S 144.95°E

  Officially extinct in 1936, the Tasmanian tiger keeps being reported — hundreds of sightings, no confirmed proof of survival.

  Class 3