SPECIAL DEDICATION.

TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE
DR BERNARD HEUVELMANS, D.SC., F.Z.S.
1916-2001.

The ‘Father’ of Worldwide Cryptozoology. Pt1

It was during the course of writing this book that Heather and I learnt of the passing of the great Dr Bernard Heuvelmans. Truly he was the acknowledged ‘father’ of the science of Cryptozoology throughout the world. No one could have accomplished his achievement in making the scientific world aware of the existence of unknown species of both land and sea, which in many cases might have remained unknown for a long time to come.

Dr Heuvelmans wrote voluminously on his researches, yet it is for just two books that he will be best remembered: “On the Track of Unknown Animals” - the acknowledged ‘Bible’ of Cryptozoology - and “In the Wake of the Sea-Serpents”.

Born in Le Havre, France in 1916 to Belgian parents exiled from their homeland by the First World War, he grew up with a fascination of animals and kept a wild assortment at his home. He later attended the Universite Libre in Brussels, where he received his doctorate in Zoology. At this time he also won first prize for small bands at an International Congress of Amateur Jazz.

With the outbreak of World War Two he saw war service, but was captured by the Germans. By the time hostilities had ceased, he had escaped from captivity four times! After the war he made his living as a professional jazz singer and also became a writer.

His sheer dedication, powers of observation and detailed investigations, would earn him the name among French scientists and amateur researchers alike, of the “Sherlock Holmes of Zoology”!

I had the honour of establishing contact with Dr Heuvelmans during the late 1970’s, and not too certain of my writing skills, provided him with a number of my major magazine feature articles on the cryptozoological and hominological scene in Australia. Pt2>>>>

Excerpts From The Book

OUT OF THE DREAMTIME
THE SEARCH FOR AUSTRALASIANS UNKNOWN ANIMALS

Rex and Heather Gilroy are recognised internationally, as one of the world’s foremost husband and wife research teams. In the field of Australasian Unexplained Mysteries research they have no equal. They are at the very “cutting edge” of not only Australian Cryptozoology and Yowie [Relict Hominology] research but are also the foremost authorities on the ‘unwritten’ history of Australian discovery and exploration, as well as pre-Aboriginal Stone-Age Australian occupation research.

These daring and outspoken researchers are no friends of the Australian hard-core, narrow-minded scientific establishment, who would prefer that books of the kind produced by the Gilroys were prevented from publication. Rex and Heather are determined to place their evidence on whatever subject before their readers so that they can judge for themselves with an open mind, rather than be told what to think by the ‘establishment’ academics.

Rex, a self-taught historical researcher, archaeologist and naturalist, together with Heather, operate the “Australian Yowie Research Centre”, “Australian Cryptozoological Research Centre” and the “Australasian Cryptozoological Research Centre” at Katoomba NSW where they live. They frequently tour the country lecturing on their findings. Their files bulge with thousands of reports on a wide variety of phenomena apart from their Cryptozoological and Relict Hominological [ie Yowie] researches.

Currently celebrating 50 years as the founding ‘father’ of Yowie and Australian Cryptozoological research, Rex Gilroy, Australia’s first and foremost ‘Yowie Man’, is able to draw upon his lifetime of dedicated field research in the preparation of this book, and also two more books on the Yowie mystery to follow this massive work now before the reader. Read Excerpts From Each Chapter Soon.

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Book Contents

Dedication.
Special Dedication - Dr Bernard Heuvelmans.
Acknowledgements.
Contents.
Preface – Monsters in Our Own Backyard.
Foreword - What is Cryptozoology?
Introduction - A Night in the Australian Bush.

Part One – Setting the Scene. “In the Beginning”.
Chapter One – Enigma of the Bunyip / Chapter Two – Dawn Life of the Dreamtime

Part Two – Enigmas of the Insect/Spider World
Chapter Three – Insect Mysteries.
Chapter Four – Migration Mysteries.
Chapter Five – Giant Spiders of the Australian Bush.

Part Three – Lions and tigers of the Australian Bush
Chapter Six – The Tasmanian Tiger – Lost and Found.
Chapter Seven – What is the Queensland Tiger.
Chapter Eight – Australia’s Mysterious Marsupial Lions – Meat-Eaters of the Miocene.
Chapter Nine – The “Australian Panther” – Big Cats of the Bushland.
Chapter Ten – Living Mega-Marsupials?
Chapter Eleven – Devil dogs of the Dreamtime.

Part Four – Fishy Tales
Chapter Twelve – Mega-Sharks of Oceania.
Chapter Thirteen – A Coelacanth Found on an Australian Beach and other “Fishy Mysteries”.
Chapter Fourteen – A Menagerie of Monsters.

Part Five – Reptilian Nightmares
Chapter Fifteen – Giant Sea Serpents of Australasia.
Chapter Sixteen – Giant Snakes -Nightmares of the Bushland.
Chapter Seventeen – Crocodiles-Dinosaurian Man-eaters of Australia’s North.
Chapter Eighteen – Australia’s Lizard Giants.
Chapter Nineteen – Megalania – Mega Monitors of the Australian Bush.
Chapter Twenty – The Secret of Dinosaur Swamplands.
Chapter Twenty-One – Beware of Burrunjors in the Bush.
Chapter Twenty-Two – Pterosaurs Over Australasia.
Chapter Twenty-Three - New Guinea’s Fabulous Neodinosaurs.
Chapter Twenty-Four – Plesiosaur Mysteries of the South Pacific.
Chapter Twenty-Five – Australian Plesiosaur Mysteries.
Chapter Twenty-Six – Longneck Tales of the Georges River.
Chapter Twenty-Seven –Search for the Hawkesbury River Monster.

Part Six – Feathered Giants
Chapter Twenty-Eight – Living Feathered Fossils.
Chapter Twenty-Nine – Do Moas Survive in New Zealand?-The Search for the Scrub Moa.
Chapter Thirty – Giant Eagles of the Blue Mountains.

Part Seven – Manbeasts of Australasia and Oceania
Chapter Thirty-One – Australia’s Unknown Miocene Primates.
Chapter Thirty-Two – Dawn Hominids of the Dreamtime.
Chapter Thirty-Three –Homo erectus and the Giants.
Chapter Thirty-Four – Gargantuan Hominids of the Dreamtime.
Chapter Thirty-Five – The Hairy Man Dreamtime Australia.
Chapter Thirty-Six – Historical Accounts of the Yowie.
Chapter Thirty-Seven – Hairy Men of the Blue Mountains.
Chapter Thirty-Eight – The Yowie-Hominid Mysteries of the Australian Outback.
Chapter Thirty-Nine – In Search of Little Hairy Men.
Chapter Forty – In Search of the Rexbeast.
Chapter Forty-One – Hairy Devil-Men of Melanesia.
Chapter Forty-Two – Moehau and Matau – Manbeasts of Aotearoa.

Part Eight – Conclusion
Chapter Forty-Three – The Search for Mysterious Animals –Advice for Future Cryptozoologists.

Appendix – Save Our Butterfly Species!

Notes.

Bibliography.