MYSTERIOUS AUSTRALIA

Vol 1. Issue No 7

JUNE 2011

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Blue Mountains UFO Research Club. The Club meetings are held on the third Saturday of the month, at the Gilroy residence, 12 Kamillaroi Road, South Katoomba, from 1pm onwards. We are situated on the corner of Kamillaroi Road and Ficus Street, and as we always say, park in Ficus Street where there is safer parking.

Rex and Heather Gilroy, Australias top UFO and Unexplained Mysteries Research team. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2004.

NEW LIGHT ON OLD URU.

By Rex Gilroy
Copyright Rex Gilroy 2011. During May I, accompanied by Ann Taylor, carried out two investigations at a Wentworth Falls bushland site where, from previous visits to this area over the years, Uru rock inscriptions were known to exist. The site is a significant astronomical observation location as well as s sex worship and Moon Dance cult centre dating back at least 30,000 years. Most of the engravings exposed to the elements for so long were faded, requiring chalking in to be recorded. One of the first finds on an extensive sandstone/ironstone shoal was a 1.75m long by 1.25m wide and 40cm tall flat altar stone whose sloping sides bore a circular message. The translation took another day to prepare and states: Before the priest of this temple, a Son of the Sun, at this altar, the inscribed secrets on [animal] hide are removed [ie from their hiding place] and read only to the initiated. Here drink the sacred drink given by him. Thus the initiate is ready to enter the secret chamber in Mother Earth. The upright man of knowledge will emerge superior to the man without it. Eat MoMo at this sacred place where all men gather to learn the mysteries of enlightenment by day. The site is interesting, for besides mentioning the drinking of Mo-Mo [ie mushroom juice] there is mention of secret teachings being written on animal hide and reference to an underground chamber where such writings and sacred objects would have been kept. The inscription was one great communal temple, for there is evidence in way of rock script at one spot stating Place of the Sun, that is, a place for Sun [Nim] worship ceremonies. Another small inscription reads: The movement east to west, which would describe the course of the Sun and also the Moon. Another inscription nearby includes a stylised eagle [the Eagle of the Sun, I-na] and says: Behold the Eagle of the Sun whose Eye sees all. Direct our eyes to the ruler who directs us all Ann Taylor uncovered an interesting astronomical inscription composed of glyphs depicting the Eye of the Sun, the Sun with rays beside the Moon, the glyph for orbit and a star. The translation reads: Behold the all-seeing Eye of the Sun and the Moon [his sister]. Here observe their orbits and that of the stars. Engraved within a flat area of 52cm long by 34cm wide was a reference to the recently discovered Moon Dance cult. The glyphs included a crescent Moon and read: Before the rising of the bright Moon [ie Ara] at this gathering place dance the Moon Dance so that the people by her light receive enlightenment. Here drink Mo-Mo, the juice of love. In the vicinity of this inscription is the fading image of a female Moon dancer. It measures 14cm tall by 11cm wide. The big discovery at this site was however an altar stone found by Ann upon one side of which were the faded engravings of male and female Moon dancers, phallic and other symbols. The altar measured 2.15 m long by about 1 metre wide and 58cm tall. The inscription read: At this place, the home of Ara, play sacred music and sing in the sacred enclosure of the Temple of Fertility, the Temple of the Full Moon. Behold Ara in splendour and within this enclosure dance the Moon Dance on full moon nights before the bright face of Ara, whose Eye sees all in her journey on her path across the sky. She, the guardian of enlightenment, the
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secrets of nature kept within the Temple The cave of mysteries where dwells the Serpent of Fertile Nature, whose secrets are taught in the sacred enclosure within the Temple. To learn is to soar with the birds. It is knowledge for the good of men and women. Here is the School of Life where we are initiated in the east and are reborn in the west. Near this altar Anne discovered a set of very faded images depicting Moon Dancers. We would gladly know what form these ceremonies took, but they are lost in time. She also discovered a nearby inscription which read: Behold Nim, behold the light of day, the Sun above us, and I-na who raises him aloft. And behold his mother who creates men and women. All gather before the Suns pillar, the great phallus of Wa-na-ma, the Serpent of whose hidden secrets are stored within the Temple. There were many more images, symbols scattered widely throughout the communal temple site. Among these were three symbols, a phallus, a female symbol and the letter Ba denoting The place in the east, the home of Nim and Ara. And, nearby two phallic images was that of a squatting Earth-Mother and the glyph for To gather all together. Thousands of such symbols and often lengthy inscriptions of the Uruans cover the Blue Mountains, often amid the ruins of megalithic square or circular temples dedicated to one deity or another, making this region one of the most populated Uruan centres in ancient Australia. Due to this great availability of scripts, since my first efforts at translating the Uru script, beginning in 1974, and my success in finally cracking its translation in 1994, much has been learnt of this mother script and yet another great step forward has occurred in recent times with the unlocking of the secret meanings of words and individual letters. This will soon tell us much about their mystery teachings on many subjects such as their sciences, the construction of monuments with the aid of impossibly heavy monolithic stones, their flight science etc. Already it is certain that the Uru were THE SUPER RACE of the Stone-Age, the builders of the first civilisation on earth right here in Australia, from where they would carry it out across the earth. Much more is now understood about the megalithic stone alignments, circles, ley lines and other astronomical structures of the Uru than had been known in the past and their use of these formations in the gathering and directing of natural earth electromagnetic energy and it uses. On our recent Central Australian investigation new sites were uncovered at Devils Marbles and the Olgas. Time did not permit another search in the Flinders Ranges but this will come later. Another puzzle of old Uru has also been solved with the dating of granite boulder deterioration, particularly those that were engraved upon. Many engravings now falling away with the outer patina of rocks in the Kanangra Boyd lost city pre-date the deterioration, which we are told by a geologist, can take at least 100,000 years to do so. On this and other grounds, the earliest Uruan writing, pictures and ogham well predates 100,000 years. Uruan rock art and ogham engraved in sandstone/ironstone depending upon the situation, can be preserved this long, and it is now certain that many crude structures barely noticeable today, even those of stone approaching monolithic proportions are of this age. The Uru themselves were anatomically modern humans ie Homo sapiens, descendants of the earlier archaic Homo sapiens that evolved from Homo erectus in Australia. A mineralised Homo sapien skull-type found by Greg Foster during our research of a northern beaches Uru site where a major school of knowledge is still being uncovered, dates back at least 200,000 plus or minus 50,000 years BP [Before Present], well within the formation period of the early Uruan culture. These disclosures suggest that the earliest beginnings of human culture and civilisation, first began when primitive pre-Australoid [Aboriginal] people here in Australia, suddenly received the spark of intelligent reasoning and created what would become an advanced Stone-Age civilisation founded on nothing more than stone, bone and wood. What they went on to achieve can be read in the Gilroys book URU The Lost Civilisation of Australia [URU Publications 2005] and other titles on this remarkable people awaiting publication. They were the promethian flame that illuminated mankind. -0-

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The altar stone bearing the encircling inscription.. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

An example of the altar inscription. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

A reptilian symbol from the inscription. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

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An example of the altar inscription. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Example of altar inscription symbols. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The letters stating Place of the Sun. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The inscription reading The movement east to west. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

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The inscription Behold the Eagle of the Sun whose eye sees all. Direct our eyes to the ruler who directs us all. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Ann Taylors astronomical inscription find: Behold the all-seeing Eye of the Sun and the Moon his sister. Here observe their orbits and that of the stars. Photo copyright Ann Taylor 2011.

The inscription Before the rising of the bright Moon [ie Ara] at this gathering place dance the Moon Dance so that the people by her light receive enlightenment. Here drink Mo-Mo, the juice of love. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

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Image of a female Moon Dancer. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The altar stone containing the large male and female Moon Dancers. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The large male image in dancing pose holding a phallic image. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The large female image. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Rex Gilroy studying the dancing images. Photo copyright Ann Taylor 2011.

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The female dancer and associated glyphs. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Ann Taylor studies the Moon Dance altar. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The faded images of Moon Dancers discovered by Ann Taylor. Photo copyright Ann Taylor2011.

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The nearby inscriptions found by Ann referring to Nim and I-na who raises him aloft and his mother who creates men and women Photo copyright Ann Taylor 2011.

Close-up of the Wa-na-ma [Phallic God] image. Photo copyright Ann Taylor 2011.

The inscription stating The place in the east, the home of Nim and Ara Photo copyright Ann Taylor 2011.

A planetary arrangement. Photo copyright Ann Taylor 2011.

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The squatting Earth-Mother image and the glyph reading To gather all together. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

GIANT LIZARDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN BUSH.

By Rex Gilroy
Copyright Rex Gilroy 2011. Some years ago a Central Queensland farmer recovered a number of unusual large bones on his property. Believing he had made an important find he later gave the bones to university palaeontologists in Brisbane. The Bones caused a sensation among Australian palaeontologists not because they were from the giant Australian monitor lizard, Megalania prisca Owen, believed extinct at least several thousand years, but because they dated as recent as 300 years old! This disclosure implies that, if these huge monsters were still roaming Queenslands interior a mere 300 years ago, then claimed sightings of these reptiles in modern times in remote areas of Australia suggest Megalania is far from extinct. Needless to say the find was quickly hushed up. After all, it is embarrassing to have a 7 metre or more long, several hundred kilogram weight, giant monitor lizard species, already declared extinct by competent scientists, continuing to survive, when expert opinion dictates it died out with the rest of the Australian megafauna at the close of the last Ice-Age! That is the reasoning of the conservative scientific community, who continue to argue that no animal species remain undiscovered, because the entire continent has been completely explored and mapped long ago, making it impossible for any unknown species to have escaped detection by science. This dogmatic view is in error. True, Australia has been explored and mapped from the air; yet there still remain thousands of square kilometres around this continent, consisting of virtually inaccessible mountainous forest country where any unknown or extinct species could easily survive hidden from modern human detection. Even our vast interior has been the scene of countless sightings reports for generations of primitive hominids, and long-claimed extinct species such as the Thylacine, giant marsupial cats, giant snakes, the dinosaur-like Burrunjor of Aboriginal tradition, and Megalania prisca. Thus Australias mythical monsters of the past continue to defy the dictates of official science that they must remain extinct! Australia is not alone in traditions of giant lizards. The Komodo Dragon of Indonesia, which is probably an evolved offshoot of Megalania, can reach up to 3 metres in length, while in New Guinea Megalania-size monsters are a commonplace tradition among the native population, and similar lizard monsters are still claimed to inhabit the Solomon Islands. The origins of Megalania and its cousins can be traced back to the Miocene period, around 25 million years ago. The average skull of a full-grown Megalania was about 80cm in length [compared to the 5cm long
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skull of a living goanna] and housed ferocious sharp teeth; little wonder it has been named the ancient giant butcher. This reptilian nightmare preyed upon animal life large and small, including Stone-Age Man. The Namau people of the Purari Delta in the Gulf of Papua believe in monstrous lizards which they call the Kaiaimunu, and in the Daru area giant Kaiaimunus have been known to enter villages to carry off natives and devour them in the jungle. On Strachan island natives claim two young women were attacked by three of the huge goannas, which tore them to pieces. Melanesians generally know little of time and speak in vague terms. Therefore many of these events may have taken place at any time over the last 25-30 years. Sometimes Europeans have been able to date an incident to a particular month and year when there has been a recent incident and they happened to be in the area concerned. Thus in the Huon Peninsular, outside Finschafen in July 1970, a Mr Richard Harris met two natives who warned him he should not enter the swamps to the south, as tribespeople of theirs had just found large fresh tracks and tail marks in shoreline mud, suggesting that there were several Kaiaimunus currently roaming the area., When Richard suggested they might be mistaking crocodile tracks for those of Kaiaimunus, the natives emphasised that the tracks were far larger than those of any crocodile, and their rough estimates suggested to him that the reptiles were a good 7.6 to 9.5 metres in length! In 1961 in the Strachen Island district Mr Robert Grant and David George were exploring the area when they spotted about 10 metres ahead of and looking straight at them on a bush track a monstrous lizard. It stood close-mouthed, looking at us as we were stopped dead in our tracks, Mr Grant informed me in 1970. The reptile was a greyish colour, standing on strong thick legs about 1.2 metres tall, with a body perhaps 90cm thick. The head was very large, with a neck that might have been about 90cm to 1.2 metres in length. We later judged the creature to be around 9 metres in length Dave and I didnt remain there any longer, backing away then running for our camp some distance down the track, said Robert. Reports of giant monitor lizards seen throughout New Guinea have been occurring since Europeans first began settling this land in the 19th century, just as they have been in Australia since early settlement times. A good example of this is one famous case which took place during 1890, when a huge reptile 9 metres in length, instituted a brief reign of terror among the inhabitants of the village of Euroa, Victoria. It trampled its way across properties, leaving behind its gigantic footprints to confirm its awesome size. It was described as a monstrous goanna by those who had happened to see it roaming the bush. A search party of 40 men was formed. Armed with nets and guns, and with cattle dogs to the fore, they ventured off into the surrounding bushland in an attempt to trap the fearsome reptile; but it just disappeared or moved on to another area, never to be seen again in the Euroa district. Similarly, local Aborigines warned the settlers of another reptilian monster, which rather than walking upon all fours, strode about the countryside upon two legs, leaving his huge three-toed tracks in soil. All feared old three-toes as this fearsome monster became generally known. Aboriginal descriptions of this monster resemble some bipedal dinosaur reminiscent of Tyrannosaurus rex. It also resembles another reptilian giant, Burrunjor, of the Central Australia-Gulf country tribes, which in turn can be said to resemble the terrifying Rharhru of New Guinea folklore. I shall have more to say on these neodinosaurs in a future article. Old three-toes also called Murra Murri by the early Aborigines in some areas, was claimed sighted in the eastern forests of Victoria and south coastal New South Wales in the gold rush days of the 19th century, and in modern times he/they are still claimed by Aborigines to wander the more remote forest country of south coast New South Wales. During June 1984, large three-toed track impressions were being found in bushland in the Narooma district and a whole dozen or so of these tracks were discovered by one local bushman in sand, extending along a creek edge. He was only able to make a plaster cast of one of these tracks before bad weather moved in to obscure them. The cast was later given to my wife Heather and I. Measuring 60cm in length from centre claw to back of pad by 53cm wide from outstretched left to right claws, the track had been impressed up to 7cm in the sand, making the creature at least 3 metres in height. A similar situation occurred in the winter of 1979. A huge goanna, greyish-mottled skin-colour, and at least 3 metres in length was reported seen around the Moruya area, north of Narooma. A farmer who found fresh tracks on his property, to protect them, covered all but one with a coating of grass. The other track he covered with a large bucket, after which he reported his find to me by phone.
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When Heather and I reached his property we found that rain obliterated much of the grass-covered tracks, although the bucket covered specimen was still in good condition. A five clawed impression, it measured 30cm in length from middle claw to back of pad by 31cm wide from outstretched left to right claws. The track was impressed 7cm in the soil. Murra murri was known to the former Aboriginal tribes of the Blue Mountains. It was in 1960 that I first learnt of the reptilian monster that walked through the Burragorang and Kanangra wildernesses [home of giant goanna sightings in modern times] on two legs, eating any tribespeople unfortunate enough to cross his path. Murra murri inhabited a particular canyon in the Burragorang-Jenolan Range area in the long-ago Dreamtime. He would leave his lair to roam the land at will, forcing all to flee at his approach. North-east of the Blue Mountains lies the rugged Wattagan Mountains State Forest, an area known for its large, 1.8 metre long tree-climbing goannas. Yet these pale into insignificance against reported sightings of creatures up to 7 and 9 metres length and of massive build. Tales from the Hunter district [which extends from the Newcastle area westward to the Singleton district and northward to the fringe of the New England ranges at Murrurundi] of losses of cattle and sheep to giant-size monitors date back to the 19th century. The amusing story is still told around Cessnock, of the two farmers who happened to be driving in a land rover vehicle along a Wattagan Forest road one morning in 1975. Seeing what looked like a large greyishcoloured log lying across the road ahead of them they stopped. Alighting from their vehicle they approached the log to drag it off the road. However, the log rose up on four legs and large clawed feet and strode off the road into the forest! The road was a good 6 metres wide, and as the head and tail of the creature had been obscured from view by roadside shrubbery, it must have been much longer than that. Reports of goannas of up to 9 metres length are not unknown across Australia. Creatures of this length have been reported from the Singleton district in the past. It is claimed by locals that some of these monsters still inhabit the rugged mountains of that district to this day. Giant monitors were known to the early timber cutters working the forests of the Bellbrook-Kempsey districts in the 19th century and well into the 20th century. As recently as 1997 enormous goanna tracks and tail marks were claimed found at a location on the Macleay River, at the foot of the vast Carrai Wilderness. At Loadstone, just south of the Queensland border, in 1955 loggers moved in to work the area. One day two loggers were working in a remote forest location when one of them came face-to-face with what was described later as a 20 foot long [6 metres] giant goanna. It came at the man from out of shrubbery, a hugeheaded creature, its open mouth showing large sharp teeth [the victim said later]. It grabbed his left hand as he tried to escape, biting off the two last fingers. By now the other logger, hearing his screams nearby and seeing his plight, grabbed a long railway spike and dashed toward the goanna, plunging the spike into its head. As the huge reptile crashed about in the foliage the men escaped. Some time after his mate was taken to the nearest hospital for treatment, the other logger returned to the scene of the attack with several mates, this time with rifles. However, apart from blood smeared about the ground and bushes, the monster was nowhere to be found. There were signs suggesting that one or perhaps two others of its kind had dragged the dead giant off into the forest and probably set about devouring it. However, nobody cared to attempt to follow the trail of crushed foliage deeper into the forest and they quickly left the area. To adequately cover every locality where giant monitor lizards of the Megalania type have been claimed seen is not possible in this article, but it is a subject I shall return to in the future. There have been sightings claims of living Megalania prisca monitors, ranging from 3 to as much as 9 metres in length and of massive build from every Australian mainland state. It was for the purpose of gathering as many sightings reports and other evidence of these, and all other mysterious unknown animals of the Australian bush, that many years ago Heather and I established the Australian Unknown Animals Research Centre [PO Box 202, Katoomba, NSW 2780; Ph: 02 47823441; email: randhgilroy44@bigpond.com]. We will be pleased to hear from any readers able to assist our researches with any helpful information. As I complete this article Heather and I are preparing for another giant monitor field investigation in northern New South Wales, to be followed by a search for more evidence of old three-toes in the forests of the south coast. We have no doubts that Megalania prisca, the ancient giant butcher still survives out there somewhere in the vast and inaccessible recesses of the Australian bush, along with old three-toes. -012

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Copyright Rex Gilroy 2006.

The Giant Australian Monitor Lizard, Megalania prisca Owen. Supposedly extinct at least several thousand years, modern-day sightings claims of this reptilian nightmare persist. Sketch copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Reconstruction of a Megalania skeleton in the Queensland Museum, Brisbane. Photo courtesy, Queensland Museum, Brisbane.

A reconstruction display of Megalania prisca in the Queensland Museum, Brisbane. Photo courtesy Queensland Museum, Brisbane.

The [reconstructed] head of Megalania prisca in detail. Queensland Museum, Brisbane. Photo courtesy Queensland Museum, Brisbane. 13

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The plaster cast made by Rex and Heather Gilroy, from a giant monitor lizard footprint, one of a number found by a Moruya New South Wales farmer in the winter of 1979. Sightings of 3 to 6 metre length giant goannas continue to be reported from Moruya and other nearby south coastal New South Wales districts. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Author/Cryptozoologist, Rex Gilroy with the plaster cast of one of a number of huge three-toed tracks of a Murra murri found on the property of a Narooma New South Wales district farmer in June 1984. Such a giant flightless bird is known under a variety of names in Aboriginal traditions Australia-wide. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

LIVING DINOSAURS ON THE BLUE MOUTNAINS!

By Rex Gilroy
Copyright Rex Gilroy 2011. In the April 2011 issue of Mysterious Australia newsletter, I published the results of our March visit to Central Australia. We were to attend the Wycliffe Well UFO conference where I was to have given two power-point presentations. However, although we reached Wycliffe Well, recent flooding forced the cancellation of the conference but we met up with Greg Foster who we had arranged to bring home with us. We spent time taking photos for Gilroy forthcoming books, which included ancient Aboriginal rock engravings of Burrunjor, the Dreamtime monster of Aboriginal tradition described with Tyrannosaurid reptilian features. Not only present-day Aborigines but also many whites have claimed to have made sightings of these nightmarish creatures or found their tracks in the soil over a vast area of Australias northern half. Throughout the eastern Australian mountain ranges, particularly in the far south coastal, Blue Mountains and north coastal ranges what appears to be the same monster is known as Murra-murri. On our way north Heather and I stopped at random so I could investigate bush scenery on the Stuart Highway. I had not been taking photos very long before I came across a number of three-toed Theropodtype tracks in the sandy oil, and soon after larger examples. The tracks were of an apparent juvenile and
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somewhat larger creatures, the tracks of two Burrunjors. Others soon turned up in the vicinity. There were also the rotting carcases of butchered cattle, possibly the kills of these reptiles some weeks earlier. Readers already know my theory that, wherever living dinosaurs are claimed seen, often leaving their tracks as calling cards, these creatures periodically emerge from time windows to wander remote regions for a time before re-entering their own cretaceous world. Rain forced us to abandon plans to cast some of the tracks and we had to leave. On the way south a couple of weeks later, not expecting the tracks to have survived the rain, together with Greg and Heather I returned to the dinosaur tracks site. To my relief the tracks were still there and in good condition. I lost no time casting the best examples. These tracks can now be favourably compared with others recently discovered in the Kanangra Boyd National Park and in the Wollemi National Park wildernesses of the Blue Mountains. On Tuesday 7th June 2011 Heather and I drove out to Kanangra Boyd National Park, the purpose being that I had long wanted to walk a particular fire trail. Heather stayed with the car while I did the walk with my backpack loaded with my usual equipment plus camera and binoculars. The trail led along the summit of a plateau through dense gum forest, eventually dropping down a steep slope into a forested valley. The day had turned dull and windy but as the afternoon wore on the cold wind became icy as I decided I could go no further due to time. However, soon after the return trip was begun, in roadside soil I spotted a large impression which, upon closer examination turned out to be a three-toed footprint. There was no mistaking a Theropod dinosaur-type track and in fact, of smaller Tyrannosaurid features! The track measured 31cm wide across the toes by 31cm long from mid-toe tip to rear of heal, and was 3.5cm deep. After photographing the track I started to walk, only to come across several more such tracks, mostly indistinct due to gravel and leaf litter they had been impressed in. Like the first find, all were embedded on a north to south direction and spaced 1.4 metres apart one behind the other. All were the same size. The sky had turned dark in that eerie forest and rain threatened, but I reached Heather and the car before dark, and we drove home as I talked about my remarkable discovery. I estimated that the tracks were about a week old. Little could I have known that I would soon make an even bigger discovery of Theropod tracks in the mysterious swamplands of the Wollemi wilderness, when on Friday 10th June we made a snap decision to return to Dinosaur Swamplands so I could take photos for a book on living dinosaurs I have recently completed. Bad weather had been forecast for the coming weekend so we drove up Putty Road to a favoured parking location. This time, just in case I came across any reptile tracks [giant monitor lizard tracks have been found hereabouts in the past] I took with me two small bags of casting plaster and a plastic bucket as well as my backpack loaded with camera, clip board, pen and ruler as usual together with sandwiches so I could eat on the run. An hours battle through the dense scrub following a course I have made before with Greg Foster [who couldnt be with us on this day] and also American fellow Cryptozoologist Todd Jurasek, I eventually reached a forest creek that led into an extensive overgrown swamp. As I traversed the shoreline of the swamp taking photos, I came upon what was to be the first of three lengthy, wide pathways of broken and crushed swamp reeds and shrubbery presumably made by one or more large creatures as it/they trod across the swamp. The situation precluded finding tracks. The windy day had been cold and the sky turned dull with rain threatening. I had begun making my way back to Heather when, upon moving through the gum and scrub forest I came upon a third wide pathway that extended through the forest from south to north. I could soon see it extended over the creek and on into the forest depths in a south to northerly direction. I did not have time to follow it as I knew the day was getting on. Then as I went to jump over the creek I found large scuff marks in both banks and in from the creek bank on the north side facing the northward pathway I found two large impressions of three-toed theropod-type tracks, the south track being 2.4 metres in from the bank with a gap of 80cm between the two. The north track had been badly distorted in the leaf litter covered soil and was not more than a couple of centimetres deep, whereas the other track was at least 8cm deep and being closer to the creek edge the soil was softer and moister. This better formed track measured 40cm long by 53cm wide across the toes and was of possible Tyrannosaurid structure like those found in the Kanangra wilderness just days before. Hastily measuring and photographing then drawing the tracks, I then made a cast of the best track, whose size took up all the plaster I had, which was lucky. Yet I had to wait an hour for the cast to dry sufficiently to carry it out of that forest. Finally being able to lift it, I struggled with all my gear and the cast
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back to Heather as daylight began fading and we drove home. The tracks had been made by a creature that had strode through that swampy terrain only 3-4 days before my visit. With so many living sauropod and theropod-type dinosaurs having been claimed seen in this vast swampland and forest region over generations, attempts by some locals of the Putty-Singleton areas have made unsuccessful attempts to locate one of these monsters and shoot or film them, but apart from tracks in forest soil they have been unsuccessful. As I have maintained in the past, these creatures hereabouts and elsewhere in Australia, and also the New Guinea continent, live on in a past Cretaceous time dimension, or time windows, from out of which they periodically emerge for a time, only to eventually return to their own time zone. This theory is explained at greater length in two living dinosaur books now in preparation by the Gilroys. -0-

The Kanangra fire trail on which theropod-type living dinosaur tracks were found, as it passes through plateau gum forest. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The fire trail further into the forest where it descends into a valley. Photo copyright (c0 Rex Gilroy 2011.

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The 31cm wide by 31cm long theropod-type track that first caught Rexs eye. Though small, it resembles larger Tyrannosaurid tracks. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Nearby Rex found several more tracks, mostly indistinct but for these two spaced 1.4 metres apart. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

A close-up of one of the tracks. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

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The swamp photographed in Dinosaur Swamplands by Rex Gilroy. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

A lengthy pathway across the swamp, believed made by a large reptile. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

A large indistinct foot impression embedded in swamp reeds. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

A wide pathway of crushed and disturbed swamp grass. Indistinct tracks were found amid the foliage. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011. A small swamp, showing signs of some large beast having made its way across it. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011. 18

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Another pathway made by a large creature, presumed to be a large reptile. Note the crushed foliage. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The pathway continues on through the forest in this photo looking south from the creek. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Crushed plants where a huge foot had trod. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011. A section of the creek near where Rex discovered tracks where a large theropod reptile had crossed on its way through the forest. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011. 19

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The north track. It was found to be too shallow to cast and was somewhat distorted. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011. The two tracks when first spotted, partly covered by dead leaves. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The south track, ie the one closest to the creek was deeper and better defined. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011. The tracks looking south with the creek behind the cast track. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The cast track in close-up. These are not the first of their kind found hereabouts as the Gilroys have photographed others they have come across over the years. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

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The track impression in the ground [right of picture] with the cast to its left. As Rex waited for the cast to dry the approaching bad weather and icy winds and forest darkness created an eerie feeling. He was glad to lift the cast and get out of the place! Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

More crushed shrubbery found by Rex on his trek back to the car. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Tyrannosaurus rex, the largest [12m length] carnivorous dinosaur to walk the earth in the Cretaceous period, around 70-65 million years ago. Tyrannosaurid fossils are known from Australia, suggesting this species reached this landmass. Yet today Aboriginal people over a wide area of our far north, from throughout the Gulf Country of the Northern Territory, and Queensland, and for some distance southward, firmly believe in the existence of a huge reptile of Tyrannosaurian proportions, called by them Burrunjor. Burrunjor monsters have been claimed seen by Aborigines and Europeans in recent times, in remote regions of the Far North. Sketch copyright Rex Gilroy 2011. 21

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SOME CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL ROCK ART WHICH DEPICTS BURRUNJOR.

Photos copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

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Coming Soon!

The latest Gilroy Book.

PLEASE NOTE!!
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Our previous meeting was a huge success and we look forward to seeing you at our next one.
Our next meeting will be held on SATURDAY 16 July, 2011 same time, same place 12 Kamillaroi Road, Katoomba. [Ph: 02 47823441] So until our next meeting Watch the Skies!
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