Hiker Finds Possible Yowie Footprint and Tree Break in Queensland Bush
Posted Sunday, July 26, 2026
By Squatchable.com staff
So there's this video that just popped up on the Slicing Sasquatch YouTube channel, and honestly, it's the kind of fieldwork content that makes you lean in a little closer to the screen. The guy is out exploring the Girraween area in Queensland, hiking around this rocky pyramid-shaped peak, and he stumbles on some stuff that is genuinely hard to explain away.
Right off the bat, he starts pointing out these massive indentations in the rock and dirt. He's calling them "footsteps" and "divots," and they're spaced in a way that suggests a bipedal stride. He even acknowledges out loud that one of them could have been him, but when you see the size and depth of some of these impressions pressed into hard ground, it's tough to write them all off as his own boot prints. Queensland's terrain is notoriously rocky and unforgiving, and any tracks left there tend to hold their shape pretty well in the right conditions.
Then things get really interesting. He comes across a tree break that's wedged between two standing trees, and the splinters look fresh and healthy, not weathered or rotted. He even mentions that Queensland doesn't get snow load, so the usual "natural causes" explanations start running thin. Healthy green wood snapping between two trees at that height and angle? That's the kind of thing researchers have been documenting in North American Sasquatch investigations for decades, and the pattern holds up remarkably well across continents.
But the part that really got me was later in the hike when he finds what looks like a little resting spot. There are sticks arranged in an X pattern on the ground, almost like a marker of some kind. He pulls them up before he can really film them in position, but the fact that he noticed them at all and paused to comment on them speaks volumes. Nesting sites and stick structures have been a consistent piece of the puzzle in Australian Yowie reports, and this fits that pattern eerily well.
And then there's the moment where he straight up addresses the forest. He says something like "Yowis, if you're here, I come in peace." For anyone unfamiliar, Yowis is the Australian equivalent of Sasquatch, a large, hairy hominid reported throughout the bush country and mountain ranges of Queensland and New South Wales. Aboriginal oral traditions have referenced these beings for thousands of years, long before European settlement, and modern eyewitness accounts describe them as bipedal, powerfully built, and incredibly elusive. The fact that this researcher is out there openly acknowledging the possibility and speaking to the forest with respect is exactly the kind of energy this kind of investigation needs.
He also mentions hearing what sounds like voices carried on the wind, though he rationalizes it as creaking trees. Sound carrying weirdly through mountainous terrain is something every field researcher has experienced, and it's one of those things that keeps you guessing.
The whole video has this raw, unfiltered quality that you don't get from polished TV productions. It's just a guy with a GoPro, snake gaiters, and a genuine curiosity about what's out there. He's covering serious ground too, mentioning he's traversed at least 5 kilometers of rough terrain looking for a lost trail camera, and he still takes the time to document every anomaly he comes across.
If you're into Australian cryptid research or just love watching someone methodically work through potential evidence in the field, this one is absolutely worth your time. The footage speaks for itself, and the landscape is the kind of remote, rugged environment where anything could be hiding just out of sight.
Check it out on the Slicing Sasquatch channel and see what you make of it.