A profile of one of this year's headlining speakers:
Tim the Yowie Man is an Australian cryptozoologist and paranormal investigator. Although so named after Australia’s Bigfoot-type creature, Tim spends most of his time investigating a smorgasboard of other Aussie cryptids including the bunyip, alien big cat, sea serpents and thylacine.
Tim also hosts ghost and mystery tours in and around Canberra – the Australian Capital – and travels extensively in search of the strange, the bizarre and the unusual. In search of the truth, Tim the Yowie Man has led a pack of huskies across the Arctic circle in search of the hairy man of the Yukon tundra, been cursed by a shipwreck in the Indian Ocean, offered himself as bait to the Loch Ness monster, teamed up with First Nation trackers to investigate the British Columbia Sasquatch, cradled the alien starchild skull, been attacked by apes at the Rock of Gibraltar while searching for ghosts, tracked down the Hawaiian lava tube mutant pig monster, uncovered a lost pyramid in Samoa, encountered a spook man in the Swiss Alps, had a fishing rod chomped on by the Amalfi Coast sea serpent…and heck… he’s even put flowers on Jay's Grave on Dartmoor.
Tim contributes regularly to mainstream publications including The Sunday Telegraph and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and recently finished a stint as the resident cryptonaturalist at the National Museum of Australia. Tim is author of the imaginatively titled The Adventures of Tim the Yowie Man (Random House 2001) and the more recent coffee table tome Haunted and Mysterious Australia (New Holland).
In 2008, he was nominated for Australian of the Year for his work in raising environmental awareness.
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