A Visit from the Bunyip

A Visit from the Bunyip
Paul Dale Roberts, HPI’s Esoteric Detective
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When my cousin MSG Paul Leaird visited Australia, he heard stories about the Hawkesbury River Monster and stories about the cryptid called the Bunyip aka Kianpraty. I’m not going to get into details about the Hawkesbury River Monster, since I already wrote an article about this elusive cryptid. Here is a short explanation on what this creature is:

The Hawkesbury River Monster is an elusive river serpent. There have been reports are far back, as seen in the ancient art of the Dharuk tribal Aborigines of New South Wales of a mysterious water monster. Legend calls them Mirreeulla aka the giant water serpent. The Hawkesbury River has produced reports of large reptilian or eel-like animals since at least as far back as 1924. There have also been sightings of this creature in the last decade.

With this article, I will discuss another Australian cryptid called the Bunyip. There are many stories on the Bunyip in Aboriginal mythology. According to Aboriginal myths, the Bunyip lives in swamps, seen at billabongs, creeks and riverbeds. My cousin saw a waterhole in New South Hills and saw a strange creature in this waterhole and wonders to this day if he saw the Bunyip or if he just imagined it. The Bunyip is described as having a dog face. The Bunyip’s fur is dark. The creatures are said to have flippers, horse tail, walrus tusks and a duckbill. Some Bunyips that have been seen have a crocodile shaped head. Most citizens of Australia believe that people are actually seeing a duckbill platypus. My cousin Paul in more recent times, now believes that is what he probably saw, since duckbill platypus are native to Australia.

In 1818, the citizens of Australia were excited and felt they finally had proof of the existence of the Bunyip. Two explorers found a skull that they said belonged to the Bunyip. The skull was found half buried in the soil at Lake Bathurst in New South Wales. The skull was examined, and it was determined to be the skull of either a deformed foal or calf.

The Bunyip came into existence via a legend. That legend claims that a man with the surname Bunyip broke the Rainbow Serpent Law by eating a totem animal and became a demon known only as the Bunyip.

The Rainbow Serpent or Rainbow Snake is a common deity often seen as the creator God, known by numerous names in different Australian Aboriginal languages by the many different Aboriginal peoples. It is a common motif in the art and religion of many Aboriginal Australian peoples. Much like the archetypal mother goddess, the Rainbow Serpent creates land and diversity for the Aboriginal people, but when disturbed can bring great chaos. The Rainbow Serpent has certain laws that the Aboriginal people respect and when those laws are broken, great punishment falls upon the perpetrator.

Some people of Australia believe that the Bunyip is nothing more than a freshwater seal. This is another theory.

When my cousin Paul returned to his hometown of Lehigh, Oklahoma, after two weeks being home, he did some hiking and came across a “strippet”. A strippet is a large hole in the ground, that was done by coal miners a long time ago, when coal was plentiful in Lehigh. In the strippets you will at times find water snakes and land turtles. When Paul looked inside of this one strippet, he thought he saw a Bunyip. If a Bunyip is an ethereal entity, a demon. Did the Bunyip demon follow Paul home? When Paul looked back into the strippet the strange creature was gone. At a later time in Paul’s life, Paul felt maybe his eyes were playing tricks on him.

Daku an Aborigine came across a Bunyip at Darling River in Australia. Daku was telling his Aboriginal friends that the Rainbow Snake was an angry god. Daku after having an argument with his friends, went off on one of the trails by himself and a Bunyip type creature came out of the river and attacked him, leaving bite marks all over his legs. Daku says that the Bunyip is a very real creature and that he does the bidding of the Rainbow Serpent.