{"id":430,"date":"2021-09-22T23:40:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T23:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.walkingtheshadowlands.com\/?p=430"},"modified":"2021-11-17T14:11:15","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T01:11:15","slug":"tony-healy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.walkingtheshadowlands.com\/?p=430","title":{"rendered":"Tony Healy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tony Healy<\/strong><\/span> has since 1969 investigated a wide range of unexplained phenomena in every state and territory of Australia and in many other countries. Since the early 1980s he has collaborated with fellow researcher Paul Cropper on many projects, notably in co-authoring Out of the Shadows: Mystery Animals of Australia<\/em> (1994), The Yowie: In search of Australian\u2019s Bigfoot <\/em>\u00a0(2006) and Australian Poltergeist<\/em> (2015).<\/p>\n

Until the 1990s Tony was concerned mainly with the world\u2019s many super-elusive, apparently uncatchable cryptids \u2013 yetis, sasquatch\u2019s, yowie\u2019s, lake and river monsters, out-of-place \u201cblack panthers\u201d, thylacine\u2019s, etc. \u00a0Gradually, however, his focus widened to encompass all manner of even weirder and more wonderful phenomena, such as UFOs, Min Min lights, ghosts, \u201clittle people\u201d and Blessed Virgin Mary apparitions.<\/p>\n

In 1998, after a series of fortuitous coincidences, he and Paul found themselves \u201cembedded\u201d in the amazing Humpty Doo, NT, poltergeist episode. That mind-boggling experience was the genesis of their third book, Australian Poltergeist. <\/em>\u00a0During all of his travels through the wide, wide world of weirdness, however, the mysterious yowie has held a special place in Tony\u2019s heart.<\/p>\n

So, with Paul, he is focusing once more on the shambling Aussie ape-man: they are currently working on The Yowie File<\/em>, which contains scores of recently discovered eye-witness reports dating from the early colonial era.\u00a0 After that one\u2019s published, Tony hopes to live long enough to finish his long-neglected book of memoirs (working title: Monster Safari<\/em>) an account of his forty-odd (very odd) years in this arena.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Episode 49: In Search of the Yowie<\/a> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Website: Australian Poltergeist<\/a><\/div>\n
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