 Later that year, a Gympie man told media he had encountered yowies on several occasions, including conversing with, and teaching some English to, a very large male yowie in the bush north east of Gympie, and several people in Port Douglas claimed to have seen yowies, near Mowbray and at the Rocky Point range.Australian historian Graham Joyner maintains the yowie has never existed.He points out that it was unknown before 1975 and that it originated in a misunderstanding.