Paranormal Folklore, The Giant Rabbits of Australia.

 

 

 The Giant Rabbits of the Australian outback


What would you do if you where just minding your own business trying to strick it rich when all of the sudden you see a giant rabbit... 

Apparently prospectors lived this exact situation.


These massive cryptids from the Australia where first reported by gold prospectors, who claimed to have seen giant rabbits anywhere from  nine feet and possibly up to twelve feet high that could move  at extreme speeds. the original source for these reports, which were first mentioned by Ivan T. Sanderson, is unknown, though likely came from retellings of previous stories thought the years .

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(Ivan T. Sanderson{1911-1973} was a Scottish biologist and cryptozoologist who's often credited as the co-founder of cryptozoology. He created the Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained which covered various cryptozoological cases. He's also notable for claiming to have witnessed multiple cryptids, including the Olitiau and Mokele-mbembe,)
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Some believe these giant rabbits were actually living diprotodons not actually massive bunny's but an ancient species of  giant kangaroos

Or Sthenurine Kangaroos: Experts like Christine Janis and Karl Shuker believe sightings were possibly  Sthenurus or Procoptodon, extinct, short-faced, large-forearmed kangaroos that may have resembled very large rabbits.

Diprotodon was  less lily to bed confused with a large rabbit as it was a a rhino-sized, wombat-like marsupial that went extinct thousands of years ago.

To this day, nobody truly knows what was seen by the prospectors or what still roams in the vast Australian outback.

American Cryptids: Phantom Kangaroos

                                       Phantom Kangaroos sightings in America



Most of these sightings were probably just escaped zoo kangaroos or wallabies or possibly escaped or released exotic pets, however some sightings do fit the description of an extinct type of giant short-faced kangaroo called Procoptodon.

These animals were herbivores and lived in groups.

There is really no explanation for kangaroos eating police dogs though unless it is a surviving Ekaltadeta, a predatory fanged kangaroo that lived in Australia over 10 million years ago.

 But killing the police dogs is possible for a kangaroo they are surprisingly good at fighting even more so  if the kangaroo had been infected with rabies or was attempting to defend itself.

Loren Coleman and Mark A. Hall theories that some sightings of phantom kangaroos may actually be sightings of devil monkeys.. (described as a shaggy, canine-faced baboon-like creatures with powerful, almost kangaroo-like leg. post on them soon)


Though kangaroos and wallabies outside of Australia is not unheard of, Isle of Man has been home to hundreds of wild wallabies ever since a pair escaped in the 1970s

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Other sightings....

During the tornado of 1899 in Richmond, Wisconsin, a woman saw a kangaroo leaping across her backyard.

In 1934, a giant kangaroo supposedly killed and ate police dogs in Hamburg, Tennessee.

In 1958, Charles Wetzel saw a kangaroo chasing dogs near his cabin home in the Platte River near Grand Island Nebraska.

Leonard Ciagi and Michael Byrne (two policemen) saw a kangaroo in an alley in 1974. The animal escaped by kicking Ciagi in the legs when he tried to handcuff the kangaroo.

In 1978, in Waukesha, Wisconsin, two men took a blurry picture of a kangaroo they saw in a bush.

In 1981, Ray Ault, was tending to his sheep flock when a huge kangaroo came bounding past.

In 1999, a woman named Lois Eckhardt saw a big animal jump by cows on her farm in Wellman, Iowa.

In 2000, people saw a kangaroo eating leaves in Lewsiham, London

 In 2013 a group of hunters in Oklahoma recorded a kangaroo in  a field and posted the video to youtube, many people believe that it was an escaped pet, that went missing a year before this sighting.

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So do you thing these are really some sort of phantom marsupial's roaming Americas wilderness, Just some escaped pet's  or what?...