31 Days of Monsters: Drop Bears

Often mistaken for herbivorous koalas at a distance, Australian drop bears are nasty predatory carnivores with a bloodthirsty temperament. Drop bears lay in wait in treetops, and when victims wander under them, they drop onto them slashing and eviscerating their prey with spines, claws and teeth. They then drag their prey back into the treetops to dine on them at their leisure, while waiting for their next victim to stumble by. They're nasty pieces of work. Best steer clear.

31 Days of Monsters: The Yowie

There are legends of big hairy monsters around the world. Australia's BHM is known as the Yowie. Huge and shaggy with long sharp claws and furtive, glowing eyes, the Yowie has stalked the outback, frightening the willies out of countless people through the years as is common for most BHMs.

31 Days of Monsters 2014: Yara-ma-yha-who

The Yara-ma-yha-who of Autralia is a tree-dwelling vampire with red skin, a huge head, wide toothless mouth and suckers on the ends of its toes. The Yara-ma-yha-who lurks in trees and attacks anyone who walks below them. Using their suckers, they drain their victims of blood until just before the point of death. The Yara-ma-yha-who them swallows the victim whole, drinks some water and rests. After waking, the Yara-ma-yha-who regurgitates the victim who now appears shorter and redder than before being attacked. The Yara-ma-yha-who then repeats the process again and again, each time shrinking and transforming the victim more and more. In the end, the Yara-ma-yha-who regurgitates its victim as a fully tranformed Yara-ma-yha-who, who then skulks off into the trees to find its own victims.

31 Days of Monsters: The Bunyip

The Bunyip is an legendary Australian creature said to inhabit swamps, ponds and billabongs. The variety of descriptions of the Bunyip have lead many to believe that the monster is entirely fictional. But that doesn't explain all the missing people does it?