Tim the Yowie Man

Born Timothy Bull, TYM has changed his name by deed poll.{{cite news|newspaper=The Canberra Times|date=7 August 2007|title=Hard hats going Green|publisher=Fairfax Media}} He is an Australian National University graduate.{{Cite book|last=Dapin|first=Mark|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/911394973|title=Strange country : travels in a very different Australia|date=2009|publisher=Macmillan Australia|isbn=978-1-74198-243-5|location=Sydney|pages=198–199|oclc=911394973}}

Tim the Yowie Man claims to have seen a yowie, an entity from Australian folklore that supposedly resides in the nation’s outback. He saw it while bushwalking at Mount Franklin in the Brindabella National Park in 1994.{{Cite web|date=2012-06-04|title=The real X-Files - Leopards, panthers and yowies|url=https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/nsw/panthers-yowie-men-and-a-headless-roo-the-real-x-files-of-new-south-wales-ng-28c4f198ce7bbfa142bc90a390084350|access-date=2021-07-05|website=PerthNow|language=en}} Since then, Tim the Yowie Man has investigated yowie sightings{{Cite web|last=Man|first=Tim the Yowie|date=2014-05-23|title=Tim the Yowie Man: Spinning a yarn|url=https://www.traveller.com.au/tim-the-yowie-man-spinning-a-yarn-38u0u|access-date=2021-07-05|website=Traveller|language=en-au}} and other paranormal phenomena across Australia and internationally.{{Cite web|title=Tim the Yowie Man|url=https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/category/blogs/tim-the-yowie-man/|access-date=2021-07-05|website=Australian Geographic|language=en-AU}} He also writes regular columns various newspapers{{Cite web|date=2013-03-29|title=Break by the lake|url=https://www.huntervalleynews.net.au/story/1397901/break-by-the-lake/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141012035402/http://www.huntervalleynews.net.au/story/1397901/break-by-the-lake/|archive-date=12 October 2014|access-date=2021-07-05|website=Hunter Valley News|language=en-AU}}{{Cite web|title=Tim the Yowie Man|url=https://www.traveller.com.au/author|access-date=2021-07-05|website=Traveller|language=en-au}}{{Cite web|date=2014-10-09|title=Tim The Yowie Man - ACT News - watoday.com.au|url=http://www.watoday.com.au/act-news/by/Tim-the-Yowie-Man|access-date=2021-07-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141009163630/http://www.watoday.com.au/act-news/by/Tim-the-Yowie-Man|archive-date=9 October 2014}} including The Canberra Times{{Cite web|last=Times|first=The Canberra|title=Tim the Yowie Man's Profile {{!}} The Canberra Times {{!}} Canberra, ACT|url=https://www.canberratimes.com.au/profile/853/tim-the-yowie-man|access-date=2021-07-05|website=www.canberratimes.com.au|language=en-AU}} and The Sydney Morning Herald.

In 2004, Tim the Yowie Man won a legal case against Cadbury, a popular British confectionery company.{{cite news|title=Tim the Yowie Man licks chocolate giant in court|publisher=Fairfax Media|newspaper=The Canberra Times|date=15 December 2004}} Cadbury had claimed that his moniker was too similar to their range of Yowie confectionery.{{cite news|date=14 September 2004|title=Yowie Man, chocolate maker go head-to-head|work=ABC News Australia|publisher=ABC Canberra|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2004-09-14/yowie-man-chocolate-maker-go-head-to-head/2043358|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012111227/http://www.abc.net.au/news/2004-09-14/yowie-man-chocolate-maker-go-head-to-head/2043358|archivedate=12 October 2013}} In deciding the case, a Trade Mark Oppositions Hearing Officer ruled that she was "satisfied that a substantial portion of the Australian public would know of the dictionary meaning of yowie and be able to distinguish between use of the term in this sense, and use of the term by (Cadbury)."{{cite news|date=14 December 2004|title=Yowie, he's no choc bar!|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|publisher=Fairfax Media|agency=AAP|url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/Business/Yowie-hes-no-choc-bar/2004/12/14/1102787068238.html|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100829045255/http://www.smh.com.au/news/Business/Yowie-hes-no-choc-bar/2004/12/14/1102787068238.html|archivedate=29 August 2010}}

In 2012, artist Barbara van der Linden painted Tim's portrait as part of her Faces of Canberra series, for exhibition during Canberra's centenary year in 2013.{{Cite web|last=Doherty|first=Megan|date=2012-11-01|title=Artist renders Yowie Man deep in mystery|url=https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6164019/artist-renders-yowie-man-deep-in-mystery/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121101201143/http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/artist-renders-yowie-man-deep-in-mystery-20121031-28ksq.html|archive-date=1 November 2012|access-date=2021-07-05|website=The Canberra Times|language=en-AU}} He continues to live in Canberra with his family.

He has acted as a location and historical advisor for international television programs on unusual phenomena and has featured in documentaries about Australian and international mysteries.{{citation needed|date=October 2014}}{{when|date=October 2014}} He was even an informant for foreign press when Survivor was filming in the Australian outback.{{Cite news|last=Rutenberg|first=Jim|date=2000-12-03|title=Marketing a Mystery; Outback Confidential|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/03/magazine/marketing-a-mystery-outback-confidential.html|access-date=2021-07-05|issn=0362-4331}} He is a member of the Australian Society of Travel Writers,{{citation|title=Membership List|url=http://astw.org.au/index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=usersList&listid=4&Itemid=137&limit=100&limitstart=100|publisher=Australian Society of Travel Writers|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141019014040/http://astw.org.au/index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=usersList&listid=4&Itemid=137&limit=100&limitstart=100|url-status=dead|archivedate=19 October 2014}} and has hosted a national travel radio show and is a ghost-tour guide. He also has his own YouTube channel that covers mysteries, cryptids, and urban legends.{{Cite web|title=Tim The Yowie Man - The Series - YouTube|url=https://www.youtube.com/c/TimTheYowieManTheSeries/videos|access-date=2021-07-05|website=www.youtube.com}}

• {{citation|title=Haunted and Mysterious Australia - Bunyips, yowies, phantoms and other strange phenomena|date=2006|publisher=New Holland|isbn=978-1741108279}}
• {{citation|title=The Adventures of Tim the Yowie Man, cryptonaturalist|date=2001|url=https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1060280|publisher=Random House Australia|location=Sydney|isbn=174051078X}}
• {{citation|title=It's Alive!|publisher=National Museum of Australia|date=2003|isbn=187694422-6|location=Canberra}} (Contributed to.)
• {{citation|title=In the Spirit of Banjo|date=2014|publisher=Pendragon Publishing and Design Australia|location=Canberra|isbn=978-0-9925061-2-4}}

• The Roaring Bunyip with Tim the Yowie man. (Documentary. Carillion Pictures 2013)
• TYM The Series - Haunted Tales of Burnima Homestead. (Documentary. Austography 2017)
• TYM The Series - The Mysteries of Lake George. (Documentary. Austography 2017)
• TYM The Series - The Great Aussie Pie Challenge. (Documentary. Austography 2017)

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