Mysterious Creatures : A Guide to Cryptozoology

Review 3, no. 2 (October 2001): 18–19,
http://www.strangeark.com/nabr/NABR7.pdf.
Jipijkmak
Merbeing of eastern Canada.
Etymology: Passamaquoddy (Algonquian),
“horned serpent people.”
Variant names: Jipijkma or Jipijkamiskw (Abnaki-Penobscot/Algonquian).
Physical description: Red-and-yellow horn.
Behavior: Lives in either salt- or freshwater.
Can move through solid rock. Can pass as
human.
Distribution: New Brunswick.
Source: Rod C. Mackay, Discoveries and
Recoveries of Eastern North America, accessed
in 2000, http://www.oldcelticbooks.com/
Fundy/george5.html.
Jogung
Tru e G i an t hominid of Australia.
Etymology: Unknown, although the Australian
jingy or chingah were terms used in Western
Australia during the nineteenth century for
“devils” or “evil spirits.”
Variant names: Barmi birgoo, Illankanpanka
(in central Queensland), Jimbra (in Western
Australia), Jingra, Jinka (in Western Australia),
Kraitbull (in South Australia), Lo-an (in Yarra
Flats, Victoria), Pankalanka (in Northern Territory),
Tjangara (in South Australia), Wolumbin.
In Victoria, Lowan (Lo-an) is used for the
Mallee fowl (Leipoa ocellata), a large megapode
with a loud, three-noted, booming call.
Physical description: Gorilla-like. Height,
7–10 feet. Covered in dark-brown or black hair.
Large genitals. Females have large breasts.
Behavior: Bipedal. Makes gutteral sounds.
Has a rotten smell. Carries a club or tree limb to
kill people.
Tracks: Length, 24 inches. Splayed big toes.
Distribution: Great Sandy Desert, Western
Australia; Arnhem Land, Northern Territory;
Mount Kosciusko area, New South Wales; central
Queensland; Murray region, South Australia;
Yarra Flats, Victoria.
Significant sightings: In July 1861, explorers
The JOGUNG, a True Giant hominid of Australia. (Harry
Trumbore/Loren Coleman)
Dempster, Clarkson, and Harper heard from
Aborigines at Lake Grace, Western Australia,
about the Jimbra or Jingra, a fierce, monkeylike
animal that killed solitary travelers.
Around 1960, Andy Hoad and Brett Taylor
were prospecting in the Lake Ballard area,
Western Australia, when they saw a group of
huge, gorilla-like creatures emerge from a
stand of scrub. One female was 7 feet tall and
had long breasts and dark-brown hair, while a
male stood 9 feet tall. Hoad and Taylor ran
back to their hut, where they found a 10-foot
gorilla in the process of tearing it down. They
hid until the coast was clear, then jumped in
their truck and drove away. Aborigines in Kalgoolrie-Boulder
told them the gorillas were
called Jimbra.
In June 1970, mountaineers Ron Bartlett and
Frank Sinclair were breaking camp northwest of
Mount Kosciusko, New South Wales, when
they noticed huge, humanlike tracks in the
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