According to the Aboriginal tradition, it is said that in ancient times, in the times of Dreamtime (the Time of Creation according to the Australian Aborigines) there was a horned, scaly lizard-lizard (and at the same time evil) in New South Wales and everywhere under many names. ghost that harmed people). He was described as a creature of enormous size and "terrible" odor. Rock carvings and cave paintings across the continent clearly depict these and other lizard monsters.

Aboriginal rock carvings depict Magalania near Sydney and the central coast of New South Wales, not so long ago - 3000 years ago. This is the age of some fossilized fragments found in various areas not only of eastern Australia.

Let us now turn our attention to the areas of the North Coast and the interior of New South Wales, where Aborigines have long been very familiar with the giant lizards they called "Mungoon Galli".

However, they seem to have confused these lizards up to 10 m long with other, even larger lizards, which they claim reach a staggering length of 17 m! It seems absurd that such vast life forms could still survive "out there" in the wilderness, but there are Aborigines who say yes!

Even if they became extinct today, probably long ago in the Ice Age and even earlier, such species existed. And if so, their skeletal remains may still appear. These monsters were lizards in every detail. Aborigines say their legs were 180-210 cm high when standing or walking. They had a huge head at least 120 cm long and a long strong neck, just like a lizard that reached a length of 3 m. Their bodies were about 6 m long, similar to a long strong tail of the same length.

These monsters - goannas, once roamed the continent, in ancient times Dreamtime - the creation of the world. "Our people hunted these creatures, but they hunted them in large groups and had to be careful. If you were caught, these big guys would tear you apart and eat you, "one old Aboriginal told researchers in the early XNUMXs.

Like their smaller 9-meter counterpart, they were able to uproot trees of reasonable size. Even today, when the sound of a huge tree falling can be heard in the depths of the forest day or night, Aborigines say it is the work of "Mungoon Galli."

Over the years, there have been people who claimed to have found giant traces of these creatures, but these were never documented by photographs or castings. But there are still original rumors among the Aboridians about the existence of these monsters, and until the areas supposed to live in them are properly explored, let's keep an open mind about the matter.

Aborigines say the strange noises near water pits and in certain forest areas near Taree and beyond in Kempsey are the sounds of giant lizards, and that they will never go near these places for fear of being caught and eaten by one of those lizards.

There is a story about an event from the Cessnock district that happened in December 1978. In a remote paddock for horses, a farmer saw a huge lizard, looking like a monitor lizard, tearing a cow with its large jaws and teeth to pieces.

The farmer (who did not wish to publish his name) was sitting in his jeep at the time. He hurried home and called his friends on the phone, who arrived in an hour in pickups and landrovers, armed with rifles and accompanied by their large dogs. The site, bordered by swamps on the edge of a densely wooded valley and mountainous landscape, was probably where the monster had emerged.

As the search group arrived, all they could find was a half-smoked cow, a lot of blood around, and a vague trace of grass. But another, somewhat wrinkled traces apparently under the trail of a mighty tail, led to the edge of the swamp and disappeared into the water. Dogs, like men, refused to go further.

The moment the farmer saw the lizard, he compared its size with the pole in the fence next to it and estimated that its length was 10 m and measured the height of about four meters on all fours, including its giant body. But few people believed him. Some said he beat the cow himself and made the tracks himself. If so, he really did a good job. However, other strange things happened in those mountains, and they definitely don't make me laugh.

Over the years Cessnocak's inhabitants have often talked about extremely large 10 meter lizards who inhabit dense forests that cover the entire surface of the adjacent rugged Wattagan mountain range. And these monsters are known to occasionally run from their mountain dungeons to the land of the Cessnock suburb.

During the last week of December 1975, a Cessno farmer caring for cattle on his pasture saw out of the corner of his eye one of these lizards moving in the bushes next to his barn. He said he was at least 10 meters long, greyish in color, and stood on four heavily built legs with his body up to a meter high above the ground.

Reporters in Newcastle received at least 1974 detailed reports of the activities of these giant lizards during the previous year 10.

As a cryptozoologist interested in reports of "unknown" animals of all kinds, I have long been interested in the giant lizards of the Wattagan Mountains. However, as we have seen, they are by no means only in this area.

What I am also interested in is a great deal of news coming from the North Coast and the Inland South of New South Wales. It is no surprise that we can assume that in large mountain regions somewhere close enough to lurk and quite easily conceal the "army" of these Megalania lizards.

In spite of many recurring eyewitness reports, often from credible witnesses, the existence of Australian lizards by university herpetologists is ignored. "Lizard Megalania is extinct species" and basta!

Mr. Mike Blake doesn't think Megalonia is extinct. One day in 1974, he was sitting on the porch of his farm and his van was parked right in front of the house, which stands near a bushy area on the outskirts of Cessnock. Suddenly, one of these monstrous lizards appeared around the corner of the house and walked right in front of his porch, between him and his parked car.

Mike sat in horror, "chained to his chair," as he later said, while the giant creature turned and looked at him before hurrying across the horse paddock toward the nearby bushes. Mike compared the size of a lizard with a parked car that is 6 meters long. The lizard was at least 7 m long and 1 m high.

These giant lizards are known not only to the inhabitants of the Wattagon Mountains, but also to the inhabitants of the Port Macquarie-Wauchope area further towards the coast. Lizard attacks on cattle are part of local legends that date back to the last century.