Rex Gilroy

Rex Gilroy

Rex Gilroy (born in New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian who has published books and articles on cryptids and unexplained or speculative phenomena. His work has focused on yowie reports, 'out of place' animals, UFOs, and propositions regarding a 'lost' Australian civilization. He has contributed to, or been the subject of, several articles; in speculative media such as Nexus magazine and Australian newspapers. He is the author and publisher of several books, his first book appeared in 1986. He has documented over 3 000 reports relating to yowies. [cite book |last=Shuker |first=Karl P. N. |authorlink=Karl Shuker |coauthors= |editor= |others= |title=In search of prehistoric animals; Do giant extinct creatures still exist? |origdate= |origyear=1995 |origmonth= |edition=1 |series= |date= |year= |month= |publisher=Blanchford |location= |language= |isbn=0 7137 2469 2 |pages=189 |chapter=The Alien Zoo |chapterurl= |quote=Rex Gilroy... collected over 3000 sightings of a giant hairy creature sighted across the continent.] His eclectic career has seen field research into butterflies or anthropology, but he remains most notable for his controversial searches for the recently extinct Thylacine, Moas, alien big cats or the source of the yowie legend.

Biography

Rex Gilroy was born in New South Wales and attended the Villawood infants and primary school. He moved to the Liverpool Boys High School in 1957 and recalls the libraries as his most important memory. Fact|date=September 2007Gilroy also refers to a life long interest in museums and credits these as the inspiration for his work. He opened a small museum at Mount York peninsula in New South Wales at the age of 21. Fact|date=March 2008In 1959 he documented a sighting of an unidentified object in the sky and began collecting data on this and other fringe phenomena. Rex Gilroy spent many years researching the "Ancient Archaeology" of Australia, and claimed through thousands of artifact finds that the Phoenicians established many colonies in parts of Queensland in Australia, including port and dockside facilities. Gilroy claims that thousands of years ago, Australia must have had many inland tributaries and river networks, and the Phoenicians sailed upon them.

Pyramids, eg the so-called Gympie Pyramid have also been claimed to have been found in Australia by Rex Gilroy, and reveal that at some period in the distant past, there existed a vast network of pyramids across the Pacific Asia Region. Tamils in Tamil Nadu, Himachal Pradesh and Kerala in Bharat (India) believed in the existence of a huge landmass that existed where the Pacific Ocean does today, called Kumari Kandam (Tamil: ஞானமுத்தன் தேவநேயன்) that equates to the civilization and continent of Lemuria. Sonar mapping has shown there was no such landmass in the Pacific.

Published Works

*cite book |last=Gilroy |first=Rex |editor= |others= |title=Mysterious Australia |origyear=1995 |format= |accessdate=2007-05-26 |edition= 1st ed.|series= |publisher=Nexus (Marcus Allen) Publications |location=Mapleton, Qld |language= |isbn=064625393X |pages= 288 p |chapter= |chapterurl= |quote= Illustrated

Self published

The following works are published by Rex & Heather Gilroy.
*cite book |last=Gilroy |first=Rex and Heather|editor= |others= |title=Giants From The Dreamtime: The Yowie In Myth And Reality |origyear=2001 |edition= |series= |date= |year= |month= |publisher=Uru publications |location= Katoomba, N.S.W. |language= |isbn= 0957871600|oclc= |doi= |id= |pages=379 p. |chapter= xxiv|chapterurl= |quote=
*cite book |last=Gilroy |first=Rex and Heather|editor= |others= |title=Out Of The Dreamtime: The Search For Australasia's Unknown Animals |origyear=c2006 |edition= 1st ed.|series= |date= |year= |month= |publisher=Uru publications |location= Katoomba, N.S.W. |language= |isbn=0957871651 |oclc= |doi= |id= |pages=602 p |chapter= xxiv|chapterurl= |quote=
*cite book |last=Gilroy |first=Rex and Heather|editor= |others= |title=Uru - The Lost Civilisation Of Australia |origdate= |origyear=2005 |origmonth= |url= |format= |accessdate= |accessyear= |accessmonth= |edition= |series= |date= |year= |month= |publisher=Uru publications |location= Katoomba, N.S.W. |language= |isbn= |oclc= |doi= |id= |pages= |chapter= |chapterurl= |quote=
*cite book |last=Gilroy |first=Rex and Heather|editor= |others= |title=Australian UFOs: Through The Windows Of Time |origdate= |origyear=2004|edition= 1st ed. |series= |publisher=Uru publications |location=Katoomba, N.S.W. |language= |isbn= 0957871627|pages= 284 p|chapter= xii|chapterurl= |quote=
*cite book |last=Gilroy |first=Rex and Heather|editor= |others= |title=Pyramids In The Pacific : The Unwritten History Of Australia |origdate= 2000|origyear= |origmonth= |url= |format= |accessdate= |accessyear= |accessmonth= |edition= |series= |date= |year= |month= |publisher=Uru publications |location= Katoomba, N.S.W.|language= |isbn=0646396331 |oclc= |doi= |id= |pages=320 p |chapter= |chapterurl= |quote=

External links

* [http://www.mysteriousaustralia.com/ Mysterious Australia Homepage]
* [http://csicop.org/sb/2004-09/tales.html Zheng He in the Americas and Other Unlikely Tales of Exploration and Discovery]

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