MYSTERIOUS creatures have been “sighted” for hundreds of years, but claims a group of men have a body of a Bigfoot has given hope for “monster hunters”.

Blurry photos of hairy creatures walking upright, strange footage of shadowy animals in bushland and alien-like beings washed up on beaches have been fascinating people around the world for decades.

But Australia’s own Tim the Yowie Man, who shot to fame after he reported seeing Australia’s equivalent of Bigfoot in 1994, said although he was “cautiously excited” about reports of a body of similar creature being found, people had been trying to fool the world for centuries.

“I’ve gone over to the US to investigate sasquatches (Bigfoots), and people have dressed up in gorilla costumes… a lot of people have tried to fool me,” Tim said.

“There have been plenty of hoaxes.”

He said he would wait for independent analysis of the body before he would be completely convinced the creature was a Bigfoot.

“I think there would be a renewed effort to find a Yowie.”

Just two weeks ago, the internet was ablaze with theories about what a strange animal, found washed up on a New York beach and nicknamed the Montauk Monster, actually was.

It was later claimed that the “monster” was actually a prop used to promote an independent horror movie.

Just two days before the “discovery” in New York, British scientists began doing DNA tests on hair found in a jungle in India.

The hair sparked rumours of possible evidence of the existence of the yeti, also known as the abominable snowman.

Australia has had its fair share of sightings of mysterious creatures.

For more than 150 years, Australians have reported seeing massive cats – some as big as lions – in bushland.

In recent years, people have reported seeing at least one large black feline around the Blue Mountains in New South Wales.

On the same day “yeti hair” was taken to a laboratory for DNA testing, it was reported that a huge black cat, of similar description to the “Lithgow Panther”, had been spotted in Sydney’s northwest.

In 1998, the NSW Department of Agriculture launched a three-year inquiry into sightings of the “Lithgow Panther”.

The inquiry was wrapped up in 2001 after investigators deemed evidence of the creature living around the Blue Mountains was inconclusive.

Probably the most famous mythical creature claimed to have been sighted, the Loch Ness monster, has fascinated scientists for decades.

In 2006, Scottish palaeontologist Neil Clark claimed that “Nessie” may have just been an circus elephant having a swim in the lake when the famous photograph of the creature was taken in 1933.

Day time.

Imagine seeing a blur, smashing through the bush. Breaking trees.

I wonder if people have caught them before. Interesting. I feel sorry for them if they have!

There's stuff out there we don't know about, I wouldn't bugger with the unknown.

Think about it this way, if they do exist, they leave us alone. We should do the same to them.

Could've been a woolly mammoth. Sometimes they crash through a rift in time space continuum without any apparent reason.