The Night Creatures

Growing up most of us Australian’s would of heard a story from Aboriginal myths, a lot of these stories are really fascination and some can be very frightening, some can be very sad and some have a wonderful humour to them, but it always seems like the stranger tales have lasting effects. When I was about 8 I went to a summer camp and it was there I heard some wonderful tales, large rainbow serpents, large frogs drinking waterholes dry, enormous kangaroos leaving large holes in the desert, swamp bellowing creatures known as Bunyips and one about Truaganni who’s soul was cast into the land to become a protector, her spirit became Mt Wellington, we know this not to be true due to the fact that Mt Wellington has been there for 1000’s of years, but it was a story that made and impression. So recently I discovered some publications that were about all myths of the aboriginal camptales…. And some are mind blowing and very believable.
This tale centers on nighttime creatures and it’s sure to give you chills (it did us). Though I’m not going to detail the story (I’ll leave that for the book) though imagine your in the deserts of Australia, the suns gone down, the cold nights chill hits hard, in Australian outback it can play some frightening tricks on one’s mind, shadows of old eucalypt trees decaying way move like stretched out hands, dingos howls with the night, and then a new sound emerges…. A shrieking, are the spirits awakening, you see what looks like shimmering shadows approaching, but you still are unsure, the shrieking becomes louder and threatening and before you can think, breath, scream…. Your souls been taken away by the nighttime creatures.

In Central Outback there are Large Dingos that will carry one soul away if you wander away from the campfire light.

There are spirits who try and take souls of the living so they will not be lonely in the other world.

Nadubi: Creatures with splintery barbed spines growing from the elbows and kneecaps, these creatures will creep up on travelers and attacking him with their spines. The creatures sometimes extract the spine of the human and added it to their elbows and knees.

Gurumukas: Haggard, thin spirits that sneak up on unsuspected aboriginals, using their long sharpen teeth, will bite him on the back of the neck.