Talk:Bunyip/@comment-28937613-20180917025808/@comment-27950421-20180917133354

The Bunyip is essentially the boogie man of Australian myth. The various native tribes all had wildly varying descriptions as to what the Bunyip looked like and several had said that it was a monster so deadly that no one knew what one looked like, because no one had ever laid eyes upon and lived.

Due to variety seen in the myth, the idea that no one knows what it looks like cause no one's seen it and lived is the most accepted version. Some folks attribute the myth to either crocodile attacks or even a surviving Megalania Priscus.

Not sure how old the myth is. I know it's older than the European colonization of Australia.