The Bunyip: Australia’s Ancient Water Monster

The River Murray in South Australia, the kind of slow river and billabong country where the Bunyip is said to live

About 4 min readFor centuries, Aboriginal peoples of south-eastern Australia have told of a creature in the billabongs and swamps — a devil of the water that drags the unwary under. European settlers reported it too. The stories may be older than the continent’s last giant marsupials.