Awesome Or Off-Putting: The Bunyip Awesome or Off-Putting is a weekly delve into cryptozoology, ufology, aliens, medical marvels, scientific wonders, secret societies, government conspiracies, cults, ghosts, EVPs, myths, ancient artifacts, religion, strange facts, odd sightings or just the plain unexplainable. The Bunyip is an Australian legend that started with the Aborigines, and was subsequently spread among the white settlers. It's been physically described as looking a thousand different ways - having everything from horse parts to tentacles. At one point a skull of the creature was thought to be found, and when science at the time could not definitively identify it - it looked like the legends were all too true.