A terrified woman has recalled the moment an 'absolutely human-like' yowie pushed her down a hill.

The unidentified woman told her story to Australian Yowie Research administrator Dean Harrison who has been compiling yowie sightings for about 25-years.

The Cairns woman was in her early 20s when she claimed to have sighted the yowie while climbing Red Hill in Woree, in Queensland, in 1990.

She said she initially thought the yowie was a man in a gorilla costume and that it had a shock of dark brown-ginger hair covering its entire body.

A terrified woman has recalled the moment a yowie with dark brown-ginger hair pushed her down a hill (pictured: alleged yowie sighting in March 2018)

Her account was recorded in a video which is available on YouTube and added to the Australian Yowie Research database.

The woman explained she looked towards the top of the hill as she made her way forward when she noticed the human-like creature.

'I saw this hairy-man or whatever the heck it was, yowie, looking down — like it was leaning down, looking out at the guy that had come out ahead of me,' she said.

'As I came out on the track it sort of seen me and it was just totally like surprised and just stood up straight, looked straight at me and glared at me.

'I remember it had its hands, its arms down beside its body and … the size of the arms and the legs was just really massive.'

The woman said the yowie's hands were about 1.5 times the size of human hands.

While its face and part of the chest were bare and exposed, making the creature to look similar to a person.

Her account was recorded in a video which is available on YouTube and added to the Australian Yowie Research database (pictured: a sketch of an alleged yowie sighting in 2018)

'I remember thinking why is someone up here in a gorilla suit?' the woman said.

She claimed the yowie began to roar before it came chasing after her.

'I only got a couple of strides and it just hit me in the back and I just went sailing off the side of the hill,' she said.

Long grass broke the woman's fall as she continued to tumble down the hill.

When the woman reached the bottom she jumped a fence and ran to her car before driving off.

The woman is adamant she came across a cryptozoological entity, despite it's peculiarly human appearance.

The woman is adamant she came across a cryptozoological entity, despite it's peculiarly human appearance (pictured: yowie chocolates)

She said its arms seemed to go below its knees and she was unable to ascertain its sex.

While the woman did not believe the yowie intended to hurt her, she recognised it had intense power and could do serious damage.

Mr Harrison has been studying the mythical creatures for 20 years and claims to have had many encounters with the elusive beasts.

He said the woman had suggested other people may have spotted the creature around the same time.

He hopes other witnesses will come forward with sightings.