Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery Podcast

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Welcome to Strewth, where we uncover Australia's most captivating tales of true crime and mysterious happenings. Yarns so extraordinary they'll make you stop and say, "Strewth!" From the sun-scorched outback to the seedy underbelly of our biggest cities, Australia harbours some of the world's most perplexing mysteries. Stories so bizarre that even hardened detectives could only mutter that distinctly Australian expression of disbelief. Each episode takes you deep into extraordinary cases through atmospheric storytelling and meticulous research. You'll walk alongside the detectives, feel the frustration of families seeking answers, and experience the shock of communities torn apart by inexplicable events. Strewth reveals how these cases shaped Australian society and exposes the dark undercurrents flowing beneath the nation's beautiful facade. From colonial-era crimes to modern forensic breakthroughs, these are the stories that made headlines and left investigators scratching their heads. New episodes weekly. Because some stories are too strange not to tell.

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  1. 2 days ago

    The Disappearance of Krystal Fraser - Australian True Crime

    On Saturday the twentieth of June, 2009, Krystal Fraser got leave from a Bendigo hospital to go home for a party. She was twenty-three and nine months pregnant, and she spent the whole train trip up to Pyramid Hill texting her mates. A man was waiting for her at the station, impatient, and she told a friend she'd better go before he got mad. In the town bakery she said "we" were going to a party in Cohuna or Kerang. By half past nine she was walking home on her own, and the party, whatever it was, never happened. She was back in her unit on Kelly Street with the door shut behind her and her phone in her hand. At one minute to midnight it rang. The call came from a public phone box twenty-seven kilometres away, the nineteenth call from that box in five weeks, and Krystal answered. For the last time. Subscribe now to Strewth Premium on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/cw/StrewthPodcast Strewth social media links - https://linktr.ee/strewthpodcast Contact me - strewthpodcast@gmail.com Theme Music - Jesse Frank on Pixabay Sources: D'Agostino, E. (2019, June 20). Krystal Fraser mystery remains unsolved after 10 years. Bendigo Advertiser. https://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/story/6226966/krystal-fraser-mystery-remains-unsolved-after-10-years/ Dalton, T. (2022, July 13). Witness tells inquest missing woman Krystal Fraser was paranoid, had drug debts. ABC News. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-13/last-person-to-see-krystal-fraser-alive-gives-evidence/101234420 Dalton, T. (2022, July 14). Prime suspect named in Krystal Fraser inquest, detective "very surprised" by unheard evidence. ABC News. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-14/krystal-fraser-inquest-evidence-surprises-investigator/101239258 Gearin, M. (2019, July 17). Krystal Fraser went missing while pregnant in Pyramid Hill. Police now offer a $1 million reward. ABC News. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-17/million-dollar-reward-for-information-on-krystal-fraser/11316040 Lorenz, K. (2022). Finding into death with inquest: Krystal Lee Fraser (COR 2018 001431). Coroners Court of Victoria. https://www.coronerscourt.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/COR%202018%20001431_Krystal%20Fraser-%2037-Finding%20into%20Death%20with%20Inquest%20-%20FINAL%20-%20DE-IDENTIFIED%20-%20FOR%20PUBLICATION_0.pdf Man arrested in missing woman case. (2018, February 13). Gannawarra Times. https://gannawarratimes.com.au/news/2018/02/13/man-arrested-in-missing-woman-case Man no longer person of interest in disappearance of missing Pyramid Hill woman Krystal Fraser. (2018, April 3). Bendigo Advertiser. https://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/story/5319526/man-no-longer-person-of-interest-in-krystal-fraser-disappearance/ Najjar, J. (2026, June 20). A midnight call, a murder, and a sister's 17-year quest for answers. Bendigo Advertiser. https://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/story/9289433/find-out-the-details-of-the-disappearance-of-krystal-frase/ Victoria Police. (n.d.). Missing person: Krystal Fraser. https://www.police.vic.gov.au/missing-person-krystal-fraser Woods, E. (2022a, July 11). Inquest into missing pregnant woman begins. The Canberra Times. https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7814065/inquest-into-missing-pregnant-woman-begins/ Woods, E. (2022b, July 12). Inquest hears murder theory. Country News. https://www.countrynews.com.au/news/inquest-hears-murder-theory/ Woods, E. (2022c, July 12). Missing woman met man lurking near train. The Border Mail. https://www.bordermail.com.au/story/7815747/missing-woman-met-man-lurking-near-train/

    The Disappearance of Krystal Fraser - Australian True Crime

  2. 4 days ago · Subscribers Only

    Wednesdays - Unsolved True Crime

    The Mysterious Abduction of Dorothy Scott In May 1980, in Orange County, California, Dorothy Scott has spent months answering the phone to a man who tells her on some days that he loves her and on others that he is going to kill her. On a Wednesday night she is at a hospital with two workmates, one of them sick from a spider bite, and when it's time to leave she tells them to wait at the exit while she goes round to get the car. They wait, but the minutes pass and the kerb stays empty, so they walk out into the car park to look for her. Somewhere out in the dark an engine starts and headlights swing towards them. It's her white Toyota, and they lift their arms and wave, but the car swerves and drives straight past them. Dorothy Scott has disappeared. Sources Associated Press. (1984, August 20). Daughter's killer terrorizes parents. Statesman Journal, 5A. https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/199822711 Kettler, S. (2026, January 22). A single mom was captured from a hospital parking lot after receiving calls from a stalker. A&E. https://www.aetv.com/articles/dorothy-jane-scott-killed-stalker-cold-case A killer calls: The unsolved murder of Dorothy Jane Scott. (n.d.). The Lineup. https://the-line-up.com/dorothy-jane-scott Murder of Dorothy Jane Scott. (n.d.). In Wikipedia. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Dorothy_Jane_Scott Orange County Sheriff's Department. (n.d.). May 1980: Dorothy Jane Scott. https://ocsheriff.gov/page/may-1980-dorothy-jane-scott

    Wednesdays - Unsolved True Crime

  3. 6 days ago

    King Billy Hut - Australian Mystery

    Halloweek on Strewth - Tale 7 of 7 It’s the middle of the 1960s, up on the Victorian high country, in a cattlemen’s hut. Seventeen-year-old John Lovick wakes on the top bunk with a pair of hands around his throat. Whatever comes down off that bunk with him, his father’s cattle dogs won’t go near it. That night, for the first time in his life, Jack Lovick bolts the door. Fifteen years later, the police ring the family to ask an interesting series of questions about that night. For Halloweek, this is a true story from the Lovick family, told by the people who were there. Hear the Lovicks tell their tales in their own voices - https://open.spotify.com/track/2UWS9g8OPDUcDsmNpHWrLy?autoplay_ok=1 Merrijig Muster - https://www.facebook.com/reel/2260357574508044 Help keep the high country’s history alive - https://www.highcountryhalloffame.com.au/ Subscribe now to Strewth Premium on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/cw/StrewthPodcast Strewth social media links - https://linktr.ee/strewthpodcast Contact me - strewthpodcast@gmail.com  Theme Music - Jesse Frank on Pixabay

    King Billy Hut - Australian Mystery

  4. 30 Oct

    Lines of Strangers - Australian Mystery

    Halloweek on Strewth - Tale 6 of 7 A motorcyclist is heading for the cherry harvest, riding through empty country in the small hours. He passes a dark farmhouse where about ten people stand in a line out the front, silent and perfectly still. They aren’t watching him. They’re all looking across the road at something he can’t see. He rides on for half an hour without passing a single car, then pulls into a rest area to make camp. It's during that stop that the earlier experience shifts from being weird, to downright horrifying. Subscribe now to Strewth Premium on Patreon - ⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/cw/StrewthPodcast⁠⁠ Strewth social media links - ⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/strewthpodcast⁠⁠ Contact me - ⁠⁠strewthpodcast@gmail.com⁠⁠  Theme Music - Jesse Frank on Pixabay Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/w0dsve/have_you_encountered_an_eeriespooky_place_in/

    Lines of Strangers - Australian Mystery

  5. 29 Oct · Subscribers Only

    Lines of Strangers - Australian Mystery

    Halloweek on Strewth - Tale 6 of 7 A motorcyclist is heading for the cherry harvest, riding through empty country in the small hours. He passes a dark farmhouse where about ten people stand in a line out the front, silent and perfectly still. They aren’t watching him. They’re all looking across the road at something he can’t see. He rides on for half an hour without passing a single car, then pulls into a rest area to make camp. It's during that stop that the earlier experience shifts from being weird, to downright horrifying.

    Lines of Strangers - Australian Mystery

  6. 29 Oct

    The Solitary Lighthouse - Australian Mystery

    Halloweek on Strewth - Tale 5 of 7 Tonight's tale comes from an amazing Strewth listener, Elise. She was one of six volunteers spending a week on South Solitary Island, a rock off Coffs Harbour when this terrifying encounter occurred. On the second-last night she hears and feels something in the old lighthouse keepers cottage that she'll never forget. As you'll find out, she's not the only one who has left the island with a macabre story to tell. . . Subscribe now to Strewth Premium on Patreon - ⁠https://www.patreon.com/cw/StrewthPodcast⁠ Strewth social media links - ⁠https://linktr.ee/strewthpodcast⁠ Contact me - ⁠strewthpodcast@gmail.com⁠  Theme Music - Jesse Frank on Pixabay Sources: Death of Miss Lydia Gow. (1912, November 23). Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate, 5. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/135759652Friends of South Solitary Island Lighthouse. (n.d.). South Solitary Island lighthouse history. https://friendsofsouthsolitaryislandlighthouse.com.au/lighthouse-history/The late Miss Lydia Gow. (1912, November 26). Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate, 6. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/135758591Lighthouses of Australia Inc. (n.d.). South Solitary Island Lighthouse. https://lighthouses.org.au/nsw/south-solitary-island-lighthouse/Martin, M. (2019, August 10). South Solitary Island Lighthouse haunted by ghost of girl buried in bathtub, former residents say. ABC News. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-10/lydia-gow-buried-in-a-bathtub-and-covered-with-concrete/11395174

    The Solitary Lighthouse - Australian Mystery

  7. 28 Oct

    Darkness in the Blue Mountains - Australian Mystery

    Halloweek on Strewth - Tale 4 of 7 New South Wales, Woodford, Blue Mountains It’s four in the morning on the Great Western Highway when a young woman and her father see a figure running towards them in their headlights. They think someone is in trouble. Then they see the height of it, the shoulders, the arms hanging past its knees, the hair covering its body. They turn the car side-on and follow it for almost a kilometre, keeping the spotlight on it. It stops when the light finds it and runs when the light goes off. At the end of a row of houses, it plunges into the bush, and the treetops sway as it goes. They had it in clear view for at least four or five minutes. This is her story. Subscribe now to Strewth Premium on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/cw/StrewthPodcast Strewth social media links - https://linktr.ee/strewthpodcast Contact me - strewthpodcast@gmail.com  Theme Music - Jesse Frank on Pixabay Source: https://www.thefortean.com/2018/10/07/the-monster-of-the-blue-mountains/

    Darkness in the Blue Mountains - Australian Mystery

  8. 27 Oct · Subscribers Only

    Darkness in the Blue Mountains - Australian Mystery

    Halloweek on Strewth - Tale 4 of 7 New South Wales, Woodford, Blue Mountains It’s four in the morning on the Great Western Highway when a young woman and her father see a figure running towards them in their headlights. They think someone is in trouble. Then they see the height of it, the shoulders, the arms hanging past its knees, the hair covering its body. They turn the car side-on and follow it for almost a kilometre, keeping the spotlight on it. It stops when the light finds it and runs when the light goes off. At the end of a row of houses, it plunges into the bush, and the treetops sway as it goes. They had it in clear view for at least four or five minutes. This is her story. Source: https://www.thefortean.com/2018/10/07/the-monster-of-the-blue-mountains/

    Darkness in the Blue Mountains - Australian Mystery
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Welcome to Strewth, where we uncover Australia's most captivating tales of true crime and mysterious happenings. Yarns so extraordinary they'll make you stop and say, "Strewth!" From the sun-scorched outback to the seedy underbelly of our biggest cities, Australia harbours some of the world's most perplexing mysteries. Stories so bizarre that even hardened detectives could only mutter that distinctly Australian expression of disbelief. Each episode takes you deep into extraordinary cases through atmospheric storytelling and meticulous research. You'll walk alongside the detectives, feel the frustration of families seeking answers, and experience the shock of communities torn apart by inexplicable events. Strewth reveals how these cases shaped Australian society and exposes the dark undercurrents flowing beneath the nation's beautiful facade. From colonial-era crimes to modern forensic breakthroughs, these are the stories that made headlines and left investigators scratching their heads. New episodes weekly. Because some stories are too strange not to tell.

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