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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.

  1. Weiberg's Gold - Australian Mystery

    22h ago

    Weiberg's Gold - Australian Mystery

    The Lost Gold of the Avoca - Australian Mystery In 1877, five thousand freshly minted gold sovereigns were shipped out of Sydney, bound for Ceylon on a ship called the Avoca. When the strong box was finally opened at Galle, there was nothing inside but sawdust and iron bolts. The gold had vanished from a locked strongroom, behind seals that nobody had broken. The man behind it was the Avoca's carpenter, a quiet Norwegian named Martin Weiberg, who understood the bones of a ship better than anyone aboard and used this knowledge to pull off one of Australia's greatest maritime heists. What became of Martin Weiberg, and of the gold he hid so well that most of it is still out there, is a question South Gippsland has been asking for nearly a hundred and fifty years. -------------------------- Subscribe now to Strewth Premium on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/cw/StrewthPodcast  Strewth social media links - https://linktr.ee/strewthpodcast   Contact us - strewthpodcast@gmail.com  Theme Music - Jesse Frank on Pixabay Sources: Ghosts of Gippsland Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/2LsdRY2maDbH6qWvuLJZeL?si=7b447d023c3d4913 "A Great Gold Robbery." The Maitland Daily Mercury (NSW), 11 August 1906, p. 6. [Trove: nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/122703377] "Buried Treasure of Inverloch: Somewhere a Hidden Cache of 15,000 Sovereigns Awaits a Lucky Finder." By John Philip. The Argus (Melbourne), 8 January 1938. [Trove: nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/11138634] "The Rumoured Drowning of Martin Weiberg." 19 October 1883 (referenced via ABC Gippsland reporting) The Age (Melbourne), 29 October 1878, report of Weiberg's arrest (quoted in ABC Gippsland reporting) Maunder, Sarah, and Rachael Lucas. "Are Martin Weiberg's stolen gold sovereigns buried somewhere in Gippsland?" ABC Gippsland (Curious Gippsland series), 19 September 2019. [abc.net.au/news/2019-09-19/what-happened-to-martin-weibergs-missing-treasure/11485278] "The Vanished Gold of Gippsland." Strange Company blog, February 2026. [strangeco.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-vanished-gold-of-gippsland.html] O'Riley, Annie. "Buried Treasures." oddhistory.com.au, 6 September 2013.

    37 min
  2. A Bizarre Journey - Australian Mystery

    Jun 30

    A Bizarre Journey - Australian Mystery

    The Bizarre Case of the Tromp Family In August 2016, an ordinary family from the hills east of Melbourne did something no one has ever fully explained. They left their phones on the kitchen bench, their passports in the drawer, the keys in the cars, and they drove. More than fifteen hundred kilometres, across two states, running from a danger no one else could see. Over six days they came apart one at a time, until a stranger driving to a doctor's appointment felt a kick from the floor of his ute and turned around. No crime. No villain. No threat anyone could find. So what were the Tromps running from? This week on Strewth: The Bizarre Case of the Tromp Family. ------------------------------------------------- Subscribe now to Strewth Premium on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/cw/StrewthPodcast Strewth social media links - https://linktr.ee/strewthpodcast  Contact us - strewthpodcast@gmail.com   Theme Music - Jesse Frank on Pixabay Sources: Marshallsea, Trevor. "Tromp family: The mystery of a tech-free road trip gone wrong." BBC News, 7 September 2016. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-37293494  Mills, Tammy, and Shana Morgan. "Ella Tromp: Police charge youngest Tromp child with stealing a car." Stuff, 5 September 2016. https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/83928440/ella-tromp-police-charge-youngest-tromp-child-with-stealing-a-car  "Riana Tromp speaks about bizarre roadtrip in first interview." news.com.au, 15 May 2017. https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/true-stories/riana-tromp-speaks-about-bizarre-roadtrip-in-first-interview/news-story/459be05ad66da097415bf3e865ea9b4c  "Tromp daughter was found in back of ute." SBS News (AAP, citing the Goulburn Post), September 2016. https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/tromp-daughter-was-found-in-back-of-ute/tzpes451z  "The Tromp Family Disappearance." The Crime Talk Blog, n.d. https://thecrimetalk.com/mysteries/the-tromp-family-disappearance/  Dave. "Folie a Deux: The Bizarre Tale of Sabina and Ursula Eriksson." Horror Bound Blog, 15 March 2021. https://www.horrorbound.net/blog/2021/2/23/folie-a-deux-bizarre-tale-of-sabina-and-ursula-eriksson

    35 min
  3. The Sandown Clown - Unsolved Mystery

    Jun 28 • Subscribers Only

    The Sandown Clown - Unsolved Mystery

    In May 1973, two children on the Isle of Wight followed a wailing siren into a marsh and met something that has never been explained. The whole encounter survives in a single UFO journal, written up five years after the fact, and for half a century that was the end of it. Then, in 2025, a woman came forward claiming to be one of those children, with four more meetings to describe. Strewth Abroad crosses the water for one of Britain's strangest entity cases, and the question of what we do with a witness who returns fifty years on. Sources: Oliver, Norman (ed.). "Ghost or Spaceman '73?" BUFORA Journal, vol. 6, no. 5, January/February 1978. British UFO Research Association. Archived at the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/BUFORA_Journal_Volume_06_No_05_JanFeb_1978 "The Sandown Clown: Sam and the unsolved 1973 mystery." OnTheWight, 12 June 2025. https://onthewight.com/the-sandown-clown-exploring-sam-the-isle-of-wights-surreal-1973-encounter/ "The Mystery of the Sandown Clown: Britain's Answer to Bigfoot." VICE, THE WOO column, THE ROCK BOTTOM ISSUE (spring 2025), 2 June 2025. https://www.vice.com/en/article/sandown-clown-mystery-alien/ Peters, Lucia. "Encyclopaedia of the Impossible: Sam the Sandown Clown." The Ghost In My Machine, 30 May 2022. https://theghostinmymachine.com/2022/05/30/encyclopaedia-of-the-impossible-sam-the-sandown-clown/ Calloway, D.R. "Sandown Clown Encounter: 1973 Isle of Wight Mystery." Fringe Archives, 23 March 2026. https://www.fringearchives.com/sandown-clown-encounter-1973-isle-of-wight-mystery/ Wilson, Paul A.T. (interview). "Episode 142 — Paul A.T. Wilson — Sam the Sandown Clown." Some Other Sphere podcast, 19 November 2025. https://someothersphere.podbean.com/e/episode-142-paul-at-wilson-sam-the-sandown-clown/ Marlar, Darren. "The Sandown Clown: All Colours Sam and the Isle of Wight." Weird Darkness (Substack), 2026. https://weirddarkness.substack.com/p/the-sandown-clown-all-colours-sam

    39 min
  4. A Man and His Dog: Part 2 - Australian True Crime

    Jun 26

    A Man and His Dog: Part 2 - Australian True Crime

    The Unsolved Disappearance of Paddy Moriarty from Larrimah - Part 2 of 2 A man and his dog vanished from an outback town of a dozen people, a few hundred metres from home. In Part Two, the rest of the world arrives to look for them. The searches. The divers. A quarter-million-dollar reward. A listening device left running in a quiet house, and a voice in the dark that the police thought might finally be the break they'd been waiting for. An inquest, a coroner who stood up and said the word out loud, and then, years later, two flat sentences that brought the whole thing to a halt. The conclusion of A Man and His Dog. Subscribe now to Strewth Premium on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/cw/StrewthPodcast    Strewth social media links - https://linktr.ee/strewthpodcast   Contact us - strewthpodcast@gmail.com  Theme Music - Jesse Frank on Pixabay Sources: ABC News — Matt Garrick, "Why Paddy Moriarty's disappearance from the tiny town of Larrimah may never be fully solved," 8 June 2024. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-08/paddy-moriarty-case-nt-dpp-decision-larrimah-mystery-continues/103947002 ABC News — Roxanne Fitzgerald, "Case involving suspected death of Paddy Moriarty handed to Director of Public Prosecutions," 13 September 2022. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-13/paddy-moriarty-case-handed-to-director-of-public-prosecutions/101433924 The Guardian — Caroline Graham and Kylie Stevenson, "Paddy Moriarty inquest hears NT police recordings of man allegedly saying he 'killerated the bastard'," 6 April 2022. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/apr/06/paddy-moriarty-inquest-hears-nt-police-recordings-of-man-allegedly-saying-he-killerated-the-bastard NT Independent — "'I killerated old Paddy ... I struck him on the head and killerated the bastard': Inquest played bizarre murder song" (April 2022). https://ntindependent.com.au/i-killerated-old-paddy-i-struck-him-on-the-f*****g-head-and-killerated-the-bastard-inquest-played-bizarre-murder-song/ NT Independent — "No charges to be laid in Paddy Moriarty case: DPP" (June 2024). https://ntindependent.com.au/no-charges-to-be-laid-in-paddy-moriarty-case-dpp/ The Nightly — "Paddy Moriarty: Major development announced in Larrimah missing person case made famous on Netflix show" (June 2024). https://thenightly.com.au/australia/northern-territory/paddy-moriarty-major-development-announced-in-larrimah-missing-person-case-made-famous-on-netflix-show-c-14929564 Podcast — Lost in Larrimah, Caroline Graham and Kylie Stevenson (The Australian / News Corp, 2018). Winner, 2018 Walkley Award for Radio/Audio Feature. Radio — A Dog Act: Homicide on the Highway, ABC Radio National (2018). Documentary — Last Stop Larrimah, directed by Thomas Tancred, executive produced by Mark and Jay Duplass (HBO, 2023; also distributed internationally).

    36 min
  5. A Man and His Dog: Part 1 - Australian True Crime

    Jun 23

    A Man and His Dog: Part 1 - Australian True Crime

    The Unsolved Disappearance of Paddy Moriarty from Larrimah - Part 1 of 2  One evening in December 2017, a man and his dog rode home from the pub in a tiny town on the Stuart Highway, a few hundred metres up the road, and were never seen again. Paddy Moriarty was a seventy-year-old Irish-born ringer, a larrikin and a creature of habit, who lived alone with his young red kelpie, Kellie, in a fading outback settlement of barely a dozen people. When he vanished, he left a half-made dinner on the table, both his hats by the door, and a town full of neighbours who weren't saying much at all. Part one of two. This week on Strewth: the man, the dog, the dying town, and the last ordinary day in Larrimah. Subscribe now to Strewth Premium on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/cw/StrewthPodcast    Strewth social media links - https://linktr.ee/strewthpodcast  Contact us - strewthpodcast@gmail.com  Theme Music - Jesse Frank on Pixabay Sources: ABC News — Matt Garrick, "Why Paddy Moriarty's disappearance from the tiny town of Larrimah may never be fully solved," 8 June 2024. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-08/paddy-moriarty-case-nt-dpp-decision-larrimah-mystery-continues/103947002 ABC News — Roxanne Fitzgerald, "Case involving suspected death of Paddy Moriarty handed to Director of Public Prosecutions," 13 September 2022. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-13/paddy-moriarty-case-handed-to-director-of-public-prosecutions/101433924 The Guardian — Caroline Graham and Kylie Stevenson, "Paddy Moriarty inquest hears NT police recordings of man allegedly saying he 'killerated the bastard'," 6 April 2022. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/apr/06/paddy-moriarty-inquest-hears-nt-police-recordings-of-man-allegedly-saying-he-killerated-the-bastard NT Independent — "'I killerated old Paddy ... I struck him on the head and killerated the bastard': Inquest played bizarre murder song" (April 2022). https://ntindependent.com.au/i-killerated-old-paddy-i-struck-him-on-the-f*****g-head-and-killerated-the-bastard-inquest-played-bizarre-murder-song/ NT Independent — "No charges to be laid in Paddy Moriarty case: DPP" (June 2024). https://ntindependent.com.au/no-charges-to-be-laid-in-paddy-moriarty-case-dpp/ The Nightly — "Paddy Moriarty: Major development announced in Larrimah missing person case made famous on Netflix show" (June 2024). https://thenightly.com.au/australia/northern-territory/paddy-moriarty-major-development-announced-in-larrimah-missing-person-case-made-famous-on-netflix-show-c-14929564 Podcast — Lost in Larrimah, Caroline Graham and Kylie Stevenson (The Australian / News Corp, 2018). Winner, 2018 Walkley Award for Radio/Audio Feature. Radio — A Dog Act: Homicide on the Highway, ABC Radio National (2018). Documentary — Last Stop Larrimah, directed by Thomas Tancred, executive produced by Mark and Jay Duplass (HBO, 2023; also distributed internationally).

    32 min
  6. The Isdal Woman - Part 2

    Jun 17 • Subscribers Only

    The Isdal Woman - Part 2

    The Isdal Woman - Part 2 - Unsolved Mystery We followed her across Europe. Borrowed names. Hidden notebooks. A woman who went to extraordinary lengths to leave no trace of who she was. But we never answered the question that mattered most. Who she was. Really. How she died. Was it suicide? Was it murder? And why does one witness still wonder about three figures he passed in the valley that afternoon, a woman walking between two men, looking like she didn't want to be there? Cold War secrets. A missile program. And a death that has refused to make sense for more than fifty years. This is the conclusion of the Isdal Woman. Sources: - Cheung, Helier. "Isdal Woman: The mystery death haunting Norway for 46 years." BBC News, 13 May 2017. Additional research by Johanna Keskitalo. - Nikel, David. "The Unsolved Mystery of the Isdal Woman." Life in Norway (History Blog), last updated 1 September 2024. - Moore, Kaelyn. "The Isdal Woman" (transcript). Heart Starts Pounding podcast. https://www.heartstartspounding.com/episodes/isdalwoman - Yeop, Azrul. "The Isdal Woman: Nine Identities, One Burned Body." Medium, 16 October 2025. - Higraff, Marit; Aardal, Eirin; Bye Skille, Øyvind; and Hansen, Ståle. NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation) investigation, 2016 onwards. - "Death in Ice Valley." NRK/BBC World Service podcast, 2018. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p060ms2h - Osland, Tore. Book on the Isdal Woman case (referenced in BBC News, 2017).

    35 min
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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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