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. 2h ago

    King Billy Hut - Australian Mystery

    Halloweek on Strewth - Tale 7 of 7It’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=1Merrijig 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

  2. 1d ago

    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

  3. 1d ago · 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

  4. 2d ago

    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

  5. 3d ago

    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

  6. 3d ago · 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

  7. 4d ago

    The Bemm Encounter - Australian Mystery

    Halloweek on Strewth - Tale 3 of 7 Anyone who has camped in the bush knows its night sounds after a while: crickets, a possum in the branches, the tick of a fire burning down. Each one has an explanation, and when a new sound turns up, you find an explanation for that as well. In the mid-1990s, a family camped alone near Sydenham Inlet, at the end of a four-wheel-drive track outside Bemm River. During the night, their eleven-year-old woke his mother because there was a humming outside the tent. It came back three times, closer each time, and then it stopped. Once the kids were zipped back into their sleeping bags, the parents walked back to their own tent, and that's when things started to get really strange. Original story: Ghosts of Gippsland presents Fireside Friday - https://open.spotify.com/episode/4eGznBDbLpzHGD9ocKuflp 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: Australian Yowie Research. (n.d.). Bemm River, Victoria, 2013. Yowie Hunters. https://www.yowiehunters.com.au/victoria/2095-bemm-river-victoria-2013 Keel, J. A. (1970). UFOs: Operation Trojan horse. G. P. Putnam's Sons.

    The Bemm Encounter - Australian Mystery

  8. 4d ago · Subscribers Only

    Early Release - Halloweek - Australian Mysteries

    Here it is folks, the most ambitious episode of Strewth ever. This is the subscriber only early release, four terrifying Aussie tales covering everything from hauntings, to UFO's, Poltergeists, Yowie's and even creatures that can't be categorised. I hope you enjoy them. The tales are as follows: Tale 1 - The Haunted Family Tale 2 - The Solitary Lighthouse Tale 3 - The Bemm Encounter Tale 4 - The Creature in King Billy Hut Sources: Ghost's of Gippsland - Fireside Friday's - https://open.spotify.com/show/2LsdRY2maDbH6qWvuLJZeL?si=6b002435dcfd4894 High Country Life - Charlie Lovick - https://open.spotify.com/artist/1GrosUjFP24tpTgbseHTXn

    Early Release - Halloweek - Australian Mysteries
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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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