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. 1d ago

    Up the Back - Australian True Crime

    Up the Back - The Disappearance of Garry Conwell On a winter morning in 2024, Garry Conwell told his partner he was heading up the back to check the cattle. He went out in a dressing gown and work boots, because he wasn't going far. His quad bike was found by a creek about fifteen minutes' walk from his own kitchen. Not bogged. Not damaged. Nobody on it. What followed was the biggest search that district has ever seen. Helicopters, drones, sonar, police rescue, SES, cadaver dogs. On 265 acres, they found two things. Police told the family a disorientated man couldn't have gone far. They also couldn't find him. Both of those can't be true. Garry's story comes from LOST, the new book from Nicole Morris, Director of the Australian Missing Persons Register, out July 28th. https://www.bigskypublishing.com.au/lost/ If you know anything about the disappearance of Garry Conwell, contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000. 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

    Up the Back - Australian True Crime

  2. 3d ago • Subscribers Only

    The Disappearance of Lars Mittank - Unsolved Mystery

    The Unsolved Disappearance of Lars Mittank - Strewth Abroad In the summer of 2014, a healthy, cheerful young German flew to the Black Sea for a holiday with his old school mates. For five days it was everything they had come for. Then a fight no one saw, a ruptured eardrum, and two days later his friends flew home and left him alone in an unfamiliar town. Over one night he came apart. He rang his mother whispering that four men were coming to kill him. The next afternoon he walked into an airport, ran out of it, climbed a fence, and disappeared into a field beside the highway. Cameras caught almost all of it. None of it explains a thing. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Last footage of Lars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjsgJRAxIK0 Sources: Blair, Caroline. "Lars Mittank Was Last Seen Sprinting Toward a Forest 11 Years Ago. Revisit the 'Most Famous Missing Person on YouTube' Case." People, 9 July 2025. https://people.com/all-about-lars-mittank-mysterious-disappearance-11768067 Brinkhof, Tim. "What Happened To Lars Mittank, The German Tourist Who Vanished Near A Bulgarian Airport?" All That's Interesting, 18 May 2026 (updated 19 May 2026). https://allthatsinteresting.com/lars-mittank "Vanished on a lads' holiday: The disappearance of Lars Mittank." Crime+Investigation UK https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/articles/vanished-lads-holiday-disappearance-lars-mittank "Disturbing tale of missing holidaymaker." news.com.au, 1 June 2024. Originally published by The Sun (thesun.co.uk). https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/disturbing-tale-of-missing-holidaymaker/news-story/9532d72bfebda97b38312f1f0e42b135

    The Disappearance of Lars Mittank - Unsolved Mystery

  3. Jul 21

    King William's Town - Australian Ghost Stories

    While it is now an affluent Melbourne suburb, Williamstown, or King William's Town as it was originally known has had quite the chequered past. In this episode of Strewth, we tell some good old fashioned ghost stories and explore the truth behind the tales. You'll hear about a ruined opera singer who lost his voice and permanently took a room above a pub. An eighteen year old barmaid, dead of a poison the Government analyst swore couldn't have killed her, and the man who bemoans her death still. Then a Strewth listener, Matt tells us what he and three mates met on a cold night in a quiet street in Williamstown. Lantern Ghost Tours, Williamstown - https://www.lanternghosttours.com/ 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: "Suicide of Mr. John De Haga", The Argus 5th October, 1872 via Trove https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/5840007 "The Williamstown Poisoning Case", The Leader (Melbourne), 4 February 1888. February 1862 Williamstown fire (Cole Street / Steam Packet / old Ship Inn). butlerfamilyhistoryaus.blogspot.com, Early Williamstown colour: the "Bucket of Blood" shanty (attrib. Michael Cannon, "Old Melbourne Town") and the 1841 "nineteen residents, six publicans" figure (attrib. Paul McGuire, "Inns of Australia"). Jacqui Travaglia, Lantern Ghost Tours (Williamstown) — background provided directly to the production on the Timeball Tower and Steam Packet Hotel hauntings, including John Price, Richard Vaughan and the lady in white, John De Haga, Jane Nicholls, "Charles", and the reported staff experiences (moving glassware, footsteps, the knocking cupboard, the bed account).

    King William's Town - Australian Ghost Stories

  4. Jul 19 • Subscribers Only

    Out of Time - Unsolved Mystery

    The Kersey Time Slip - Green Children of Woolpit - The Vanishing House October 1957. Three Royal Navy cadets walk into a Suffolk village and, for a few minutes, cannot find the twentieth century anywhere in it. No power lines. No church tower. No people. Rotting meat in the butcher's window. The Kersey Time Slip only reached the record because two of those boys emigrated to Australia and, thirty years later, picked up the phone. We lay out the case for a genuine slip through time, the historian's case against it, and then widen the lens to two more Suffolk stories, eight centuries apart, that ask an uncomfortable question about this one small pocket of England. ---------------------------- Sources: - Discovery Channel (UK). "Stuck in Time? Unpacking the Mystery of the Kersey Time Slip." Discovery UK — Mysteries, 8 October 2025. https://www.discoveryuk.com/mysteries/stuck-in-time-unpacking-the-mystery-of-the-kersey-time-slip/ - Dash, Mike. "When Three British Boys Traveled to Medieval England (Or Did They?)" Smithsonian Magazine, 21 July 2011. - Hale, Rick. "The Bizarre Kersey Time Slip Mystery." Spooky Isles, 27 October 2023. https://www.spookyisles.com/the-bizarre-kersey-time-slip-mystery/ — - Johnson, Ben. "The Green Children of Woolpit." Historic UK. https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/The-Green-Children-of-Woolpit/ - History Skills. "Who were the 'Green Children' of Woolpit?" History Skills. https://www.historyskills.com/classroom/year-8/green-children/ - Jensen Romer, Chris. "The Vanishing House — a real ghost story…" CJ's Weblog, 16 May 2009. https://jerome23.wordpress.com/2009/05/16/the-vanishing-house-a-real-ghost-story/

    Out of Time - Unsolved Mystery

  5. Jul 15

    By the Light of the Moon - Australian Mystery

    Cattle Mutilations in Australia and Beyond On a tucked-away cattle station north-west of Mackay, Mick and Judy Cook keep finding their beasts dead in the grass. An udder gone. A tongue. An ear, cut clean. No blood, no tracks, and nothing in the bush will come near the carcass. They are not the first. Seventy years earlier, on the dairy country behind Lismore, farmers walked their fences on the full moon with the shotguns loaded, watching for a killer the papers called the moonlight sadist. He was never caught. This week on Strewth, we follow the cattle that have been dying strangely on Australian land since at least 1953, the graziers who paid a price for saying so out loud, and the plain scientific answer that covers nearly all of it. Nearly. Content note: this episode describes injuries to livestock and may not suit every listener. Sources: Georgia Noack, "Aliens 'only explanation' for mutilated cows found on Aussie farm, farmers say," NZ Herald, 3 April 2023. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/aliens-only-explanation-for-mutilated-cows-found-on-aussie-farm-farmers-say/2UKN2FVUGVCT7HMQ4NF6ETPZTA/ Tara Cassidy, "Dead cows found in paddock with udders, ears and tongues removed," ABC News (Tropical North), 6 September 2018. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-06/mutilated-cows-found-dead-in-country-town/10190736 Ross Coulthart, "The UFO Phenomenon: Australia's cattle mutilation mystery," 7NEWS Spotlight, 2021. https://7news.com.au/spotlight/the-ufo-phenomenon-australias-cattle-mutilation-mystery-c-3035029.amp Jessica Johnston, "Cattle mutilated in North Queensland the work of aliens or robots, owners say," 11 September 2018. Jason Costigan MP (Member for Whitsunday), record of proceedings, Queensland Parliament, 28 October 2014. https://documents.parliament.qld.gov.au/speeches/spk2014/Jason_Costigan-Whitsunday-20141028-238967456772.pdf "Lismore Cattle Mutilated," Townsville Daily Bulletin, 18 July 1953 (Brisbane dateline, 17 July 1953). Digitised, National Library of Australia, Trove. "The Nimble Junjudee From Jiggi," The Fortean, 21 July 2018. https://www.thefortean.com/2018/07/21/the-nimble-junjudee-from-jiggi/ Michael J. Goleman, "Wave of Mutilation: The Cattle Mutilation Phenomenon of the 1970s," Agricultural History, Vol. 85, No. 3 (Summer 2011), pp. 398–417. Agricultural History Society. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3098/ah.2011.85.3.398 P. Nick Nation and Elisabeth S. Williams, "Maggots, mutilations and myth: Patterns of postmortem scavenging of the bovine carcass," Canadian Veterinary Journal, Vol. 30, September 1989, pp. 742–747.

    By the Light of the Moon - Australian Mystery

  6. Jul 12 • Subscribers Only

    The Boys of Yuba - Part 2

    The Yuba County Five - Unsolved Mystery Through the winter, the mountain kept its silence. When the snow finally melted that June, it began giving back what it had taken. Part two follows the thaw, and what searchers found scattered for miles along a forest road. Friends who had walked impossibly far from a car they could have driven home. A shelter stocked with food and warmth that somehow did not save the man inside it. And a handful of small, stubborn details that fifty years of police, families and armchair detectives have never been able to square. One of the five was never found at all. There is a version of this story that is a simple and terrible accident, and a version that is something much darker. The evidence has never chosen between them. ------------------------------------------------------------ Sources: - ABC News (Australia). Reporting by Emma Machan, 24 February 2024. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-24/yuba-county-five-missing-persons-case/103472558 - Factual America. "The Yuba County Five: California's Most Haunting Unsolved Cold Case of 1978." https://www.factualamerica.com/crime-scene-stories/the-yuba-county-five-californias-most-haunting-unsolved-cold-case-of-1978 - Kimberly Parr. "The Yuba County 5." Medium, 1 June 2025. https://kimparr.medium.com/the-yuba-county-5-a5ee6894ab83

    The Boys of Yuba - Part 2

  7. Jul 7

    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.

    Weiberg's Gold - Australian Mystery

  8. Jul 5 • Subscribers Only

    The Boys of Yuba - Part 1

    The Yuba County Five - Unsolved Mystery February 1978. Five young men drive north for a college basketball game. They are the best of mates, high on a good night out, with a game of their own to play in the morning that they have been looking forward to for weeks. They stop for pies and milk at a corner store just before it closes, turn the car south for home. But somewhere in the dark they drive the wrong way. Four days later the car is found abandoned near the top of a freezing mountain, on a road they had no reason to travel, fuel still in the tank and an engine that starts first time. Of the five men, there is no sign at all. In Part one we follow the five friends into the snow, trying to understand why. -------------------------------------------------------- Sources - ABC News (Australia). Reporting by Emma Machan, 24 February 2024. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-24/yuba-county-five-missing-persons-case/103472558 - Factual America. "The Yuba County Five: California's Most Haunting Unsolved Cold Case of 1978." https://www.factualamerica.com/crime-scene-stories/the-yuba-county-five-californias-most-haunting-unsolved-cold-case-of-1978 - Kimberly Parr. "The Yuba County 5." Medium, 1 June 2025. https://kimparr.medium.com/the-yuba-county-5-a5ee6894ab83

    The Boys of Yuba - Part 1
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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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