Darkness in the Blue Mountains - Australian Mystery

Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery Podcast · Oct 28, 2026 · 11m

Halloweek on Strewth - Tale 4 of 7New South Wales, Woodford, Blue MountainsIt’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…