The Bemm Encounter - Australian Mystery

Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery Podcast · Oct 27, 2026 · 28m

Halloweek on Strewth - Tale 3 of 7Anyone 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…