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Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery Podcast
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…
Episodes
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastLines 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…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastThe 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…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastDarkness in the Blue Mountains - Australian Mystery
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…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastThe Bemm Encounter - Australian Mystery
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…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastThe Glow of a Cigarette - Australian Mystery
Halloweek on Strewth - Tale 2 of 7It’s past midnight on a friend’s cattle station, and the man by the campfire has only his dog for company. When she sits bolt…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastA Haunted Family - Australian Mystery
Halloweek on Strewth - Tale 1 of 7 Late one night a message comes in on Facebook from a listener who’s just finished our Guyra Poltergeist episode. She knows a…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastThe Shark Net - Australian True Crime
The Unsolved Disappearance of Bevin and Brad Simmonds On a glassy winter morning in 2003, Bevin Simmonds and his ten-year-old son, Brad, motored out to a shark…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastThe Disappearing Prime Minister - Australian Mystery
What happened to Harold Holt? On a Sunday in December 1967, the Prime Minister of Australia went for a swim off a beach near Portsea and never came out. More…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastThe Bookshop Murder: Part Two - Australian True Crime
The Murder of Maria James - Part 2 of 2 In 2013, a council electrician named Alan Hircoe opened a newspaper and saw a photograph of a priest. He recognised the…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastThe Bookshop Murder: Part One - Australian True Crime
The Murder of Maria James - Part 1 of 2 On 17 June 1980, John James rang his ex-wife, Maria, at her bookshop in Thornbury, Melbourne. She asked him to hang on…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastThe Hickey's Falls Encounter - Australian Mystery
The Pilliga Yowie In the spring of 2010, a mother pulled into a roadside rest stop south of Coonabarabran so the kids could swim at Hickey's Falls. The car…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastThe Adelaide Oval Abduction: Part Two - Australian True Crime
The Abduction of Joanne Ratcliffe and Kirste Gordon - Part 2 of 2 A Queensland carpenter identified off a television screen twenty five years later. A man…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastThe Adelaide Oval Abduction: Part One - Australian True Crime
The Abduction of Joanne Ratcliffe and Kirste Gordon - Part 1 of 2 Adelaide Oval, the twenty fifth of August, 1973. Norwood versus North Adelaide, a winter…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastThe Perth Mint Swindle - Australian True Crime
The Perth Mint Swindle - The Perfect Crime? In April 1982 somebody broke into a building in Perth, stole a pad of blank cheques, and burnt the place to the…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastThe Ghost Train Fire: Part 2 - Australian True Crime
The Luna Park Ghost Train Disaster - Part 2 of 2 For years the most talked about aspect of the Luna Park fire was a photograph of a six year old boy standing…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastThe Ghost Train Fire: Part 1 - Australian True Crime
The Luna Park Ghost Train Disaster - Part 1 of 2 On a cold Saturday night in June 1979, a rail strike had left Sydney's Luna Park almost empty. Three…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastThe Mathinna Mystery - Australian True Crime
The Unsolved Murder of William Mullins The fourth of July, 1913. Four men stand shin-deep in the Tyne River in the north-east of Tasmania, in snowmelt coming…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastWakehurst Parkway - Australian Mystery
Wakehurst Parkway - Australia's Most Haunted Road Fourteen kilometres of unlit road run straight through the bush through the bush on Sydney's Northern…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastA Clear Night, Moderately Well Lit - Australian True Crime
The Disappearance of Kath Bergamin - Part 2 of 2 On the evening of Sunday the 18th of August 2002, a woman walking her dog in Wangaratta crossed the road to…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastHalf the Farm - Australian True Crime
The Disappearance of Kath Bergamin - Part 1 of 2 Kath Bergamin was thirty seven. She had married at eighteen and spent nineteen years on a tobacco farm sixty…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastPhantoms of the Line - Australian Mystery
Australian Train Heist Mysteries In December 1973, two men in black stopped a train in the rainforest above Cairns, took the track workers' wages off it at…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastWhere is Peter Falconio? - Australian True Crime
The Disappearance of Peter Falconio - Part 2 of 2 Bradley Murdoch was convicted of Peter Falconio's murder and died in prison still denying it. Twenty-five…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastThe Barrow Creek Incident - Australian True Crime
The Disappearance of Peter Falconio - Part 1 of 2 July 2001. A young English couple drive north into the Australian desert, and only one of them is ever seen…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastUp 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…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastKing 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…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastBy 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…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastWeiberg'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…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastA 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…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastA 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…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastA 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…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastAllison Road - Australian True Crime
Allison Road - The Haunting Tale of Chrissie Venn On a February afternoon in 1921, a thirteen-year-old girl named Chrissie Venn left her home on Allison Road…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastA Lone Wolf? - Australian True Crime
A Lone Wolf? - The Ivan Milat Backpacker Murders - Australian True Crime Everyone knows how the number seven relates to the Ivan Milat case. Seven backpackers…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastHome Tonight - Australian True Crime
Home Tonight - The Wonnangatta Unsolved Mystery In the summer of 1917, two men vanished from an isolated cattle station deep in Victoria's high country. What…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastThe Shark Arm Case - Australian True Crime
The Shark Arm Case - Australian True Crime Mystery Anzac Day, 1935. A live tiger shark in a Coogee swimming pool vomits up a human arm in front of a crowd of…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastThe Junjudee - Australian Mystery
Junjaree | Njimbin | Brown Jack | Little Hairy Man - Australian Cryptid Mystery It isn't the Yowie. It's smaller than that. Faster. And by some accounts…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastLeanne Holland - Not a Scintilla - Australian True Crime
Leanne Holland - Part 2 of 2 - Not a Scintilla - Unsolved True Crime On Christmas Eve 2009, Graham Stafford's conviction for the murder of Leanne Holland was…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastLeanne Holland - A Walk to the Shops - Australian True Crime
Leanne Holland | Part 1: A Walk to the Shops | Unsolved True Crime On the first morning of the September school holidays in 1991, twelve-year-old Leanne…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastMessage in a Bottle - Australian Mystery
The Unexplained Disappearance of the Patanela | Australian Mystery In November of 1988, a steel-hulled schooner called the Patanela made three radio calls from…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastThe Humpty Doo Mystery - Australian Paranormal
The Humpty Doo Poltergeist - Unsolved Paranormal Mystery In early 1998, a rented weatherboard house forty kilometres outside Darwin became the most…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastThe 6:30 to Gippsland - Australian True Crime
The 6:30 to Gippsland - Australian Unsolved Mystery On the evening of Saturday, 7 June 1919, a fireman named Frederick Mills climbed the coal pile in his…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastFrederick Valentich - The Unanswered - Australian Mystery
The Disappearance of Frederick Valentich - The Unanswered - Australian Unsolved Mystery The search covered more than a thousand square miles of Bass Strait…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastFrederick Valentich - The Flight - Australian Mystery
The Disappearance of Frederick Valentich - The Flight - Australian Unsolved Mystery On the evening of Saturday, October 21, 1978, a twenty-year-old pilot named…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastThe Rack Man - Australian True Crime
The Rack Man - Australian True Crime - Unsolved Mystery In August 1994, a squid fisherman trawling the lower Hawkesbury River, north of Sydney, pulled a steel…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastThe Lithgow Panther - Australian Mystery
The Lithgow Panther - Unsolved Australian Mystery For over a century, something large and black has been moving through the sandstone gorges and eucalyptus…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastThe Old London Affair - The Curiously Overlooked - Australian True Crime
Australian True Crime - The Portland Murders The Old London Affair - Part 2 - The Curiously Overlooked In 2013, a cold case detective named Tom Hogan sat down…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastThe Old London Affair - The Unrung Bell - Australian True Crime
Australian True Crime - Part 1 of 2 On April 17, 1991, a stranger walked in off the street and stood behind the hairdresser without making a sound. The door…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastKaikoura Lights - New Zealand Mystery
December, 1978, senior Wellington air traffic controller John Cordy watched five unidentified radar targets appear over the Kaikoura coast. Solid returns. No…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastWanda Beach - Lingering Questions - Australian True Crime
WANDA BEACH: PART TWO - LINGERING QUESTIONS The bodies of Marianne Schmidt and Christine Sharrock were found on 12 January 1965. By April 1966, approximately…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastWanda Beach - Into the Dunes - Australian True Crime
WANDA BEACH: PART ONE — INTO THE DUNES On the morning of Monday 11 January 1965, fifteen-year-old best friends Marianne Schmidt and Christine Sharrock caught…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastScreams From the Darkness - Australian Mystery
Somewhere in the Outer Barcoo, on a remote cattle station in central-western Queensland, there is a waterhole that terrified a district for sixty years…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastBeneath the Pines - Australian True Crime
On the night of Friday 26 February 1971, twenty-year-old dental nurse Keren Ellen Rowland attended the Royal Canberra Show. She bought a silver bracelet as a…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastThe Missing Statement - Australian True Crime
The Florence Broadhurst Mystery In October 1977, nineteen-year-old Constable Tony Russell responded to a welfare check on his first day at Paddington Police…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastThe Hawkesbury River Monster - Australian Mystery
An hour north of Sydney, a drowned valley plunges forty metres into darkness. For over a century, witnesses have reported something moving through the…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastAn Island of Secrets - Analysing the Evidence - Australian True Crime
The official story seemed simple: Vivienne Cameron murdered Beth Barnard in jealous rage, then jumped from the San Remo Bridge. Case closed. But when forensic…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastAn Island of Secrets - The Fateful Night - Australian True Crime
The murder of Beth Barnard and disappearance of Vivienne Cameron. September 1986. A brutal murder on Phillip Island. A woman carved with the letter "A" for…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastThe Murwillumbah Heist - Australian True Crime
November 24th, 1978. Bank employees, locksmiths, vault experts and finally council workers in Murwillumbah spend nine hours trying to open a bank vault. When…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastRed Eyes in the Mist - Australian Mystery
On August 7-8, 1993. Kelly Cahill is driving home through Victoria's misty Dandenong Ranges when her car was surrounded by seven-foot tall beings with eyes…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastA Murderer Takes Tea - Australian True Crime
The Florence Broadhurst Mystery October 15, 1977. Two police officers discover the body of Florence Broadhurst, a 78-year-old wallpaper designer whose patterns…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastFisher's Ghost - Australian Mystery
On June 17, 1826, Frederick Fisher, a convict-turned-successful farmer, vanished from his Campbelltown property. His neighbour George Worrall claimed Fisher…
Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery PodcastHighway of Death Part 2: One Killer, or Many? - Australian True Crime
This is Part Two of our Highway of Death investigation. After hearing the victims' stories in Part 1, we now examine the hunt for justice, or rather, the…