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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 fru...

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Somerton Man - The Next Chapter - Australian True Crime 01.10.2025 30:14

In 2022, scientists announced they'd finally solved Australia's greatest cold case. After 74 years, the Somerton Man had a name: Carl Webb. Case closed, right? If only it were that simple. Three years later, South Australian Police still won't confirm the identification. Webb's entire family somehow failed to recognize their missing brother when his face was plastered across Australian newspapers....

Kalkajaka - The Mountain Keeps Its Dead - Australian Mystery 24.09.2025 27:47

Strewth - Australian Mystery Podcast - Series 1, Episode 4 Deep in Far North Queensland rises a dark anomaly that has claimed lives for over 150 years. The Kuku Yalanji people call it Kalkajaka "the place of the spear" and have warned for forty thousand years that the mountain keeps its dead. When Charles Grayner vanished while tracking his horse into the granite boulder maze in 1872, it began a p...

The Westall UFO Incident 17.09.2025 36:42

April 6, 1966. 11 AM. A suburban Melbourne school. Over 200 students and teachers witness a silver disc hovering above their playground, then shooting away at impossible speed. Within hours, men in suits arrive. Students are told to stay silent. TV footage mysteriously vanishes from network archives. Nearly 60 years later, the Australian government still blocks access to thousands of files about t...

Stranger than Fiction 10.09.2025 35:17

STREWTH - Episode 2: Stranger than Fiction A True Australian Mystery Podcast In 1930, struggling novelist Arthur Upfield sat around a campfire in the remote Western Australian outback, discussing with fellow workers how to commit the perfect murder, purely as a plot device for his detective novel. When three men subsequently disappeared and their remains were found burned according to the exact me...

The Lady of the Swamp - Australian True Crime 03.09.2025 26:59

STREWTH - Episode 1: The Lady of the Swamp A True Australian Mystery Podcast Before South Gippsland became infamous for a recent mushroom poisoning that made international headlines, this picturesque Victorian region harbored an even darker secret. In 1952, an elderly heiress known as "The Lady of the Swamp" vanished without a trace from her crumbling mansion, leaving behind one of Australia's mos...