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January 10, 2013
Panther sighting while Sydney celebrates NYE: It looked like Mike Tyson
Weird Australia: Real Reports of Uncanny Creatures, Strange Sightings & Extraordinary Encounters now available on Kindle $5.99. Around dusk on 31 December 2012, while nearly one million people jostled for vantage points around Sydney Harbour for the world famous New Year’s … Continue reading →
January 2, 2013
The Wild Man of Western Port: As big as a man & covered with hair
Western Port, a large tidal bay just an hour’s drive to the east of Australia’s second most populous city, Melbourne, is today home to Australian fur seals, whales, dolphins, and Phillip Island’s famous colony of fairy penguins. And according to … Continue reading →
December 11, 2012
Weird Australia: Real Reports of Uncanny Creatures, Strange Sightings & Extraordinary Encounters
Now available on Kindle Through real reports from the earliest days of European settlement to more recent times, we delve into all things mysterious and unexplained – from eyewitness accounts of the hairy man, sea serpents and big cats to … Continue reading →
October 31, 2012
Kaikoura Lights: Most compelling of all UFO cases?
In December 1978, several months after Frederick Valentich disappeared over Bass Strait after reporting a UFO, unidentified lights were reported in the skies above Kaikoura, New Zealand, by the flight crew of a cargo plane. The unknown lights tracked the … Continue reading →
September 28, 2012
Argus the Prophet: The Boy with a Thousand Eyes
At a military camp in Seymour, Victoria, at the end of the First World War, a young boy, just five years old, astounded and mystified the returned soldiers with his remarkable psychic gifts. Around the camp, he would soon become … Continue reading →
September 6, 2012
Knowing when your time’s up: curious cases of presentiments of death
In 1912, timber worker William Toogood had a vivid prophetic dream of his impending death and the gruesome way in which it would occur. The following day William told his workmates of the disturbing dream, describing how logs had to … Continue reading →
August 30, 2012
Bloody night-time vision leads to discovery of a murder
In Murderer fingered by Fisher’s Ghost, an encounter with the ghost of Frederick Fisher sitting on a railing and pointing to a spot up the creek where his body would soon be found led to the conviction and execution of … Continue reading →
August 23, 2012
Murderer fingered by Fisher’s Ghost
A successful farmer disappears in the dark of night. The missing man’s neighbour and close associate claims he has left the country and immediately begins taking over all his business affairs. Suspicions turn to foul play. Four months later, a … Continue reading →
July 31, 2012
The flying mushroom of 1954: All the ingredients for a modern UFO sighting
On New Years Day 1954, a commercial pilot with more than 14,000 flying hours and 17 years experience reported seeing a metallic mushroom-shaped object flying at high speed and low altitude through suburban Melbourne. As it developed, the flying mushroom … Continue reading →
July 19, 2012
When Yowies attack!
Mostly, encounters with Australia’s Yowie are fleeting. A glimpse of a large, hairy animal running upright through the bush and disappearing behind the thick undergrowth, the sounds of heavy, thumping footsteps, thick tree branches snapping like twigs – and then … Continue reading →
