A punter dreams in detail about the winner of the upcoming Perth Cup … will he profit? A sailor dreams of a nautical disaster as he’s about to set sail from Sydney to Newcastle. Should he abandon ship? A doctor dreams the details of a child’s death that will soon be validated by a post…
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Strange animals
In the summer of 1903 in the Southern Highlands district of New South Wales, a man out hunting rabbits about 4 miles from the town of Marulan got a nasty surprise just on dusk. A mere 20 yards ahead, a tiger was perched in the branch of a tree, watching the startled hunter intently. Armed…
Strange animals
A man is swept out to to sea while fishing for crayfish off the rocks along the rugged, and extremely treacherous, west coast of Tasmania. Despite a number of searches by experienced locals, the man’s body is never recovered. Just over 12 months later, two fishermen make a startling discovery after hauling to shore a…
Strange animals
During the early months of 1932, an unknown creature terrorised the inhabitants of Victoria’s high country. It was said to stand like a human being, about 7 feet tall, and had a large hairy head with four white tusks that “gleamed in the moonlight”. And if that wasn’t frightening enough, it was “razor clawed” and…
Ghosts and hauntings
It started simply enough with three knocks at the front door … but no one to be found outside. Next came unexplained tapping in time to family sing-alongs. Then, an invisible force began rattling crockery and windows, thumping on walls, banging on floors and rocking beds. These mysterious incidents would force one Rockhampton family to…
We’ve all experienced it at some point during our lives. Coincidence: “a remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances without apparent causal connection”. Some may view coincidences as momentarily intriguing but ultimately insignificant in our daily lives. Others, however, will see a higher meaning and call it synchronicity. But for others, supposed coincidences are (as put so…
Inspired by this week’s Sydney Writers’ Festival, weirdaustralia takes a literary left to explore the world of the supernatural from a more poetic perspective. Ghost Kingdom was penned by Elinor Jean, aged 9 from Braidwood in the Southern Tablelands of NSW. It was published in The Canberra Times on 26 April 1992. Ghost Kingdom Ghost house creepy, eerie lonely and desolate far…
While Australia’s first UFO flap may have occurred in the winter of 1909, the skies above Australia have long been filled with unknown aerial objects that have left witnesses scratching their heads and clambering to adequately describe what they had seen. Way back in 1868, Parramatta surveyor, Fred Birmingham, had an apparent encounter with “a…
25 April each year, the anniversary of the landing at Gallipoli in 1915, Australia pays tribute to Australian soldiers past and present, and in particular, we remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country. ANZAC Day ceremonies are held at dawn in cities and towns across the country, followed by a march down…
“Suddenly there came a soft, distant walling that grew rapidly nearer and louder … the cries appeared to be in different keys – devilish, unearthly shrieking, such as no human voices ever uttered… The screaming, now ringing in their ears at deafening pitch, was coming from the waterhole. “The shearers thought their eardrums would burst,…
Today, the bane of cryptozoologists and monster hunters the world over is the frustrating inability to produce a body as evidence for the existence of unknown or out-of-place creatures. Creatures such as alien big cats, sea serpents, and of course, the poster monsters of the cryptozoological world, hairy hominids such as North America’s Bigfoot and…
Australia certainly has its share of large and deadly reptiles. The saltwater crocodile grows as large as 7 metres, or 23 feet, and is definitely a seriously deadly predator with a diet that includes the occasional luckless human. The ‘salty’ as they are affectionately known in the Top End are in fact, the world’s largest…