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It Begins:
Since the land first began to breathe, Australia has been a place of dreamlike mystery.
When the European settlers first arrived, they were told stories from native peoples, of the unnatural things waiting in the dark, hungry and hoping to snatch a wayward soul.
But as decades pass, the whispers of strange and horrifying encounters that once stirred along the currents of the desert wind and through the boughs of the Eucalyptus in the Pilliga have settled in the dust (bush) and long been forgotten.
But as the Aborigines know, the land remembers.
From a mysterious phone call recounting a terrifying abduction by a freakish leg collecting beast (creature) to the sinister UFO Abduction case of Kelly Cahill with cloaked soul stealing beings, hunting humans in the night.
Join us on this walk about into the unknown as we explore historical accounts, find patterns in the bush, and endeavor to uncover true tales of horror in the land down under.
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⏰ TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 | Episode Trailer
07:37 | Bongo and the Leg Collector | Pilliga | New South Wales | September 1978
13:12 | The Call: Hoax or Real?
21:19 | The Happy Day Stay Retreat: Did it Exist?
27:05 | 1978-79 Pilliga Truck Attacks and Yowie Encounters
32:19 | Livestock Eating Monsters | 1978
35:16 | 1978 – Moruya Examiner Yowie Article
37:04 | Historical Accounts |The Wallabadah Manuscript
40:27 | Children – their favorite food | 1849
43:37 | Devouring Men in the Mountains
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48:50 | Expansion Preview
50:57 | Midseason Announcements | Merch, Livestreams & Ambiance Live Chat
53:38 | Visitors on Fire | Horror from the Sky | North of Wingen Australia | March 1828
56:28 | Cattle Plucked from the Outback | Robe District, South Australia | 1860s
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1:01:39 | 8ft Foot White Thing | Young New South Wales, Australia | June 1869
1:05:18 | Kelly Cahill Abduction | Narre Warren North | 1993
1:19:28 | Kelly Cahill Abduction | Narre Warren North | 1993
1:20:42 | Strange Witness Account | Dark shadows, Saucers, and Friendly Wavers
1:28:38 | Thank Yous!
REFERENCED PODCASTS/ CHANNELS
Yowiehunters Witness Reports | @YowieSightings
https://www.youtube.com/user/YowieSightings/videos
Overnights
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/overnights
REFERENCED VIDEOS
Bongo’s Call – Happy Day Stay Retreat
Geckos and Gum Leaves
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⏰ TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 | Episode Trailer
07:37 | Bongo and the Leg Collector | Pilliga | New South Wales | September 1978
13:12 | The Call: Hoax or Real?
21:19 | The Happy Day Stay Retreat: Did it Exist?
27:05 | 1978-79 Pilliga Truck Attacks and Yowie Encounters
32:19 | Livestock Eating Monsters | 1978
35:16 | 1978 – Moruya Examiner Yowie Article
37:04 | Historical Accounts |The Wallabadah Manuscript
40:27 | Children – their favorite food | 1849
43:37 | Devouring Men in the Mountains
47:05 | Sponsor: Protect Your Data with Aura
48:50 | Expansion Preview
50:57 | Midseason Announcements | Merch, Livestreams & Ambiance Live Chat
53:38 | Visitors on Fire | Horror from the Sky | North of Wingen Australia | March 1828
56:28 | Cattle Plucked from the Outback | Robe District, South Australia | 1860s
58:59 | Sponsor: Miracle Made Sheets
1:01:39 | 8ft Foot White Thing | Young New South Wales, Australia | June 1869
1:05:18 | Kelly Cahill Abduction | Narre Warren North | 1993
1:19:28 | Kelly Cahill Abduction | Narre Warren North | 1993
1:20:42 | Strange Witness Account | Dark shadows, Saucers, and Friendly Wavers
1:28:38 | Thank Yous!
I've heard from a local Gabi Gabi (Sunshine Coast Australia) fella that there are 2 main species of the huge hairy people. The smaller, round headed ones, who are ok, and the much bigger, aggressive, pointy headed ones, who will eat you. I also heard similar on a video interview with an indigenous fellow from the land of America. His people's legends said the bigger ones are dangerous, have supernatural abilities and should be avoided.
I have always loved the graphics on your vids so much I would re-watch them with the sound off as ambience vids. I am super psyched with Dark Mountain Ambience Channel!!! Who does the work on your graphics? Seriously well done to one and all🎉 (Thanks for bringing us another unique and beautifully researched episode🤟)
Keep it up guys! You will have your break through moment soon! I know it!
Bongos story sounds pretty believable to me…I listen to stories like this 11 hours a day…and you can't fake stuttering like that. That's raw emotion from that guy.
So I'm not crazy in thinking that when they first posted this it said Ture Tales instead of True Tales 🤔 am I…?
Hello belief brothers. I’m a licensed psychologist practicing in the states, I specialize in trauma and I have extensive working experience with the SPMI population in both residential treatment and community mental health centers. While the Bongo story could be staged, his audio presentation is fairly consistent with someone who has schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder. Relatively few people who experience trauma acquire stuttering, with combat vets and preverbal children being the most common and even then this usually happens if they begin to structure their life around the stressor event. For some people with psychosis their hallucinations are experienced with full and total sensory saturation and this would definitely be traumatic. While it’s in the realm of possibility this did actually happen, I would lastly add if it was true he clearly was not in a stable enough state to recount that tale to a layperson, and allowing it to happen or encouraging a patient to do it is therapeutically contraindicated and unethical, so it shouldn’t have happened at all. Love listening to your stuff, I may write in with some of my personal paranormal experiences soon
It’s kinda funny this episode takes place in Australia cause for the past week I’ve been watching wake in fright, Mad Max, and Razorback. Amazing movies 😘based in Australia
Australia has a yaoi problem?!!!
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That's proper terror in the voice of that man in that first story. Whatever he allegedly saw, it has messed him up quite badly.
Sounds like allyallyincometree
Wth?!!! I missed it again! Well, once again I've never been happier to miss an episode! It's 15hr old but new to me babaaaaaay! *Smashes PLAY*!
Narration, graphics, music effects…all spot on!
❤Thanks for making ny night better, Guys! That was a great episode…🎉
The Man was telling the TRUTH HIS EMOTION WAS IN HIS VOICE.
HE WAS ALSO TRYING TO WARN PEOPLE WHO WERE GOING IN LOOKING FOR THE THING THAT GOT HIM .
LISTEN TO 411 MISSING DAVID PAULIDES AUSTRALIA ALSO SOUNDS LIKE THE LOCAL PEOPLE KNEW ABOUT IT AND KEPT AWAY BEFORE DARK .
MYHEART GOES OUT TO HIM AND ALL FAMLIES OF MISSING ❤
I remember when you gents had only 5k subs. I'm still shocked you are only at 50k plus when you should be easily 500k.
Yall snuck one under me. Sneaky sneaky
Their is only one thing wrong with this podcast and I hate to be the one to tell you but somebody should. It is an Australian pastime to take the piss out of foreigners especially Americans. I'd believe 90% of what an Australian tells me but I'd believe about 5% of what we will tell you. As an example many years ago my youngest sister ( early teens ) went to NZ with her hockey team. Without any thought or any discussion amongst the girls when they were asked about kangaroo's they instantly filled the New Zealander's with complete shit. By the time they left many were convinced that we use roo's to deliver our mail and while you had to physically get it from them they would stop at your house ( this is why we have lawns in the desert, so the postman Roo's would stop to graze <- how they came up with that on the fly amazes me ) and you would retrieve your mail from their pouch. She was about 13, none of them planned this, it just comes out of us naturally, in fact it meant so little to them they never mentioned it beyond laughing their ass's off that day. It was years later when my sister said something about those from NZ being really dumb that I found out, when I asked why they did it she just looked at me like I was crazy and said cause they where dumb enough to believe it and it was funny, and that seemed fair enough to me. So be care full of what we tell you if you are not from here, we don't mean any harm its our sort of instant IQ test and if you fail, well then we just find it funny to see how much you fail by. It also explains why we don't ( or never used too ) instantly believe something a foreigner tells us about their Country, we "assume" your just taking the piss like us.
P.S. I did say to my sister I'm surprised they didn't check with other members of your team, and she said as far as she knows they did, but what are you going to say when a foreigner asks if Roo's deliver your mail, cause you are going to say yes. 🙂
If Bongo was so reluctant to mention his institution that he made up a fake name, then why would he have mentioned it at all? He made a point of saging multiple times that he was in this place. Obviously he wanted it known in order to enhance the story and get gullible people asking, “wow, what did he see that got him in a sanitarium?”
Bongo is full of chit.
I was in the middle of the forest in northern Washington state when this was uploaded last night… zero service. Finding this upon arriving home this evening… let's just say that this, along with the expansion episode, my night is all set. Yay!!
Crocodiles, sharks, giant spiders, the most venomous, AND the second most venomous snake in the world…Australians aren't afraid of monsters.
I pay for YouTube premium to avoid ads. Y’all have so many ads.
It takes you out of the stories.
I feel bad for the people trying to get through this without premium.
I get it, you have to make money, but sheeesh.
Can’t help but wonder if Bongo survived a serial killer 🙁
He sounded fake as heck. I don't believe him sorry
Bigfoot is boring af I don't even care if it exists and I'm pretty sure the police/military don't either
This fills the paranormal hole left by Mr. Bunkers conspiracy podcast….you guys are awesome
Y’all…. I’m done.
cracks knuckes
Here is too much info about Bongo! I grew up in the area around the time of both events.
Coonabarabran: In North-West New South Wales, the area is more bush not outback. It consists of a few towns with populations between 5-8k, spaced about an hour's drive apart. For example, Coonabarabran,(aka Coona) would have had a population of around 2k at the time. If you keep driving south past Coona, you won't hit more than a few small towns until you reach Dubbo (22k) and around a three-hour drive away. Sydney is about five hours to the coast, while the outback is about a four-hour drive inland in the opposite direction.
If you're coming down from Queensland, you might pass through, but you'd probably take the Pacific Highway for a more direct route.
The area is pretty inland, this is all the say the road would have been very empty. They're not really on the way to much, so, as Bongo's story suggests, you'd mostly see tradies and truckies on them.
The drive from Narrabri to Coonabarabran is just over an hour, so he's only 30 minutes away from a town, but there's literally nothing in the middle except the Pilliga. No little towns, nothing.
NRMA : The only part of his story that seems off is NRMA not coming out. It's a car insurance company, and it's literally their job to go out into the middle of nowhere to help members. I'm no expert, but I suspect there would have been offices at least in Tamworth (a two-hour drive) or Dubbo (three hours). Possibly even in Gunnedah or Narrabri. This would have been a common enough call out, maybe the guy never called them.
I suspect what really happened was he was rapped by a bunch of Bushies as they knew it was deserted area. Trauma is complex, and with homophobia being rampant, this story might have replaced in his mind what really happened. He goes out of his way to mention the gender of the Yowie, which seems irrelevant if the story were entirely true.
Happy Days: It's not entirely clear if he stayed in Coonabarabran. Coona doesn't have those kinds of facilities. The mental health facilities in that part of the country are pretty terrible. If he did stay in Coona, I suspect he was at a caravan park, pub, or boarding house. But more likely, he was taken to a proper facility. In the 90s, we rebranded our mental health system, and I think he might have been calling from an aged care facility.
But if this is any point of reference, there are shops in Gunnedah from the 90s that have come and gone with no references online, let alone a mental health facility from the 70s in an unimportant part of Australia. Why would there be? Who would document a mental health facility from the 70s in such an unimportant part of Australia? There's no demand for that information.
Bushie: The post about him being a bushie is spot on. His name is Bongo! That had to be some kind of joke. He even uses the word "humpie," which is an Indigenous term for a temporary shelter. It was a known word, but the average person didn't use it
Another point of reference: I worked in a crisis accommodation shelter, and the nicknames the clients gave to various facilities were often jokey and slang in nature. I worked in a major one. Just then I searched for it via the slang name everyone used, I found no actual posts with that slang name, but the facility is still in operation today.
I don't know Bongo, but I know a lot of men like him. He's a very specific 'type' of person.
Nurse Annie: Even in the early 2000s, Australia didn't have a great understanding or appreciation of mental illness. The awareness wasn't what it is now. I can totally believe this happened—bored nurses on the night shift at an aged care facility, looking for something to do.
Overnights: "Overnights" was national program and is apart of the ABC, which is a government-funded media outlet. The show is a bit more relaxed than the daytime programs since they have so many hours to fill, but it's definitely not commercial radio, so they didn't really do pranks. It's like PBS in that their funding doesn't depend on ratings. It's not like Art Bell. But they had what we would consider more 'podcasty' type content.
Media-wise, the country was very conservative at the time, so I can imagine they didn't want to be connected with anything too 'out there'. They might have claimed it was a prank just to distance themselves from it. If it was a joke, it's very well done due to the attention to detail.
"Overnights" is a national program, so Bongo could have lived far away from Coonabarabran and still heard the show.
Once again, I believe his story but I think he most likely he was rapped and just invited the story to protect himself.
Related: My school friend Dane made a film called "There's Something in Pilliage," and I helped release it through my work. It really captures the vibe of the area where it was filmed. We've chatted about Bongo before—he was an inspiration, but the film is based on several local stories.
Minor details: His story is filled with specific little details that sound genuine, but they don't necessarily prove that his story is true as much as he had knowleage of the area.
1. The area did have a lot of those old millage pegs. I rememeber them from my childhood.
2. Telecom was a government-run phone network before it was privatized and renamed in the 90s.
That caller about the leg thief is well and truly rattled, that's not how Aussie truckers speak no matter their age.
It's perfectly creepy and weird… I love your shows… purple mommy approved ✅😉🖤
"A succulent Chinese MEAL!"
1:05:46 looks like people are screwing in the back seat