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…
Today we are all connected to the information superhighway. Information we stumble upon in this electronic ether may be accurate, of great benefit and, yes, sometimes even enlightening. Other information … well, not so much. So it seems too, information gleaned from that other ether, the world of spirits of the dead, may prove to…
A woman prepares for bed, on her mind is an upcoming train journey. Then, as she joins her husband beneath the bedclothes, she notices something. A faint light glows by the bedroom door. The perplexed woman watches this strange light for several minutes, wondering to herself whatever could it mean. Her husband, lying beside her,…
On a cold, wet night during the harsh Tasmanian winter, a young mother lay dying soon after giving birth. A devout Catholic, she had been calling out for a priest since midnight, but being the only Catholics in the small town, it appeared her dying wish for a priest to hear her final confession would…
Late in 1908, two mates set up camp at an idyllic spot by the Namoi River not far from the small town of Wee Waa in northwestern NSW. Some weeks later, one of the men, Harry Johnson, would be pulled from the river, his badly decomposed body anchored down in the Namoi’s waters with an…
For those early settlers, the Australian landscape, fauna and flora most certainly appeared unwelcoming, unforgiving and even alien. Along with having to contend with the rugged, inhospitable Australian bush, severe droughts and flooding rains, there were also those strange beasts … like the wild hairy man, Jerrawerra, bunyip and fearsome big cats. But apart from…
