In October 1987, a forestry worker spraying blackberries at a popular camping spot outside Canberra makes a gruesome discovery inside a panel van that appears to have run off the road and down an embankment. In August 1954, the bloodied, semi-naked body of a woman is found lying on a Melbourne suburban golf course. At…
In June this year, a rare hail storm hit the outback town of Alice Springs in central Australia. The iconic red, dusty landscape of the Alice was turned a frosty white while drivers were forced to contend with roads covered in a slippery, icy slush. No doubt, a new experience for many Territorian drivers more…
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…
In our everyday lives, we have certain expectations about the natural world in which we live. We expect that when it clouds over and rains, for example, we will get wet. When we stand atop a mountain in the dark of night, we will see the stars shimmering brightly above and perhaps the glimmer of…
Mysterious sky sounds have been heard right across the world in recent times, reaching an apparent crescendo as we tentatively step into the much-anticipated, and often feared, year of 2012. Are these unknown sounds from the heavens a portent of doom from an impending apocalypse? Are they the result of top secret weather manipulation technology…
A car is suddenly engulfed in a strange mist and its shocked driver gets out, wipes the windscreen, hops back in and drives off … seemingly oblivious to the three witnesses watching in astonishment close by. A family driving to the Barossa Valley passes through a town, just as it must have been way back…
