During the winter of 1909, much of south east Australia was abuzz with reports of mysterious lights flying through the skies leaving witnesses baffled as to what they were and from where they had come. Some thought them planets, others thought them lanterns attached to kites, while one witness thought they might be “Japanese airships”.…
In the winter of 1935, sightings of sea serpents were reported right along the scenic coastline of western Victoria in Australia’s chilly southern waters. Following a sighting by two boys in June, two fishermen in a boat 300 kilometres away were terrorised by a sea serpent a month later. They resorted to shooting at it…
In July 2011, a saltwater crocodile was found wandering a main street in the tourist city of Cairns in Far North Queensland. A ranger and several police wrestled the wayward croc with broom handles and a towel before loading it into a car and whisking it away. Australia certainly has its fair share of fearsome…
While the modern era of the flying saucer, or UFO, is generally regarded as having begun in 1947 with Kenneth Arnold’s famous sighting, followed quickly by the legend of crashed flying discs in the New Mexico desert, people have been observing unexplainable phenomena in the skies for far, far longer. In the late 1800s for…
Australia is a vast, beautiful and mysterious country. At weirdaustralia we’ll search this enigmatic land for stories of unexplained and mysterious events from UFO sightings, strange disappearances, artefacts that history tells us just shouldn’t be found here, and of course encounters with unknown beasts such as the legendary yowie, or ‘hairy man’ of both Aboriginal…
