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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…

Something strange was going on in the milking shed on Laurie Wilkinson’s dairy farm in the summer of 1949. Metal plates from Laurie’s milking machine began to inexplicably fly off and out of the shed. When tied down, the milking machine would twist and contort. An iron bar was left embedded in concrete. Tin cans…

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…

weirdaustralia recently received a first-hand report of a brief but frightening night-time encounter with a dark humanoid creature on a lonely, moonlit road in rural Victoria.

The witness, an observant young lady named Bella, still shaken by what she had seen, had the good sense to record her brief encounter when she arrived home, while still fresh in her memory.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…