Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery Podcast

On Saturday the twentieth of June, 2009, Krystal Fraser got leave from a Bendigo hospital to go home for a party. She was twenty-three and nine months pregnant, and she spent the whole train trip up to Pyramid Hill texting her mates. A man was waiting for her at the station, impatient, and she told a friend she'd better go before he got mad. In the town bakery she said "we" were going to a party in Cohuna or Kerang.
By half past nine she was walking home on her own, and the party, whatever it was, never happened. She was back in her unit on Kelly Street with the door shut behind her and her phone in her hand.
At one minute to midnight it rang. The call came from a public phone box twenty-seven kilometres away, the nineteenth call from that box in five weeks, and Krystal answered. For the last time.

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Sources:
D'Agostino, E. (2019, June 20). Krystal Fraser mystery remains unsolved after 10 years. Bendigo Advertiser. https://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/story/6226966/krystal-fraser-mystery-remains-unsolved-after-10-years/

Dalton, T. (2022, July 13). Witness tells inquest missing woman Krystal Fraser was paranoid, had drug debts. ABC News. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-13/last-person-to-see-krystal-fraser-alive-gives-evidence/101234420

Dalton, T. (2022, July 14). Prime suspect named in Krystal Fraser inquest, detective "very surprised" by unheard evidence. ABC News. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-14/krystal-fraser-inquest-evidence-surprises-investigator/101239258

Gearin, M. (2019, July 17). Krystal Fraser went missing while pregnant in Pyramid Hill. Police now offer a $1 million reward. ABC News. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-17/million-dollar-reward-for-information-on-krystal-fraser/11316040

Lorenz, K. (2022). Finding into death with inquest: Krystal Lee Fraser (COR 2018 001431). Coroners Court of Victoria. https://www.coronerscourt.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/COR%202018%20001431_Krystal%20Fraser-%2037-Finding%20into%20Death%20with%20Inquest%20-%20FINAL%20-%20DE-IDENTIFIED%20-%20FOR%20PUBLICATION_0.pdf

Man arrested in missing woman case. (2018, February 13). Gannawarra Times. https://gannawarratimes.com.au/news/2018/02/13/man-arrested-in-missing-woman-case

Man no longer person of interest in disappearance of missing Pyramid Hill woman Krystal Fraser. (2018, April 3). Bendigo Advertiser. https://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/story/5319526/man-no-longer-person-of-interest-in-krystal-fraser-disappearance/

Najjar, J. (2026, June 20). A midnight call, a murder, and a sister's 17-year quest for answers. Bendigo Advertiser. https://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/story/9289433/find-out-the-details-of-the-disappearance-of-krystal-frase/

Victoria Police. (n.d.). Missing person: Krystal Fraser. https://www.police.vic.gov.au/missing-person-krystal-fraser

Woods, E. (2022a, July 11). Inquest into missing pregnant woman begins. The Canberra Times. https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7814065/inquest-into-missing-pregnant-woman-begins/

Woods, E. (2022b, July 12). Inquest hears murder theory. Country News. https://www.countrynews.com.au/news/inquest-hears-murder-theory/

Woods, E. (2022c, July 12). Missing woman met man lurking near train. The Border Mail. https://www.bordermail.com.au/story/7815747/missing-woman-met-man-lurking-near-train/

Halloweek on Strewth - Tale 7 of 7
It’s the middle of the 1960s, up on the Victorian high country, in a cattlemen’s hut. Seventeen-year-old John Lovick wakes on the top bunk with a pair of hands around his throat. Whatever comes down off that bunk with him, his father’s cattle dogs won’t go near it. That night, for the first time in his life, Jack Lovick bolts the door.
Fifteen years later, the police ring the family to ask an interesting series of questions about that night.
For Halloweek, this is a true story from the Lovick family, told by the people who were there.

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Halloweek on Strewth - Tale 6 of 7

A motorcyclist is heading for the cherry harvest, riding through empty country in the small hours. He passes a dark farmhouse where about ten people stand in a line out the front, silent and perfectly still. They aren’t watching him. They’re all looking across the road at something he can’t see. He rides on for half an hour without passing a single car, then pulls into a rest area to make camp.
It's during that stop that the earlier experience shifts from being weird, to downright horrifying.

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Source:
https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/w0dsve/have_you_encountered_an_eeriespooky_place_in/

Halloweek on Strewth - Tale 5 of 7

Tonight's tale comes from an amazing Strewth listener, Elise. She was one of six volunteers spending a week on South Solitary Island, a rock off Coffs Harbour when this terrifying encounter occurred.
On the second-last night she hears and feels something in the old lighthouse keepers cottage that she'll never forget. As you'll find out, she's not the only one who has left the island with a macabre story to tell. . .

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Sources:
Death of Miss Lydia Gow. (1912, November 23). Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate, 5. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/135759652
Friends of South Solitary Island Lighthouse. (n.d.). South Solitary Island lighthouse history. https://friendsofsouthsolitaryislandlighthouse.com.au/lighthouse-history/
The late Miss Lydia Gow. (1912, November 26). Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate, 6. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/135758591
Lighthouses of Australia Inc. (n.d.). South Solitary Island Lighthouse. https://lighthouses.org.au/nsw/south-solitary-island-lighthouse/
Martin, M. (2019, August 10). South Solitary Island Lighthouse haunted by ghost of girl buried in bathtub, former residents say. ABC News. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-10/lydia-gow-buried-in-a-bathtub-and-covered-with-concrete/11395174

Halloweek on Strewth - Tale 4 of 7
New South Wales, Woodford, Blue Mountains
It’s four in the morning on the Great Western Highway when a young woman and her father see a figure running towards them in their headlights. They think someone is in trouble. Then they see the height of it, the shoulders, the arms hanging past its knees, the hair covering its body. They turn the car side-on and follow it for almost a kilometre, keeping the spotlight on it. It stops when the light finds it and runs when the light goes off. At the end of a row of houses, it plunges into the bush, and the treetops sway as it goes. They had it in clear view for at least four or five minutes. This is her story.

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Source:
https://www.thefortean.com/2018/10/07/the-monster-of-the-blue-mountains/