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Hosted by A Dark Australia Production · true crime · EN-AU
Australia’s darkest crimes, strangest mysteries, and most unsettling paranormal stories.From unsolved disappearances and brutal serial killers to haunted towns, paranormal encounters, UFO sightings, and unexplained deaths buried deep within the outback... Dark Australia explores the stories that continue to unsettle the nation decades later.
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Signup to Generate a PitchAustralia’s darkest crimes, strangest mysteries, and most unsettling paranormal stories. From unsolved disappearances and brutal serial killers to haunted towns, paranormal encounters, UFO sightings, and unexplained deaths buried deep within the outback... Dark Australia explores the stories that continue to unsettle the nation decades later.
Recent episodes include "Sydney Shark Attacks (PART 1)" (18 October 2026, 58 minutes), "Australia’s Cryptid Mysteries" (29 September 2026, 46 minutes), and "Alexander Pearce: The Convict Cannibal" (30 August 2026, 85 minutes).
Dark Australia publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 33 minutes across 13 episodes.
Booking probability for Dark Australia is 36%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Dark Australia requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Dark Australia's contact route on record: public web form.
Dark Australia is a true crime podcast with 13 episodes published.
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Episode #13
For more than 170 years, Sydney’s beaches, harbour and rivers were the scene of some of Australia’s most terrifying shark attacks. From the earliest recorded fatality in 1791, through the deadly summers of Coogee and...
Episode #12
Deep in the Australian bush, people have been reporting strange creatures for generations. Massive ape-like figures moving through the trees. Black panthers stalking rural New South Wales. Giant reptiles that should...
Episode #11
In 1822, eight convicts escaped one of the most brutal penal settlements in Van Diemen’s Land and disappeared into the wilderness. What followed became one of the darkest survival stories in Australian history...
In Part Two of The Family, the world Anne Hamilton-Byrne built begins to collapse. After years of isolation, control, punishment and psychological conditioning, some of the children start to question the life they have...
Behind the gates of a secluded property near Lake Eildon, a group of children were being raised almost entirely apart from the outside world. They dressed alike. Their hair was dyed the same colour. They were told they...
Episode #8
On 29 July 2023, five people sat down for lunch at a home in the small Victorian town of Leongatha. On the menu was Beef Wellington. Within days, three of the guests were dead. A fourth was critically ill. And at the...
On the morning of 6 April 1966, something extraordinary happened above a suburban school in Melbourne. More than 200 students and teachers reported seeing a strange flying object descend over Westall High School before...
Episode #6
After weeks stranded on the remote Houtman Abrolhos Islands, Jeronimus Cornelisz's reign of terror is nearing its end. While innocent survivors continue to be hunted, a small band of soldiers led by Wiebbe Hayes...
Episode #5
<p>BATAVIA</p><p>Part Two: The Ship of Secrets</p><p>After surviving one of history's most catastrophic shipwrecks, the passengers of the Batavia believe the worst is over.</p><p>They're wrong.</p><p>Stranded on the...
Episode #5
BATAVIA Part Two: The Ship of Secrets After surviving one of history's most catastrophic shipwrecks, the passengers of the Batavia believe the worst is over. They're wrong. Stranded on the barren islands of the Houtman...
Episode #4
<p>BATAVIA </p><p>Part One: The Ship of Secrets</p><p>In 1629, a Dutch merchant ship carrying hundreds of passengers, crew, and a fortune in silver struck a remote reef off the coast of Western Australia.</p><p>More...
Episode #4
BATAVIA Part One: The Ship of Secrets In 1629, a Dutch merchant ship carrying hundreds of passengers, crew, and a fortune in silver struck a remote reef off the coast of Western Australia. More than 300 people survived...
<p>DARK AUSTRALIA — Episode 7</p><p>Ivan Milat: The Backpacker Killer<br>Part Three — The Monster of Belanglo</p><p>The hunt is over.</p><p>In the final chapter of our Ivan Milat series, we follow the investigation as...
<p>The bodies discovered inside Belanglo State Forest revealed a level of violence that shocked Australia — and terrified the world.</p><p>In Part Two of this Dark Australia series, we dive deeper into the Backpacker...
<p>DARK AUSTRALIA — Episode 1</p><p><br></p><p>Ivan Milat: The Backpacker Killer </p><p>Part One — Into Belanglo</p><p><br></p><p>In the early 1990s, Australia was seen as one of the safest backpacking destinations on...
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