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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
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Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast. I hadn't
heard of the legend right of Pilger Forest Alix Cunnins
is obviously near where you grew up. You were telling
us about it, and then Ria has a quick look
online during the News and Sport with you guys and said,
oh my god, Christian, this is actually supposed to be
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the most haunted forest in this great Southern ad in Australia.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Terrifying.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
You would never ever drive through there at night. So
we grew up, like you know, ten twenty k's from it.
And apparently my dad reckons he drove through there once
and broke down and saw the pillager yowie.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
He reckons the yowie like a kind of like Australian
sasquatch yetie.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Yes, exactly right, Bigfoot Australian's version of Bigfoot.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
And it was like truckies never drove through there at night.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
It was just the this this rule, you never drove
through there at night, because it's genuinely terrifying. It is
thick forest. It used to be a million wild acres
until European settlement. Yeah, and so about half of that's disappeared.
But there's so much more there, and it's so scary.
You don't want to walk through there.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Cost because there's so many trees becomes there's no light
that comes to It's a density.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
It's the density, absolutely like it's so thick.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Slip dust Well, he sounds pretty light about it. He
ain't scared, said Slimy were doing gig there at nighttime.
See how brave you feel about it?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Then Dusty must have been drinking any time.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
But no, it's it's awful and I'm so happy to
be talking about it because I didn't know it was
sort of so renowned.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Yeah, participation. What have you found about Pillica Forest?
Speaker 5 (01:58):
There is so much about it.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
So he's right. The trucks his name is Alex. By
the way, that he's new, but this is week six
Raleigh Counting. You can't get calling him heat.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Alex is right.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
They say that truckies avoid it completely, but if they
are driving through that, they never stop because they why
would you.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Stop in a big ass forest anyway?
Speaker 5 (02:16):
Just in case something happens.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yeah, you just keep driving.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Strangers are scared of a forest. This big brave truckies, right,
they drive all through night, all of these those big
tons and stuff on a friend of a load of
trees packed tightly together.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
There's also people that live in there. What do you
mean live in checks and.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
You're a journalists the forest people? Right, okay, I'm going
to send you an assignment. Right, I'm going to send
you out there to investigate. Who would be brave enough
to stay the night there?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
And I gave you would do It's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
They're revenant. Yes, you're going to just sort it out
by what's he called? What's it called that you have
a wackie where it.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Is Blair which is driving days it could be out
of this place. It's like it's terrifying. You just don't
know what's in it because it's so vast as well,
like it's massive and if you get lost in there,
good luck, canaan.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
What else you found about it? Then?
Speaker 5 (03:16):
So there's been many a sightings, including some people that
claim to have seen it. Yow, we come out, grab
a kangaroo and drag it back into the forest. They've
also seen big. What they it's called. Sorry, I'm just
reading it through here. Golf ball sized floodlights as eyes.
They see them pop out of the forest at night.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
It's not that big, really, is it? Golf ball sized eyes?
I don't know bin lids or the size of satellite dishes,
and he go, oh my god, golf balls just like,
it's not that scary.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
The whole golf ball is like a flood light. That's
what they say.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
It's like a small torch. Then I got one of
those my beds. You wouldn't sound terrifying.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Okay, I'd love to see you in there. I would
love to see you there.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
And what's interesting is that you guys are all scared.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Oh no, it's also folklore. I mean, there's so many
stories about this, hew, so many people have seen it.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
But how long has it been there? It's got a
long old lifespan, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
I reckon one hundred?
Speaker 6 (04:13):
No, it's like an indigenous sacred what's an indigenous character?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
So I imagine it right? Okay, So do you think
it's more of an archetypal being? Yes, well I think
I believe so that's what I'm led to. Anyway, We're
going to find out if a journalist wants to follow
the evidence, follow the story and uncover the truth exactly,
we're not equipped to do it journalists, journalists. What about
pats news and sport from them? Do you know what
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we need to do? A comment to find a listener's
brain enough to go in there and find out the truth.
Anyone want to call in? What do you mean we
won't see that listener again?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
You couldn't pay me enough. It's terrifying like it is.
It's I'm trying to describe it for you. You can't
imagine how densities it's just not.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
In the silence Christian O'Connell Show podcast. This is live
right now in the pilic of Forest. I found a webcam.
Did anyone else hear it? I can't hear it? Live
right now eight to fifteen, the Pilica Forest where time
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stands still? All right? Alex Cullen has Tom's about the legend,
the myth, the place, the pilic of forests. Okay, and
I'm just I've just googled it. What's it getting a story?
The pillager princess and they ain't given to a woman.
It's often seen along the Newle Highway in the region.
She's known for pushing a shopping trolley a ghost, a
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shopping trolley filled with her belongings, and hitch hiking with
truck drivers see here. Often she tragically died or been
hit by a truck in nineteen ninety three. Since then,
thousands of sightings of a ghost pushing a shopping trolley.
Oh wow, We've heard so many ghost stories on this show,
but not one with a wonky wheel shopping trolley. You
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know that won it always pulls a leg. That's why
she can't leave the froust. She's trying to get about
that dear bloody ghosts. And I can't even get this
ghost shopping even in ghost world, you know, even in
the the nether world, the shopping trolleys don't work there either,
is what this says to me, Christian, I'm calling BS.
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My partner is a truck driver drives through all the
time with the Pelica Forest. He often stays the night there.
They have to impulse over b S. That is from Sarah.
Sarah that it used to be a dirt road. Maybe
it's been trd now full of dirt roads. Young always
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haunted dirt road otherwise it's place to be haunted.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
But most roads have have it cleared, so that the
trees cleared. But the Pilica forest, they're right up to
the road and they're.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Sasquatch Christian. A man called Chad would send me this
message two K, I'll stay the night there. Actually, what
actually take someone out when I'm not going with you? Especially?
Where's that smooth time mat rope? Have they got a
Sophael there somewhere around here? All right? Ben's on the line,
(07:25):
Good morning, Ben.
Speaker 7 (07:25):
You grew up there, yeah, made I grew up and
Billy go.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Right, so she might know Alex cut it?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
What's your last name?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Ben?
Speaker 7 (07:32):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Was it?
Speaker 7 (07:33):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Okay, they've got a snow where But that's why you
didn't get me that paid? Now, Ben, what can you
tell What can you tell us? Mate?
Speaker 7 (07:46):
Oh, there's definitely a we'll say there's a ye.
Speaker 8 (07:49):
But there's some form of crazy getting around that forest.
Speaker 7 (07:51):
Mate. I grew up out there as a kid and
wave weakness and pretty extraordinary stuff.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Like what what if you what can you share with this? Ben?
Speaker 7 (07:58):
Well? Have you ever seen the movie Creditor?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yeah? That's what we been playing this sound effect.
Speaker 7 (08:02):
Yeah, well, yeah, well that's what we used to hear
as a kidd. And we're camping down the river because property,
you said, back right onto the river, right onto the
back of the Philly the forest.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
What's something like that? And then at some sort of
beast making that noise.
Speaker 7 (08:19):
There were some weird, wonderful noises. Mate. And then my
uncle one day he came back to him when he
went for a drive and he had three quar marks
out the side of his car. Yeah, three quar marks
out the side of his car.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
No, yaw we or just a bad parker came about
that ghost shopping tchorlie as well? You know, should be furious.
Speaker 7 (08:44):
A princess there, Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Ben, thank you very much. She called me. I have
a good day, mate. What the chances he's listening? He
grew up in there, went on in there, Malanda? Sorry sleep.
Why it's been labeled up by one of our rum producers?
What would you caton's job is to label up the names?
Speaker 5 (09:04):
It is?
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Help me out here, producers. Why would anyone be called
Sasquat's got your eyes?
Speaker 8 (09:10):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Caitlin? Anyway? Sorry Melinda?
Speaker 6 (09:14):
Yeah, I just my parents drove through there in their
seventies when they're on their way to their honeymoon in
point seven Paradise, and they were stopping in kune bar Brand,
which is up the road, and they swear black and
blue day thory, how we holding a boulder on the
side of the road, and the boulder of my dad's
like the boulder was too big through and like an
adult man to be holding.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Who we're just standing still holding the same check that
check out the guards. No human could do this.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
And when they stopped in Kunabarra Brand, the lady they
were talking to a lady at the servo and she goes, yeah,
even the truckies don't stop through there.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Happens a lovely stuff. Malander, what's your new name?
Speaker 7 (10:00):
Rob?
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Good morning Rob? Good morning Rob? What's your What have
you got about all this? Oh?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
I just believe that that's all blogey. I'm a briden nothing.
I've been up in the bush most of my life.
And yeah, anhing seems to worry. There's only animal noises
and tree noises, and that why'd be prepared to go?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Isn't here? Okay? Now at the moment I've got to
go and call Chad. He's prepared to go in there
for two thousand dollars. You're going to undercut him? Oh?
Speaker 7 (10:24):
Undercut him? Boy?
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Wow? Okay, all right, Robert might be let's go to Jason.
Speaker 7 (10:35):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
I hope it's Jason. It could be just be. I
don't know, Oh, Gisbane, I don't know where the particiercating spelling. Jason.
Welcome to the show, Jason Justin.
Speaker 8 (10:46):
Yeah, I'm here.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Yeah, gotcha. You've been to uh the Pelaga Forest.
Speaker 8 (10:53):
No, but I'll go there for free.
Speaker 7 (10:56):
Whoa? Oh?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Rob? We went from Chad for two grands. Rob comes
in at one and now our man here Jason and
the Argonauts, is going to do it for free.
Speaker 8 (11:09):
I'm not I'm not skeied and nothing. I used to
live in the house in New Zealand. It was terribly wanted, haunted.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
What do you mean terbly haunted? Several ghosts of poltergeist.
Speaker 8 (11:20):
I want to be in a whitehouse and the the
blanket throws up beside me.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Oh yeah, I remember when I was fourteen. It used
to happened quite a lot. It was got a poult anyway,
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