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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
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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. Terrifying.
Speaker 3 (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.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
And saw the pillager yowie.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
He reckons the yowie like a kind of like Australian
sasquatch yetie.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Yes, exactly right, Bigfoot Australian's version of Bigfoot. And it
was like truckies never drove through there at night. It
was just the is 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.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Yeah, and so about half of that's disappeared.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
But there's so much more there, and it's so scary
you don't want to walk through there.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
First because there's so many trees becomes there's no light
that comes. So it's a density.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
It's the density, absolutely like it's so.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Thick slip Dusty, Well, he sounds pretty light about it.
He ain't scared. They said, slim, you were doing gig
there at nighttime. See how brave you feel about it?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Then Dusty must have been drinking any time.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
But no, it's it's awful and I'm so happy to
be talking about it because I.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Didn't know it was sort of so renowned.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Yeah, participationd what have you found about Pillica Forest?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
There is so much about it. So he's right.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
The trucks his name is Alex by the way, now
he's new, but this is week six Raleigh County. You
can't get calling him.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
He Alex is right.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
They say that truckies avoid it completely, but if they
are driving through that, they never stop because they why
would you stop.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
In a big ass forest?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Anyway, just in case something happens.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah, just keep driving. 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 4 (02:32):
There's also people that live in there.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
What do you mean in checks and you're a journalist,
it's the forest people, right, Okay, I'm going to send
you an assignment.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Right, I'm going to send you out there to investigate
who would be brave enough to stay the night there?
And that way I gave you would do it's going
to happen. 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 his days? I could better
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.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Luck, canaan. What else you found about it? Then?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
So there's been many a sightings, including some people that
claim to have seen it. A 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.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Forest at night. 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 2 (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 4 (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 3 (04:02):
Oh no, it's also folklore. I mean, there's so many
stories about this, how 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 4 (04:12):
I reckon one hundred. No, it's like an indigenous sacre.
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?
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Yes, well I think I believe.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
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 we need
to do? A coming 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
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see that listener again?
Speaker 3 (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 that.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
In silence.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
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 stands still?
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All right, Alex Cullen has Tom's about the legend, the myth,
the place, the pilic of Forests. Okay, and I'm just
I'll 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 new Ale Highway in the region.
She's known for pushing a shopping trolley a ghost, a
shopping trolley filled with her belongings, and hitch hiking with
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truck drivers see here. Often she tragically died or have
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 the show,
but not one with a wonky wheel shopping trolley. You
know that won always pulls a leg. That's why she
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can't leave the frost. 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.
My partner is a truck driver drives through all the
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time with the Pelica Forest. He often stays the night there.
They have to impulse over b S. That is from Sarah.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Sarah that it used to be a dirt road. Maybe
it's been trd now.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
It is full of dirt roads. Young always a haunted
dirt road otherwise entire place to be haunted.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
But most roads have have it cleared, so that the
trees cleared.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
But the Pilica forest, they're right up to the road
and they're.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
It's 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 4 (07:25):
You grew up there, yeah, made I grew up and
Billy go.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Right, so you might know Alex cut it? What's your
last name? Ben? Okay?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Was it?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (07:36):
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 5 (07:46):
Oh, there's definitely a We'll say there's a ye. But
there's some form of crazy getting around that forest. Mate.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
I grew up out there as.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
A kid and wave weakness and pretty extraordinary.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Stuff like what what if you what can you share
with this? Ben? Well?
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Have you ever seen the movie Creditor?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yeah? That's what we been playing this sound effect. Yeah, well.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Yeah, well that's what we're used to here 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 5 (08:19):
There were some weird, wonderful noises, mate. And then my
uncle one day he came back through him when he
went for a drive and he had three quar marks
out the side of his car.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Car, Yeah, three quar marks out the side of his car.
Yaw we or just a bad parker came about that
ghost shopping tchorlie as well? You know, should be furious
a princess there? Yeah yeah, yeah, Ben, thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
She call me.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
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 labled up by one of
our rum producers. What would you caton's job is to
label up the names? It is, help me out here, producers.
Why would anyone be called Sasquat's got your eyes?
Speaker 5 (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.
Speaker 7 (09:26):
They swear black and blue day three, 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.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Holding who we're just standing still holding that check out
the guards. No human could do this.
Speaker 7 (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.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
Stop through there.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Happens a lovely stuff. Malander, what's your new name? Rob?
Good morning Rob? Good morning Rob? What's your What have
you got about all this?
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (10:06):
I just believe that that's all blooney. I'm a bride,
but 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 I'd be prepared
to go, isn't here?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
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 8 (10:24):
Undercut him?
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Boyl wow, Okay, all right, Robert might be let's go
to Jason. Now. I hope it's Jason. It could be
just be. I don't know, Oh, gisbone, I don't know
where the particiercating spelling Jason. Welcome to the show. Jason,
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just beIN.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
Yeah, I'm here.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Yeah, gotcha. You been to the Pelaga Forest?
Speaker 5 (10:53):
No, but I'll go there for free.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Whoa, oh, 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 5 (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 haunt.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
What do you mean, terbly haunted? Several ghosts of poltergeist.
Speaker 5 (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 us that
happened quite a lot. It was got a Poults anyway,
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