UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENA - Australia

UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENA - Australia

Unexplained Phenomena Australia is hosted by Ben Hurle and examines all aspects of unknown phenomena as it manifests in Australia. UPA takes an open minded approach, yet examines the evidence and explores the circumstances of many Australian mysteries. UPA looks at the lesser known encounters and also revisits the “big ones” with fresh eyes. The show will examine UFOs, Cryptids, Ghosts and many more strange and wonderful Australian mysteries.

Episodes

September 22, 2022 57 mins
The very big flap that occurred in Kempsey NSW. Very interesting events! And concentrated. Including a man being sucked out a closed window! These cases will blow your mind! Join Ben for this extraordinary podcast exclusively on The X!
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On this weeks episode, I’m interviewing a local Ghost Investigator: Deanne Norman of the Mornington Peninsula Paranormal Society. Join Ben and Deanne as they discuss the activities of the Mornington Peninsula Paranormal Society, based in seaside south east Melbourne, Victoria.
Deanne has had lifelong interactions with the paranormal and offers an interesting perspective, on Australian paranormal encounters.
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September 22, 2022 56 mins
This weeks episode is an interview: Sheryl Gottschall, Director of UFO Research Queensland.
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September 22, 2022 54 mins
Join Ben and George Simpson as they present the long lost interview. Never heard in 50 years. Ron Hyde was riding his motorcycle from Sydney to Melbourne, when he encountered a landed craft and occupants, on the Hume Highway near Albury Wodonga, on the Victorian/New South Wales border. This episode will air in America on the 55th anniversary of this extraordinary encounter. Not to be missed!
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September 22, 2022 56 mins
Join Ben this week, as he examines some compelling and important UFO 🛸 encounters from South Australia. The town of Gawler, has seen a long history of visitations and perhaps the strangest UFO encounter in history occurred near the isolated South Australian town of Kimba.. All this and more !
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September 22, 2022 57 mins
This week I’m doing my first interview with George Simpson about his new book, Nothing on Radar: The Valentich Mystery
One of Australia's greatest Aviation mysteries, Nothing on Radar, tells the story of a young pilot, Frederick Valentich, who flew from Melbourne toward King Island in Bass Strait early one evening, in October 1978 and vanished right after reporting his Cessna Aircraft was being chased by an Unidentified Flying Objec...
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September 22, 2022 56 mins
Join Ben as he examines the baffling disappearance of roadworker Des Carr. He disappeared while operating his roller. The roller was still running.. no foot prints.. also the mysterious object that haunted the farmers in the Hutt River region. The strange visitor to Cockatoo Island. Plus the strange blue light in an orchard near Perth..
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Join Ben on this episode as he examines the 1959 Reverend Gill encounter, the Francis Chichester UFO seen on the first Tasman Sea Crossing from New Zealand to Australia in the 1930s. The mystery of spinning sea lights!
And some strange UFO events in Queensland!!
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Join Ben as he explores the deep end of the strange crypids in Australia. The bunyip was a real creature to the aboriginal tribes and early European settlers of Australia. It’s been described in many different forms.. extremely territorial and a deadly foe , if you stumble into its lair.. The Yara Ma Yha Who is a small red vampiric creature that legend says lived in fig trees, and preyed on passerby’s. Ben looks at the stories and...
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Join Ben as he examines the mysterious body of water between Tasmania and the main land, known as Bass Strait. There have been countless UFO sightings in this vast area. Both planes and ships have disappeared in clear weather. What lies beneath the waves in the Strait? What haunts the skies above? This is we’re Fred Valentich disappeared 21st October, 1978. Others have gone missing too.. Let’s board our virtu-plane and join the sea...
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July 12, 2022 57 mins
Join Ben as he explores some truely astonishing Paranormal activities! The Picton Ghosts, The Pilliga Princess, The haunted Wakehurst Parkway road, the Jenny Dixon beach haunting.. plus much more! Australia is a true land of mystery. Don’t miss this mystifying episode!!
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July 12, 2022 56 mins
Join Ben as he examines UFOs following cars in the remote deserts, a strange encounter in a Queensland gorge, 2 men go missing near Kununarra Western Australia. Similar circumstances but 2 years apart!! A family abandons their car and runs in terror from a object chasing them .. What was the weird lights in one of the worlds largest salt lakes :Lake Eyre?? Mysteries galore! Let’s hop in the car and let’s go deep into the desert. s...
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July 12, 2022 56 mins
Join Ben as he examines some more incredible Australian mysteries. The township of Guyra in northern NSW has to claims to fame : a poltergeist case from the 1920s and a mysterious object crashed into the towns water supply in 1999. Ben looks at both incidents. Another strange poltergeist encounter follows on this time in the Northern Territory. Some truely terrifying incidents occur. Ben unearths the mystery craters if Bunderburg Q...
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July 12, 2022 56 mins
Join Ben in a paranormal freestyle , as this week we zoom through a series of strange phenomena, and mysteries , that are uniquely Australian! We will look at the Hook Island monster. The mystery of Min Min lights. The curse of the Sydney Luna Park Ghost Train fire. The strange watering hole that screams and shrieks. The foreboding Black Mountain, plus whatever else comes up!! Unexplained Phenomena Australia! Listen in, if you dar...
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July 12, 2022 56 mins
Ben examines Australia’s greatest aviation mystery, The Strange Disappearance of Fred Valentich. This incident involves a young 20 year old pilot who filed a flight plan at Moorabin for a night flight to King Island where he was to pick up some friends and then fly back. King Island is in the Bass Strait between Australia and Tasmania.

Fred took off in his single-engined Cessna 182 from Moorabin Airport, Melbourne, Australia. As he...
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Ben reveals a most intriguing encounter, virtually unheard of until now! A milkman, his horse and the UFO. Plus, additional independent witnesses to verify his story. Don’t miss it. There is no other case like it!
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In this Episode, Ben goes into cases invloving 'Encounters' with femailes driving in their cars and coming upon UFOs. These are unique events and have happened more often than you might think. some of these cases have been very well investigated and Ben is here to present these truly overwhelming accounts of women driving and UFOs!
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July 12, 2022 56 mins
Ben explores a truely fascinating UFO encounter from down under, deep in the remote Victorian High Country. A unique object... terrified witness... unforgettable and unique! Ben recounts his thorough investigation into this very transforming event.
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July 12, 2022 55 mins
In this episode, we will examine the fascinating Kelly Cahill encounter of August, 1993. We will look at who was involved, what happened and where Fox Mulder was fascinated by this case! So join me as we examine this incredible mystery!
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Join Ben as he discusses the Burke’s Flat Bending Headlights case. Ben and his team spent 8 months investigating this fascinating cold case. Facinating! Headlight and Mind Bending!
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