April 6, 1966. 11 AM. A suburban Melbourne school. Over 200 students and teachers witness a silver disc hovering above their playground, then shooting away at impossible speed. Within hours, men in suits arrive. Students are told to stay silent. TV footage mysteriously vanishes from network archives.

Nearly 60 years later, the Australian government still blocks access to thousands of files about that day. The witnesses - now grandparents - have never changed their story.

What flew over Westall High School? And why are authorities still covering it up?

Dive into Australia's most compelling UFO mystery on the latest episode of STREWTH - where we explore the cases that still defy explanation.

"Strewth" - where Australia's strangest true stories come to light.

Title Music - by Jesse Frank from Pixabay

STREWTH - Episode 2: Stranger than Fiction

A True Australian Mystery Podcast

In 1930, struggling novelist Arthur Upfield sat around a campfire in the remote Western Australian outback, discussing with fellow workers how to commit the perfect murder, purely as a plot device for his detective novel. When three men subsequently disappeared and their remains were found burned according to the exact method Upfield had described, police didn't just investigate the obvious suspect, they investigated the author himself.
Decades later, historians uncovered an even darker truth, transforming this tale of fiction inspiring reality into something far more sinister.
This is the extraordinary case of the Murchison murders, where the line between imagination and reality, between individual crime and systemic brutality, becomes terrifyingly thin.

Title Music - by Jesse Frank from Pixabay

Cinematic Mystery Piano by TheoJT - https://freesound.org/s/611048/

Sound effects

Lultju Eve Atmos with Fire - Long Version by kangaroovindaloo -- https://freesound.org/s/396480/

Australia Outback Birds by EduFigueres -- https://freesound.org/s/562111/