There are places in Australia where the past lies justbeneath the surface — not buried, not forgotten, but waiting. Waiting for the right drought, the right light, the right moment when the waterline drops low enough for memory to breathe again.

Lake Eildon is one of those places.

This is a story about displacement, memory, and the strangeways landscapes refuse to let go. A story about what happens when a place is drowned — and what rises when the water falls away.

Most people see a holiday lake. A reservoir. A place forfishing and houseboats and summer afternoons. But if you stand at the shoreline at dusk — when the wind dies and the water turns the colour of tarnished brass — you feel something else. A pressure. A presence. A sense that the surface is thin.

In this episode, we’re going to descend into that drownedworld — into the history, the folklore, the hydrology, the psychology, and the haunting that has persisted for more than seventy years. We’ll follow the story of the woman who lived in that house, the steps that still rise from the mud, and the sightings that continue to this day.

Because before this was a lake, it was a valley. A valleywith a river that behaved like a witness. And a homestead that should have disappeared when the water came up… but didn’t.

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