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Speaker 1: Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast. I hadn't

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Speaker 1: heard of the legend right of Pilger Forest Alix Cunnins

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Speaker 1: is obviously near where you grew up. You were telling

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Speaker 1: us about it, and then Ria has a quick look

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Speaker 1: online during the News and Sport with you guys and said,

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Speaker 1: oh my god, Christian, this is actually supposed to be

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Speaker 1: the most haunted forest in this great Southern ad in Australia.

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Speaker 3: Terrifying.

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Speaker 4: You would never ever drive through there at night. So

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Speaker 4: we grew up, like you know, ten twenty k's from it.

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Speaker 4: And apparently my dad reckons he drove through there once

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Speaker 4: and broke down and saw the pillager yowie.

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Speaker 1: He reckons the yowie like a kind of like Australian

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Speaker 4: Yes, exactly right, Bigfoot Australian's version of Bigfoot.

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Speaker 3: And it was like truckies never drove through there at night.

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Speaker 4: It was just the this this rule, you never drove

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Speaker 4: through there at night, because it's genuinely terrifying. It is

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Speaker 4: thick forest. It used to be a million wild acres

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Speaker 4: until European settlement. Yeah, and so about half of that's disappeared.

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Speaker 4: But there's so much more there, and it's so scary.

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Speaker 4: You don't want to walk through there.

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Speaker 1: Cost because there's so many trees becomes there's no light

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Speaker 1: that comes to It's a density.

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Speaker 3: It's the density, absolutely like it's so thick.

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Speaker 1: Slip dust Well, he sounds pretty light about it. He

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Speaker 1: ain't scared, said Slimy were doing gig there at nighttime.

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Speaker 1: See how brave you feel about it?

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Speaker 3: Then Dusty must have been drinking any time.

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Speaker 4: But no, it's it's awful and I'm so happy to

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Speaker 4: be talking about it because I didn't know it was

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Speaker 1: Yeah, participation. What have you found about Pillica Forest?

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Speaker 5: There is so much about it.

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Speaker 1: So he's right. The trucks his name is Alex. By

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Speaker 1: the way, that he's new, but this is week six

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Speaker 1: Raleigh Counting. You can't get calling him heat.

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Speaker 3: Alex is right.

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Speaker 5: They say that truckies avoid it completely, but if they

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Speaker 5: Just in case something happens.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you just keep driving.

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Speaker 1: Strangers are scared of a forest. This big brave truckies, right,

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Speaker 1: they drive all through night, all of these those big

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Speaker 3: There's also people that live in there. What do you

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Speaker 1: You're a journalists the forest people? Right, okay, I'm going

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Speaker 1: to send you an assignment. Right, I'm going to send

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Speaker 1: you out there to investigate. Who would be brave enough

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Speaker 3: And I gave you would do It's going to happen.

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Speaker 1: They're revenant. Yes, you're going to just sort it out

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Speaker 1: by what's he called? What's it called that you have

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Speaker 3: Is Blair which is driving days it could be out

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Speaker 5: So there's been many a sightings, including some people that

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Speaker 1: It's like a small torch. Then I got one of

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Speaker 1: But how long has it been there? It's got a

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Speaker 1: we're not equipped to do it journalists, journalists. What about

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Speaker 1: pats news and sport from them? Do you know what

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Speaker 4: You couldn't pay me enough. It's terrifying like it is.

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Speaker 1: In the silence Christian O'Connell Show podcast. This is live

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Speaker 1: right now in the pilic of Forest. I found a webcam.

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Speaker 1: Did anyone else hear it? I can't hear it? Live

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Speaker 1: right now eight to fifteen, the Pilica Forest where time

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Speaker 1: stands still? All right? Alex Cullen has Tom's about the legend,

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Speaker 1: the myth, the place, the pilic of forests. Okay, and

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Speaker 1: I'm just I've just googled it. What's it getting a story?

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Speaker 1: The pillager princess and they ain't given to a woman.

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Speaker 1: It's often seen along the Newle Highway in the region.

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Speaker 1: She's known for pushing a shopping trolley a ghost, a

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Speaker 1: hit by a truck in nineteen ninety three. Since then,

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Speaker 1: thousands of sightings of a ghost pushing a shopping trolley.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, We've heard so many ghost stories on this show,

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Speaker 1: ghost shopping even in ghost world, you know, even in

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Speaker 1: is what this says to me, Christian, I'm calling BS.

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Speaker 1: My partner is a truck driver drives through all the

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Speaker 1: time with the Pelica Forest. He often stays the night there.

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Speaker 1: They have to impulse over b S. That is from Sarah.

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Speaker 1: Sarah that it used to be a dirt road. Maybe

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Speaker 1: it's been trd now full of dirt roads. Young always

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Speaker 3: But most roads have have it cleared, so that the

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Speaker 1: Sasquatch Christian. A man called Chad would send me this

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Speaker 1: message two K, I'll stay the night there. Actually, what

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Speaker 1: actually take someone out when I'm not going with you? Especially?

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Speaker 1: Where's that smooth time mat rope? Have they got a

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Speaker 1: Sophael there somewhere around here? All right? Ben's on the line,

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Ben.

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Speaker 7: You grew up there, yeah, made I grew up and

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Speaker 7: Billy go.

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Speaker 1: Right, so she might know Alex cut it?

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Speaker 3: What's your last name?

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Speaker 1: Ben?

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Speaker 1: didn't get me that paid? Now, Ben, what can you

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Speaker 1: tell What can you tell us? Mate?

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Speaker 7: Oh, there's definitely a we'll say there's a ye.

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Speaker 8: But there's some form of crazy getting around that forest.

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Speaker 7: Mate. I grew up out there as a kid and

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Speaker 1: Like what what if you what can you share with this? Ben?

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Speaker 7: Well? Have you ever seen the movie Creditor?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? That's what we been playing this sound effect.

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Speaker 1: What's something like that? And then at some sort of

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Speaker 1: No, yaw we or just a bad parker came about

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Speaker 1: Ben, thank you very much. She called me. I have

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Speaker 1: grew up in there, went on in there, Malanda? Sorry sleep.

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Speaker 1: Why it's been labeled up by one of our rum producers?

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Speaker 1: What would you caton's job is to label up the names?

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Speaker 1: Happens a lovely stuff. Malander, what's your new name?

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Speaker 1: Good morning Rob? Good morning Rob? What's your What have

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Speaker 1: you got about all this? Oh?

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Speaker 2: I just believe that that's all blogey. I'm a briden nothing.

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Speaker 2: I've been up in the bush most of my life.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, anhing seems to worry. There's only animal noises

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Speaker 1: Isn't here? Okay? Now at the moment I've got to

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Speaker 1: go and call Chad. He's prepared to go in there

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Speaker 1: for two thousand dollars. You're going to undercut him? Oh?

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Speaker 7: Undercut him? Boy?

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Speaker 1: I hope it's Jason. It could be just be. I

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Speaker 1: don't know, Oh, Gisbane, I don't know where the particiercating spelling. Jason.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show, Jason Justin.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, gotcha. You've been to uh the Pelaga Forest.

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Speaker 8: No, but I'll go there for free.

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Speaker 7: Whoa? Oh?

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Speaker 1: Rob? We went from Chad for two grands. Rob comes

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Speaker 1: in at one and now our man here Jason and

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Speaker 1: the Argonauts, is going to do it for free.

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Speaker 8: I'm not I'm not skeied and nothing. I used to

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Speaker 8: live in the house in New Zealand. It was terribly wanted, haunted.

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Speaker 1: What do you mean terbly haunted? Several ghosts of poltergeist.

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Speaker 8: I want to be in a whitehouse and the the

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Speaker 8: blanket throws up beside me.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I remember when I was fourteen. It used

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Speaker 1: to happened quite a lot. It was got a poult anyway,

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Speaker 1: But don't you get the most of it. The Christian

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