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Speaker 1: Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast. I hadn't
Speaker 1: heard of the legend right of Pilger Forest Alix Cunnins
Speaker 1: is obviously near where you grew up. You were telling
Speaker 1: us about it, and then Ria has a quick look
Speaker 1: online during the News and Sport with you guys and said,
Speaker 1: oh my god, Christian, this is actually supposed to be
Speaker 1: the most haunted forest in this great Southern ad in Australia. Terrifying.
Speaker 3: You would never ever drive through there at night. So
Speaker 3: we grew up, like you know, ten twenty k's from it.
Speaker 3: And apparently my dad reckons he drove through there once
Speaker 3: and broke down.
Speaker 4: And saw the pillager yowie.
Speaker 1: He reckons the yowie like a kind of like Australian
Speaker 1: sasquatch yetie.
Speaker 3: Yes, exactly right, Bigfoot Australian's version of Bigfoot. And it
Speaker 3: was like truckies never drove through there at night. It
Speaker 3: was just the is this this rule? You never drove
Speaker 3: through there at night? Because it's genuinely terrifying. It is
Speaker 3: thick forest. It used to be a million wild acres
Speaker 3: until European settlement.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and so about half of that's disappeared.
Speaker 3: But there's so much more there, and it's so scary
Speaker 3: you don't want to walk through there.
Speaker 1: First because there's so many trees becomes there's no light
Speaker 1: that comes. So it's a density.
Speaker 4: It's the density, absolutely like it's so.
Speaker 1: Thick slip Dusty, Well, he sounds pretty light about it.
Speaker 1: He ain't scared. They said, slim, you were doing gig
Speaker 1: there at nighttime. See how brave you feel about it?
Speaker 4: Then Dusty must have been drinking any time.
Speaker 3: But no, it's it's awful and I'm so happy to
Speaker 3: be talking about it because I.
Speaker 4: Didn't know it was sort of so renowned.
Speaker 1: Yeah, participationd what have you found about Pillica Forest?
Speaker 2: There is so much about it. So he's right.
Speaker 1: The trucks his name is Alex by the way, now
Speaker 1: he's new, but this is week six Raleigh County. You
Speaker 1: can't get calling him.
Speaker 4: He Alex is right.
Speaker 2: They say that truckies avoid it completely, but if they
Speaker 2: are driving through that, they never stop because they why
Speaker 2: would you stop.
Speaker 1: In a big ass forest?
Speaker 2: Anyway, just in case something happens.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just keep driving. Strangers are scared of a forest.
Speaker 1: This big brave truckies, right, they drive all through night,
Speaker 1: all of these those big tons and stuff on a
Speaker 1: friend of a load of trees packed tightly together.
Speaker 4: There's also people that live in there.
Speaker 3: What do you mean in checks and you're a journalist,
Speaker 3: it's the forest people, right, Okay, I'm going to send
Speaker 3: you an assignment.
Speaker 1: Right, I'm going to send you out there to investigate
Speaker 1: who would be brave enough to stay the night there?
Speaker 1: And that way I gave you would do it's going
Speaker 1: to happen. They're revenant. Yes, you're going to just sort
Speaker 1: it out by what's he called? What's it called that
Speaker 1: you have a wackie where it.
Speaker 3: Is Blair which is driving his days? I could better
Speaker 3: this place. It's like it's terrifying. You just don't know
Speaker 3: what's in it because it's so vast as well, like
Speaker 3: it's massive, and if you get lost in there, good.
Speaker 1: Luck, canaan. What else you found about it? Then?
Speaker 2: So there's been many a sightings, including some people that
Speaker 2: claim to have seen it. A yow we come out,
Speaker 2: grab a kangaroo and drag it back into the forest.
Speaker 2: They've also seen big what they it's called. Sorry, I'm
Speaker 2: just reading it through here, golf ball sized floodlights as eyes.
Speaker 2: They see them pop out of the.
Speaker 1: Forest at night. It's not that big, really, is it?
Speaker 1: Golf ball sized eyes? I don't know bin lids or
Speaker 1: the size of satellite dishes, and he go, oh my god,
Speaker 1: golf balls just like it's not that scary.
Speaker 2: The whole golf ball is like a flood light. That's
Speaker 2: what they say.
Speaker 1: It's like a small torch. Then I got one of
Speaker 1: those my beds. You wouldn't sound terrifying.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'd love to see you in there. I would
Speaker 4: love to see you there.
Speaker 1: And what's interesting is that you guys are all scared.
Speaker 3: Oh no, it's also folklore. I mean, there's so many
Speaker 3: stories about this, how so many people have seen it.
Speaker 1: But how long has it been there? It's got a
Speaker 1: long old lifespan, isn't it.
Speaker 4: I reckon one hundred. No, it's like an indigenous sacre.
Speaker 4: What's an indigenous character?
Speaker 1: So I imagine it right, Okay, So do you think
Speaker 1: it's more of an archetypal being?
Speaker 4: Yes, well I think I believe.
Speaker 1: So that's what I'm led to. Anyway, We're going to
Speaker 1: find out if a journalist wants to follow the evidence,
Speaker 1: follow the story and uncover the truth exactly, we're not
Speaker 1: equipped to do it journalists, journalists? What about pats news
Speaker 1: and sport from them? Do you know what we need
Speaker 1: to do? A coming to find a listener's brain enough
Speaker 1: to go in there and find out the truth. Anyone
Speaker 1: want to call in? What do you mean we won't
Speaker 1: see that listener again?
Speaker 3: You couldn't pay me enough. It's terrifying like it is.
Speaker 3: It's I'm trying to describe it for you. You can't
Speaker 3: imagine how densities it's just not that.
Speaker 4: In silence.
Speaker 1: Christian O'Connell Show podcast. This is live right now in
Speaker 1: the pilic of Forest. I found a webcam. Did anyone
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Speaker 1: eight to fifteen, the Pilica Forest where time stands still?
Speaker 1: All right, Alex Cullen has Tom's about the legend, the myth,
Speaker 1: the place, the pilic of Forests. Okay, and I'm just
Speaker 1: I'll just googled it. What's it getting a story? The
Speaker 1: Pillager princess and they ain't given to a woman. It's
Speaker 1: often seen along the new Ale Highway in the region.
Speaker 1: She's known for pushing a shopping trolley a ghost, a
Speaker 1: shopping trolley filled with her belongings, and hitch hiking with
Speaker 1: truck drivers see here. Often she tragically died or have
Speaker 1: been hit by a truck in nineteen ninety three. Since then,
Speaker 1: thousands of sightings of a ghost pushing a shopping trolley.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, We've heard so many ghost stories on the show,
Speaker 1: but not one with a wonky wheel shopping trolley. You
Speaker 1: know that won always pulls a leg. That's why she
Speaker 1: can't leave the frost. She's trying to get about that
Speaker 1: dear bloody ghosts. And I can't even get this ghost
Speaker 1: shopping even in ghost world, you know, even in the
Speaker 1: the nether world, the shopping trolleys don't work there either,
Speaker 1: is what this says to me, Christian, I'm calling BS.
Speaker 1: My partner is a truck driver drives through all the
Speaker 1: time with the Pelica Forest. He often stays the night there.
Speaker 1: They have to impulse over b S. That is from Sarah.
Speaker 4: Sarah that it used to be a dirt road. Maybe
Speaker 4: it's been trd now.
Speaker 1: It is full of dirt roads. Young always a haunted
Speaker 1: dirt road otherwise entire place to be haunted.
Speaker 4: But most roads have have it cleared, so that the
Speaker 4: trees cleared.
Speaker 3: But the Pilica forest, they're right up to the road
Speaker 3: and they're.
Speaker 1: It's sasquatch Christian. A man called Chad would send me
Speaker 1: this message two K, I'll stay the night there. Actually,
Speaker 1: what actually take someone out when I'm not going with you? Especially?
Speaker 1: Where's that smooth time mat rope? Have they got a
Speaker 1: Sophael there somewhere around here? All right? Ben's on the line.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Ben.
Speaker 4: You grew up there, yeah, made I grew up and
Speaker 4: Billy go.
Speaker 1: Right, so you might know Alex cut it? What's your
Speaker 1: last name? Ben? Okay?
Speaker 4: Was it?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 1: They've got a snow where. But that's why you didn't
Speaker 1: get me that paid? Now, Ben, what can you tell
Speaker 1: What can you tell us? Mate?
Speaker 5: Oh, there's definitely a We'll say there's a ye. But
Speaker 5: there's some form of crazy getting around that forest. Mate.
Speaker 1: I grew up out there as.
Speaker 5: A kid and wave weakness and pretty extraordinary.
Speaker 1: Stuff like what what if you what can you share
Speaker 1: with this? Ben? Well?
Speaker 4: Have you ever seen the movie Creditor?
Speaker 1: Yeah? That's what we been playing this sound effect. Yeah, well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well that's what we're used to here as a
Speaker 5: kidd and we're camping down the river because property, you said,
Speaker 5: back right onto the river, right onto the back of
Speaker 5: the Philly the forest.
Speaker 1: What's something like that? And then at some sort of
Speaker 1: beast making that noise.
Speaker 5: There were some weird, wonderful noises, mate. And then my
Speaker 5: uncle one day he came back through him when he
Speaker 5: went for a drive and he had three quar marks
Speaker 5: out the side of his car.
Speaker 1: Car, Yeah, three quar marks out the side of his car.
Speaker 1: Yaw we or just a bad parker came about that
Speaker 1: ghost shopping tchorlie as well? You know, should be furious
Speaker 1: a princess there? Yeah yeah, yeah, Ben, thank you very much.
Speaker 4: She call me.
Speaker 1: I have a good day, mate. What the chances he's listening?
Speaker 1: He grew up in there? Went on in there, Malanda?
Speaker 1: Sorry sleep. Why it's been labled up by one of
Speaker 1: our rum producers. What would you caton's job is to
Speaker 1: label up the names? It is, help me out here, producers.
Speaker 1: Why would anyone be called Sasquat's got your eyes?
Speaker 5: Is it?
Speaker 1: Caitlin? Anyway? Sorry? Melinda?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I just my parents drove through there in their
Speaker 6: seventies when they're on their way to their honeymoon in
Speaker 6: point seven Paradise, and they were stopping in kune bar Brand,
Speaker 6: which is up the road, and.
Speaker 7: They swear black and blue day three, how we holding
Speaker 7: a boulder on the side of the road, and the
Speaker 7: boulder of my dad's like the boulder was too big
Speaker 7: through and like an adult man to be.
Speaker 1: Holding who we're just standing still holding that check out
Speaker 1: the guards. No human could do this.
Speaker 7: And when they stopped in Kunabarra Brand, the lady they
Speaker 7: were talking to a lady at the servo and she goes, yeah,
Speaker 7: even the truckies don't.
Speaker 6: Stop through there.
Speaker 1: Happens a lovely stuff. Malander, what's your new name? Rob?
Speaker 1: Good morning Rob? Good morning Rob? What's your What have
Speaker 1: you got about all this?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 8: I just believe that that's all blooney. I'm a bride,
Speaker 8: but nothing. I've been up in the bush most of
Speaker 8: my life and yeah, anhing seems to worry. There's only
Speaker 8: animal noises and tree noises, and that I'd be prepared
Speaker 8: to go, isn't here?
Speaker 1: Okay? Now at the moment, I've got to go and
Speaker 1: call Chad. He's prepared to go in there for two
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. You're going to undercut him? Oh?
Speaker 8: Undercut him?
Speaker 1: Boyl wow, Okay, all right, Robert might be let's go
Speaker 1: to Jason. Now. I hope it's Jason. It could be
Speaker 1: just be. I don't know, Oh, gisbone, I don't know
Speaker 1: where the particiercating spelling Jason. Welcome to the show. Jason,
Speaker 1: just beIN.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, gotcha. You been to the Pelaga Forest?
Speaker 5: No, but I'll go there for free.
Speaker 1: Whoa, oh, Rob? We went from Chad for two grands.
Speaker 1: Rob comes in at one and now our man here,
Speaker 1: Jason and the Argonauts, is going to do it for free.
Speaker 5: I'm not I'm not skeied and nothing. I used to
Speaker 5: live in the house in New Zealand. It was terribly
Speaker 5: wanted haunt.
Speaker 1: What do you mean, terbly haunted? Several ghosts of poltergeist.
Speaker 5: I want to be in a whitehouse and the the
Speaker 5: blanket throws up beside me.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I remember when I was fourteen us that
Speaker 1: happened quite a lot. It was got a Poults anyway,
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