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Award-winning podcast unearthing true historical stories of crime, love, loss and civil disobedience across Melbourne, Australia, and beyond. Using original research, we explore dark, intriguing tales of the misfits and radicals who once inhabited our homes, pubs, streets and laneways.
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This episode is Part One of the season finale. We look at some of the most visible and wild adolescent subcultures to form in Melbourne - in particular the larrikins who left an imprint on our national psyche and the sharpies who helped spearhead several of Australia’s most successful rock music exports. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy info…
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This episode is Part Two of the season finale. We look at some of the most visible and wild adolescent subcultures to form in Melbourne - in particular the larrikins who left an imprint on our national psyche and the sharpies who helped spearhead several of Australia’s most successful rock music exports. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy info…
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This episode we explore two more Melbourne stories of people rising up and sticking it to the man. It’s world war one and class tensions on the homefront are mounting. “I can tell you about the broken lives that caused the broken windows” says activist and suffragette Adela Pankhurst. In the early 1930s, the unemployed organise and fight a barrage …
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In 1903 an Indian hawker was found dead in the barn of the Junction Hotel. In this episode we discover just who were these travelling traders and query the police's investigation into this curious and sad case. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Dead & Buried Podcast
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Psychiatric hospitals, mental institutions, mental asylums, lunatic asylums, nut houses, funny farms, the loony bin. Mental health facilities of bygone eras have gone by many names, and not all of them complimentary or kind. These hospitals with their dark and intriguing architecture, their rundown appearance and supernatural reputations are freque…
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What’s the link between John Lennon of The Beatles and 19th century Aboriginal circus performer ‘Little Nugget’? Find out as we follow the story of the St Leon family’s circus and uncover how pioneer Australian travelling performers fared hazards like crocodiles, bushrangers and even rebellions. In the process discover what the history of circus in…
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At 11am on the 6th of April 1966 in Clayton Victoria, over 200 children and teachers claimed to have witnessed a silver disc shaped object flying over Westall Primary and Westall High School, before it zoomed off into a nearby paddock. Many of the students followed the object into the paddock. Some even claim they were so close they could touch it,…
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On the night of Tuesday the 12th December 1882 in Creswick Victoria 41 gold miners descend 250 feet into the New Australasian No.2 Gold Mine to start their night shift. Hours later two brothers tie themselves together as the cold, rancid water continues to rise. The Navy is called. A whole town is on edge. The mining community of Victoria will be c…
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It’s 1892 and a landlord makes a grim discovery about his previous tenants. An international hunt begins for the man with a distinctive ginger moustache who charms his way into the lives of multiple women. But just how far was his reach? How infamous were his crimes? And why are we all still so obsessed with violent men? See omnystudio.com/listener…
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On May 8 1943 Pauline Thompson was stood up for a dance. She instead met an American soldier and they drank together. He offered to walk her home and she accepted, since the heavy rain was making the Melbourne streets even darker than usual. Pauline had a beautiful voice, and as they walked, she sang to him. World War Two brought masses of American…
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On August 31 1885 John Alexander Dowie arrived at the Free Christian Tabernacle in Fitzroy Melbourne to find his pastor’s room destroyed from a suspicious explosion. Months earlier, he had been imprisoned for preaching on the streets. These processions drew both crowds of the faithful and jeers from local hecklers. But Dowie's knack for attracting …
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Located in the heart of Bank Place lies the Mitre Tavern pub – a Melbourne institution known especially for its resident ghost! It’s said to be haunted by the spirit of Connie Waugh, the mistress of local heavyweight Sir Rupert Clarke. In this episode Dead & Buried investigates two classic Melbourne urban legends in our version of history mythbusti…
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Condemnation of Nazi Germany, rioting furniture makers and cops on strike! In this episode we profile significant acts of protest and demonstrations that saw mayhem reign - things could get pretty wild out there on Melbourne's streets! Our episode begins in 1938 at the home of Mr William Cooper in Footscray, where news of Jewish persecution sparks …
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Ghosties, ghoulies, murder and scandal! Melbourne has certainly had it's fair share. On this All Hallows' Eve we welcome you to... DEAD & BURIED'S HALLOWEEN SPECIAL! In this bumper-sized episode we speak to historian Dr David Waldron about Victoria's continued obsession with ghosts and folks scaring each other. We'll also hear a colonial haunted ho…
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In the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy one October evening in 1863, The Great Eastern was hotly pursued and finally tackled by a policeman. After several failed attempts to escape, the prisoner suddenly confessed ‘I may as well tell you I am a man.’ This episode explores clothing, sexuality and gender in colonial Melbourne. This episode contains coarse…
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On the 10th April 1899, a bunch of radishes was tied to the shopfront of phrenologist and fortune teller Emery Gordon Medor. A few hours later, a neighboring stallholder would lie dead inside the shop. Dead and Buried takes you into the lives of the fortunetellers and performers involved in this strange tragedy, set in the now lost Eastern Melbourn…
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