Cape Otway: The Coastline That Keeps Its Secrets
The lighthouse at Cape Otway has warned mariners away from Victoria’s shipwreck coast since 1848. The waters below it have claimed hundreds of vessels, and the skies above it played host to the final radio transmission of Frederick Valentich. It is a place of violent weather and strange beauty, where the Southern Ocean meets sheer […]
The Bass Strait Triangle: A Century of Disappearances
The stretch of water separating Victoria from Tasmania has claimed aircraft and vessels with unsettling regularity. From the loss of an Airlines of Australia DC-3 in 1946 to the vanishing of Frederick Valentich’s Cessna in 1978, Bass Strait has earned a reputation as Australia’s answer to the Bermuda Triangle. Sceptics point to the strait’s notorious […]
Westall 1966: Australia’s Largest Mass UFO Sighting
On the morning of 6 April 1966, more than two hundred students and staff at Westall High School in Clayton South, Melbourne, watched a silvery, saucer-shaped object descend into a nearby paddock before rising and speeding away, pursued by light aircraft. Within hours, witnesses reported that men in uniform had cordoned off the landing site […]