Grave Tales Australia: the series
Ordinary people caught up in extraordinary events
- Update frequency
- every 18 days
- Average duration
- 17 minutes
- Episodes
- 48
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2022
Once upon a wonder horse
Three men went into a pub … no it is not the start of an Irish joke, but it was the start of a syndicate that would turn racing on its head. This is the story of ‘three bushies’ and a publican who bo…
00:11:43 |
Tue 17 Mar 2020
Life at the asylum
Mental asylums were often regarded as feared places of suffering – but for one young girl and her family who lived at the asylum, the inmates provided a fascinating glimpse into the other world of th…
00:14:28 |
Fri 28 Feb 2020
Back from the dead: the man who claimed to be Dan Kelly
Dan Kelly, brother of Ned, died in the 1880 Glenrowan shoot-out with police. So, who was the man living in Ipswich who claimed in 1933 that he was Dan Kelly?
00:14:08 |
Wed 12 Feb 2020
The noose and the hands that shaped it
It was school holidays, December 1921 and 12-year-old Alma Tirtschke left home to run an errand in the heart of Melbourne. She was found the next day murdered. The man accused of her murder, Colin Ro…
00:20:19 |
Fri 31 Jan 2020
The eccentric dreamer - Ben Lexcen
The winged keel wonder – Australia II and the eccentric mind behind it – Ben Lexcen was the man who engineered the only win over the USA at their own game in 132 years.
00:17:22 |
Tue 07 Jan 2020
Murder of the Murphy siblings_cold case
Queensland’s oldest cold case – three Murphy siblings from Gatton were slain late on Boxing Day, their bodies left for all to see. The investigation was hampered by the public destruction of clues, …
00:22:28 |
Mon 09 Dec 2019
The Land of Lost Children
The drowning of two little girls who were attracted by water lilies in a pond at Walloon, near Ipswich, inspired Henry Lawson to write his classic 1891 poem, The Babies of Walloon. With so much of ou…
00:17:48 |
Tue 26 Nov 2019
The Stretcher Bearer's Bluff
How did an unarmed stretcher bearer manage to capture 18 armed German soliders in the trenches of France in World War One? You won't believe it!
00:15:31 |
Tue 12 Nov 2019
The Great Bookie Robbery and the carnage that followed
A $15 million prize was hijacked in what was the nation’s most brazen and probably biggest cash robbery ever. And despite the ruthless criminals involved, no-one was killed in the heist. But when the…
00:22:29 |
Tue 29 Oct 2019
The Ladies' Man: murderer Frederick Deeming
The woman who escaped him was called the ‘uncemented bride’. But those who loved him called him the gentlest of lovers. Several of them were buried under the hearthstone...
00:21:30 |
Mon 14 Oct 2019
Mr Eternity - the man, his chalk, his message
This is the story of the down-and-outer from a rough childhood who found redemption and why he spent his life writing the word ‘Eternity’ on Sydney streets.
00:16:32 |
Wed 02 Oct 2019
Lost to the sea - Jack and the wreck of La Bella
It was only his second sea journey, and a sailor's life is meant to be an exciting one on the ocean’s waves – adventure, mateship and the mysteries of far off places… but not for Jack.
00:17:00 |
Tue 17 Sep 2019
The Pyjama Girl
Who really lies in a humble grave marked with a white cross in a Melbourne cemetery? Is it the woman they call the ‘Pyjama Girl’, Linda Agostini… or does the evidence suggest it’s not her at all?
00:18:51 |
Tue 03 Sep 2019
Death by sister or a mister? The Schippan Sisters
The newspaper declared ‘startling disclosures’ would be revealed at the trial of Martha, 24, charged with killing her sister, Bertha, 14. Was it a jealous rage, or was a male intruder responsible?
00:15:44 |
Mon 19 Aug 2019
The ute that went to church
A farmer’s wife inspired the design of the Australian ute, and its designer, Lewis Bandt, would take his last breath in it.
00:11:26 |
Tue 06 Aug 2019
The Brownout Strangler: the soldier who wanted women's voices
Overpaid, oversexed and over here – US soldiers during World War II. This is the story of one GI who killed innocent Australian women to possess their voices.
00:17:32 |
Mon 03 Jun 2019
Serial killer confesses to the hangman
Was Robert Francis Burns our first serial killer? Using the solitude of the bush, Burns hid his victims’ bodies, but when found guilty of one murder, he told the hangman about some more!
00:13:53 |
Sat 11 May 2019
Tea and sympathy: poisoner, Martha Needle
The inexplicable story of a mother who murdered her husband, her three young girls and her new fiancé’s brother with poison… and how one final cup of tea would seal her fate.
00:19:02 |
Mon 01 Apr 2019
Death comes to Gracie's store
The three ladies, Grace, Rose and Meta, retired for the night on 22 March 1964 in the residence at the back of their little shop. After midnight, the residents of Coorparoo, Brisbane, were woken by t…
00:12:57 |
Fri 07 Dec 2018
Almost not famous: Charles Brownlow
His namesake is famous in AFL circles… yet Charles Brownlow played much of his footy for Geelong under an assumed name. This is the curious story of why the name ‘Brownlow’ almost wasn’t famous at al…
00:12:57 |
Fri 23 Nov 2018
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