134. The Mysterious Disappearance of The Beaumont Children: Australia’s Most Puzzling Unsolved Mystery // DARK SUMMER VOL. 2

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

True Crime, Fiction, Drama, History

4.8 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In 1966, three children vanished without a trace in Australia, and no one knows what happened. It’s a mystery that still plagues the country to this day, and may credit it as the reason people started locking their doors there. But today, we have a much clearer picture of the crime, who might have been responsible, and there’s even been updates on the case as of this year. TW: mention of child abuse Subscribe on Patreon for bonus content and to become a member of our Rogue Detecting Society. Patrons have access to bonus content as well as other perks. And members of our High Council on Patreon have access to our after-show called Footnotes, where I share my case file with our producer, Matt. Apple subscriptions are now live! Get access to ad-free episodes and bonus episodes when you subscribe on Apple Podcasts. Follow on Tik Tok and Instagram for a daily dose of horror. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.7	slash setup January 26th, 1966 it was a Wednesday in Adelaide Australia down by the
0:37.0	southern coast of the country.
0:38.3	It was also the last week of the summer holiday break before school started up again.
0:42.3	Parents were at work, and most of them were desperate for their kids to begin the school year and have some sort of routine again.
0:48.3	That was definitely the case for Nancy Beaumont.
0:51.3	Her husband, Jim, was out of town on a business trip, and so it was up to
0:55.7	Nancy to provide all of the entertainment for her three young children, nine-year-old Jane, seven-year-old
1:01.2	Arna, and four-year-old Grant. So the 26th was already forecasted to be a scorcher reaching at least
1:08.5	38 degrees Celsius or 100 degrees Fahrenheit. As the children sat
1:13.0	gathered by their breakfast table, they could already feel how hot it was going to be that day.
1:18.2	And they begged their mother, can we please go down to the beach? Now, for reference, the family
1:24.0	lived less than two miles away from Glenell Beach in Somerton Park, a suburb of Adelaide.
1:29.7	At first, Nancy was pretty hesitant to let her children go, but the kids kept begging her.
1:35.7	It was so close, and they were so familiar with the area.
1:39.6	Plus, they could easily ride their bikes back and forth.
1:42.9	Eventually, Nancy did give in.
1:45.2	She told them that they could spend two hours at the beach.
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