169: The Mysterious Attack on Ricky Megee

Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

Jason Horton & Rebecca Leib

True Crime, Unknown, Paranormal, Weird History, Social Sciences, History, Science

3.7 • 928 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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The 2006 survival story of Ricky Megee in the Australian Outback has had some questioning what actually happened during his disappearance. As a listener, you’ll get 10% off your first month by visiting our sponsor at BetterHelp.com/ghosttown New True Crime video: https://youtu.be/VKWAVnPTzYM Haunted Merch: http://bit.ly/ghosttownstuff Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ghosttownpod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ghosttownpod Sources: https://bit.ly/3s7lcHf Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Into the outback, I'm Jason Horton.
0:02.4	I'm Rebecca Leib.
0:03.2	And this is Ghost Town.
0:19.6	Basically, I was traveling from one side of Australia
0:22.4	to the other to start a new job.
0:25.0	And I was traveling through the center of Australia,
0:28.6	which is very desolate.
0:30.1	And I stopped to help some people who were
0:33.0	pretended to be broken down on the side of the road
0:35.1	with their vehicle.
0:36.4	And I helped one of them, let them in my vehicle,
0:39.8	and ended up getting drugged and mugged
0:42.1	and left for dead in the middle of the desert.
0:43.8	We love a survivor story on Ghost Town,
0:46.4	especially ones that still feel a little ambiguous, mysterious,
0:50.4	maybe like someone's not telling the entire truth?
0:54.2	I don't know.
0:55.6	Well, this story, I found it, I liked it.
0:58.6	It's one of those, the compelling, frightening,
1:01.5	and often gross story of Ricky McGee.
1:04.6	Ricky McGee was born in 1970 in Jipsland, Victoria.
1:08.3	He called his childhood pretty happy
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