169: The Mysterious Attack on Ricky Megee
Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal
Ghost Town
3.7 • 938 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
The 2006 survival story of Ricky Megee in the Australian Outback has had some questioning what actually happened during his disappearance.
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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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