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

169: The Mysterious Attack on Ricky Megee

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

Ghost Town

Social Sciences, History, True Crime, Science

3.7938 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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Transcript

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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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