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

341: The Disappearance of Harold Holt

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

Jason Horton & Rebecca Leib

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

3.7928 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

A Prime Minister goes missing in 1967.


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0:00.0

Ever wondered why people go on killing sprees?

0:05.0

Are you interested in exploring the paranormal?

0:07.0

Faffled by stories of previous lives.

0:10.0

Well so are we.

0:11.0

In each episode we'll be discussing the weird and wonderful stories of some truly confusing phenomena

0:17.0

and some horrific true crime cases.

0:19.0

Find us on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok

0:22.5

and join us every Tuesday,

0:24.6

wherever you listen to your podcasts.

0:26.9

And be prepared to be totally and utterly,

0:29.7

perplexed. Disappearance down under.

0:50.6

I'm Jason Horton.

0:51.7

I'm Rebecca Lebe.

0:52.9

And this is Ghost Town.

1:10.3

We've done our fair share of Australian episodes over the years, and for good reason.

1:16.3

Australia seems to attract mystery, the unexplained, the unknown.

1:22.2

And today, my friends, is no different, with a case made known to me by an Australian friend that truly boggles my mind.

1:31.9

But curator Richard Culper's of Australian screen says it best in just how much this case has

1:38.5

impacted Australian culture. Quote, the disappearance of Harold Holt is the Bermuda Triangle, Loch Ness Monster,

1:47.1

and JFK assassination of Australia. No event has held more dramatic and consistent sway over the

1:54.3

Australian imagination than the baffling disappearance of its prime minister at his favorite beach

2:00.7

on December 17, 1967.

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