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Hey, Unravel listeners, it's Rach Brown.

I'll be back in this feed in two weeks with my new series,

but before then, I want to let you know about a new ABC podcast that's just dropped.

My colleague Danielle O'Neill has dug into this wild story that started the whole modern

crop circle phenomena, right here in Australia.

When a salt-of-the-earth banana farmer in far north Queensland saw something he couldn't explain,

which left behind a circular mark in some reeds, he had no idea it would set off a chain of events that would

lead to an international hoax and leave a family looking over its shoulders for decades.

This incredible new season of expanse is a wild ride, in the best way. You can hear it now.

Just search for the Expans podcast. Find it on the ABC Listen app. Here's a taste

of what to expect. You know that buzz you get, a tingly feeling. Even as you're walking

down, sometimes I'd get this, oh, there's something new. On an isolated Queensland cane farm, below a mountain,

with wisps of sugar-filled mist hanging from the sides,

a young banana farmer saw something he couldn't explain,

something that left behind a mysterious mark. And the questions it raised

are still unanswered today. What the hell? What the hell? When he reported what he saw,

that farmer had no idea he would be swept up in a hysteria

that would capture the world's imagination and haunt him for decades.

Did you see it? What do they look like? Are they aliens?

All the doubt you could say this. I've seen what you've seen.

I'm Daniel O'Neill, and I'm realising that this... All the dad could say is, I've seen what you've seen.

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