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I hadn't heard of the legend, right, of Pillicka Forest.

Alice Cullen, it's obviously near where you grew up.

You were telling us about it.

And then Reha has a quick look online during the news and sport with you guys.

And I said, oh my God, Christian, this is actually supposed to be the most haunted forest in this great southern land, in Australia.

Terrifying.

You would never, ever drive through there at night. So we grew up like, you know, 10, 20Ks from it. And apparently my dad reckons he drove through there once and broke down and saw the pillager Yowie. He reckons the Yowie slashed his tires. What is it? Like a kind of like Australian Sasquatch, a Yeti? Yes, exactly right. Bigfoot, Australia's version of Bigfoot. And it was like truckies never drove through there at night. It was just this rule you never drove through there at night because it's genuinely terrifying. It is thick forest. It used to be a million wild acres until European settlement. Yeah. And so about half of that's disappeared, but there's so much more there. And it's so scary. You don't want to walk through there in the day. So what is more scary about it? Is it because there's so many trees because there's no light that comes through? It's a density. It's the density, absolutely. Like, it's so fit. Slim Dusty! Well, he sounds pretty light about it. He ain't scared.

Listen. So, Thim Dusty! Well, he sounds pretty light about it.

He ain't scared.

Listen, Slim, you were doing a gig there at night time.

See how brave you feel about it then.

Slim Dusty must have been drinking at the time.

But no, it's awful.

And I'm so happy to be talking about it

because I didn't know it was sort of so renowned.

Yeah, Rio found this up very good. Producer Caitlin, what have you found about Pillick of Forest? There is so much about it. So he's right. The trucks avoid... His name's Alex, by the way. I know he's new, but this is week six for Alex County. You can't get calling him he. Alex is right. They say that truckies avoid it completely, but if they are driving through, that they never stop.

Yeah. Because they feel that they were sitting in. Why would you stop in a big ass forest anyway? Well, just in case something happened. Let's go out. Yeah. Let's keep driving. Australians are just scared of a forest. There's big brave truckies, right?

They drive all through the night, all over those big tons of stuff by them.

A frightened of a load of trees packed tightly together.

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