The Desperate Cries of Q-Station - A True Hauntings Podcast

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4.6 • 627 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Some places were never meant to feel peaceful — especially when thousands suffered, struggled, and took their final breath within their walls.Perched above Sydney Harbour, the North Head Quarantine Station was Australia’s frontline defense against deadly outbreaks — from smallpox to Spanish influenza to the bubonic plague. Ships arrived carrying the sick and the dying, and those who stepped ashore were stripped, scrubbed, isolated… and sometimes never seen again. The surviving buildings still echo with the fear, desperation, and heartbreak of those who endured long, lonely months hoping for recovery — or bracing for the end. Countless visitors report shadows in the halls, phantom footsteps on the boardwalks, and an oppressive heaviness that settles over the old shower block. On this week’s True Hauntings, Anne and Renata enter Q Station Manly to uncover the spirits, stories, and residues of trauma that linger long after the final quarantine ended. Who — or what — still walks the grounds where so many fought for their last breath? The Desperate Cries of Q-Station - A True Hauntings Podcast PLEASE SUPPORT THE ADVERTISERS THAT SUPPORT THIS SHOWTalkSpace - Get$80 off your first month with Talkspace when you go to Talkspace.com/podcastand enter promo code SPACE80. True Classic - Step into your new home for the best clothes at True Classic ⁠www.TrueClassic.com/P60⁠Raycon Everyday Earbuds - Save up to 30% Off at ⁠www.buyraycon.com/truecrimenetwork⁠Cornbread Hemp - Save 30% off your first order at ⁠www.cornbreadhemp.com/P60⁠ and enter P60 into the coupon codeMint Mobile - To get your new wireless plan for just $15 a month, and get the plan shipped to your door for FREE, go to ⁠⁠⁠www.MintMobile.com/P60⁠Cozy Earth - Begin your sleep adventure on the best bedding and sleepwear with Cozy Earth: ⁠https://cozyearth.com/⁠ use Promo Code P60 for up to 40% off savings!Steam Beacon TV - Your home for Paranormal, Horror & True Crime TV ⁠https://streambeacontv.com/⁠⁠⁠Love & Lotus Tarot with Winnie Schrader - ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://lovelotustarot.com/ #TrueHauntings #AnneAndRenata #QStationManly #HauntedAustralia #NorthHead #ParanormalPodcast #GhostStories #HauntedPlaces #SupernaturalMysteries #DarkHistory #SpiritEncounters #ParanormalInvestigation #GhostHunters #CreepyTales #RealHauntings #HauntedHistory #SpookyStories #HistoricHauntings #PhantomActivity #ParanormalAustralia

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0:00.0	This is it. The world, as you know, it is over. Completely done. It's not about to be over. It's over.
0:09.1	Some of the scientists who helped build AI are now sounding the alarm.
0:13.5	I was selling AI as a great thing for decades, and I was wrong. I was wrong. There's a longer term existential threat
0:24.4	that will arise when we create digital beings that are more intelligent than ourselves. We have
0:30.1	no idea whether we can stay in control. While others say that AI will usher in unfathomable abundance,
0:36.6	I've always believed that it's going to be
0:38.2	the most important invention that humanity will ever make.
0:41.2	This really will be a world of abundance.
0:44.0	And among these fears and these fantasies,
0:46.6	we seek the story of our future.
0:49.4	Listen to the last invention
0:51.2	on Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music,
0:53.5	or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:00.8	True Hauntings is a frightfully good production. North Head Sydney, Australia is situated at the entrance of one of the world's most beautiful and well-known harbours.
1:20.3	And for many years, ships and their passengers were forced to quarantine offshore to make certain that epidemics like the bubonic plague,
1:29.5	Spanish influenza and smallpox didn't run rampant throughout the country.
1:35.4	Many people were infected whilst on board the long sea voyage to Australia,
1:39.7	and so a place on land was allocated to restrain the sick while they regained their health,
1:45.7	but far enough away from the general population to avoid spreading diseases further.
1:51.8	Quarantine Station Manly was such a place.
1:56.1	The old buildings that remain on this site remind us of the ever-present threat that a pandemic can cause.
2:02.4	And back in the 1800s, treatment for such diseases may have meant months of pain and
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