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🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In 1965, three hard-nosed stockmen camped beside Western Australia’s remote Goldfields Pipeline. At dawn, they heard cheerful whistling and watched, stunned, as an elderly man in a Victorian suit and top hat strolled the pipeline like a catwalk, never acknowledging their greeting before melting into the desert. Years later, a granddaughter learns the pipeline’s designer, Charles Yelverton O’Connor, died by suicide before its completion, and was often photographed in that exact attire. Was the whistler a desert mirage or O’Connor himself, still guarding the steel lifeline he died to create?

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0:00.0	My fact this week is that Andy Warhol would regularly have his wig cut by a barber and then return the following month wearing a new longer wig.
0:10.0	Hello, we are no such thing as a fish. We are a British podcast all about facts and trivia and everything interesting in the whole wide world.
0:18.3	We cover everything from pufferfish rectums to the moon,
0:22.9	to mangrove forest. What else do we do, James? Oh, well, what about the fact that in 1936,
0:27.8	a robot in California shot its inventor in the head? There you go. If you're intrigued to hear
0:32.9	more, peppered with some bad puns and some crude jokes, then check us out we are no such thing as a fish.
0:40.6	My fact this week is that Andy Warhol would regularly have his wig cut by a barber and then return the following month wearing a new longer wig.
0:49.9	Hello, we are no such thing as a fish. We are a British podcast all about facts and trivia and everything interesting in the whole wide world.
0:58.5	We cover everything from pufferfish rectums to the moon to mangrove forest. What else do we do, James?
1:05.7	Oh, well, what about the fact that in 1936 a robot in California shot its inventor in their head.
1:11.5	There you go.
1:12.2	If you're intrigued to hear more, peppered with some bad puns and some crude jokes,
1:16.9	then check us out.
1:17.7	We are no such thing as a fish.
1:21.6	Today on Real Ghost Stories Online, who was the elderly man walking along,
1:30.9	whistling a cheerful little tune in the middle of the Australian desert?
1:34.3	This is Real Ghost Stories Online.
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