Strewth - Episode 10 - The Guyra Poltergeist

On a freezing April night in 1921, something began attacking the Bowen family cottage on the edge of Guyra. Tremendous thumps shook the walls. Stones rained from nowhere. Windows exploded inward. And at the center of it all was twelve-year-old Minnie Bowen, with her dark, unsettling eyes.

What started as a family's nightmare became a town's obsession. Eighty armed men formed cordons around the cottage. A police sergeant broke under the strain and became convinced of supernatural forces. Harry Moors, friend of Arthur Conan Doyle, investigated and declared it a genuine poltergeist. When they sent Minnie sixty kilometers away to escape, the phenomena followed her.

The case had everything: credible witnesses, government involvement and physical evidence. Was it Australia's most convincing paranormal case? An elaborate hoax by a grieving child? Or something that defies explanation even a century later?

Join us as we explore one of Australia's most thoroughly documented and deeply unsettling mysteries, a story where the dead might have been reaching for the living, and where truth remains more elusive than any ghost.

Sources

• "Australian Poltergeist" by Tony Healy and Paul Cropper
• "The Guyra Ghost: Original Newspaper Accounts" by Patrick J. Gallagher
• Contemporary newspaper coverage: Sydney Morning Herald, April-May 1921
• Guyra Historical Museum archives

Title Music: Jesse Frank from Pixabay

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