The last episode of Season 2 features: The Master Criminal – a shadowy figure. Barry McKeon – the antipodean Shakesperean. Kenneth Miller – so be it. Manfred Chilbaster – the mysterious calligraphist. Harriet Golongly – speed queen, daredevil, stuntwoman. The Tiny Desert – so sandy, so small.By Michael Pryor and Stephen Higgins

You simply won't believe it when you hear about: Bob Chapman – good intentions gone astray. George's Variety Extravaganza – that’s showbiz! The Napalm Tests – disaster averted. Inner Empowerment Training – mime your way to success? The Great Apple Nomenclature Scandal – core values. Cicely Marzipan – the profit prophet.…

For your enjoyment, we bring to you: The Warragul – ahead of its time? Peter Spanaker – eyes right. The Hanging Gardens of Dandenong – extravagant and romantic. Ambrose Quamby – The Man With One Face That No One Could Remember. Rick Heezel – hipster, shyster, fraudster. The Whirly – dance ‘til you drop.…

What a treasure trove of tales! Charles O’Rourke and Finbar Agarn – wayward explorers. Robert Less – inimitable neologist. Edward Gilby – sidelined aviator. The Tantgallanka Drive-In – in car New Wave. Stan Wollack – artificial additives to the rescue. Zoltan Feshfeshfesh – marsupial cheese, anyone?By Michael Pryor and Stephen Higgins

In this episode, we proudly bring to light: Gavin Prentice – a reign of terror. Wayne Snow – the Clown Prince of Australian Accountants. The Fast Glacier – icy but speedy. Colin Sangford – The Singing Surgeon. Tansy Strigil – arty, much? The Wreck of the Archibald – airship ahoy.By Michael Pryor and Stephen Higgins

Look at what we've uncovered! The Malmarsh Rock Festival – the beat goes on. Edward ‘Crispy’ McPherson – amazing. The Kelp Kings of King Island – sea weed and harvest it. Moonlight Beach – haunted but picturesque. North Hummerford – a twitcher’s paradise. The Roscoe-Hannover Affair – I spy spies.By Michael Pryor and Stephen Higgins

More strange tales and outlandish biographies! Dendy Jumpup – a song, a dance, an inability to complete a motto. Samuel J Krantzberg – the walking legend. The Trans-Australian Railway – all aboard! Hiskins Street – so groovy. The Handelburg Invasion of Australia – unbelievable. The Menington Private Library – an eccentric collection.…

This episode is proud to bring you: The Great Wall of Jindaberri – they built it. Katherine Hockaday – the Singing Nurse. Pamela Juice – the Voice of Voices. Hadrumetum – the lost Roman town. Hendersons Track – in the wild wilderness. Panombi Rocks – an outstanding outcrop.By Michael Pryor and Stephen Higgins

This episode features The Election Debate of 1928 – talkfest to end all talkfests. Harley (Slasher) Fontaign– butcher to the stars. Julia Frabu – always first past the post. Trixie Wuff – corporate artist supreme. The ‘Act of God’ Match – the apocalypse stops play? Greytown – the ghost suburb.By Michael Pryor and Stephen Higgins

Marvel at the Slalom Witch Trials – very athletic persecutions, Misty Dreams – peacekeeper extraordinaire and Lasetter’s Reef – gold fever? Then thrill to accounts of Cruel Nancy – mysterious but ridiculous, the Collapse of the Universal Lattice – antisocial media and Philo Pargetter – hair today, gone tomorrow.…

Apocryphal Australia Season 2 is just around the corner! More marvels! More mysteries! More malcontents and miracles! Michael Pryor and Stephen Higgins have been hard at work, getting to the bottom of unbelievable stories from Australia's past and they're ready to roll them out for you!By Michael Pryor and Stephen Higgins

We unearth more stories that need the light of day: The Acquisto–Miller Feud. Unbelievable. Astonishing. Petty. , Milo Hammond, architect, cardsharp, visionary. What a guy. John Hobbs, a convict with convictions. Lonnie Gerk, ‘the mouth from the South-east’. Johnny 'Guitar' Drabbs, whose patisserie influenced songs were both soft-centred and sweet.…

More extraordinary tales from Australia's past to delight, daunt and dazzle. The Snainton Kidnapping of 1956. Bunglers or criminal geniuses? Archibald Cistoon, one of Australia’s greatest all round athletes, all but unknown today. Penny Mallison, conservationist of the unattractive. Tim Bleary, counter culture guru, with two sugars. The Hard Flood …

You simply won't believe these stories! Evadne Handapple, Intellectual, freethinker and solipsist. Warren Nephron, the artists' artist. St Vanessa's, a hospital unlike any other. The Leaning Tower of Pewley. So tilted. Harold Cupps. Art for his sake? Jeffrey Woo, an auteur ahead of his time - and many others'.…

Prepare to be illuminated with these stories! Klemp, a town unlike any other. Adeline Strife, femme fatale or just misunderstood? Annabelle Ritter, the infamous cross country walker. The Hallumbie Caves. So deep, so dark, so puzzling. Canterbury Jones, Australia's finest sculptor. Maybe. The Great Hanslope Vinegar Flood. A disaster and a lesson all…

Hold onto your hats for stories about the sadly forgotten Audrey Hinph, perhaps Australia’s greatest ever self-taught mathematician, the rambunctious and long gone town of Judge's Rest and the McLintock Brothers, Austalia's most misguided vignerons. Plus the extraordinary spectacle that is the Running of the Bullants, the ground and ear breaking ef…

In this episode we bring you the hidden side of the Sunbury music festivals of the 1970s, the unearthly structures that were Shangri Galah, and the epicurean maestro that was Reginald Pilk. And if that's not all, strap yourself in for the stories of Cedric Playford, better known as Mesmo the Great, Felicity Paraparap (Australia’s only international…

We bring to light the savage and erratic arts reviewer Clifford Menelaus, the remarkable Lake Nina (Tas) and the well-intentioned but disastrous True Games of 1932. Plus we unearth details of genius inventor Reggie Node and the ins and outs of the Brout Bridge/Kimbo Rail Disaster of 1952.By apocryphalaustralia

Learn all about Warren Maccles, the self-appointed monarch, the highly unusual Lake Treearge and Andrew Cloons - Man or Myth? Plus you might learn more than you really care to know about Gabriel St John Eversley, perhaps the most mysterious member of the First Fleet, the mobile geographical feature that is Mount Hopeless, and the First Church of th…

Episode 2 features a deep dive into the forgotten Avant Garde art movement known as 'The Alarmists', the life of Sarah McTeeley, Austalia's only known female pirate and the Tate–Sleemington scandal of 1897 that both shocked and amused a nation. Plus we explore the word beating efforts of Ron Lardner, the life of George O'Lean, Australia's real life…

In Episode 1 we investigate the forgotten Synthetic Broadcasts of the 1930s, the innovative impresario Enzo Marelli and perhaps the tallest tree ever to be found in this continent. Plus we highlight the philosophical exploits of Tippi Presbyter, the extraordinary horticultural achievements of Wally Grogan and the life of Alonzo Mirabilis ‘Australia…

Here's a teaser for the first season of Apocryphal Australia, a podcast bringing you tales of the extraordinary, the outlandish and the bizarre from Australia's past.By apocryphalaustralia