u/Wallace_B

Another old one that might be too long ago for anyone to remember. In the Sydney Morning Herald there is a small section called Column 8 where readers submit bite sized contributions that editors will compile into their own newspaper column, usually on the same day. One day long ago there was a Column 8 entry from a reader who was riding or walking a bike in the environs of a deserted stretch of Sydney Airport very early one morning, possibly outside or near either the domestic or international terminal.

This reader reported spotting in the distance a group of people dressed in black from head to toe, standing in a circle. They then started making strange coordinated movements, leaning in towards each other, turning around, lifting up their arms together. He couldn’t make out any faces, they might have been wearing masks or hoods. They seemed to be following some kind of bizarre choreographed pattern, and didn’t make a sound the whole time. The reader claimed to be perplexed by the sight before moving on and was left with no idea what had just been witnessed. To my knowledge nobody wrote in to Column 8 to provide an explanation of the scene that reader described. This would have been sometime in the early to mid 2000s.

I posted this story to one of the other aussie subs once but got no feedback, so I just want to try here, see if anybody might know or remember anything about it.

Ages and ages ago, on one of those current affairs type shows that used to play every weekday, might even have been Ray Martin presenting, can’t remember, they did a story about some sort of phone a psychic operations that were bilking honest aussie battlers out of their hardearned.

Now I never paid those shows much attention, and I think I only caught about five or ten minutes of this one, but what I do recall is that there was an interesting bit where they went into the story of a schoolgirl out in country nsw somewhere that had called up one of these psychic hotlines, only to be told by the psychic that she was going to be killed in a car wreck before her fifteenth or sixteenth birthday.

Now, as amazing as that sounds, the real kicker comes next. The girl in the story, rightly upset by what she heard, went ahead and right away phoned another of these psychics hoping to hear something better. And the next psychic she called - get this - told her THE EXACT SAME THING. ☠️👻💀👽🤡☠️

And unfortunately that’s all I remember about this story. Never saw any follow up if there was any, don’t recall the names or exact location of anyone involved. No idea if there’s any information online about the schoolgirl, the ‘psychics’ she called, or whether their bizarre prediction came true. But I do remember seeing this story presented plain as day. Could there be anyone out there in reddit land who knows more?