Welcome to What The Heck's Creature Feature! These episodes release on Saturdays and look at folklore and cryptids from around the world! The same academic style is applied to these episodes, but they look at history and eyewitness reports before describing the creature of the week! A lot of the time, theories are a bit more scarce than the main episodes, but the content is still just as interesting.

This week we're in Australia, investigating the Luna Park Fire. In 1979, a fire in the Sydney Luna Park ghost train killed 7 people. The fire was deemed an accident, but some people think something more sinister was afoot. In a Creature Feature that could also be a True Crime episode, we explore the possibility that this fire could have been more than an accident. What happened to the ghost train? Is there something that happened before that people think is linked? Is this the work of a cult? Listen in to find out!

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References:-

Cooke, Richard. “Hellfire | Sydney Review of Books.” Home | Sydney Review of Books, 7 Dec. 2017, https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essays/hellfire. 

Donnelly, Keryn. “The Story behind Exposed The Ghost Train Fire.” Mamamia, Mamamia, 16 Mar. 2021, https://www.mamamia.com.au/luna-park-ghost-train/. 

Margaritoff, Marco. “The True History Of Moloch, The Ancient God Of Child Sacrifice.” All That’s Interesting, 2 Oct. 2021, https://allthatsinteresting.com/moloch. 

“The Luna-Park Train Fire Demons: An Intriguing Theoretical Discourse – Wondergressive.” Wondergressive, 24 Aug. 2023, https://wondergressive.com/2023/08/23/the-luna-park-train-fire-demons-an-intriguing-theoretical-discourse/. 

Zhou, Jack. “What’s Past Is Prologue #2: The Hidden History of Luna Park - Tharunka.” Tharunka - UNSW’s Student Paper since 1953, 9 Dec. 2020, https://tharunka.com/whats-past-is-prologue-2-the-hidden-history-of-luna-park/. 

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