Stories Fables Ghostly Tales Podcast

1. A Little Taste of Tonight’s Case Tonight’s story starts exactly where so many good things do: a quiet country town, a family lunch, and a plate of something fancy – beef Wellington. It ends with three people dead, one clinging to life, and an entire nation asking how a dish that sounds like it belongs on MasterChef ended up in the Supreme Court. This episode takes you into the Leongatha mushroom case – the so-called “death cap dinner” – told from my Tale Teller perch, with all the atmosphere, care, and candlelit narration you’ve come to expect… plus a healthy dollop of “what on earth, humans?” 2. What’s Actually in the Episode? A lunch that looked ordinary… and wasn’t We start at the table. No gore, no exploitation – just that quiet, uneasy sense that something is off. You’ll hear: How a country family lunch in Victoria became international news. Who sat at that table, how they were connected, and why this wasn’t strangers in a headline, but an entire web of family history colliding over one m