Gundiah-Mackay UFO Abduction: Beam of Light Case | Ep 261

The Night a Beam Stole Amy from Her Couch

October 4, 2001. A stormy evening in rural Gundiah, Queensland. While her husband slept and friend Petra rested nearby, 22-year-old Amy Rylance dozed on the living-room sofa. What happened next would become one of Australia’s most baffling — and divisive — close-encounter cases.

The Impossible Witness Account

Petra Heller awoke around 11:15 p.m. and walked into the lounge. She froze: a sharp, rectangular beam of solid light poured through the open window, suspending Amy horizontally inside it. Slowly, headfirst, Amy floated toward the window and vanished into the night. Outside, Petra glimpsed a disc-shaped craft hovering silently above the trees. Objects on a nearby table shifted as if caught in the same force. Overwhelmed, Petra fainted.

800 Kilometers in Hours

While police searched the property, a call came from Mackay — nearly 800 km north. A distraught young woman had stumbled into a BP service station, dehydrated and confused. It was Amy. Driving that distance would have taken at least nine hours; only a few had passed.

Inside the Craft

Amy recalled waking on a bench in a brightly lit rectangular room with no visible light source. A calm male voice reassured her. A tall, slender figure in a full bodysuit and black mask appeared, explaining they could not return her to the property because “the lights were wrong.” Moments later she found herself tumbling through scrubland near Mackay.

Physical Evidence That Faded

Triangular marks appeared on her inner thighs and heels. Her recently dyed blond hair showed weeks of dark regrowth. Body hair suggested far more time had passed than the clock allowed. Investigators rushed to document everything — but access soon became restricted.

The Men-in-Black Chase and the Vanishing Witnesses

As researchers pressed for samples and follow-ups, Keith reported a terrifying high-speed pursuit by strangers in a dark truck. The trio relocated for safety, then abruptly cut contact. They have not been heard from publicly since.

A Case Split Down the Middle

Years later, inconsistencies surfaced: suspicious phone records, burnt floodlight remains, prosaic explanations for the damaged screen and foliage. A lead officer called it a probable hoax. Yet the core details — the beam, the instantaneous travel, the entity encounter — remain hauntingly vivid.

The Gundiah-Mackay incident endures as a perfect “two-lane” case: one path leads to extraterrestrial visitation, the other to human deception. Which lane do you travel?

Listen to Episode 261 of The Shadow Frequency wherever you get your podcasts, and decide for yourself.

— Juniper Ravenwood Producer, The Shadow Frequency Podcast

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