Recent observations with the Murchison Widefield Array at 185~MHz have serendipitously unveiled a heretofore unknown giant and relatively nearby ($z = 0.0178$) radio galaxy associated with NGC,1534. The diffuse emission presented here is the first indication that NGC,1534 is one of a rare class of objects (along with NGC,5128 and NGC,612) in which a galaxy with a prominent dust lane hosts radio emission on scales of $sim$700,kpc. We present details of the radio emission along with a detailed comparison with other radio galaxies with disks. NGC1534 is the lowest surface brightness radio galaxy known with an estimated scaled 1.4-GHz surface brightness of just 0.2,mJy,arcmin$^{-2}$. The radio lobes have one of the steepest spectral indices yet observed: $alpha=-2.1pm0.1$, and the core to lobe luminosity ratio is $<0.1$%. We estimate the space density of this low brightness (dying) phase of radio galaxy evolution as $7times10^{-7}$,Mpc$^{-3}$ and argue that normal AGN cannot spend more than 6% of their lifetime in this phase if they all go through the same cycle.
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