Podcast: Campfire: Tales of the Strange and Unsettling

The study of the paranormal has a long, fascinating, and controversial history. Best friends and hosts Ryan and Jordan explore the depths of metaphysical phenomena, ufology, cryptozoology, and all manner of unsolved mysteries through a time-honored tradition: the campfire story. If you’re fascinated by all things Fortean; if you love stories of ghosts, UFOs, cryptids, and the occult – this show is for you.

11: Episode 11 – Stardust Ranch

Just an hour Southwest of Phoenix, Arizona, on the edge of Rainbow Valley, sits a small 10-acre property named Stardust Ranch. What it lacks in size it makes up in strangeness. In a wild story of UFOs, shadow creatures, attempted abduction, cattle mutilation, and men in black that spanned over two decades, a couple who…

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10: Episode 10 – The Pope Lick Monster

This week, we’re headed back to the North-Kentucky brush country where just 20 miles east of Louisville sits the small township of Pope Lick. Beneath the century-old Pope Lick Trestle Bridge, legend says that a maniacal monstrosity creeps through the underbrush waiting for the opportunity to lure its next victim with its siren song; straight…

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9: Episode 9 – Charterhouse

Deep in the craggy bluffs of the Mendips in Southwest England, sits the isolated hamlet of Charterhouse. Standing in stark contrast to this area’s serene natural beauty is it’s penchant for some very strange secrets. It’s 1900 year history is riddled with stories of ghostly military men, phantom hitchhikers, cave-ridden witches, and disembodied laughter intertwined…

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8: Episode 8 – The Flatwoods Monster

In the autumn of 1952, a group of children and one chaperone had an encounter that would come to define not only their lives, but an entire West Virginia town. This relatively brief encounter has managed to establish the Flatwoods Monster as one of the most iconic and beloved Fortean encounters ever reported. Alien? Cryptid?…

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7: Episode 7 – Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp

Ever since the late 1980s, Central South Carolina has had reports of a seven-foot scaly monstrosity with a large tail and a penchant for vandalism. Mutated alligator or ultraterrestrial predator? We’ll be the judge. HIDE YOUR CARS! HIDE YOUR CATS! Campfire: Tales of the Strange and Unsettling is created for adult audiences only. The content…

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6: Episode 6 – Polybius

It’s the 1980s and the arcade is the center of life for a group of young chaps in Portland, Oregon. But those lives would be forever changed with the arrival of an ominous and irresistible unmarked cabinet. Graphical capabilities beyond their comprehension would lead to illness, obsession, and the harrowing disappearance of a young boy…

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5: Episode 5 – Estefania Gutierrez Lazaro

In the true story behind Netflix’s Veronica, a young girl’s attempt to contact a fallen friend leads to the most harrowing five years imaginable for an entire family and one of the only official police reports on record to detail a paranormal experience.  DO NOT DABBLE.    Campfire: Tales of the Strange and Unsettling is…

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4: Episode 4 – The Black Forest Haunting

In 1990, a Colorado family began experiencing unexplainable phenomena in their dream home. Poltergeist, rainbow vortex, or secret government experiment? Paranormal investigators, psychics, 45 police visits, and a U.S Senator couldn’t get to the bottom of it. Can we? CLASSIC HORROR MOVIE DAD.    Campfire: Tales of the Strange and Unsettling is created for adult…

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3: Episode 3 – The Kushtaka

Deep in the wilderness of Southwestern Alaska, it is rumored that a race of surreptitious shapeshifters lay in constant wait for the chance to lure unsuspecting hunters and hikers to their doom. What begins with a panicked call for help could prove to reveal an eight-foot monstrosity. OTTERS. AREN’T. CUTE.    Campfire: Tales of the…

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2: Episode 2 – The Kentucky Goblins

In a story investigated by Project Bluebook in the summer of 1955, a Hopkinsville family spent most of a day in an armed conflict with a gang of extraterrestrial miscreants and all they got was a festival named after them! OWLS AREN’T THAT TALL.    Campfire: Tales of the Strange and Unsettling is created for…

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