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.

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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1: Episode 1 – The Wolf Girl of Devil’s River

In mid-nineteenth Century Texas, Molly Dent’s pregnancy ended in an emergency delivery during a once in a lifetime thunderstorm, followed by a string of unfortunate events that would leave her infant to be raised by a pack of wolves in the deep and desolate Devil’s River countryside. This wolf girl would go on to terrorize…

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Episode 0 – Campfire: Tales of the Strange and Unsettling

They say first impressions are everything. Well, here it is. Coming to every platform you can imagine very soon, an adventure in thought experiment and wonderment; perplexity and nostalgia. Join us around our Campfire for Tales of the Strange and Unsettling.

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