Campfire: Tales of the Strange and Unsettling

Episode 93: The Plane in the Forest

This week, we’re discussing a tale from deep in the heart of the Siberian wilderness. In 1961, a team of soviet paratroopers were sent on a search and rescue mission for a downed plane that had been spotted two days before. Thousands of miles off the nearest flight path, the mysterious abandoned craft created far…

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Fireside Chats: Creepy Hot Girl Shit with Codie Crowley

Fireside Chats: Creepy Hot Girl Shit with Codie Crowley   This week, we had the honor of sitting down with author and host of the YouTube show, Graveyard Dirt, Codie Crowley. Codie is without a doubt brilliant, fascinating, and wildly creative. Come for the entrancing Jersey accent and stay for the mind-bending theories on everything…

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Episode 92 – Whispers Estate

This week, we’re discussing another home-state legend. In 1899, (or 1901, depending on which source you reference), Dr. John and Jessie Gibbons purchased the house from the original owners, Dr. George and Sarah White. Dr. John and Jessie Gibbons reportedly adopted abandoned/orphaned children. One of these children, a 10-year-old girl named Rachael, started a fire…

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Friday Night Fright 10

This week, we decided to experiment with AI. Each of us sat down with ChatGPT and attempted to create the scariest stories possible. And so, we have for you two terrifying tales generated by our future overlords. Our first story, Beneath the Surface: The Horrors of Ashford, follows a young woman as she attempts to…

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Episode 91 – J’ba Fofi

The indigenous people of the DRC and other parts of West Africa have, for generations, passed down blood-curdling tales of the J’ba Fofi. Also known as the Congolese Giant Spiders, it is an enormous species of arachnid that is said to inhabit the forests and prey on wildlife as well as villagers. Strap in for…

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Fireside Chats: An Age of Alchemy with Chaz of the Dead

This week, we had the distinct pleasure of sitting down with the author of A Place Between Time and Space: A true story of Ghosts, UFOs, and Florida’s Strangest Home and Paranormal Expeditions: Hunt for the Friendship and Paranormality Magazine mainstay, Chaz CMP. We discuss the childhood experience that first lit the Fortean fire under him and discuss what…

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Episode 90 – The Lake Baikal Swimmers

Since ancient times, the vast Lake Baikal has been known as deeply mysterious, but in the closing years of the Soviet era, and since, it has been the location of a number of alleged sightings of aliens and UFOs. Even more, sightings of bizarre beings who have come to be known as the Lake Baikal…

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Fireside Chats: Spooky Little Weirdos with Laura Jean Lehmann

This week, we had a great time sitting down with solo paranormal investigator Laura Jean Lehmann. We take a deep dive into some very strange occurrences from her childhood, her spooking-than-average upbringing, and some of the most spine-tingling tales from her experiences exploring haunted locations on her own! Go support Laura in all that she…

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Episode 89 – Listener Stories

This week, we’re sitting down to listen to a series of three incredible and terrifying listener stories. Our first tale comes from an ICU nurse who encounters a seemingly cursed room in her unit and the mysterious entity that appears to occupy it. Our second story comes to us from rural Wisconsin where a young…

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Fireside Chats: Strange Semantics Rerelease

In this, we have for you a very important community project. Strange Semantics is an in-depth look at the language that we use to describe this incredible field that we find ourselves in. Terms like paranormal, supernatural, otherworldly, supranatural, supernormal, paraweird, and Fortean are examined through the input of 30 of the most fascinating people…

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