Campfire: Tales of the Strange and Unsettling

Episode 53 – Penteli Cave

This week, we’re exploring the fascinating history of a little-known gem in the Greek countryside, Penteli Cave. Fifth Century Athenian marble quarry, 11th Century Byzantine church, the hideout of countless bandits, home to nomadic monks and wandering philosophers. Sightings of shadow people, vanishing humanoid goat figures, bipedal felines, electromagnetic and gravitational anomalies, floating black spheres,…

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Fireside Chats: The Gaia Hypothesis with Vuk

This week, we’re catching up with our first return guest! Vuk is the creator and host of Tracing Owls and Darwin’s Deviations. He’s a biologist, a brilliant researcher, and an honest to goodness Fortean. Today we discuss the Gaia Hypothesis and how it applies to Fortean phenomena of all types. Could it be that one…

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Episode 52 – The Hill Abduction

This week, we discuss one of the landmark UFO abduction cases of all time. In September of 1961, Barney and Betty Hill claim to have been abducted by aliens in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. About a year after their abduction, Betty and Barney sought hypnosis therapy to help reveal to them the events…

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Fireside Chats: A Peek Through the Veil with Lady Ann Selene

This week’s guest is a Reiki Master and Intuitive Tarot reader. She is the owner of KPNL Radio and the host of The Caravan, Library of Lore podcast. She has had an amazing life filled with otherworldly experiences. Earlier this year, she released her first book titled “Aperture In the Veil: Born In a Preternatural…

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Episode 51: The Crosswick Monster

In the years straddling the turn of the last century, a series of sightings and encounters with an enormous, seemingly amphibious beast that actively transitioned between rectilinear and quadrupedal locomotion sent the people of Southwest Ohio into a frenzy. We tell the terrifying tale of two brothers whose scrape with this bloodcurdling behemoth left one…

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Fireside Chats: The Bizarre Life of Mark Austin Steele

On this week’s episode, Jordan had the pleasure of catching up with one of his oldest and dearest friends. Mark Steele is a writer, a brilliant musician, and a bit of an amateur philosopher. He is the guy that Jordan spent most of his twenties trying to make sense of the world with. Tonight we…

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Episode 50 – The Bennington Triangle

In the 1940s, a series of mysterious disappearances brought to light a devastating phenomenon that had been plaguing the residents of Southwestern Vermont. This week, we take a look at the Bennington Triangle. Known for the full range of Fortean phenomena, from UFO sightings and spook lights to legends of hairy hominids and living carnivorous…

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Fireside Chats: Spiritual Alchemy with Julie Ann Guthrie-Smulson

This week, we sat down with Julie Ann Guthrie-Smulson. She is a healer, medium, reiki master, and spiritual alchemist. She’s the author of Master In the Making and The Theory of Eight, and the host of the Spiritual Alchemy Energy podcast. We discuss how she came to find her gift and a few fascinating and…

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Episode 49 – The Santa Catarina Flyers

Flying humanoids have been reported hovering in the skies above cities both small and large throughout human history. This week, we discuss a series of particularly bizarre encounters that took place across Eastern Mexico in the early 2000s. Starting with an encounter found in  the official reports of multiple police officers in 2004 and working through…

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Fireside Chats: Shadow People and the Nature of Bigfoot with Gregg Martin

This week, we caught up with Gregg Martin. He is a very old friend. We came up together in Indiana’s hardcore scene. He’s one of the few people that became a lifelong friend. He is the mastermind behind Reverent Music and a certified weirdness enthusiast. We hear all about his experience with shadow people and…

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