Campfire: Tales of the Strange and Unsettling

Episode 108 – The Abduction of Travis Walton

On November 5, 1975, Travis Walton was working with a timber stand improvement crew in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest near Snowflake, Arizona. While riding in a truck with six of his coworkers, they allegedly encountered a saucer-shaped object hovering over the ground just off the road. What follows is touted as one of the most…

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Fireside Chats: Spinning a Yarn with Dasos Crowsong

This week, we sat down with someone who is without a doubt one of the most fascinating human beings that we have ever encountered. Dasos Crowsong is a parent, writer, fiber artist, wand maker, jewelry maker, and a full-blown honest-to-goodness Druid. We talk about Druidry and how it fits into the modern world. We talk…

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Episode 107 – Edmund Kemper

Edmund Emil Kemper III, known as the co-ed killer, is an American serial killer who murdered 10 people. From May 1972 to April 1973, Kemper murdered eight people in the vicinity of Santa Cruz County, California.  including a 15-year-old girl and his own mother. This was after Kemper’s parole for murdering his paternal grandparents at 15…

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Fireside Chats: Everything is Perfect with Todd Purse

This week, we sat down with illustrator, cartoonist, host of the Create Magic Podcast, and dear friend of the show, Todd Purse. We discuss approaches to interviewing, punk rock and reality tunnels, psychedelics and enlightenment, spirituality and faith, imagination and novelty. Stories about Grant Morrison and Robert Anton Wilson. Lessons from Ram Dass and Jacque Valley….

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Episode 106 – Robert the Doll

In 1904, the grandfather of an eccentric Florida artist, Robert Eugene Otto, purchased a doll at a caravan in Germany. He brought the doll home with him to Key West and gifted it to the young boy. It wasn’t long before young Gene’s parents began observing bizarre incidents with their son and the doll. Overheard…

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Fireside Chats: Faith and Forteana with Rick Belcher

This week, we’re sitting down with one of the 38 hosts of Spooks, Creeps, and Assorted Devilry; Rick Belcher. We got together for one reason and one reason only: religion. We talk faith in forteana, the adoption of the paranormal as a religion, the nature of ghosts, a little of our personal histories with religion,…

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Episode 105 – The Sodder Family

This week, we’re diving into one of the most enduring mysteries in American history. On Christmas Eve, 1945, a fire tore through the home of George and Jennie Sodder. They managed to escape along with four of the nine children that still lived at home. But what became of the five children sleeping on the…

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Friday Night Fright 12

This week, we are continuing our experiment with ChatGPT’s ability to compose short horror stories. With the theme of zombie apocalypse in mind, we set out to get the most interesting stories we could. Join us as we face the AI-generated hordes of undead armed only with a coat hanger, an ice cube tray, and…

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Episode 104 – Maritime Mysteries III The Franklin Expedition

The Franklin Expedition was a failed British voyage of Arctic exploration led by Captain Sir John Franklin in May 1845. The expedition consisted of 24 officers and 110 men and was assigned to traverse the last unnavigated sections of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic and to record magnetic data to help determine whether…

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Fireside Chats: The Bigfoot Algorithm with Jeremiah Byron

This week, we have none other than the host of the Bigfoot Society podcast, Jeremiah Byron. He’s an absolutely brilliant and sweet dude who is without a doubt one of the most passionate Bigfoot enthusiasts alive. It is so evident in his show; in the safe space that he provides for experiencers all over the…

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