Campfire: Tales of the Strange and Unsettling

In the winter of 1959, nine experienced hikers died in a remote section of the Ural Mountains. The mysterious nature of these deaths was compounded by the cloak and dagger nature of the Soviet government. Details of the event were kept under lock and key until the collapse of the Soviet Union in August of 1991. In the records we found that the nine victims were found scattered all over the mountai...

We’re headed back across the pond this week to the small town of Ossett, West Yorkshire. During the recession of the 1970s, the financial and emotional hardships of the Taylor family reached a tipping point and Michael Taylor turned to God. The Christian Fellowship Group, a vaguely protestant Christian group with no affiliation to any larger religious body, enjoyed the freedoms that came along wit...

Just 25 miles southeast of Chicago, Gary, Indiana is an post-industrial city on the shores of Lake Michigan. This week’s tale is one of terror, economic strife, and demonic possession. The Ammons family experienced fly infestations, disembodied children’s laughter and barking, shadow figures, and unexplained wet boot prints. This experience culminated in the apparent possession of all but one memb...

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 just wanted to save sick horses ended up fighting for their lives against osten...

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 into a head-on collision with an oncoming locomotive. Wi...

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 with Arthurian legend. And none...

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? Angry Robot? Tourist Trap? At least two of those things. NOT YOUR AVERAGE...

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 and discussion in this show will necessarily engage with...

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 that lasted weeks. An insane tale of covert government experim...

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 those who called the area home for the next 40 years. THIS AIN’T YOUR GRAND...

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 adult audiences only. The content and discussion in this show will necessarily engage with...

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 Strange and Unsettling is created for adult audiences only. The co...

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 audiences only. The content and discu...

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 created for adult audiences only. The content and discussion in this show wil...

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 .