Campfire: Tales of the Strange and Unsettling

This week, we delve deep into one of the most compelling and chilling UFO encounters of the 20th century. On a cold night in 1979, Lynda Jones, a young nurse from Didsbury, Manchester experienced something that would forever alter the course of her life. While driving home after a late shift, Lynda's encounter with a mysterious, brightly lit object in the sky led to an inexplicable series of e...

This week, we had the absolute pleasure of sitting down with someone who has become a close friend of the show and the designer behind our Jersey Devil t-shirt, Christina of The Crescent Hare! She’s a brilliant artist, the mastermind behind the Celestial Alien Oracle Deck, and has a fascinating background in extraterrestrial investigation. We discuss her own personal Men in Black encounter, time s...

Two years ago this month, we lost a true giant in the world of modern American folklore. John Edmonds was a true badass and a brilliant storyteller. I’m honor of him and the impact that he had on our weird little world, we bring you a reimagining of our episode from September of 2021, Stardust Ranch. ⠀ ⠀ Nestled in the eerie expanse of Rainbow Valley, Arizona, Stardust Ranch looms as a beacon of t...

Get ready. We're talking Bigfoot...of the south! Every Friday we pack our unanswered questions into the canoe and paddle across the lake to see if our friend, The Village Tarot Witch can help us get to the bottom of this! In the shadowy realms of Fouke, Arkansas, the legend of a mysterious creature has haunted this small town for decades. Known to locals as the Fouke Monster, this elusive bein...

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This week, we venture into the shadowy realms of Fouke, Arkansas, to uncover the legend of a mysterious creature that has haunted this small town for decades. Known to locals as the Fouke Monster, this elusive being has been the subject of hundreds of sightings, leaving behind a trail of intrigue and speculation. Through the examination of interviews with eyewitnesses and exploration of the dense,...

Get ready for a night of Ghosts, Curses, and Tarot! Every Friday we pack our unanswered questions into the canoe and paddle across the lake to see if our friend, The Village Tarot Witch can help us get to the bottom of this! From July 1928 to July of 1929, a seemingly normal family living in the bustling city of Poona, India saw a haunting unfold that would forever alter their view of the world. I...

In this gripping episode, we delve into the eerie and perplexing Poona Poltergeist case, a tale that has baffled paranormal experts and skeptics alike. Set in the bustling city of Poona, India, this haunting story unfolds in a seemingly ordinary household that became the center of supernatural occurrences. As we piece together the accounts and explore various theories, from restless spirits to psy...

This week on Tales From Ravenbrook, we’re setting off on a treacherous journey through the dark corners of history and faith. These stories will leave you questioning where the true horror lies – in the supernatural, or within the hearts of men. Part 1: Communion The shadows of Ravenbrook conceal more than just secrets; they hide sins. In a tale where faith meets fear, we unravel the story of a co...

Explore the chilling legend of Slaughterhouse Canyon in this gripping episode of Campfire: Tales of the Strange and Unsettling. Nestled in the heart of the Arizona desert, this desolate canyon is said to be haunted by the ghostly cries and apparitions of its tragic past. As we delve into the sorrowful tales and eerie mysteries that shroud this cursed place, we uncover stories of loss, despair, and...

Welcome to Ravenbrook. A town in northern Maine where mystery grows like a crop, monsters lurk at every tree line, and phantoms travel through more shadows than not. In this week’s first tale, we explore the lost tapes of a hypnotic regression therapy session in 2002. Were extraterrestrials responsible for the disappearance of Thomas Harlan? Find out in The Harlan Abduction! We follow that with a...

This week, we are venturing into the deep waters of true high strangeness. Sam the Sandown Clown was a strange being encountered by two young children in Lake Common, Sandown, Isle of Wight in May of 1973. This entity is no doubt one of the strangest and most unclassifiable paranormal beings ever recorded. Seemingly neither a spirit nor an extraterrestrial, 'Sam', as he is known, is truly...

Welcome to Ravenbrook. A town in northern Maine where mystery grows like a crop, monsters lurk at every tree line, and phantoms travel through more shadows than not. In this week’s first tale, we have our very first Ravenbrook Bigfoot encounter! But is this sasquatch a simple upright bipedal hominid? Nothing in Ravenbrook is ever that simple. We follow that with the birth of an evil that just migh...

The mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of Peter Gibbs, often referred to as the  Great Mull Air Mystery , took place on Christmas Eve of 1975 at the Glenforsa Hotel on the Isle of Mull in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. After taking off on an ill-advised night flight, Gibbs vanished without a trace. His uninjured but decomposed body was discovered, without the plane, on a hillside near...

This week, we’re catching up with dear friend of the show, Karly Latham. Since we last spoke she has been very busy, launching not only a brand new podcast called Death Becomes Us but a full-scale publishing company called Dark Village Publications. Sitting down with Karly is always a joy. Go check out Death Becomes Us and Dark Village Publications! Support her in all that she does. You both deser...

It’s 2024! Happy New Year! 2023 was a fantastic year for us as a show and as people! We’ve gathered here to discuss all of our favorite parts of it! Movies! Music! Games! Podcasts! Everything that we loved from this year. Everything that made our lives better this year. And, of course, we discuss each of our top five Campfire episodes from the year and talk about our experience researching each of...

Welcome to Ravenbrook. A town in northern Maine where mystery grows like a crop, monsters lurk at every tree line, and phantoms travel through more shadows than not. In this week’s first tale, we get to know a young doctor whose troubled past brings him back to the town of his turbulent youth. Get ready for this tale that explores the space between mental illness and Forteana. We follow that with...

In honor of the holiday season and us working on going back to add sound design to previous episodes, we have have decided to revisit and create a reimagining of our popular Pope Lick Monster episode. Story has been redone. New music. Added sound design. And, a better flow of the debrief. Enjoy! This week, we’re headed back to the North-Kentucky brush country where just 20 miles east of Louisville...

For this week’s addition to the Campfire Classics Collection, we have decided to bring back the timeless pastime of telling scary stories around the Christmas holiday. For this particular episode, we are telling the tale of "Smee" from famed author, A.M. Burgess. Burgess is a British writer, born in Hillingdon, London, in 1889. He was noted in his time as an author of fiction for boys whic...

Since the early days of European culture, winter tradition involved the telling of spooky tales while huddled around the fire. This oral tradition quickly made its way to the page with the advent of the printing press during the Industrial Revolution, and this became a beloved tradition all over modern Europe as well as the west. With the injection of modern capitalism into holiday celebration, th...

This week, we are graced with the presence of a dear friend of the show and one of our absolute favorite authors in this space. Joshua Cutchin has established himself as a true force in the world of speculative non-fiction. With titles like Trojan Feast, Where the Footprints End, and Ecology of Souls, he has made an impact on the Fortean community like few others in the last 20 years. But he has s...

On October 17 th , 1973, the young Falkville Chief of Police, Jeff Greenhaw, was likely hoping for a quiet evening at home after a long day of work. Instead, he would receive a call that would change his life forever, an anonymous call to dispatch from a frantic caller about a UFO in a field just outside of town. When he arrived, he was greeted by a truly shocking sight. A humanoid figure standing...

With the new year around the corner, we thought it was a great time to remind out listeners of what they are missing out on by not subscribing to our Patreon. This is just a a preview of some of the content you can expect. There is much more (with plenty to come) over on Patreon. Go subscribe now! www.patreon.com/campfiretalesofthestrangeandunsettling   Campfire: Tales of the Strange and Unsettlin...

From snakes to scorpions, the Australian Outback infamously contains a wealth of fearsome animals. But legend also states that this vast wilderness is home to more than one mythical creature, including a Bigfoot-like beast called a Yowie. Though accounts from Europeans only date to the 19th century, stories from Australia’s Indigenous Aboriginal people are believed to go back much further. These t...

Welcome to Ravenbrook. A town in northern Maine where mystery grows like a crop, monsters lurk at in every tree line, and phantoms lurk in more shadows than not. In this week’s first tale, we follow the exploits of an RPD beat cop from back in the 40s as he attempts to rid Ravenbrook of one of its oldest standing paranormal nuisances. We follow that with a tale from the days of the early internet....