Campfire: Tales of the Strange and Unsettling

Back in the spring of 1976, the sleepy community of Crosshill began experiencing a series of terrifying encounters. Soon, the Gurning Man captured the fear and imaginations of women throughout Glasgow. This disturbing visage of a seemingly black-clad tall spindly humanoid figure started stalking the women of Crosshill relentlessly and even showed up in the bedrooms of several unfortunate victims....

This week, we had the great pleasure of sitting down with Fortean folk artist extraordinaire, Cassie Marozsan. We had a fascinating chat about her personal approach to the immortalization of the creatures of cryptozoology through artwork, her personal quest to find new and exciting mediums, and a three-legged forest walrus that may or may not be living right in the forests of central Ohio. So, str...

In the early 1990s a Seattle executive with a passion for ancient music would have a run-in with a strangely seductive woman while on a business trip to San Francisco. This chance encounter would, within just one week’s time, utterly shatter his life. The man’s name is Christopher Case. The woman claimed to be a witch and the hell she would unleash on this young, successful and otherwise rational...

You know this week’s guest as the village tarot witch. Karly is the host of Painting, Tarot, and True Crime on YouTube, a divination specialist, and a bonafide history nerd. She’s a great friend of the show and you should absolutely support her in everything that she does. In this, her second appearance around our campfire, we discuss her transition into a YouTube show, various divination systems,...

This week we’re discussing the inspiration for the 1986 book The Haunted and the 1991 TV movie of the same name. The Smurl Haunting is a classic tale of poltergeist activity, auditory and visual phenomena, and ghost hunter shenanigans. After being displaced from their homes due to flooding on hurricane Agnes, Jack and Janet Smurl moved their family into a duplex in West Pittston, Pennsylvania. It...

This week, we’re sitting down with Todd Purse. He’s an artist, a musician, and host of Create Magic Pod. Most of our chat focused around exploring the connection between the creative process and the paranormal. We talk Bigfoot, ghost stories, UFOs, and the effect of parenthood on each of our perspectives. Go support him in everything he does, but for now just sit back and listen. Enjoy! Campfire:...

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 bl...

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 theory could explain everything from aliens and cryptids to hauntings and faeries? L...

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 of the two missing hours. Through many hypnosis sessions, both were able to recall what had...

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 World”. The book is packed with the spooky stories and bizarre happenings that seem...

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 terrified and the other scarred for life....

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 talk about UFOs, occult curses, and communing with the dead; all colored by the circuitous and truly uniq...

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 rock. This certified hotspot continues to be a hub for...

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 spooky encounters that she experienced along the way. We do discuss a topic that I personally...

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 a group of corroborative sightings across th...

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 his love of all things extraterrestrial, but spend most of the interview theorizing abou...

Precipitating from a tragic motor accident in 1968, a series of bizarre and frightening encounters with a ghostly young woman near Uniondale, South Africa would soon become legend. This week, we revisit the theme of haunted highways and discuss the Uniondale Ghost. Join us as we attempt to make sense of the prevalence of these legends within the liminal space that is our roadways. THIS IS NOT YOUR...

This week, we managed to pull one of our favorite people of all time away from his busy schedule long enough to sit down for a Fireside Chat. He is a brilliant artist, experiencer, and something that we appreciate above all else, he is genuinely curious. Jonathan Dodd is the designer of our Pope Lick Monster shirt. He’s done design work for Small Town Monsters, Green Briar Valley Brewing Company,...

May 25, 1979, was one of the worst days in American aviation history. It was the day when American Airlines Flight 191 crashed minutes after taking off from O’Hare Airport in Chicago. One of the engines came away from the wing which resulted in significant damage to the wiring and hydraulic systems of the plane. The pilot had no control of the plane, and it crashed into a nearby trailer park. 272...

This week’s guest is a very special human. The man behind All the Weird. The fearless leader of the Cryptocasters on Clubhouse. One Jordan's fellow contributing writers at Paranormality Magazine. A bastion of curiosity and compassion; of oddity and authenticity; a gentleman and a scholar. Greg Morrill. We had a fantastic chat about Bigfoot, UFOs, ghosts, psychics, and about just how hard it is...

This week, we dig into the story that inspired the major motion picture  The Conjuring . In 1971, Roger and Caroline Perron moved into the Arnold Estate with their five young daughters. Paranormal phenomenon began immediately. From full body apparitions and poltergeist activity to oppressive atmosphere and possible demonic obsession tormented this family over the next decade. The involvement of Ed...

This week, we are discussing one of the most fearsome and under-discussed cryptids in the American pantheon: The Ozark Howler! Opening with a 27-minute full blown audio drama detailing a harrowing run-in with the maybe-malevolent Missouri monstrosity. Afterward, we get into the leading theories on the true nature of this thing and discuss the cultural importance of folklore. So, strap in Campers!...

This week, we had the privilege of sitting down with Chris and Tyler from Doc Side Media. They are a pair of film makers that have been putting out Fortean documentaries like a machine since they started just nine months ago. Honestly, we felt like we had kind of encountered a couple of kindred spirits. This month they released Conscious Contact: Full Disclosure and The Ghosts of Gettysburg! Hones...

In April of 1964, a police officer in New Mexico named Lonnie Zamora halted a high speed chase when he saw something strange fall from the sky. As he got closer to the crash site, things became stranger and stranger -- he was convinced he'd seen something extraordinary. Soon after, the FBI, the Air Force, and the Army agreed with him. So what makes the Lonnie Zamora incident so famous in the w...

This week, we got to sit down with band leader of the Eric Mintel Quartet and paranormal investigator, Eric Mintel. We talk through the most recent release on Eric Mintel Investigates, The Beast of Bray Road: Alive and Well. They caught some incredible footage and we get deep into it. What they’re doing over there is something that you should all be paying attention to. Enjoy it! Campfire: Tales o...