The Campfire's Edge

In this episode, fly fishing guide Jimmy Lampros describes a strange encounter with an unexplained light in Western Maryland's remote Savage River forest. The experience mirrors a passage from Harry Middleton's incredible book about Appalachian brook trout fishing, The Spine of Time : At once, angling broadens a man's vision while often threatening to blind him. Beauty comes like lightning, sponta...

This episode Chris Daughters of the Caddis Fly Shop joins the show to talk about our 2008 Bigfoot footage from the McKenzie River and our experience on Season 1 of Finding Bigfoot. THen Sarah and Matt reckon with what happens when seemingly sane people are forced to seriously contemplate Bigfoot.

Joshua Cutchin is the author of seven critically-acclaimed books: 2015's  A Trojan Feast: The Food and Drink Offerings of Aliens, Faeries, and Sasquatch  (translated into Spanish as  Banquete Troyano ); 2016's  The Brimstone Deceit: An In-Depth Examination of Supernatural Scents, Otherworldly Odors, & Monstrous Miasmas ; 2018's  Thieves in the Night: A Brief History of Supernatural Child Abduc...

In this episode Sarah interviews her sister Tessa and they discuss how violence can mark a landscape, and her experience with a ghost that followed her home from a favorite hiking spot in Los Alamos New Mexico.

In this episode, Matt and Sarah outline the series of paranormal experiences that occurred, kicking off opening morning of the 2023 whitetail deer gun season opener in North Carolina.

Captain Nate Stansberry has decades of experience guiding flyfishing clients on the Pacific Northwest Coast and the Great Lakes. He caught the bug for offshore fishing off Long Island, home of the legendary Frank Mundus. In this episode, we talk to Capt Nate about his relationship with the sea, and why he thinks she is sentient and plans to kill him.

In this episode, Sarah and Matt discuss their history with bears and past hunts, and go through the transactional relationship Sarah developed with the first bear she had killed, and the promise we kept to bring him home a bear-wife. Warning: There is swearing in this episode because Matt is scared of bears.

Welcome to The Campfire's Edge, a podcast about the people who live closest to the more-than-human (hunters, foragers, anglers, hikers and birders) and their encounters with the paranormal. Your hosts, Matt Stansberry and Sarah Rose, are passionate conservationists, hunters and parents living in the Piedmont of North Carolina., Matt is an author and Sarah is a wildlife artist. In this first episod...