Drinkaway Camp

You must listen to find out what happens next to Jim and Nichole.

In season 2, episode 9, Nichole and Jim are fighting, and she agrees to seek help if they visit Chartreuse Saloon, where one more artifact has mysteriously shown up. Nichole finally gets confirmation that something is very wrong, but everything is put into question before the end.

In Season 2 Episode 8, Nichole finally gets confirmation that the Harvest Society exists from Michael at Lifted Spirits Distillery in the Crossroads. Unfortunately, Jim still won't believe her despite the overwhelming evidence. We learn more about the spooky history of the stables that later became the distillery. Caroline Granak, the great-granddaughter of a society member, claims her great-grandfather made a clock for the Great Harvest. The Harvest Society will be at First Fridays this week!

Finally, Nichole has irrefutable proof that there is a Harvest Society. A business card with a phone number leads her to Reapers HQ and more questions. She sneaks down to Rewind Video and Dive in NKC, where the infamous cursed tape appears and is played on a loop. She also has solved the mystery of who is in her locket. The only problem is, the closer she gets to the truth the more Jim tries to convince her she is unstable. Why won't anyone believe her?

Nichole goes rogue in Season 2, Episode 6. She sneaks down to Callsign Brewing Company to find two phones rumored to play tragic messages from nine child murders in 1984. She still doesn't know what it has to do with anything or why the Harvest Society is out to get her, but they are coming for Jim now, too, even if he doesn't want to admit it.

In Season 2, Episode 5, Nichole continues chasing the clues to Afterword Tavern and Shelves. Jim and Nichole find a cursed book, proof of a murder basement in the tunnels below the tavern, and Nichole is being harrassed by whoever or whatever is The Harvest Society. We still don't know how it all fits together, but Nichole is tired of being gaslit. She is ready to fight back.

This week, Nichole and Jim visit Restless Spirits and learn about a Leprechaun who may have put a "come hither" on Nichole. We also try to see a painting that has ties to the other artifacts. We are slowly putting things together, but the more we know, the less we seem to understand. Listeners, beware: we are listening to a portion of the Hungarian Suicide Song.

In episode 3, we visit Vine Street Brewing Company to learn about Fatz Knudson, the Kansas City Workhouse, and see the trumpet and strange sheet music that just appeared one day. Something is happening in KC that feels bigger than Nichole's disappearance. We must follow the clues and piece together the last year of Nichole's life.

In this episode, we travel to West Bottoms Whiskey Co. to investigate the origins of the charm Nichole found in her pocket when she was found. We tasted some great whiskey until our tour and interview were derailed by a lantern that triggered Nichole so much that she ran out. The history of Kansas City is proving to be full of weird stuff that Jim thinks is nothing, but Nichole is becoming convinced it means something. What happened to her, and how does all of this tie to the weirdness of Drinkaway Camp?

Nichole Prescott is back after being missing for six months following the events of last September 2023. She and her brother Jim were investigating the murders that took place at Camp Drinkwater decades ago. That investigation led her to be stalked, surveilled, and maybe taken. In Season 2, the siblings try to piece together what happened to her and why before it is too late. In this first episode, Nichole tells us what she remembers and describes her physical condition when she unexpectedly returns. When she was found, she had a number of strange things in her pockets and hands. Their investigation will begin there.

My sister is missing. She left me a ton of messages. Here they all are. The police have no leads, and she's been missing for days. She was last seen at Smithville Lake. Email [email protected] or KCPD with information. There is a 10,000 dollar reward. Please help me!

Nichole Interviews Jimmy and promptly regrets it. Things get very weird at Costco, and we hear what a monster sounds like. There's something very wrong going on.

In Episode 8 Detective Martin's Drinkwater Massacre cold case box finds its way to me. It is full of photos, crime scene evidence, interview notes, theories, and copies of a Nordic rune book. What does it all mean? Nichole also continues to be harrassed by bad luck or something more sinister.

In tonight's episode, Jim interviews Clarissa Hampton, a profiler who has worked with the FBI and is currently a consultant and best-selling author of several true crime books and fictional thrillers. The hunt for Jimmy heats up, and mind control looks to be a real possibility.

In Episode 6, we interview the only survivor of the Drinkwater Massacre, Carrie Harris' brother Kurt who shares what has happened to Carrie and the horror his family still lives with daily. Nichole also is struggling with random pictures in her iCloud.

In Episode 5 of Camp Drinkaway we explore Harold Lister and his family's ties to Iceland. His belief in Icelandic folklore may be the key to the Camp Drinkwater Massacres and the six other mysterious murders and disappearances near Big Rip Lake in 1978 and 1979. We also locate Helen, a member of Harold's cult who sheds some disturbing light on their group and the violence that took place there.

In Episode 4, I interview the first on the scene at the Camp Drinkwater Massacre, an EMT named Charles, who was only 19 at the time. Now forty years later, he reflects on that terrible day. I also have a clip of Charles talking to a police officer that evening. You can hear the sirens, the chaos, and the shock in his voice. You can also hear Carrie, the only survivor humming in the background. If anyone knows what she is humming, send us an email at [email protected].

In Episode 3, we discuss satanic Panic, the rumors and facts around Camp Drinkwater and the Listers who lived on the land before Camp Drinkwater was built, and the six strange crimes that preceded the massacre in 1979.

In Episode 2 of Drinkaway Camp we explore the victims in intimate detail. We discuss who they were and how they died.

Welcome to Camp Drinkaway, a true crime podcast about the 13 grisly murders in 1979 at Camp Drinkwater near Big Rip Lake. Episode 1 introduces your hosts, Nichole Prescott and Jim Carpenter, and gives you all the pertinent details as we begin to unravel the mystery of who killed 13 young camp counselors and why.