The Campfire Cult Podcast

Tonight’s episode is a mixed bag, but a fun ride into the weird. One of those rides where the deeper you get into it, the less certain anything feels.So settle in, keep the fire low, and let your eyes adjust to the dark a little.Try Outlands Coffee: Buy Now Save $5 on your order with code CAMPFIRE at checkout!Become a Patreon Member: Become a Cult Member!Campfire Cult Merch: Shop NowPlease don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you.Submit your own story via email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you!Follow us on... Instagram: @campfirecultpod Facebook: @campfirecultpod Youtube: @campfirecultpod Online: www.campfirecultpod.com Show Notes:Encounter #1 - Link to storyEncounter #2 - Link to storyEncounter #3 - Link to storyEncounter #4 - Link to storyEncounter #5 - Link to storyEncounter #6 - Link to storyEncounter #7 - Link to storyEncounter #8 - Link to storyEncounter #9 - Link to storyEncounter #10 - Link to storyEncounter #11 - Link to storyEncounter #12 - Link to story

Welcome back campers. Tonight we’re headed deep into the Pacific Northwest.These stories all come out of The Great PNW, and what connects them is not just Bigfoot, dogman reports, winged creatures, mimics, or things people cannot quite name. It is that shared feeling so many witnesses describe right before everything turns strange: the sense that something is already out there, watching from the tree line, the road, the barn, the smoke, or just beyond the firelight.What I love about this set of encounters is how grounded they feel. These are not people chasing the paranormal. They are working night shifts, checking livestock, hunting, camping, driving home, or trying to find their way back through the dark. Then something happens that pulls the whole landscape sideways. Familiar places stop feeling familiar, and the wilderness starts to feel occupied.If you’ve ever spent real time in the woods of Washington or Oregon, you know there are places out there that can feel beautiful and uneasy at the same time. This episode lives right in that space.Try Outlands Coffee: Buy Now Save $5 on your order with code CAMPFIRE at checkout!Become a Patreon Member: Become a Cult Member!Campfire Cult Merch: Shop NowPlease don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you.Submit your own story via email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you!Follow us on... Instagram: @campfirecultpod Facebook: @campfirecultpod Youtube: @campfirecultpod Online: www.campfirecultpod.com Show Notes:Encounter #1 - Link to storyEncounter #2 - Link to storyEncounter #3 - Link to storyEncounter #4 - Link to storyEncounter #5 - Link to storyEncounter #6 - Link to storyEncounter #7 - Link to storyEncounter #8 - Link to storyEncounter #9 - Link to storyEncounter #10 - Link to storyEncounter #11 - Link to storyEncounter #12 - Link to storyEncounter #13 - Link to storyEncounter #14 - Link to storyEncounter #15 - Link to storyEncounter #16 - Link to storyEncounter #17 - Link to storyEncounter #18 - Link to story

Welcome back campers. Tonight, we’re heading into a place that doesn’t sit comfortably on a map.Not because it’s hidden… but because it doesn’t behave the way places are supposed to.In southeastern Massachusetts, there’s a stretch of land locals have warned each other about for generations. A region where the woods feel heavier, the nights feel longer, and the stories don’t stay neatly in one category.It’s known as the Bridgewater Triangle.Inside its borders, people have reported strange lights moving silently overhead. Massive shapes standing just beyond the treeline. Voices calling from the woods when no one should be there. And moments of missing time that no one can quite explain.Some people come here looking for answers. Most don’t.Most of the stories you’ll hear tonight happened to people who weren’t chasing anything at all—they were hiking, driving home, spending time outdoors…until something crossed their path and quietly rewrote how they understand the world.So tonight, we’re sitting with that place. Its history. Its patterns. And the uneasy feeling that whatever’s happening there didn’t stop happening just because we gave it a name.Get comfortable and keep the fire close.Try Outlands Coffee: Buy Now Save $5 on your order with code CAMPFIRE at checkout!Become a Patreon Member: Become a Cult Member!Campfire Cult Merch: Shop NowPlease don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you.Submit your own story via email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you!Follow us on... Instagram: @campfirecultpod Facebook: @campfirecultpod Youtube: @campfirecultpod Online: www.campfirecultpod.com Show Notes:Encounter #1 - Link to storyEncounter #2 - Link to storyEncounter #3 - Link to storyEncounter #4 - Link to story

Tonight’s episode lives in that uneasy space where a strange sighting turns into something more.Not just a creature in the dark. Not just lights in the trees. Not just a voice, or a figure, or a stretch of trail that suddenly feels wrong. These are stories about moments when people realize the world around them is no longer behaving the way it should.You’ll hear from hunters, hikers, campers, and witnesses who knew these places well. People used to being outdoors. Used to reading the woods, reading the weather, reading the mood of a place. And still, they found themselves facing things they couldn’t explain. Heavy footsteps circling just beyond the beam of a light. Orbs hanging silently in the trees. Fog that seems to pull at the mind. A figure that watches without moving. Something breathing just out of sight. Something answering back.A lot of these encounters share the same feeling. First comes the silence. Then the sense of being watched. Then the realization that time, distance, or even your own thoughts may not be entirely yours for a while.And that’s what makes these stories stick with you long after this episode ends. Not just what people saw, but what the experience did to them. The missing hours. The fear that hit before the witness understood why. The sense that whatever was out there had already noticed them first.So tonight, let’s head into the dark a little carefully.And we’ll start in the Missouri woods, where two coon hunters heard something circling them in the dark… and later realized the night had somehow lost two hours.Try Outlands Coffee: Buy Now Save $5 on your order with code CAMPFIRE at checkout!Become a Patreon Member: Become a Cult Member!Campfire Cult Merch: Shop NowPlease don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you.Submit your own story via email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you!Follow us on... Instagram: @campfirecultpod Facebook: @campfirecultpod Youtube: @campfirecultpod Online: www.campfirecultpod.com Show Notes:Encounter #1 - Link to storyEncounter #2 - Link to storyEncounter #3 - Link to storyEncounter #4 - Link to storyEncounter #5 - Link to storyEncounter #6 - Link to storyEncounter #7 - Link to storyEncounter #8 - Link to storyEncounter #9 - Link to storyEncounter #10 - Link to storyEncounter #11 - Link to storyEncounter #12 - Link to story

Tonight we’re talking about the kind of scary that doesn’t jump out from behind a tree. It just quietly edits the timeline when you’re not looking.These stories live in the gaps: a normal night shift that ends with hours missing, boots untied, and a body covered in bruises that shouldn’t be there. A familiar hike in the middle of Los Angeles that suddenly turns into silence, disorientation, and a sunset you didn’t earn. Highways that feel like they loop, tunnels that somehow get skipped, and drives where you blink and you’re miles away with no memory of the roads in between.And it’s not just missing time. Sometimes it’s time condensing down to almost nothing. Sometimes it’s rooms changing, people showing up where they can’t be, or reality doing that subtle little stutter where you’re left thinking, “No. That didn’t happen like that.” We’ve got doppelganger moments, “reset” moments, and a few stories that feel like they brush up against something bigger than a simple lapse.So kill the lights, get comfortable, and keep an eye on the clock.Try Outlands Coffee: Buy Now Save $5 on your order with code CAMPFIRE at checkout!Become a Patreon Member: Become a Cult Member!Campfire Cult Merch: Shop NowPlease don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you.Submit your own story via email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you!Follow us on... Instagram: @campfirecultpod Facebook: @campfirecultpod Youtube: @campfirecultpod Online: www.campfirecultpod.com Show Notes:Encounter #1 - Link to storyEncounter #2 - Link to storyEncounter #3 - Link to storyEncounter #4 - Link to storyEncounter #5 - Link to storyEncounter #6 - Link to storyEncounter #7 - Link to storyEncounter #8 - Link to storyEncounter #9 - Link to storyEncounter #10 - Link to storyEncounter #11 - Link to storyEncounter #12 - Link to storyEncounter #13 - Link to storyEncounter #14 - Link to storyEncounter #15 - Link to storyEncounter #16 - Link to storyEncounter #17 - Link to storyEncounter #18 - Link to story

Tonight we’re stepping away from the treeline for a bit and looking up. This episode moves from quiet backroads in Michigan to cornfields in Iowa, from the Oregon coast at 4 a.m. to the deserts of Arizona and the hills of Tasmania. Different places. Different people. The same uneasy feeling.You’ll hear about lights that don’t move like planes, craft that hover low enough to feel in your chest, and engines that shut off without warning. Drivers who pulled over for a better look and later realized they couldn’t account for the time. Families who saw the same shapes over and over again. Kids who woke up to figures standing beside the bed and ceilings that didn’t look like ceilings anymore.Some of these encounters are quiet, almost beautiful. Others feel clinical. Invasive. Like someone—or something—was observing more than just the sky.There are silent triangles, silver objects that won’t stay recorded, blue diamonds settling into fields, and beings described as Greys. And across nearly all of it, one thread keeps showing up: missing time. Ten minutes that turn into two hours. A short stop that becomes ninety minutes. Entire stretches of memory that just aren’t there.No big conclusions tonight. No neat explanations. Just people who know what they saw—and the empty spaces they still can’t explain.Try Outlands Coffee: Buy Now Save $5 on your order with code CAMPFIRE at checkout!Become a Patreon Member: Become a Cult Member!Campfire Cult Merch: Shop NowPlease don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you.Submit your own story via email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you!Follow us on... Instagram: @campfirecultpod Facebook: @campfirecultpod Youtube: @campfirecultpod Online: www.campfirecultpod.com Show Notes:Encounter #1 - Link to storyEncounter #2 - Link to storyEncounter #3 - Link to storyEncounter #4 - Link to storyEncounter #5 - Link to storyEncounter #6 - Link to storyEncounter #7 - Link to storyEncounter #8 - Link to storyEncounter #9 - Link to storyEncounter #10 - Link to storyEncounter #11 - Link to storyEncounter #12 - Link to storyEncounter #13 - Link to story

Cold fire. Quiet woods. That feeling you’re not alone.Tonight’s stories take us deep into remote campsites where footsteps circle tents, shadows move in the treeline, and the forest suddenly goes silent.Some start slow. Others turn into pure fear.Because once the woods go quiet… you realize something’s out there.New episode out now — listen if you dare.Because once the forest goes quiet… it’s already too late.Try Outlands Coffee: Buy Now Save $5 on your order with code CAMPFIRE at checkout!Become a Patreon Member: Become a Cult Member!Campfire Cult Merch: Shop NowPlease don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you.Submit your own story via email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you!Follow us on... Instagram: @campfirecultpod Facebook: @campfirecultpod Youtube: @campfirecultpod Online: www.campfirecultpod.com Show Notes:Encounter #1 - Link to storyEncounter #2 - Link to storyEncounter #3 - Link to storyEncounter #4 - Link to storyEncounter #5 - Link to storyEncounter #6 - Link to storyEncounter #7 - Link to storyEncounter #8 - Link to storyEncounter #9 - Link to storyEncounter #10 - Link to story

Kill the lights and let the room go quiet for a second. Tonight’s episode is about the kind of light that shouldn’t be complicated… and somehow always is.Not headlights. Not reflections. The kind that shows up where it shouldn’t, moves with intent, and leaves you with that uneasy feeling that you didn’t just see something, you got noticed.From the deep woods of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to the Pine Barrens, North Carolina, Mt. Hood, and the open desert of West Texas, these stories stretch across maps and landscapes. Some are classic spook-light lore. Others are personal — camping trips and back roads where the vibe flips fast.Because at first, it’s just a light. Then it’s behavior. It stops when you stop. Moves when you move. Hangs there like it’s waiting.Ghost lights, orbs, hovering glows, moments where the simple explanation should work… but doesn’t quite fit how it felt.I’m not here to tell you what these are. Just listen to the pattern.Grab your coffee, keep your eyes on the treeline, and let’s begin.Try Outlands Coffee: Buy Now Save $5 on your order with code CAMPFIRE at checkout!Become a Patreon Member: Become a Cult Member!Campfire Cult Merch: Shop NowPlease don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you.Submit your own story via email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you!Follow us on... Instagram: @campfirecultpod Facebook: @campfirecultpod Youtube: @campfirecultpod Online: www.campfirecultpod.com Show Notes:Encounter #2 - Link to storyEncounter #3 - Link to storyEncounter #4 - Link to storyEncounter #5 - Link to storyEncounter #6 - Link to storyEncounter #8 - Link to storyEncounter #9 - Link to storyEncounter #10 - Link to storyEncounter #11 - Link to story

Some things in the woods don’t want to be seen. They want to be heard.Tonight’s episode is all about The Mimic — voices in the forest that sound familiar, comforting… and wrong. Friends calling your name when they aren’t there. A woman singing where no one should be. Voices that repeat themselves, answer questions no one asked, or come from places that don’t make sense.Across these stories, the pattern is clear: The voice knows you. The tone is off. And every instinct says the same thing — don’t answer.These encounters span deep Appalachian woods, remote trails, rural backyards, and isolated campsites. Different places, same feeling. A sense of being watched. The realization that the voice isn’t the threat — it’s the lure.Because whatever’s out there doesn’t need to chase you.It just needs you to take one step off the path, and follow what you are hearing.Try Outlands Coffee: Buy Now Save $5 on your order with code CAMPFIRE at checkout!Become a Patreon Member: Become a Cult Member!Campfire Cult Merch: Shop NowPlease don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you.Submit your own story via email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you!Follow us on... Instagram: @campfirecultpod Facebook: @campfirecultpod Youtube: @campfirecultpod Online: www.campfirecultpod.com Show Notes:Encounter #1 - Link to storyEncounter #2 - Link to storyEncounter #3 - Link to storyEncounter #4 - Link to storyEncounter #5 - Link to storyEncounter #6 - Link to storyEncounter #7 - Link to storyEncounter #8 - Link to storyEncounter #9 - Link to storyEncounter #10 - Link to storyEncounter #11 - Link to storyEncounter #12 - Link to storyEncounter #13 - Link to story

Tonight’s episode looks up instead of into the woods.Most people think they know the Mothman story. One town. One bridge. One moment in time. But the encounters didn’t stop there — and they don’t all look the same.This episode pulls together firsthand accounts of massive winged beings seen gliding over highways, perched along treelines, and rising out of the dark in places where the sky feels way too close. Huge wingspans. Eyes that reflect wrong. Creatures that don’t act like animals — and don’t seem surprised to be seen.Some call it Mothman. Some don’t know what to call it at all.What’s consistent is the feeling afterward. Like the night isn’t empty anymore. Like something else is sharing the air above you.Listen with the lights low.And maybe keep an eye on the sky.Try Outlands Coffee: Buy Now Save $5 on your order with code CAMPFIRE at checkout!Become a Patreon Member: Become a Cult Member!Campfire Cult Merch: Shop NowPlease don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you.Submit your own story via email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you!Follow us on... Instagram: @campfirecultpod Facebook: @campfirecultpod Youtube: @campfirecultpod Online: www.campfirecultpod.com Show Notes:Encounter #1 - Link to storyEncounter #2 - Link to storyEncounter #3 - Link to storyEncounter #4 - Link to storyEncounter #5 - Link to storyEncounter #6 - Link to storyEncounter #7 - Link to storyEncounter #8 - Link to storyEncounter #9 - Link to storyEncounter #10 - Link to story

Pull your chair a little closer to the fire tonight. Let the wind move through the trees. And listen for something lurking in the dark.Tonight, we’re heading north—past the city lights, past the highways, and deep into a place where forests stretch for miles, lakes swallow sound, and the wilderness still feels old… and watching.We’re headed to the state of Michigan.The Wolverine State is known for its water—vast inland seas that hide shipwrecks, fog that rolls in without warning, and shorelines where the horizon disappears entirely. But beyond the lakes, beyond the tourist towns and summer cabins, there’s another Michigan. One made of dense woods, abandoned logging roads, forgotten farmsteads, and stretches of land where cell service dies and the night feels heavier than it should.It’s in those places—where the trees press in close and the silence feels deliberate—that people begin to notice something is wrong.Michigan has no shortage of true paranormal encounters. Stories passed down through families. Shared quietly among hunters, campers, truckers, and late-night drivers. Stories that don’t feel like folklore when you hear them from someone who was there—someone whose voice still shakes when they talk about it.So zip up your tent. Check the treeline one more time. And remember—just because Michigan is surrounded by water… doesn’t mean there’s nothing hiding in the dark, waiting for you to fall asleep.And tonight… the woods of the Wolverine State are staying wide awake.Try Outlands Coffee: Buy Now Save $5 on your order with code CAMPFIRE at checkout!Become a Patreon Member: Become a Cult Member!Campfire Cult Merch: Shop NowPlease don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you.Submit your own story via email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you!Follow us on... Instagram: @campfirecultpod Facebook: @campfirecultpod Youtube: @campfirecultpod Online: www.campfirecultpod.com Show Notes:Encounter #1 - Link to storyEncounter #2 - Link to storyEncounter #3 - Link to storyEncounter #4 - Link to storyEncounter #5 - Link to storyEncounter #6 - Link to storyEncounter #7 - Link to storyEncounter #8 - Link to storyEncounter #9 - Link to storyEncounter #10 - Link to storyEncounter #11 - Link to storyEncounter #12 - Link to storyEncounter #13 - Link to storyEncounter #14 - Link to storyEncounter #15 - Link to storyEncounter #16 - Link to storyEncounter #17 - Link to storyEncounter #18 - Link to storyEncounter #19 - Link to story

Welcome back campers and happy Early New Years.Tonight, we’re closing out the year with one of the most haunting creatures ever whispered about around a fire—the Dogman.These encounters come from highways and backwoods, quiet neighborhoods and deep wilderness, and from people who swear they saw something that shouldn’t exist. Some describe that towering, wolf-headed figure watching from the treeline.Others came far too close—close enough to feel the breath, hear the growl, or sense the intelligence behind those eyes.And as we gather for this final episode before the New Year, we’re diving into a wide stretch of stories: late-night sightings on lonely interstates, unnerving encounters near home, and brushes with something primal that seems to track, observe, and—every now and then—step right into the path of the living.So settle in, pull your hood up against the cold, and listen close. The woods may be quiet tonight… but Dogman stories have a way of following you well into the dark.Thanks for spending these nights with me in 2025—hope you all have a safe, warm, and wonder-filled 2026.Try Outlands Coffee: Buy Now Save $5 on your order with code CAMPFIRE at checkout!Become a Patreon Member: Become a Cult Member!Campfire Cult Merch: Shop NowPlease don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you.Submit your own story via email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you!Follow us on... Instagram: @campfirecultpod Facebook: @campfirecultpod Youtube: @campfirecultpod Online: www.campfirecultpod.com Show Notes:Encounter #1 - Link to storyEncounter #2 - Link to storyEncounter #3 - Link to storyEncounter #4 - Link to storyEncounter #5 - Link to storyEncounter #6 - Link to storyEncounter #7 - Link to storyEncounter #8 - Link to storyEncounter #9 - Link to storyEncounter #10 - Link to storyEncounter #11 - Link to story

Welcome back campers. Gather ‘round and maybe zip up that sleeping bag a little tighter.Because this episode isn’t about something hiding behind the trees or watching you from the ridgeline. No—this one is about something far stranger. Something that doesn’t bother to hide at all.Tonight, we’re stepping into the world, of the Glimmer Man… that impossible, shimmering outline people compare to The Predator from the movie by the same name. A thing that bends the light around itself, moves like heat ripple over hot asphalt, and shows up in places where no human—or animal—should be.In this episode, we’re hearing from people who watched something invisible stalking them in daylight… slipping between trees at night… crouching, climbing, and closing in without a sound.No matter where these stories take us, one thing is clear: whatever the Glimmer Man is… it’s watching. Waiting. And leaving people with a kind of dread that sticks with them long after they reach safety.So set your lantern low, take a breath, and settle in. Because tonight, we’re walking the thin line between this world… and whatever waits just past the treeline.Try Outlands Coffee: Buy Now Save $5 on your order with code CAMPFIRE at checkout!Become a Patreon Member: Become a Cult Member!Campfire Cult Merch: Shop NowPlease don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you.Submit your own story via email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you!Follow us on... Instagram: @campfirecultpod Facebook: @campfirecultpod Youtube: @campfirecultpod Online: www.campfirecultpod.com Show Notes:Encounter #1 - Link to storyEncounter #2 - Link to storyEncounter #3 - Link to storyEncounter #4 - Link to storyEncounter #5 - Link to storyEncounter #6 - Link to storyEncounter #7 - Link to storyEncounter #8 - Link to storyEncounter #9 - Link to storyEncounter #10 - Link to storyEncounter #11 - Link to storyEncounter #12 - Link to storyEncounter #13 - Link to storyEncounter #14 - Link to story

Welcome back, campers. Pull up close and settle in, because we’re stepping into vast, sun-bleached desert wastelands. Out there, under all that sky and silence, the weird stuff doesn’t hide in shadows… it's right out in the open.Tonight’s encounters scattered across lonely highways, forgotten backroads, badlands, and the barren spaces where the world feels just a little too big.We’ve got run-ins that leave the air too still… shapes bending the moonlight… voices calling from places no one should be… and creatures that seem stitched together out of heat haze and nightmares.So… take a breath. Let the wind settle. And keep your eyes on the horizon.Because out in the desert, nothing needs the cover of trees. The empty dark stretches wide enough to hide anything that wants to find you.Try Outlands Coffee: Buy Now Save $5 on your order with code CAMPFIRE at checkout!Become a Patreon Member: Become a Cult Member!Campfire Cult Merch: Shop NowPlease don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you.Submit your own story via email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you!Follow us on... Instagram: @campfirecultpod Facebook: @campfirecultpod Youtube: @campfirecultpod Online: www.campfirecultpod.com Show Notes:Encounter #1 - Link to storyEncounter #2 - Link to storyEncounter #3 - Link to storyEncounter #4 - Link to storyEncounter #5 - Link to storyEncounter #6 - Link to storyEncounter #7 - Link to storyEncounter #8 - Link to storyEncounter #9 - Link to storyEncounter #10 - Link to storyEncounter #11 - Link to storyEncounter #12 - Link to story

Tonight, we step off the trail and into the quiet places hunters know best—those stretches of timber where the world goes still, the wind holds its breath, and something ancient waits just beyond the treeline. These stories come from men and women who’ve spent their lives in the woods… people who know every branch snap, every scent on the air, every shadow that should be there—and the ones that shouldn’t.You’ll hear accounts of trackers becoming the tracked, of impossible shapes gliding between the pines, of voices that don’t belong in the backcountry, and encounters that shake even the most seasoned outdoorsmen to their core. From eerie mimicry to towering figures to moments where reality itself seems to bend, each of these stories reminds us that some things in the wilderness don’t care how prepared you are… only that you came alone.So zip up your jacket, turn off your headlamp, and settle in close to the fire.Because tonight, hunters bring back more than the game they hunt—they’re bring back the truth about what’s really out there.Try Outlands Coffee: Buy Now Save $5 on your order with code CAMPFIRE at checkout!Become a Patreon Member: Become a Cult Member!Campfire Cult Merch: Shop NowPlease don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you.Submit your own story via email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you!Follow us on... Instagram: @campfirecultpod Facebook: @campfirecultpod Youtube: @campfirecultpod Online: www.campfirecultpod.com Show Notes:Encounter #1 - Link to storyEncounter #2 - Link to storyEncounter #3 - Link to storyEncounter #4 - Link to storyEncounter #5 - Link to storyEncounter #6 - Link to storyEncounter #7 - Link to storyEncounter #8 - Link to storyEncounter #9 - Link to storyEncounter #10 - Link to storyEncounter #11 - Link to storyEncounter #12 - Link to story

Welcome back, campers. Tonight’s episode is for the believers, the skeptics, and everyone who’s ever felt eyes watching from the treeline. We’re heading deep into the backwoods—across mountain passes, forgotten highways, and fog-drenched trails—following the heavy footsteps of something far older than legend. From eerie knocks in the Olympic wilderness to shadowed shapes on lonely Pennsylvania roads, every story tonight carries the same unmistakable sound… the echo of something massive, moving just beyond the glow of your campfire.So pour your coffee, zip up that tent tight, and listen close—because tonight, every story is an encounter with—the big guy.Try Outlands Coffee: Buy Now Save $5 on your order with code CAMPFIRE at checkout!Become a Patreon Member: Become a Cult Member!Campfire Cult Merch: Shop NowPlease don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you.Submit your own story via email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you!Follow us on... Instagram: @campfirecultpod Facebook: @campfirecultpod Youtube: @campfirecultpod Online: www.campfirecultpod.com Show Notes:Encounter #1 - Link to storyEncounter #2 - Link to storyEncounter #3 - Link to storyEncounter #4 - Link to storyEncounter #5 - Link to storyEncounter #6 - Link to storyEncounter #7 - Link to storyEncounter #8 - Link to storyEncounter #9 - Link to storyEncounter #10 - Link to story

Welcome back, campers. Tonight, the stories come from every shadowed corner of the unknown—each one whispered by someone who swears what they saw was real. From the deep woods to quiet bedrooms, from skies that hum to roads that vanish, we’re traveling the thin line between what’s real… and what’s waiting just beyond the firelight.So zip up that sleeping bag, pour another cup of coffee, and keep your eyes on the treeline—because out there, something’s watching. And before the night’s over… it might just step out into the campfire light.Try Outlands Coffee: Buy Now Save $5 on your order with code CAMPFIRE at checkout!Become a Patreon Member: Become a Cult Member!Campfire Cult Merch: Shop NowPlease don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you.Submit your own story via email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you!Follow us on... Instagram: @campfirecultpod Facebook: @campfirecultpod Youtube: @campfirecultpod Online: www.campfirecultpod.com Show Notes:Encounter #1 - Link to storyEncounter #2 - Link to storyEncounter #3 - Link to storyEncounter #4 - Link to storyEncounter #5 - Link to storyEncounter #6 - Link to storyEncounter #7 - Link to storyEncounter #8 - Link to story | Link to videoEncounter #9 - Link to storyEncounter #10 - Link to storyEncounter #11 - Link to storyEncounter #12 - Link to story

Welcome back, campers. Tonight the haunted forest has a lot in store for us.From farmhouse basements and logging roads to high ridgelines, river bottoms, and silent skies, we’re following tracks that don’t belong—dogmen, not-deer, pale crawlers, glimmering shapes, and watchers who arrive without a sound.Pull close, kill the lights, and watch for the lights just beyond the treeline.Try Outlands Coffee: Buy Now Save $5 on your order with code CAMPFIRE at checkout!Become a Patreon Member: Become a Cult Member!Campfire Cult Merch: Shop NowPlease don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you.Submit your own story via email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you!Follow us on... Instagram: @campfirecultpod Facebook: @campfirecultpod Youtube: @campfirecultpod Online: www.campfirecultpod.com Show Notes:Encounter #1 - Link to storyEncounter #2 - Link to storyEncounter #3 - Link to storyEncounter #4 - Link to storyEncounter #5 - Link to storyEncounter #6 - Link to storyEncounter #7 - Link to storyEncounter #8 - Link to storyEncounter #9 - Link to storyEncounter #10 - Link to storyEncounter #11 - Link to story

There’s a special kind of terror that doesn’t leap, roar, or chase. It studies. It waits. It matches your breath and your footsteps, steps when you step, stops when you stop, and lets you know—without ever showing its face—that you’re never as alone as you think.Tonight, we’re sharing encounters with things that stalk us.From a celebrity stalked by obsession, hikers studied from the dark places, hunters shadowed step-for-step, and travelers haunted by whispers in the dark. From the woods to the desert, every story tonight shares one thing—something was watching… and it never stopped following.So turn down the lights. Pull your blanket close and If you’re listening with headphones, don’t worry about the sounds in the dark behind you. It’s probably just the house settling. Probably...Try Outlands Coffee: Buy Now Save $5 on your order with code CAMPFIRE at checkout!Become a Patreon Member: Become a Cult Member!Campfire Cult Merch: Shop NowPlease don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you.Submit your own story via email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you!Follow us on... Instagram: @campfirecultpod Facebook: @campfirecultpod Youtube: @campfirecultpod Online: www.campfirecultpod.com Show Notes:Encounter #1 - Link to storyEncounter #2 - Link to storyEncounter #3 - Link to storyEncounter #4 - Link to storyEncounter #5 - Link to storyEncounter #6 - Link to storyEncounter #7 - Link to storyEncounter #8 - Link to storyEncounter #9 - Link to story

Welcome back campers. Tonight… we’re opening the door to a story that feels like a dream you can’t quite shake. The kind where everything looks familiar — your old neighborhood, your school, the faces you once knew — but something beneath it all hums wrong.This is another tale from writer Saturdead, the mind behind the Tomskog Universe — a world where memory, identity, and madness bleed together in the most unsettling ways.The story “Class of 2000” isn’t about the year you graduated. It’s about the year you were taken — shaped, erased, and rewritten. It’s about a program that promised to make the future brighter… but left its subjects hollowed out, haunted by names and faces they no longer recognize.Not every experiment ends when the test subjects leave the room. Some continue in the quiet corners of your mind — waiting for the right frequency, the right word, the right story to bring it all back.So… pour yourself something dark, kill the lights, and settle in.Try Outlands Coffee: Buy Now Save $5 on your order with code CAMPFIRE at checkout!Become a Patreon Member: Become a Cult Member!Campfire Cult Merch: Shop NowPlease don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you.Submit your own story via email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you!Follow us on... Instagram: @campfirecultpod Facebook: @campfirecultpod Youtube: @campfirecultpod Online: www.campfirecultpod.com Show Notes:Class of 2000 - Link to storyMore from Saturdead - @Saturdead

From the fog-choked redwoods of Northern California to the rain-soaked peaks of Washington… something ancient still moves through the trees.Whispers from the treeline. Footsteps that stop when you do. Eyes watching from just beyond the glow of your fire.Tonight, we’re heading west—deep into the wild places of California, Oregon, and Washington—where the line between legend and reality blurs.So grab your coffee, zip up that sleeping bag and throw another log on the fire, because we’re about to get into it.Try Outlands Coffee: Buy Now Save $5 on your order with code CAMPFIRE at checkout!Become a Patreon Member: Become a Cult Member!Campfire Cult Merch: Shop NowPlease don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you.Submit your own story via email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you!Follow us on... Instagram: @campfirecultpod Facebook: @campfirecultpod Youtube: @campfirecultpod Online: www.campfirecultpod.com Show Notes:Encounter #1 - Link to storyEncounter #2 - Link to storyEncounter #3 - Link to storyEncounter #4 - Link to storyEncounter #5 - Link to storyEncounter #6 - Link to storyEncounter #7 - Link to storyEncounter #8 - Link to storyEncounter #9 - Link to storyEncounter #10 - Link to storyEncounter #11 - Link to storyEncounter #12 - Link to storyEncounter #13 - Link to story

Welcome back, campers… Tonight I’m stoking the fire a little hotter—because we’re headed to America’s Heartland, where the corn fields stretch to infinity, the woods grow thick, and nothing is ever quite what it seems. Out here, behind the quiet charm, waits something far more sinister than you can imagine.From glimmering predators and pale crawlers to Dogmen and towering beasts, these aren’t legends passed down through centuries. They’re encounters told by the living—people who saw something they can’t explain, something they’ll never forget and lived to tell the stories.So pull your blanket tight and listen carefully. Because in the Midwest, when the night goes silent, it isn’t peace you’re hearing. It’s the warning before something steps out of the dark, into the light.Try Outlands Coffee: Buy Now Save $5 on your order with code CAMPFIRE at checkout!Become a Patreon Member: Become a Cult Member!Campfire Cult Merch: Shop NowPlease don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you.Submit your own story via email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you!Follow us on... Instagram: @campfirecultpod Facebook: @campfirecultpod Youtube: @campfirecultpod Online: www.campfirecultpod.com Show Notes:Encounter #1 - Link to storyEncounter #3 - Link to storyEncounter #4 - Link to storyEncounter #5 - Link to storyEncounter #6 - Link to storyEncounter #7 - Link to storyEncounter #8 - Link to storyEncounter #9 - Link to storyEncounter #10 - Link to storyEncounter #11 - Link to storyEncounter #12 - Link to storyEncounter #13 - Link to story

Tonight, I invite you to plunge into a double dose of uncanny dread—two chilling journeys into the shadows that toy with what’s real…and what’s not.First, we crack open a classified file—a tale of secret agencies, inhuman threats, and a job where every shift could be your last. It’s bureaucratic horror at its most unhinged... and if the mission doesn’t kill you, the red tape just might.Then, a tale of perception run riot—a man cursed with chronic pareidolia, where wallpaper bleeds faces, and shadows whisper secrets only he can hear. Yet amid the horror, this uncanny gift becomes a weapon…until the world turns on him.A huge thanks to Saturdead, for trusting me once again to bring their gritty, unnerving tales to life.Stoke the fire, sharpen your senses, and don’t trust what your eyes think they see.Because tonight… the invisible is real—and it’s already in the room.Try Outlands Coffee: Buy Now Save $5 on your order with code CAMPFIRE at checkout!Become a Patreon Member: Become a Cult Member!Campfire Cult Merch: Shop NowPlease don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you.Submit your own story via email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you!Follow us on... Instagram: @campfirecultpod Facebook: @campfirecultpod Youtube: @campfirecultpod Online: www.campfirecultpod.com Show Notes:I worked for the Department of Unknown Crises - Link to storyI was hired to notice things out of place - Link to storyRead more from Saturdead - Read More

Tonight the woods have a way of calling to us. Sometimes it’s the whisper of wind through the pines. Sometimes it’s the promise of a quiet trail, a hidden lake, or the thrill of being far from anyone who could hear you scream.But there’s another kind of call—quieter, sharper, and far more dangerous. A voice that sounds almost like someone you know. A whistle that echoes your own. Footsteps in sync with yours… until they aren’t.Tonight, the firelight’s not going to keep them at bay. From the Appalachian highlands to the shadowed swamps of the South, from the Canadian wilderness to the deserts of the Southwest—something is out there. Watching. Mimicking. Following.And as you’ll hear, it doesn’t matter if you’re deep in the forest, sleeping in your tent, or just walking home in the rain—when it decides to step into your world, there’s nowhere to hide.So stoke the flames, draw close, and listen. Because tonight… the voices in the dark are calling. And they know your name.Try Outlands Coffee: Buy Now Save $5 on your order with code CAMPFIRE at checkout!Become a Patreon Member: Become a Cult Member!Campfire Cult Merch: Shop NowPlease don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you.Submit your own story via email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you!Follow us on... Instagram: @campfirecultpod Facebook: @campfirecultpod Youtube: @campfirecultpod Online: www.campfirecultpod.com Show Notes:Encounter #1 - Link to storyEncounter #2 - Link to storyEncounter #3 - Link to storyEncounter #4 - Link to storyEncounter #5 - Link to storyEncounter #6 - Link to storyEncounter #7 - Link to storyEncounter #8 - Link to storyEncounter #9 - Link to storyEncounter #10 - Link to story

Welcome back, campers. Tonight’s fire burns deep in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Where the air is heavy with mist, and the trees remember. Because if there’s one place where the shadows are a little darker… it’s Appalachia.These mountains are ancient—And they’ve seen things. Things that don’t want to be seen.In this episode, we’re venturing into the backwoods with stories of glowing eyes in Kentucky, screams that shake the soul in West Virginia, and heavy breathing just outside your tent in the Ohio hills. We’ll walk the Appalachian Trail with something knocking from the dark… follow a howl to the edge of sanity… and meet the eyes of a creature that shouldn’t exist—but does.From the dog-man and white Bigfoot of rural hollers… to feral people in caves, winged watchers in Tennessee skies, and shapeshifters that sprint on two legs across midnight soccer fields—these aren’t just stories. They’re warnings of what’s out there beyond the veil.So zip up tight, stoke that fire a little higher, and don’t wander too far from camp. Because tonight… the Appalachian legends come alive.Try Outlands Coffee: Buy Now Save $5 on your order with code CAMPFIRE at checkout!Become a Patreon Member: Become a Cult Member!Campfire Cult Merch: Shop NowPlease don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you.Submit your own story via email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you!Follow us on... Instagram: @campfirecultpod Facebook: @campfirecultpod Youtube: @campfirecultpod Online: www.campfirecultpod.com Show Notes:Encounter #1 - Link to storyEncounter #2 - Link to storyEncounter #3 - Link to storyEncounter #4 - Link to storyEncounter #5 - Link to storyEncounter #6 - Link to storyEncounter #7 - Link to storyEncounter #8 - Link to storyEncounter #9 - Link to storyEncounter #10 - Link to storyEncounter #11 - Link to story

Welcome back campers, tonight’s fire burns hot—and something is circling us just outside the glow of the firelight.Tonight, A woman wakes up barefoot in the woods with no memory and no pants. A tree is hurled through the forest like a warning. A sailor is shown the end of humanity by a glowing woman who may not be human at all. And then… a porch light reveals eyes. Watching. Waiting from the treeline.From time loops and floating torsos, to glowing blue lights and skeletal handprints, the stories tonight come from people who’ve seen what you’re not supposed to.So grab a coffee—or a stiff drink—and settle in.Because tonight… the forest is full of unknown sounds, the stars are all wrong, and shadows are everywhere.Try Outlands Coffee: Buy Now Save $5 on your order with code CAMPFIRE at checkout!Become a Patreon Member: Become a Cult Member!Campfire Cult Merch: Shop NowPlease don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you.Submit your own story via email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you!Follow us on... Instagram: @campfirecultpod Facebook: @campfirecultpod Youtube: @campfirecultpod Online: www.campfirecultpod.com Show Notes:Encounter #1 - Link to storyEncounter #2 - Link to storyEncounter #3 - Link to storyEncounter #4 - Link to storyEncounter #5 - Link to storyEncounter #6 - Link to storyEncounter #7 - Link to storyEncounter #8 - Link to storyEncounter #9 - Link to story

Welcome back campers. Tonight’s story will make you think twice before stepping into the woods alone... or answering a text from someone who just doesn’t sound quite right.It begins with a simple hiking trip. No storms. No accidents. Just a woman who vanished into the trees... and started sending messages that didn’t feel like her anymore.What follows is a chilling unraveling of identity, memory, and something ancient hiding just beyond the veil—something that doesn’t just take people… it wears them.This nightmare is written by Blair Daniels, and I want to give a huge thank you to Blair for giving me permission to bring this story to life. You can find more of her work in the show notes—highly recommend you dive in… if you dare.So zip up that tent, check your phone one more time, and don’t trust any messages that don’t feel like they’re really from your friends.Try Outlands Coffee: Buy Now Save $5 on your order with code CAMPFIRE at checkout!Become a Patreon Member: Become a Cult Member!Campfire Cult Merch: Shop NowPlease don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you.Submit your own story via email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you!Follow us on... Instagram: @campfirecultpod Facebook: @campfirecultpod Youtube: @campfirecultpod Online: www.campfirecultpod.com Show Notes:Full Story - Click HereMore from Blair Daniels - Read More

Welcome back, campers—tonight isn’t just any night around the campfire.This is episode Fifty—five-zero—and if you've been with us from the start, or even if you're just joining now... thank you. Thank you for stepping into the dark places where whispers linger and shadows dance, and for following the flickering lights at the edge of the woodline.Fifty episodes deep, and we’ve barely scratched the surface of the strange.So tonight we’re venturing further into the haunted woods to explore one of my favorite cryptids… we’re exploring something old. Something primal. Something that doesn’t just haunt the woods—it stalks them.From the spine-chilling tale that kicked it all off in 1887 Michigan, to modern-day encounters that feel too close for comfort, we’ll uncover why this creature isn’t just any cryptid—it’s the Dogman.Half-man. Half-beast. All nightmare.So grab your flashlight and Stay close to the fire.Because the Dogman is waiting. And tonight—we ready for it.Try Outlands Coffee: ⁠Buy Now⁠ Save $5 on your order with code CAMPFIRE at checkout!Become a Patreon Member: ⁠Become a Cult Member!⁠Campfire Cult Merch: ⁠Shop Now⁠Please don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you.Submit your own story via email at ⁠[email protected]⁠ or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you!Follow us on... Instagram: ⁠@campfirecultpod⁠ Facebook: ⁠@campfirecultpod⁠ Youtube: ⁠@campfirecultpod⁠ Online: ⁠www.campfirecultpod.com⁠ Show Notes:Encounter #1 - ⁠Link to story⁠Encounter #2 - ⁠Link to story⁠Encounter #3 - ⁠Link to story⁠Encounter #4 - ⁠Link to story⁠Encounter #5 - ⁠Link to story⁠Encounter #6 - ⁠Link to story⁠Encounter #7 - ⁠Link to story⁠Encounter #8 - ⁠Link to story⁠Encounter #9 - ⁠Link to story⁠Encounter #10 - ⁠Link to story⁠Encounter #11 - ⁠Link to story⁠Encounter #12 - ⁠Link to story⁠

Welcome back, campers. Tonight’s fire burns a little hotter... because what you’re about to hear isn’t just strange—it’s a full-on descent into the unexplainable.Tales of winged shadows in the sky, black-eyed beings lurking in plain sight, cloaked figures that vanish in flashes of light, and things stalking the woods that aren’t quite beast, but sure as hell aren’t human either.From a desperate statue-like figure in an Iowa cemetery... to a Dogman creeping through North Carolina swamps—this episode covers cryptids, aliens, ghosts, and entities that defy every label we try to give them.Settle in and Zip up that sleeping bag just a little bit tighter.Because tonight, we walk the thin line between reality—and what lurks just beyond the firelight.Try Outlands Coffee: Buy Now Save $5 on your order with code CAMPFIRE at checkout!Become a Patreon Member: Become a Cult Member!Campfire Cult Merch: Shop NowPlease don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you.Submit your own story via email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you!Follow us on... Instagram: @campfirecultpod Facebook: @campfirecultpod Youtube: @campfirecultpod Online: www.campfirecultpod.com Show Notes:Encounter #1 - Link to storyEncounter #2 - Link to storyEncounter #3 - Link to storyEncounter #4 - Link to storyEncounter #5 - Link to storyEncounter #6 - Link to storyEncounter #7 - Link to storyEncounter #8 - Link to storyEncounter #9 - Link to storyEncounter #10 - Link to story

Welcome back campers, Tonight’s episode is not for the faint of heart.From a Special Forces team brought to a standstill by impossible tracks in the Alaskan snow—To a glowing-eyed giant stalking a meditation circle in the Spanish countryside.We’ll find out though, that Not everything that visits in the night comes to harm. Some... just watch. Some... protect. And some... are still waiting in the woods.So stoke the fire, keep your eyes on the treeline, and listen closely—because the things in tonight’s stories? They might still be watching.Try Outlands Coffee: Buy Now Save $5 on your order with code CAMPFIRE at checkout!Become a Patreon Member: Become a Cult Member!Campfire Cult Merch: Shop NowPlease don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you.Submit your own story via email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you!Follow us on... Instagram: @campfirecultpod Facebook: @campfirecultpod Youtube: @campfirecultpod Online: www.campfirecultpod.com Show Notes:Encounter #1 - Link to storyEncounter #2 - Link to storyEncounter #3 - Link to storyEncounter #4 - Link to storyEncounter #5 - Link to storyEncounter #6 - Link to storyEncounter #7 - Link to storyEncounter #8 - Link to storyEncounter #9 - Link to storyEncounter #10 - Link to storyEncounter #11 - Link to storyEncounter #12 - Link to story

Welcome back campers, Some stories you never forget—because you lived them. You felt the air shift, the silence tighten, the shadows gather. In this episode, I’m not just your host... I’m one of the storytellers. You’ll hear the true accounts of my own encounters with the unknown, the ones that changed the way I look at the world. I’ve spoken of them before, but in the very early episodes of the show. These are a refresh, just in case you missed them. But I’m not alone. Others have come forward to share what they’ve seen, heard, and felt. From unseen things that stalked the woods… to voices that slipped through the cracks of reality—tonight, we open the door to what lies beyond.Settle in close to the fire, and listen carefully… because these stories come from people like you—and me.Try Outlands Coffee: Buy Now Save $5 on your order with code CAMPFIRE at checkout!Become a Patreon Member: Become a Cult Member!Campfire Cult Merch: Shop NowPlease don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you.Submit your own story via email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you!Follow us on... Instagram: @campfirecultpod Facebook: @campfirecultpod Youtube: @campfirecultpod Online: www.campfirecultpod.com Show Notes:Encounter #4 - Link to storyEncounter #5 - Link to storyEncounter #6 - Link to storyEncounter #7 - Link to storyEncounter #8 - Link to storyEncounter #9 - Link to story

Welcome back campers. Before we dive in, I’d like to thank writer Saturdead for allowing me to once again narrate one of their stories. If you want to read more from Saturdead, follow the link in the show notes.You’ve heard the phrase, "the show must go on". But what happens when the ground you’re setting the stage on… doesn’t want one.In tonight’s story, a crew is hired to throw together a last-minute concert in a forgotten Minnesota town—a pop-up event in a field that probably should’ve stayed untouched. From the moment they begin clearing the land, something feels wrong.Like they’d stepped into someone or something’s bedroom. And whatever it was… woke up.One by one, the crew starts to unravel. A brutal attack. A man vanishes. And then, the sobbing begins—soft, high-pitched, and close. Too close.This isn’t just a story about a gig gone wrong. It’s about what happens when you disturb the old places. The quiet places. The places where something inhuman might be sleeping… and worse, might be lonely.So grab your flashlight, pull your sleeping bag tight, and listen close. Because sometimes, the thing in the dark doesn’t growl. It sobs.Try Outlands Coffee: Buy Now Save $5 on your order with code CAMPFIRE at checkout!Become a Patreon Member: Become a Cult Member!Campfire Cult Merch: Shop NowPlease don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you.Submit your own story via email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you!Follow us on... Instagram: @campfirecultpod Facebook: @campfirecultpod Youtube: @campfirecultpod Online: www.campfirecultpod.com Show Notes:More from Saturdead - Learn MoreWe ruined the nest of the field-thing - Read full story

Welcome back campers. There’s something wrong with the woods. You’ve felt it. The silence that occurs too fast. The chill that creeps in, even when the sun is still up. The sense that something old is watching… waiting.Tonight, we’re opening the floodgates.From towering, hair-covered giants and snarling beasts that walk like men, but look like wolves. To people who vanish without a trace, then return… hours later, claiming only minutes have passed.We’ll explore accounts that defy logic—creatures that vanish into mist, flickers of another world just behind the trees, and stories whispered around firelight from those who swear they saw something… and were never the same again. Tonight is a journey into the places where the veil is thin, the shadows are alive, and time itself twists.Try Outlands Coffee: Buy Now Save $5 on your order with code CAMPFIRE at checkout!Become a Patreon Member: Become a Cult Member!Campfire Cult Merch: Shop NowPlease don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you.Submit your own story via email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you!Follow us on... Instagram: @campfirecultpod Facebook: @campfirecultpod Youtube: @campfirecultpod Online: www.campfirecultpod.com Show Notes:Encounter #1 - Link to storyEncounter #2 - Link to storyEncounter #3 - Link to storyEncounter #4 - Link to storyEncounter #5 - Link to storyEncounter #6 - Link to storyEncounter #7 - Link to storyEncounter #8 - Link to storyEncounter #9 - Link to story

Welcome back campers, Tonight… we’re stepping into the forest, where something typically unseen watches and waits.There are creatures that roar. Creatures that stalk. Creatures that tear through the trees with glowing eyes and massive claws. But what if the thing watching you doesn’t make a sound? What if it bends the light around itself—a distortion, a shimmer, a ripple in the air—almost invisible.Eyewitnesses describe it like a scene straight out of Predator—a translucent figure, humanoid, stalking hunters, hikers, and campers in the deep woods. It doesn’t growl. It doesn’t chase. It just watches. And when it moves… it vanishes like heat rising off asphalt. Gone before you can even scream.Is it military tech? A government experiment gone rogue? An interdimensional being? Or something even stranger?Grab your flashlight, pull your sleeping bag a little tighter, and don’t trust what your eyes are telling you—because tonight on Campfire Cult, we’re diving deep into the terrifying encounters with the unseen: The Glimmer Man.Try Outlands Coffee: Buy Now Save $5 on your order with code CAMPFIRE at checkout!Become a Patreon Member: Become a Cult Member!Please don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you.Submit your own story via email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you!Follow us on... Instagram: @campfirecultpod Facebook: @campfirecultpod Youtube: @campfirecultpod Online: www.campfirecultpod.com Show Notes:Encounter #1 - Link to storyEncounter #2 - Link to storyEncounter #3 - Link to storyEncounter #4 - Link to storyEncounter #5 - Link to storyEncounter #6 - Link to storyEncounter #7 - Link to storyEncounter #8 - Link to storyEncounter #9 - Link to story

Welcome back campers, tonight, we’re venturing deep into the woods—far beyond the safety of civilization—where the only thing standing between you and the unknown is the dim glow of a campfire and the thin walls of your tent.This episode is filled with shadowy figures beyond the firelight, eerie whispers in the night, and strange sounds coming from nowhere. We’ll also find out, the real monsters aren’t legends or cryptids at all—they’re very, very human.So, grab your flashlight, huddle in close, and try not to look over your shoulder—because out here, in the wilderness, you’re never truly alone.Try Outlands Coffee: Buy Now Save $5 on your order with code CAMPFIRE at checkout!Become a Patreon Member: Become a Cult Member!Campfire Cult Merch: Shop NowPlease don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you.Submit your own story via email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you!Follow us on... Instagram: @campfirecultpod Facebook: @campfirecultpod Youtube: @campfirecultpod Online: www.campfirecultpod.com Show Notes:Encounter #1 - Link to storyEncounter #2 - Link to storyEncounter #3 - Link to storyEncounter #4 - Link to storyEncounter #5 - Link to storyEncounter #6 - Link to storyEncounter #7 - Link to storyEncounter #8 - Link to storyEncounter #9 - Link to storyEncounter #10 - Link to storyEncounter #11 - Link to storyEncounter #12 - Link to storyEncounter #13 - Link to storyEncounter #14 - Link to storyEncounter #15 - Link to storyEncounter #16 - Link to story

Welcome back campers. Tonight, we’re taking you deep into the Arctic wilderness, where something ancient and unknown lurks beneath the wetlands of northern Sweden. What starts as a simple research expedition soon turns into a nightmare as four scientists uncover eerie anomalies—missing wildlife, unsettling screams in the distance, and reindeer behaving in ways no animal should. When they step beyond the safety of their marked trail, they come face to face with something that defies explanation—something that watches, mimics, and hunts. What did they awaken in the mire? And why is it learning?Join us as we unravel the chilling account of a survivor who escaped the depths of the Sjaunja wetlands—but not before witnessing something that should not exist. Lock your doors, turn down the lights, and listen closely—because tonight, the woods are whispering.Before we begin, I’d like to thank Saturdead for allowing me to once again narrate one of their stories. Hope you all enjoy this as much as I did and if you want to read more from writer Saturdead, follow the link in the show notes.Try Outlands Coffee: Buy Now Save $5 on your order with code CAMPFIRE at checkout!Become a Patreon Member: Become a Cult Member!Campfire Cult Merch: Shop NowPlease don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you.Submit your own story via email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you!Follow us on... Instagram: @campfirecultpod Facebook: @campfirecultpod Youtube: @campfirecultpod Online: www.campfirecultpod.com Show Notes:More from Saturdead: Link to profileFull Story: Link to story

Welcome back campers, When the sun dips below the horizon and the forest fades into shadow... something else awakens. Something ancient. Something hungry.Tonight, we’re diving headfirst into the whispers and legends that haunt the edges of the map. The creatures that watch from the tree line. The ones that mimic voices, scream in the woods and stalk you through the night from the dark places… this episode is a guided tour through the nightmares that live just beyond the firelight.So grab a blanket, stoke the fire, and don’t look too hard into the dark. Because tonight... we’re not alone.Try Outlands Coffee: Buy Now Save $5 on your order with code CAMPFIRE at checkout!Become a Patreon Member: Become a Cult Member!Campfire Cult Merch: Shop NowPlease don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you.Submit your own story via email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you!Follow us on... Instagram: @campfirecultpod Facebook: @campfirecultpod Youtube: @campfirecultpod Online: www.campfirecultpod.com Show Notes:Encounter #1 - Link to storyEncounter #2 - Link to storyEncounter #3 - Link to storyEncounter #4 - Link to storyEncounter #5 - Link to storyEncounter #6 - Link to storyEncounter #7 - Link to storyEncounter #8 - Link to story

Welcome back, campers! Grab your marshmallows, pull your chairs in close, and keep your eyes on the night sky—because tonight, we’re diving into stories of UFO sightings and other celestial anomalies.Strange glowing orbs, silent hovering crafts, and formations that defy explanation—these sightings have sparked awe and fear for generations. And with the surge of drone reports in the news, we have to ask—are we really seeing what we think we are?Tonight, we’ll unravel some of the most chilling encounters and break down one of the largest mass UFO sightings in history—the Phoenix Lights. So stay close to the fire, lay back, relax and keep an eye on the night sky… and whatever you do, don’t look away or you might miss it.Try Outlands Coffee: Buy Now Save $5 on your order with code CAMPFIRE at checkout!Become a Patreon Member: Become a Cult Member!Campfire Cult Merch: Shop NowPlease don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you.Submit your own story via email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you!Follow us on... Instagram: @campfirecultpod Facebook: @campfirecultpod Youtube: @campfirecultpod Online: www.campfirecultpod.com Show Notes:Encounter #2 - Link to storyEncounter #3 - Link to storyEncounter #4 - Link to storyEncounter #5 - Link to storyEncounter #6 - Link to story

Welcome back campers, sorry for the delay, but the time off was needed and worth it! I’ve got some excellent episodes for you, starting now! tonight’s episode is a true grab bag of stories ranging from Skinwalkers, Wendigos and Mimics, to Glimmerman and oddly enough, a bunnyman.So sit back, stoke the fire, pull your blankets tight, and keep an ear out for anything unusual. These stories will test the limits of your courage and make you think twice about venturing into the unknown.Become a Patreon Member: Become a Cult Member!Campfire Cult Merch: Shop NowPlease don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you.Submit your own story via email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you!Follow us on... Instagram: @campfirecultpod Facebook: @campfirecultpod Youtube: @campfirecultpod Online: www.campfirecultpod.com Show Notes:Encounter #1 - Link to storyEncounter #2 - Link to storyEncounter #3 - Link to storyEncounter #4 - Link to storyEncounter #5 - Link to storyEncounter #6 - Link to storyEncounter #7 - Listener SubmissionEncounter #8 - Listener SubmissionEncounter #9 - Link to storyEncounter #10 - Link to storyEncounter #11 - Link to storyEncounter #12 - Link to storyEncounter #13 - Link to story

Welcome back campers. Tonight, we're diving deep into a topic that often sends chills down my spine. A chilling phenomenon that has left witnesses questioning the very nature of what lurks in the woods—tonight we’re covering encounters with the enigmatic, mimic. Imagine hearing your name echo from the treeline or the haunting cry of a baby, only to find nothing there. From all across the world, these stories share one unsettling thread: something out there mimicking human voices, is calling you closer, pulling you from safety, and wants you to come find it… if you dare. What are these voices? Ancient spirits or Something far darker? Gather close, stay sharp, and let’s explore the unnerving encounters with, the mimic. Become a Patreon Member: Become a Cult Member! Campfire Cult Merch: Shop Now Please don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you. Submit your own story via email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you! Follow us on... Instagram: @campfirecultpod Facebook: @campfirecultpod Youtube: @campfirecultpod Online: www.campfirecultpod.com Show Notes: Encounter #1 - Link to story Encounter #2 - Link to story Encounter #3 - Link to story Encounter #4 - Link to story Encounter #5 - Link to story Encounter #6 - Link to story Encounter #7 - Link to story Encounter #8 - Link to story Encounter #9 - Link to story Encounter #10 - Link to story

Welcome back campers, and happy new year’s eve. Hope everyone has fun plans for the evening and has a great 2025 coming up! Tonight we're headed back deep into the wilderness and covering a topic that's as mysterious as it is legendary: The Enigmatic and often highly debated… Bigfoot. I’ll be sharing 10 true encounters that might just make you think twice about venturing into the woods alone. For me, the Bigfoot legend is more than just a story; it’s a connection to my childhood. When I was a kid, camping wasn’t exactly my idea of fun. But my family knew how to spark my imagination. They’d weave tales of Bigfoot lurking in the shadows of the forest, turning our camping trips into adventures filled with wonder and just enough fear to be embedded into my memories forever. Those stories planted the seeds of my fascination with Bigfoot and the mysteries of the wild. Turn off the lights, grab a flashlight, settle in, and prepare to hear some chilling stories of real-life encounters with the elusive Bigfoot. Who knows? By the end of this episode, you might just find yourself keeping an eye on the tree line during your next outdoor adventure, I know I do. Become a Patreon Member: Become a Cult Member! Campfire Cult Merch: Shop Now Please don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you. Submit your own story via email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you! Follow us on... Instagram: @campfirecultpod Facebook: @campfirecultpod Youtube: @campfirecultpod Online: www.campfirecultpod.com Show Notes: Encounter #1 - Link to story Encounter #2 - Link to story Encounter #3 - Link to story Encounter #4 - Link to story Encounter #5 - Link to story Encounter #6 - Link to story Encounter #7 - Link to story Encounter #8 - Link to story Encounter #9 - Link to story Encounter #10 - Link to story

Welcome back campers, tonight, we dare to tread deep into the forest and explore a legend that has haunted the Midwest for decades: the enigmatic Dogman. What is it—a cryptid, a shapeshifter, or something far more sinister? Reports of a seven-foot-tall, wolf-like creature with glowing eyes and a chilling howl have terrorized small towns and lone travelers alike. Some say it's a curse. Others claim it's an omen. All agree—if you hear its growl, you're already way too close. So campers, gather around the fire, keep your eyes on the tree line, and hold your breath as we explore true encounters with this beast that stalks the night. Become a Patreon Member: Become a Cult Member! Campfire Cult Merch: Shop Now Please don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you. Submit your own story via email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you! Follow us on... Instagram: @campfirecultpod Facebook: @campfirecultpod Youtube: @campfirecultpod Online: www.campfirecultpod.com Show Notes: Encounter #1 - Link to story Encounter #2 - Link to story Encounter #3 - Link to story Encounter #4 - Link to story Encounter #5 - Link to story Encounter #6 - Link to story Encounter #7 - Link to story Encounter #8 - Link to story

Welcome back campers, tonight we dive deep into chilling, real-life encounters with cryptids that defy explanation. From the terrifying Dogman prowling moonlit fields, to the Predator-like Glimmer Man that bends reality itself and not to be forgotten, the king of all cryptids… Bigfoot. Grab a seat, keep your flashlight close, and join me as we explore the strange, the unknown, and the unexplainable. Become a Patreon Member: Become a Cult Member! Campfire Cult Merch: Shop Now Please don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you. Submit your own story via email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you! Follow us on... Instagram: @campfirecultpod Facebook: @campfirecultpod Youtube: @campfirecultpod Online: www.campfirecultpod.com Show Notes: Encounter #1 - Link to story Encounter #2 - Link to story Encounter #3 - Link to story Encounter #4 - Link to story Encounter #5 - Link to story Encounter #6 - Link to story Encounter #7 - Link to story Encounter #8 - Link to story

Welcome back campers, tonight we delve into another short story by the writer Saturdead. They say observation changes reality, but what happens when reality changes you. Tonight, we delve into the chilling tale of Lady Bluebell—an unassuming park mascot turned something... more. From a childhood adventure gone awry to a harrowing battle for survival, one park ranger’s journey uncovers a truth stranger than myth: a force born of memory and belief, haunting the trails it was meant to protect. What started as a Junior Ranger exercise in teamwork and wilderness skills spiraled into a nightmare of shifting trails, eerie bells, and an unyielding presence. Grab your flashlight, hold a loved one tight, and don’t stop, listen, or look too closely—because Lady Bluebell might still be waiting. Become a Patreon Member: Become a Cult Member! Campfire Cult Merch: Shop Now Please don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you. Submit your own story via email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you! Follow us on... Instagram: @campfirecultpod Facebook: @campfirecultpod Youtube: @campfirecultpod Online: www.campfirecultpod.com Show Notes: Full short story - Read More More from Saturdead - Read More

Welcome back campers, tonight we’re in for a long one. We’ll be diving into stories of terrifying encounters in the wilderness. From doppelgängers in Mexican canyons to spectral red-eyed hounds and shadowy figures on Navajo lands, these tales will leave you questioning what lurks in the wilderness and whether or not you should be in it. Become a Patreon Member: Become a Cult Member! Campfire Cult Merch: Shop Now Please don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you. Submit your own story via email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you! Follow us on... Instagram: @campfirecultpod Facebook: @campfirecultpod Youtube: @campfirecultpod Online: www.campfirecultpod.com Show Notes: Encounter #1 - Link to story Encounter #2 - Link to story Encounter #3 - Link to story Encounter #4 - Link to story Encounter #5 - Link to story Encounter #6 - Link to story Encounter #7 - Link to story Encounter #8 - Link to story Encounter #9 - Link to story Encounter #10 - Link to story

Welcome back campers! Tonight we dive headfirst into the heart of the unknown, where chilling tales of the paranormal and the unexplained await. Tonight’s stories will leave you looking over your shoulder and questioning everything you thought you knew. Join me as we venture into the shadows, where the truth lurking in the dark is often stranger than fiction. Become a Patreon Member: Become a Cult Member! Campfire Cult Merch: Shop Now Please don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you. Submit your own story via email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you! Follow us on... Instagram: @campfirecultpod Facebook: @campfirecultpod Youtube: @campfirecultpod Online: www.campfirecultpod.com Show Notes: Encounter #1 - Link to story Encounter #2 - Link to story Encounter #3 - Link to story Encounter #4 - Link to story Encounter #5 - Link to story Encounter #6 - Link to story Encounter #7 - Link to story Encounter #8 - Link to story

Welcome back campers, tonight we dive into nine chilling encounters that blur the line between reality and nightmare. From a monstrous New Year’s Eve sighting to a skinwalker lurking in the New Mexico desert, these stories remind us that we may not always be alone in the dark. Become a Patreon Member: Become a Cult Member! Campfire Cult Merch: Shop Now Please don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you. Submit your own story via email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you! Follow us on... Instagram: @campfirecultpod Facebook: @campfirecultpod Youtube: @campfirecultpod Online: www.campfirecultpod.com Show Notes: Encounter #1 - Link to story Encounter #2 - Link to story Encounter #3 - Link to story Encounter #4 - Link to story Encounter #5 - Link to story Encounter #6 - Link to story Encounter #7 - Link to story Encounter #8 - Link to story Encounter #9 - Link to story

Welcome back campers, tonight, we dive into some spine-chilling encounters. Brace yourself for a white crawler lurking in Washington, a morphing shadow in Michigan, and a sea monster stalking a German U-boat in 1915. Doppelgangers, shadow figures, werewolves, Bigfoot calls, and eerie past life memories await. Become a Patreon Member: Become a Cult Member! Campfire Cult Merch: Shop Now Please don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you. Submit your own story via email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you! Follow us on... Instagram: @campfirecultpod Facebook: @campfirecultpod Youtube: @campfirecultpod Online: www.campfirecultpod.com Show Notes: Encounter #1 - Link to story Encounter #2 - Link to story Encounter #3 - Link to story Encounter #4 - Link to story Encounter #5 - Link to story Encounter #6 - User Submissino Encounter #7 - Link to story Encounter #8 - User Submissino Encounter #9 - Link to story

Welcome back campers! Tonight, November 5th 2024, in honor of the day Dr. Emmit Brown fell, hit his head and invented the flux capacitor making time travel possible, we’re exploring one of the most enigmatic figures in internet lore – a man who claimed to be a time traveler himself from the year 2036. His name? John Titor.". Now, I first came across the story of John Titor while listening to a call-in episode of Coast to Coast AM with the legendary Art Bell. Over the course of a few short months in the early 2000s, John Titor captivated an online audience with detailed posts about his mission, his world, and what lay ahead for us. Was he truly a visitor from the future, or simply a hoaxer with an incredible imagination? Tonight, we’ll be unraveling his story and you can decide for yourself. Become a Patreon Member: Become a Cult Member! Campfire Cult Merch: Shop Now Please don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you. Submit your own story via email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you! Follow us on... Instagram: @campfirecultpod Facebook: @campfirecultpod Youtube: @campfirecultpod Online: www.campfirecultpod.com Show Notes: Anomaly #1 - Link to story Anomaly #2 - Link to story Anomaly #3 - Link to story

Welcome back campers to a very special Halloween episode of our show. Tonight’s story isn’t just about a creepy night shift—it’s about what happens when curiosity pulls you deeper into the unknown, when the rules you’re told seem strange… but might be the only thing keeping you alive. Imagine starting a simple security job at a grocery store. No customers, just you and a list of rules to follow—rules that make no sense at the time. What begins as an ordinary graveyard shift slowly turns into a waking nightmare. Rules are meant to protect us, but what if following them is the only thing standing between you and something far worse? So sit back, dim the lights, and join me on this chilling adventure through the aisles of Wess Market, where every night shift could be your last. Become a Patreon Member: Become a Cult Member! Campfire Cult Merch: Shop Now Please don't forget to rate and review wherever possible. It really helps our podcast find the ears of listeners like you. Submit your own story via email at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (720) 297-8608. Looking forward to hearing from you! Follow us on... Instagram: @campfirecultpod Facebook: @campfirecultpod Youtube: @campfirecultpod Online: www.campfirecultpod.com Show Notes: The Night Guard - Link to story More from Blair Daniels - Link to more short stories by Blair Daniels