Camp Monsters

These are the stories of impossible encounters with impossible creatures in the wildest corners of North America. We’ll travel the country, sit around campfires and talk about that thing that ran across the trail in the middle of the night, just beyond the beam of your flashlight. Come closer to the fire. Let’s hear the next legend.

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The Snipe

Episode Date: June 22, 2022

This week we're heading to a summer camp in Mississippi. Where a group of campers decide to pull a prank on their bunk mate and something goes wrong....

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Char Man

Episode Date: October 28, 2021

In our final episode of Camp Monsters, season three we're heading to Ojai, California. Unlike our usual campfire, we're gathering around an electric l...

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The Chicago Wolfman

Episode Date: October 21, 2021

Back in 2014 in the midnight alleys in Chicago, people began to encounter something larger than the raccoons and coyote that are sometimes seen around...

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The Sunnyvale Haunting

Episode Date: October 18, 2021

In this bonus episode we're gathering around a digital campfire in the new REI Co-op store in Sunnyvale. What's so special about this store? We're gla...

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The Black Horse Dog

Episode Date: October 14, 2021

The eastern part of Montana is flat, empty and full of a subtle kind of beauty. It's a place where the sky is big and the silence is bigger. A place w...

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Colossal Claude

Episode Date: October 7, 2021

Imagine that you're huddled on the deck of a ship with the wind and rain beating down on you. The waves are crashing and it feels like the boat is goi...

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The Mill Thing

Episode Date: September 30, 2021

Tonight we're camping out in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Surrounded by fall colors, woodsmoke and the sound of a distant river. A river that...

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The Traveler

Episode Date: September 23, 2021

Airports at night can be a bit... unsettling. When the shops are closed and the concourse is mostly empty — dark corners and abandoned corridors. The...

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The Firwood Reflection

Episode Date: September 16, 2021

Can you see your reflection in the window? Like a ghost standing just outside in the night, looking back at you. It’s a trick the light plays, when yo...

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The Beast of Truro

Episode Date: September 9, 2021

Here we are on Cape Cod, around a crackling fire on one of the only beaches on the Cape where fires are allowed: Head of the Meadow Beach, just outsid...

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Sasquatch - Part Four

Episode Date: August 19, 2021

Our third full season of Camp Monsters will start in September, thanks to our sponsors at YETI. In the meantime, we figured we'd give you a short bonu...

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Sasquatch - Part Three

Episode Date: July 15, 2021

Our third full season of Camp Monsters will start in September, thanks to our sponsors at YETI. In the meantime, we figured we'd give you a handful of...

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Sasquatch - Part Two

Episode Date: June 17, 2021

Our third full season of Camp Monsters will start in September, thanks to our sponsors at YETI. In the meantime, we figured we'd give you a handful of...

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Sasquatch - Part One

Episode Date: May 27, 2021

Our third full season of Camp Monsters will start in September, thanks to our sponsors at YETI. In the meantime, we figured we'd give you a handful of...

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Mini Monster: Krampus

Episode Date: December 23, 2020

This Mini Monster episode takes us to the country of Austria, and the year 1709. It's the night before Christmas in a forgotten valley high in the mou...

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The Dark Divide: Sasquatch

Episode Date: November 18, 2020

We're sure you’ve all heard of the Sasquatch. Possibly the best-known legendary creature of all time, with entire groups dedicated to finding it. Ther...

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Boo

Episode Date: October 28, 2020

Down along the coast of South Carolina, the people of the Sea Islands have a name for that dream that some of them have.  They call it the “Boo,” and...

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Hidebehind

Episode Date: October 21, 2020

What is the Hidebehind supposed to be?  Just what it sounds like: a creature you never see directly, that always ducks back behind the nearest tree or...

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Mole

Episode Date: October 14, 2020

Bring a flashlight.  Or a headlamp, if you have one.  Bring a sweater, no matter what the weather is like outside.  The further we go, the cooler and...