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534 episodes transcribedWelcome back to the Campfire! I have a great story to tell. It's a classic ghost story – and not only are the elements in the story quite unnerving, b...
Today’s podcast will feature 3 stories about divers who underestimated what was waiting for them beneath the surface. The audio from all three stories...
Today, I'm going to share four stories about people who took big career risks in order to be as successful as possible. But, in each case, the risk di...
In January 1988, the clerk of a sporting goods store in a small town in Canada looked up as a man walked into his shop. It was below freezing outside,...
Today's story is a fan favorite that was previously published as Episode 346. On a cold winter night in 1999, a man drove down a dark street towards h...
Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction. And today’s podcast features 4 stories that demonstrate that. The audio from all four stories has been p...
Today, I am going to tell you three stories about people who were just trying to do their jobs... and ended up facing an extremely unexpected – and da...
On a cold night in November 2013, a woman sat in a hospital waiting room, wondering if her new husband would survive until morning. It was a cruel rev...
Welcome back to the Campfire! I have two awesome stories to share tonight. The first is about a woman in Japan in the early 2000s who has a totally bi...
Today’s podcast will feature 3 stories about people who are willing to do just about anything to get what they want. The audio from all three stories...
Today, we have three stories about people who are absolutely sure they’ve found the solution to all of their problems – but they are wrong, and other...
One morning in early November 1888, an engineer drove a steam train through the woods outside Chantilly, France. Everything was business as usual, unt...
Today's story is a fan favorite that was previously published as Episode 324. On a cold winter day in 2013, police officers rushed through the dense w...
Today’s podcast will feature 3 stories about inventions you’ve definitely heard of, but I guarantee you’ve never heard the strange reasons they were a...
Today, we have three stories about people who have a lot of experience in a particular area. But their confidence is exactly the thing that causes the...
On a morning in 2012, a young man was looking out at his backyard in West Virginia. A few days of heavy rain had opened up a sinkhole in the garden, a...
Welcome back to the campfire. This story took place in Malaysia in the 1970s. And even though when you first hear it, it's almost going to sound like...
Today’s podcast will feature 3 stories that involve people who were trapped – with “no way out.” The audio from all three stories has been pulled from...
Today, we have three stories about people who went to great lengths to make themselves look good. But in each case, this completely backfired. You c...
One early morning in April 2012, a man hurried through some woods in coastal France. He lived nearby, and had seen a column of smoke coming from this...
