• S2/Ep2: Corpse Lights of the Cowee Mountains

    S2/Ep2: Corpse Lights of the Cowee Mountains

    Art by Sarah, ink on tinted paper. In this Episode, we visit Little Tennessee River guides Brent Martin and Angela Faye Martin of Alarka Expeditions in Cowee, North Carolina. Brent is the Director of the Blue Ridge Bartram Trail Conservancy and Angela is a musician. They share stories about supernatural…

  • Season 2, Episode 1: Whitetail Winter Recap

    Season 2, Episode 1: Whitetail Winter Recap

    Welcome to Season 2 of The Campfire’s edge. This episode features new art from Sarah (pen, colored pencil and paint on black paper) of a barred owl eating a worm snake in front of one of our trail cameras. In this episode, Sarah and I talk through the chronology of…

  • Ep 16: Ghostly cougars and bigfoot boardgames

    Ep 16: Ghostly cougars and bigfoot boardgames

    Episode art featuring a traffic-killed cougar collected and drawn by Sarah Rose (tagged by NM Game and Fish), pen and ink on paper Sarah and Matt interview paranormal adventurer and podcast host Timothy Renner from Strange Familiars. Tim is an author of several paranormal books, and co-author of Where the…

  • Ep 15: Hunting as Custodianship of a Living Cosmos

    Ep 15: Hunting as Custodianship of a Living Cosmos

    This episode’s art is a mono-print by Matt featuring a deer-skull wreath we created for our solstice ritual. In this episode, Sarah and Matt chat with Gordon White, a Tasmanian chaos magician, about the connection of hunting and animism, and his personal experiences with the supernatural in the wild. Gordon’s books have…

  • Ep 14: White-pelted bigfoot of the Upper Midwest

    Ep 14: White-pelted bigfoot of the Upper Midwest

    Gel print of white bigfoot by Matt. In this episode, Matt and Sarah interview Jason Carbajal, snowboarder and angler, about his experience meeting a white-pelt bigfoot on a quiet street in rural Illinois in a summer lightning storm. We also discuss our experience at the North American Bigfoot Center. Email…

  • Ep 13: Ghost Lights over the Haw River, Orbs part 2

    Ep 13: Ghost Lights over the Haw River, Orbs part 2

    In this episode, Matt and Sarah describe their experience with orbs – lights in the sky over the Haw River in North Carolina in the fall of 2023 to researchers Joshua Cutchin and Barbara Fisher, coauthors of a forthcoming book about anomalous lights. The second part of the episode, Sarah…

  • Ep 12: Flats Fishing with Florida’s Pink Plesiosaur

    Ep 12: Flats Fishing with Florida’s Pink Plesiosaur

    In this episode, Sarah and Matt interview fishing guide Barrett Christiansen about his experience seeing a pink cryptid busting through the mangroves on the Florida coast with a six-foot long, pink and vertically compressed tail. And Sarah looks into the sea serpents of the southeastern US to find comparable critters…

  • Ep 11: Orbs? Pondered – Q&A with UAP researcher Barbara Fisher

    Ep 11: Orbs? Pondered – Q&A with UAP researcher Barbara Fisher

    In this episode, Sarah interviews UAP and paranormal researcher Barbara Fisher about her experiences with anomalous lights in the Appalachian Mountains near Athens, Ohio. They discusses the research Barbara is conducting to collect and categorize light phenomena in her forthcoming book with Joshua Cutchin. Check out Barbara’s Podcast 6 Degrees…

  • Ep 10: Empty Abundance –  Invasive Species and our responsibility

    Ep 10: Empty Abundance – Invasive Species and our responsibility

    Episode art by Sarah Rose, featuring a Rough Green Snake climbing non-native sericea bush clover on the edge of the woods near our home. In this episode, we interview Andy Ciccone. Andy is the host of The Poor Proles Almanac podcast and author. His substack is an incredible wealth of…

  • Ep 9: Bighorn Medicine Wheel, John Lane

    Ep 9: Bighorn Medicine Wheel, John Lane

    In this Episode, nature writer and poet John Lane tells a story of his experience at the Bighorn Medicine Wheel in Wyoming in the 1990s. The story is incredible, full of high strangeness and aerial entities and the uncomfortable juxtaposition of the New Age movement and Native Traditions. We also…