• Ep 8: Spontaneous, brief, brilliant – brook trout and strange light in the woods

    Ep 8: Spontaneous, brief, brilliant – brook trout and strange light in the woods

    In this episode, fly fishing guide Jimmy Lampros describes a strange encounter with an unexplained light in Western Maryland’s remote Savage River forest. Jimmy’s experience mirrors a passage from Harry Middleton’s incredible book about Appalachian brook trout fishing, The Spine of Time: At once, angling broadens a man’s vision while…

  • Ep 7: Reckoning with the McKenzie River Bigfoot

    Ep 7: Reckoning with the McKenzie River Bigfoot

    This episode Chris Daughters of the Caddis Fly Shop joins the show to talk about our 2008 Bigfoot footage from the McKenzie River and our experience on Season 1 of Finding Bigfoot. Then Sarah and Matt reckon with what happens when seemingly sane people are forced to seriously contemplate Bigfoot.…

  • Ep 6 Exploring the Ecology of Souls with Joshua Cutchin

    Ep 6 Exploring the Ecology of Souls with Joshua Cutchin

    Joshua Cutchin is the author of seven critically-acclaimed books: 2015’s A Trojan Feast: The Food and Drink Offerings of Aliens, Faeries, and Sasquatch (translated into Spanish as Banquete Troyano); 2016’s The Brimstone Deceit: An In-Depth Examination of Supernatural Scents, Otherworldly Odors, & Monstrous Miasmas; 2018’s Thieves in the Night: A Brief History of Supernatural Child…

  • Ep 5: Haunted Hike in the Jemez Mountains

    Ep 5: Haunted Hike in the Jemez Mountains

    In this episode Sarah interviews her sister Tessa and they discuss how violence can mark a landscape, and her experience with a ghost that followed her home from a favorite hiking spot in Los Alamos New Mexico. Encountering Tessa’s neighbors.

  • Ep 4: High Strangeness – Whitetail Deer Season

    Ep 4: High Strangeness – Whitetail Deer Season

    In this episode, Matt and Sarah outline the series of paranormal experiences that occurred, kicking off opening morning of the 2023 whitetail deer gun season opener in North Carolina.  Sarah showing Matt what a big deer looks like because he hadn’t seen any.

  • Ep 3: The Ocean is Sentient and Wants to Kill my Brother

    Ep 3: The Ocean is Sentient and Wants to Kill my Brother

    Captain Nate Stansberry has decades of experience guiding flyfishing clients on the Pacific Northwest Coast and the Great Lakes. He caught the bug for offshore fishing off Long Island, home of the legendary Frank Mundus. In this episode, we talk to Capt Nate about his relationship with the sea, and…

  • Ep 2: Bringing Home the Bear Wife

    Ep 2: Bringing Home the Bear Wife

    In this episode, Sarah and Matt discuss their history with bears and past hunts, and go through the transactional relationship Sarah developed with the first bear she had killed, and the promise we kept to bring home a bear-wife. Warning: There is swearing in this episode because Matt is scared…

  • Ep 1: Welcome to The Campfire’s Edge

    Ep 1: Welcome to The Campfire’s Edge

    Welcome to The Campfire’s Edge, a podcast about the people who live closest to the more-than-human (hunters, foragers, anglers, hikers and birders) and their encounters with the paranormal. Matt Stansberry and Sarah Rose, are passionate conservationists, hunters and parents living in the Piedmont of North Carolina. Matt is a nature…