The Campfire's Edge

Matt Stansberry and Sarah Rose
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The Campfire's Edge Podcast

The Campfire's Edge is a media project to collect the paranormal experiences of hunters, anglers and others encountering the more-than-human in wild places. Hosted by Sarah Rose and Matt Stansberry. Sarah is an outdoorswoman, mother and artist documenting the physical interaction of humans and animals in the landscape. Matt is a writer, fly fisherman, father, deer hunter and magician. They live in the Haw River watershed in North Carolina.

Episodes

  1. 3 DAYS AGO

    Ep 9: Bighorn Medicine Wheel with 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 discuss how the expectations of academia and the literary community kept this story from being told for thirty years, and the synchronicities that led to John telling it now for the first time on The Campfire's Edge. I've posted a photo of Yatsa, Santos and John, by photographer Mark Olencki who was on the mountain that night. And John's drawing from his journal on TheCampfire'sEdge.com

    57 min

  2. SEP 6

    Spontaneous, brief, brilliant: Brook Trout and Strange Lights 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. The 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 often threatening to blind him. Beauty comes like lightning, spontaneous, brief, brilliant, dangerous, with a light or a motion or a shape that unsettles emotions. For a sharp instant, everything pulses with an electric-blue glow, a cold light, a light that is stark and casts no shadow. For more episodes and artwork, check out TheCampfiresEdge.com.

    48 min

  3. AUG 30

    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.

    1h 7m

  4. AUG 22

    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 Abductions; and 2020's Where the Footprints End: High Strangeness and the Bigfoot Phenomenon, Volumes I & II, with Timothy Renner. In 2022, he released his two-part masterwork: Ecology of Souls: A New Mythology of Death & the Paranormal.

    1h 5m

  5. AUG 17

    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.

    58 min

  6. AUG 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.

    51 min

  7. JUL 29

    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 why he thinks she is sentient and plans to kill him.

    49 min

  8. JUL 25

    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 him home a bear-wife. Warning. There is swearing in this episode because Matt is scared of bears.

    37 min

  9. JUL 23

    Welcome to The Campfire's Edge

    What can studying the paranormal experiences of hunters and anglers tell us about the universe?

    32 min
  • 9 Episodes

About

The Campfire's Edge is a media project to collect the paranormal experiences of hunters, anglers and others encountering the more-than-human in wild places. Hosted by Sarah Rose and Matt Stansberry. Sarah is an outdoorswoman, mother and artist documenting the physical interaction of humans and animals in the landscape. Matt is a writer, fly fisherman, father, deer hunter and magician. They live in the Haw River watershed in North Carolina.

Information

  • Creator
    Matt Stansberry and Sarah Rose
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    9
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Show Website
    The Campfire's Edge

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