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The Campfire's EdgeOn the Nature of Violence with Conner HabibIn this episode, Matt and Sarah talk to Conner Habib, novelist and host of the podcast Against Everyone With Conner Habib. Conner's debut novel, Hawk Mountain (July, 2022 ), pairs instances of human violence, and animal violence throughout the book, inviting comparison. We talk about that, and also discuss whether the natural history emphasis in the book makes this novel "nature writing". You can find Conner's work at ConnerHabib.com. For episode art and show notes, visit TheCampFiresEdge.com. For Sarah's artwork vist SarahDangerwood.com. And Matt's on Substack at Therianthrope.2025-07-281h 08The Campfire's EdgeTrail Camera Strategies for Daimonic Encounters Sarah and Matt give updates on their projects before diving into a conversation about Sarah's experience operating trail cameras, as a artist and graduate student in Mexican Gray Wolf country. She also expands on her experiences with our trail cameras in North Carolina's Haw River watershed and we talk about our favorite captures. Sarah shares insight from our trail cam experiments and gives tips if you are looking get more wildlife on film. You can find Matt's Therianthrope Substack here. The Bartram 250 Celebration and art Symposium is here. Sarah's Artist page is here. Original episode art, show notes and library at TheCampfiresEdge.com.Outro is a de2025-06-0137 minThe Campfire's EdgeCrossing the Dark Divide: Q&A with Dr. Robert Michael PyleDr. Robert Michael Pyle is a naturalist and the author of 28 books, including Chasing Monarchs, Where Bigfoot Walks, Wintergreen, Nature Matrix, Butterflies of the Pacific Northwest, the novel Magdalena Mountain, and four collections of poetry. In this episode, we talk about his 2022 bigfoot sighting, what it's like playing in a band with Nirvana's Krist Novoselic, and his experience as a naturalist and scientist writing about sasquatch. For more episodes and original art, go to TheCampfiresEdge.com.2025-04-012h 26The Campfire's EdgeExperiencer Interview: Faeries, UFOs, Land Spirits and Chaos MagicIn this episode, our friend Jason describes his experiences growing up in Ohio with fairy phenomenon, ghost trains, UFO dreams and his practice of chaos magic. Be sure to check out TheCampFiresEdge.com for original show art and other episodes.2025-03-251h 23The Campfire's EdgeLyanda Fern Lynn Haupt: Bird Synchronicities, Saints and True-NamesNature writer Lyanda Fern Lynn Haupt joins us to talk about bird synchronicities, the communion of saints, and love for Earthsea, etymology and corvid culture. Lyanda is the author of six incredible books, including most recently, Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature and Spirit. You can find all of Lyanda's books here. You can find episode art and extras at TheCampfiresEdge.com. 2025-02-2251 minThe Campfire's EdgeCorpse Lights in the Cowee Valley 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 William Bartram Trail Conservancy and Angela is a musician. They share stories about supernatural incidents that occured in and around their old house on in the mountainside, and offer some perspective on how this place's layered history weighs on the atmosphere and mindset of the people who live and experience this area. Then we interview Brent and Angela's friend Dallas, who witnessed a light in the sky and experienced four hours...2025-02-101h 07
The Campfire's EdgeSeason Two: Whitetail Winter Season Two of The Campfire's Edge podcast. Sarah and I review our whitetail deer hunting season and our relationship with the Piedmont forest. You can find bonus material and original episode art at TheCampFiresEdge.com.2025-01-3048 minThe Campfire's EdgeEp 16: Ghostly cougars and Bigfoot boardgames with Timothy RennerSarah 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 Footprints End with Joshua Cutchin. In this episode we talk about mountain lion encounters, playful entities in the forest, and talk about Tim's outdoors experiences and his perspective on hunters and anglers who've been on his show, which just reached the 500 episode milestone last month. This episode's cougar art is pen and ink by Sarah Rose. If you'd like to see more episodes and original art, check out TheCampfiresEdge.com.2024-12-231h 17The Campfire's EdgeEp 15: Hunting as Custodianship of a Living Cosmos 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 been hugely influential in the magical community worldwide, and Matt has been a longtime member of Gordon's RSPM community. You can find all of Gordon's information at Rune Soup. Check out TheCampfiresEdge.com for episode art and extras. This episode's art is a mono-print by Matt featuring a deer-skull wreath we created for our solstice ritual. 2024-12-151h 11The Campfire's EdgeEp 14: White-pelted Bigfoot of the Upper Midwest 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. Email info@thecampfiresedge.com to share your hiking, hunting and fishing paranormal experiences and visit TheCampfiresEdge.com for show art and more information. 2024-11-281h 08The Campfire's EdgeEP 13: Ghost Lights over Haw River - Orbs Part 2In 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 Cutcheon and Barbara Fisher, coauthors of a forthcoming book about anomalous lights. The second part of the episode, Sarah continues her discussion with Barbara from Episode 11 (Orbs, Pondered) about what these orbs might be. Email info@thecampfiresedge.com to share your hunting and fishing experiences and check out www.thecampfiresedge.com for original art and show notes.2024-11-1549 minThe Campfire's EdgeEp 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 like th St. John's River Monster (aka the Borinkus!). Email info@thecampfiresedge.com to share your hunting and fishing experiences and check out www.thecampfiresedge.com for original art and show notes. 2024-09-261h 04The Campfire's EdgeEP 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 of John Keel 6degreesofjohnkeel.com and check out our episode art and notes at TheCampFiresEdge.com. 2024-09-2158 minThe Campfire's EdgeEp 10: Empty Abundance - Invasive Species Ecology and Our Responsibility In this episode, we interview Andy Ciccone, author, podcaster and native plant advocate. We discuss the impact of invasive species on the native plants and animals, the responsibility we have as custodians of the places we live, and challenging ideas championed by popular counterculture voices claiming invasive species management is pointless and racist or xenophobic. You can find new episode art, links to Andy's projects, and check out our struggle against Autumn Olive at TheCampFiresEdge.com. 2024-09-1859 minThe Campfire's EdgeEp 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...2024-09-1157 minThe Campfire's EdgeSpontaneous, brief, brilliant: Brook Trout and Strange Lights in the WoodsIn 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...2024-09-0748 minThe Campfire's EdgeReckoning with the McKenzie River BigfootThis 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. 2024-08-301h 06The Campfire's EdgeExploring the ecology of souls with Joshua CutchinJoshua 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.2024-08-221h 05The Campfire's EdgeHaunted Hike in the Jemez MountainsIn 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. 2024-08-1757 minThe Campfire's EdgeHigh 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. 2024-08-0451 minThe Campfire's EdgeThe 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. 2024-07-2949 minThe Campfire's EdgeBringing Home the Bear WifeIn 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.2024-07-2536 minThe Campfire's EdgeWelcome 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. Your hosts, Matt Stansberry and Sarah Rose, are passionate conservationists, hunters and parents living in the Piedmont of North Carolina., Matt is an author and Sarah is a wildlife artist. In this first episode the hosts articulate the topics that drive this podcast: What does a person who is viscerally connected to a landscape experience in a paranormal event? Can looking at different peoples' experiences comparatively tell us anything about how...2024-07-2332 min