Camp Monsters

Bring a flashlight. Or a headlamp, if you have one. Bring a sweater, no matter what the weather is like outside. The further we go, the cooler and darker it will get. Bring boots too, the higher the better. The walls and ceilings drip and ooze, the floors are wet with muck. Down there, under the city. Down in that... wilderness? Well, it may be uncultivated and inhospitable, but it certainly is inhabited. What inhabits it depends on how deep you go. In this episode we’ll go as deep as we can. Deeper than perhaps we should.

You’re out swimming when you feel a pinch on your leg. Is it a harmless fish or something a bit more sinister? Meet this week’s Camp Monster... The Letiche. A creature that lurks in the swamps and bayous of Louisiana.

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Season artwork by Tyler Grobowsky.

In this episode we’re going out right to the very edge of the firelight, watching and listening. We’ll go out where others swear they’ve seen something, heard something ... something ancient, large, and threatening. Something from those dark old times when someone around the fire always had to stay awake, to keep watch.

It’s your turn. So stay awake. Keep your eyes open. Stare into the night and listen for what you think you might have heard out there ... in the darkness.

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If you’re looking for a beautiful sunset, go to the Mogollon Rim in Arizona. They call it the Rim because that’s what it is: the rim of the giant Colorado plateau, where it drops off into the pine forest lowlands below. Most of the Rim is National Forest, so you can drive or hike or bike or even ride horseback to countless viewpoints where you can watch the descending sun turn everything a glowing red.

But you know this episode isn’t about beautiful sunsets. It’s about what has sometimes been seen along the Mogollon Rim after sunset. When it gets dark out. When the shadows start to lengthen and take on shapes ...

People call it the Mogollon Monster, a Bigfoot like creature sneaking around in the wilderness out there. But those who have seen it, they don’t like to describe it at all. Because describing it takes them back out into the dark desert night, into an all-surrounding darkness ... a darkness that suddenly reaches out to grab them.

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• Yeti

Series artwork by Tyler Grobowsky.

You've probably heard the fairy tale about the troll under the bridge, but have you heard of the creature at Owl Creek? This monster is rumored to haunt an abandoned train track in the Kentucky wilderness.

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Artwork by Tyler Grobowsky.