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Camping is Canceled.

Camping is Canceled

Every week, sisters-in-law Gen and Kait deep-dive into stories of murder, survival, and the paranormal. New episodes are released every Friday at 9 a.m. CT wherever you get your podcasts.Follow us on Instagram & TikTok: @campingiscanceledSend case suggestions and any personal stories of survival or encounters with the paranormal that you"d like to share on the podcast to campingiscanceled@gmail.com

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58:52

EP 68 "The Bloodiest 47 Acres In America": The...

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2024/12/07

This is Part 1 of the 2 parter the tales of horror, the bright spots of human spirit, and eventually, the hauntings that linger within the limestone walls of the Missouri State Penitentiary. Tales that, as 1800's inmate JB Johnson later wrote, will make your blood creep and chill. At the start of spooky season, we got to spend a few hours wandering its cell blocks and dungeon ourselves—and we can say with absolute certainty that this is not the place you want to find yourself alone after dark

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43:52

EP 69 "Prison Is For the Birds....& Apparently, Ghosts"

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2024/12/06

This week, we hear from the brave souls of Reddit who have worked in prisons all over the world....and had unexplained experiences on night shift that made even the toughest COs sing heeeell to the nooooo. SOURCES:

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35:48

EP 67 "Glitches in the Matrix": Unexplainable...

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2024/11/15

Today we’re taking a bit of a turn from our typical trail of true crime and once again scraping the barrel of the internet for stories that leave us going what in the actual hell is this world we live in? Don’t get us wrong–we love the rules of forensic science and a justice system doing its job well— we need that certainty to pick up the pieces of the constant chaos caused by shitty human behavior and we’ll never stop obsessing over it. But sometimes things do happen to people with no rhyme or

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57:14

EP 66 "Oh, Sh*t....": The Bizarre Vanishing of...

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2024/11/08

We're diving into a mystery that has stumped law enforcement and internet sleuths alike for almost 20 years. In 2008, loving parents Annette and Brian Swanson were talking on the phone with their 19 year old son Brandon after a minor car accident–and they’d been on the phone for the better part of an hour, when Brain suddenly stopped responding even though the call was still running. So they hung up & called him back, but the phone just rang and rang until it went to voicemail. Every other call

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71:49

EP 65 "So He Decked the Halls....with ACTUAL Human...

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2024/11/01

CONSIDER THIS YOUR NO-EATING WARNINGIt's as American as apple pie for every small town to have a house that local children whisper is haunted and full of unspeakable horrors–a house that they dare each other to run up and touch without getting snatched and boiled in a cauldron. But everyone knows these houses aren’t really real…..they’re just stories that kids tell to spook each other and adults might chuckle over. But when it comes to the house we have to tell you about today— the one in

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81:06

EP 64 "Well...They Blew Him Away" THE CONCLUSION: The...

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2024/10/18

And welcome finally, to the long awaited conclusion, the ending; the dramatic wild west tale of Skidmore Missouri and its infamous bully, Ken Rex Mcelroy. If you’ve made it this far with us, you know Ken has lots of hobbies: like stealing livestock and terrorizing people with guns and knives; and let’s not forget his personal favorite–grooming 13 year old girls the second they start 8th grade to get them to marry him and have his babies. By the time Ken started waiting outside the Nodaway County

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39:49

EP 63 "Well...They Blew Him Away" PART II: The True...

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2024/10/11

Welcome back, Campers! Here we are once again, diving into the unhinged wild west-esque tale of Ken Rex Mcelroy and Skidmore Missouri: The Town That Got Away With Murder. This is DEFINITELY going to be a three parter—and here’s why.When we first started researching this case, we thought Skidmore’s situation was going to be a case of tough lessons learned—where people took the law in their own hands, and nothing good came of it. But the deeper we dug into the decades of terror countless individuals

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57:49

EP 62 BOOTY-CLENCHING TALES: "Doppelgangers: WTF Are...

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2024/10/04

For this week’s episode…we’re going to do a deep dive into a supernatural phenomenon that seems to be much more common than we ever realized—and possibly far. more. sinister: Doppelgangers. The other, more psychology-y friendly term for it is the idea of “bilocation”, where a person somehow projects an image, or “body-double”, of themselves in a secondary location, and that double is actually able to interact with people around them. We know, it still sounds pretty woo-woo. Our minds can certainly

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45:40

EP 61 "Well...They Blew Him Away": The True Story of...

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2024/09/27

For nearly 45 years, a secret has been buried in Skidmore Missouri….and people who see the world in black and white may try to tell you that its impossible for an entire town to be driven to the point where violence was the only option they had left….but after today, you might not be so sure. We’ll leave that up to you to decide. This is the true story of a small American town that got away with murder. Lights Out Campers. SOURCES:SunDance TV Documentary Series "No One Saw A Thing" Directed by Avi

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53:37

EP 60 BOOTY-CLENCHING TALES: Midwest "Crawler"...

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2024/09/20

There were gasps of terror AND gasping for air from laughing so hard during this all-new installment of Booty-Clenching Tales. Gen had never heard wtf a "crawler" was, but thanks to the terrifying story we dive into today from one unlucky midwest camper and his 120-lb German Shepherd, she'll never sleep soundly again. We also learn why Kaitlyn will never be able to a) safely own a firearm and b) why if you find intestines in your yard, bury them immediately. THANK YOU to the Reddit babes

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62:32

EP 59 "No One's Home, But Ummm There's A Wet-Haired...

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2024/09/11

We're leanin' into Spooky Season HARD with this one. In the mid 1960’s…..at the height of acclaimed paranormal expert Han's Holzer's career, he was contacted by a young stay at home mom named Carole Trausch who had just moved with her husband and three young daughters into a new house in California. She thought Hanz might be the only person left who could help her, because a strange child wouldn't stop disturbing her daughter's bedroom and waking them up at night. Seems like that should be simple

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62:36

EP 58 "The Woman Who Solved Her Own Murder": the...

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2024/09/04

On a freezing winter afternoon in 1896 the small Appalachian foothills town of Greenbriar County...a young boy named Andy Jones came by to offer his neighbor (22 year old newlywed Zona Heaster Shue) help with gathering eggs. Instead, he found a harrowing trail of blood and Zona lying dead as a doornail on the floor of her dining room. All types of hell broke loose. This case has it all..."out-of-wedlock" hanky-panky, a handsome grieving widower, a pattern of mysteriously dead wives, secret

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79:49

EP 57 "And the Moon Saw Her": the Jaycee Lee Dugard...

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2024/08/22

PART 2 is here. SOURCES:https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/03/us/03garrido.html#:~:text=Phillip%20Garrido%2C%2060%2C%20received%20a,Ms.https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/03/us/03garrido.htmlhttps://www.foxnews.com/us/jaycee-dugard-kidnapping-storybook A Stolen LIfe: A Memoir by Jaycee Lee Dugard

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EP 56 "And the Moon Saw Her": the Jaycee Lee Dugard...

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2024/08/07

Today, unfortunately, we have to talk about when a parent’s worst nightmare becomes real life. The grim reality is–most children who are taken–if they are ever found– are not found alive. But the survivor of our case today defied every statistical unlikelihood to stay alive and–finally, take back the years that were stolen from her. This is PART I of the story of the abduction, 18-year captivity, and survival of 11-year old JayCee Dugard. Lights Out Campers. SOURCES:

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41:44

EP 55 "Check Under Dat Bed": Booty-Clenching Spooky...

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2024/07/31

Welcome to PART 2 of the break from murder most horrible (while Gen is on vacation) and we scare the pants off ourselves with a few of THE most terrifying spooky stories we could find. Don't listen alone in the dark....or do;) Lights Out Campers.Sources:https://www.travelchannel.com/interests/haunted/articles/11-of-the-scariest-ghost-stories-from-reddithttps://www.today.com/life/holidays/ghost-stories-rcna41307

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41:41

EP 54 "Check Under Dat Bed": Booty-Clenching Spooky...

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2024/07/23

we hope y'all enjoy the break from murder most horrible this week to savor a few of THE most terrifying spooky stories we could get our hands on. Lights Out Campers.Sources: https://www.travelchannel.com/interests/haunted/articles/11-of-the-scariest-ghost-stories-from-reddithttps://www.today.com/life/holidays/ghost-stories-rcna41307

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61:25

EP 53 "You're Getting Her Beautiful Face": The Murder...

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2024/07/17

On June 24th, 1996, a homeless man was picking his way through a dumpster on the streets of downtown Boston when he came across an unusually heavy garbage bag. When he tore it open, what he found inside sent him sprinting down the street, terrified & screaming for help. His discovery launched an investigation into the death of a brutally murdered 19-year-old woman that remains one of the most infuriating and bizarre cold cases the Boston Homicide Unit has ever been faced with. This is story of

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EP 52 UNEXPLAINED: The Moberly-Jourdain Incident

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2024/07/10

In 1901, two English scholars (who were also friends) named Charlotte Anne Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain loved visiting historical sights together, and on August 10th, they decided to go on holiday to Versailles. They expected to spend a pleasant but otherwise uneventful day wandering the halls and grounds of the spectacular palace. But–about a week after they returned home, they realized that they’d both had an experience there that neither of them could explain and…the more they talked about it,

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57:33

EP 51 "I Loved You At Your Darkest": the Haitian...

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2024/07/03

On the evening of May 23rd, 2024, three full-time missionaries: 23 year old Davy Lloyd and 21-year old Natalie Lloyd, and 45 year old Jude Montis were murdered after a weeknight church service in Haiti’s capital of Port-Au-Prince. Their deaths left behind an unimaginable wound of grief and loss for their community, and have forced us to take a good hard look at how and why this tragedy happened. We get into the difficult topics of ethical and not-so-ethical humanitarian and missionary work, and the

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54:28

EP 50 Down a Rebbit Trail: "Serious Campers...

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2024/06/26

Gen & Kait go down a Reddit Rabbit Trail of harrowing and hilarious responses to the Reddit question: "Serious campers only....what's the craziest thing that's happened to you while out in the woods?" & things get weird.

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