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The Campfire"s Edge

Matt Stansberry and Sarah Rose

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.

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01:02:02

Hunting and Magical Practice - Aspen from Yarrow & Bone

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2025/12/02

In this episode we are talking about magical practice and hunting.Human's earliest magical practices almost certainly arose from attempts to secure hunting success. But today, the overlap between these two archaic practices is very limited. In this episode we are talking to Aspen, who is a poet and hunter and magical practitioner living out in the American west and she has a substack called Yarrow and Bone which we encourage folks to check out.If you are a hunter who has a magical practice that you

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00:52:27

Bow Hunter Encounters Bigfoot in Tar Hollow State Forest

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2025/11/20

Almost fifteen years ago to the day, our friend Jeremy encountered Bigfoot in a remote part of Ohio's Tar Hollow State forest during deer season. His climbing tree stand is likely still connected to the tree, after he ran out of the woods; it's the only time he's done that, in decades of hunting encounters with other large and potentially dangerous animals. We talk about the landscape that shapes hunters, what real fear in the woods feels like, why credible people stay quiet about encounters, and mak

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01:52:16

Holy Enforcers, Supernatural Gamekeepers, talking...

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2025/11/10

Dr. Peggy Smith Epig (environmental historian, longtime ranger, and Goucher professor) joins us to talk about how stories shape land ethics, from St. Hubert and St. Cuthbert to fieldwork in West Virginia where a small chapel’s stag icon sparks a conversation about hunting, stewardship, and community norms.We trace the hagiography of “holy gamekeepers,” a pilgrim’s encounter with an Iberian wolf on the Camino, and the local work of river care and urban stream monitoring—asking how lived experience

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01:21:03

Interview with Dan Flores, Author of Coyote America...

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2025/10/18

In this episode, Sarah and Matt interview Dan Flores, author of Coyote America and Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America. We also announce the launch of our new imprint, The Hungry Forest Gallery & Press. Go to TheCampfiresEdge.com for original art and episode notes and check out our new Patreon for The Hungry Forest to support our work.

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01:08:10

On the Nature of Violence with Conner Habib

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2025/07/28

In 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

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00:37:27

Trail Camera Strategies for Daimonic Encounters

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2025/06/01

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 Bartra

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02:21:39

Crossing the Dark Divide: Q&A with Dr. Robert Michael...

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2025/04/01

Dr. 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

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01:23:48

Experiencer Interview: Faeries, UFOs, Land Spirits...

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2025/03/25

In 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.

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00:51:31

Lyanda Fern Lynn Haupt: Bird Synchronicities, Saints...

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2025/02/22

Nature 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.

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01:07:53

Corpse Lights in the Cowee Valley

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2025/02/10

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

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00:48:00

Season Two: Whitetail Winter

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2025/01/30

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.

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01:17:47

Ep 16: Ghostly cougars and Bigfoot boardgames with...

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2024/12/23

Sarah 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

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01:11:05

Ep 15: Hunting as Custodianship of a Living Cosmos

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2024/12/15

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

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01:08:56

Ep 14: White-pelted Bigfoot of the Upper Midwest

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2024/11/27

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.

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00:49:47

EP 13: Ghost Lights over Haw River - Orbs Part 2

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2024/11/15

In 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

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Ep 12: Flats fishing with Florida's pink plesiosaur

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2024/09/26

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

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00:58:28

EP 11: Orbs? Pondered - Q&A with UAP Researcher...

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2024/09/20

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.

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00:59:01

Ep 10: Empty Abundance - Invasive Species Ecology and...

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2024/09/18

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.

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00:57:08

Ep 9: Bighorn Medicine Wheel with John Lane

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2024/09/11

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

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00:48:06

Spontaneous, brief, brilliant: Brook Trout and...

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2024/09/06

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

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