The Campfire's Edge

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.

Latest episodes

15 November 2024

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

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 www.thecampfiresedge.com for original art and show notes.

00:00

49:47

26 September 2024

Ep 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.

00:00

01:04:12

20 September 2024

EP 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.

00:00

58:28

18 September 2024

Ep 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.

00:00

59:01

11 September 2024

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

00:00

57:08

06 September 2024

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.

00:00

48:06