S19 Ep24: Campfire Chronicles - The MAU Camp Out (Sn. 19 Ep. 24)

Monsters Among Us

Derek Hayes | Audioboom Studios

Natural Sciences, Science, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 133 minutes

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Summary

Let the summer of screams commence! Grab your s'mores and gather 'round the campfire, the special MAU Camp Out episode is here to remind us that nature isn't always safe & peaceful... sometimes, *somethin's* out there that we can't quite explain... Keep it spooky and enjoy!

Season 19 Episode 24 of Monsters Among Us Podcast, true paranormal stories of ghosts, cryptids, UFOs and more, told by the witnesses themselves.

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Watch FREE - Shadows in the Desert: High Strangeness in the Borrego Triangle - https://www.borregotriangle.com/

Monsters Among Us Junior on Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monsters-among-us-junior/id1764989478

Monsters Among Us Junior on Spotify -
https://open.spotify.com/show/1bh5mWa4lDSqeMMX1mYxDZ?si=9ec6f4f74d61498b

Samurai Chatter from the Sierra Sounds - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGfIIjN-P7o

Ron Morehead Interview - https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=3931679560476192

Yosemite Black Bears - https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/nature/bears.htm

Bigfoot Encounter just outside Yosemite - https://web.archive.org/web/20190503200451/https://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2019/05/bigfoot-encounter-in-yosemite-national.html

Reece Mastin "UFO" Song - https://open.spotify.com/track/7Eq6P8IuIwwn4KKNDzzxdD

portable urinal - http://bit.ly/3Gs9xhw

Skunk ape - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_ape

Monsters and Mysteries in America Skunk Ape Experience - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-l4tpobCBs

Beast of Bladenboro Trailer - https://www.facebook.com/ScareNetwork/videos/955088171767781/

Ricky Picture 1 (Original) - https://bit.ly/44fd8sB

Ricky Picture 2 (Cropped) - https://bit.ly/4etY51r

Ricky Picture 3 (Zoomed) - https://bit.ly/45MVttn

Arthur C Clarke's Kenneth Arnold Interview - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeMSHFxJdoI

Expedition X Mt Adams - https://play.discoveryplus.com/video/watch/65d4a185-823a-42e7-8e19-82581561a074/72ff3e2a-7d09-4ac2-b159-e52ce41251e0

Jimmy Church Mt Adams Doorway - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fepbvdws9Xk

Mount Shasta - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQJs8BHtTXg

Panther Meadows - https://starseedgatherings.tripod.com/id26.html

Beaver Tail Slap - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/almDF1RXNvU

Slide-Rock Bolter - http://www.lib.lumberwoods.org/fclw/bolter.html

Slide-Rock Bolter Model Build (Fun channel to follow) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vFE2gT8kSQ

George Washington National Forest Sightings - https://www.bfro.net/GDB/state_listing.asp?state=va

Most recent George Washington National Forest Sighting - https://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=77679

Why Bigfoot Sways - https://bit.ly/3G7h9WP

BFRO Report #59307(Swaying) - https://www.bfro.net/gdb/show_report.asp?id=59307

BFRO Report #23585 (Swaying) - https://www.bfro.net/gdb/show_report.asp?id=23585

Ivan Hill (the 60 Freeway Killer) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Hill

Music from tonight's episode:

Music by Iron Cthulhu Apocalypse - https://www.youtube.com/c/IronCthulhuApocalypse

CO.AG Music - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA

Music by White Bat Audio - https://www.youtube.com/@WhiteBatAudio

White Bat Audio Songs:
You Can't Kill the Boogeyman
Second Life
10 to Midnight
Somewhere in Time
Abandoned Ship
Running from the Wendigo
Headlights in the Fog
Evil Behind the Mask

Transcript

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0:00.0	Go ahead.
0:02.0	We're going to see.
0:03.0	We're going to see.
0:05.0	We're going to be.
0:08.0	We're going to be. You know, I Us.
0:56.0	I'm your guide, Derrick Hayes.
0:59.0	Shhh, do you hear that?
1:05.0	The wind rustling through the trees, the slight crackle of the campfire, and the animals of the night, singing their song.
1:18.6	Now grab yourself a log or a lawn chair, cozy up here to the fire, and up yourself to a marshmallow or two, and in. Because tonight, we are going camping.
1:31.6	Welcome to a very special campfire edition of Monsters Among Us. I'll be your camp host and your
1:38.6	storyteller here this evening. And tonight, we're taking the show off the beaten path, into the woods, up on the mountain, down by the lake and out in the parks, into the wild and into the dark corners of our natural world.
1:55.4	Welcome to the very first MAU camp out.
1:59.8	A collection of listeners submitted encounters with the supernatural, the paranormal, and the unexplained,
2:06.6	all set against the backdrop of the great outdoors.
2:11.6	So grab your flashlight, zip up your tent, and keep some firewood on the flames because as you're about to find out in the forest you're never really a low and for this special episode we begin with a call from wolfgang in california who shares a chilling account about his own brush with something deep
2:37.8	in the forest welcome to the show Wolfgang hey Derek this is Wolfgang I'm calling from the
2:50.6	central coast of California, just north of
2:52.8	Borough Bay. But this event took place in southern Oregon, near the Oregon border, in the Fremont,
3:01.8	Winima National Forest, back in August of 2007. I was camping with my family before heading to relatives on the
3:11.8	Klamath River. And we always take our kids out to the wilderness areas before we visit
3:17.2	relatives in that area. And this was a new location for us. It was about 15 miles off the paved road
3:23.3	at a campground at the lake and basically
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