Camp Monsters

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Crackle Hands: Part 1

jenbarb@rei.com (Jenny Barber) — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 10:00:00 +0000

On North Carolina’s Hatteras Island, Claira thought she knew the way back to camp. But the trail twists into something unfamiliar—something watching, waiting, and older than the forest itself. What she finds in the dark might not let her leave...

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Mermaid of Moon Lake: Part 2

jenbarb@rei.com (Jenny Barber) — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Dean is gone, and Oren is left to face whatever lurks beneath Moon Lake. Trapped under an overturned boat, he’s dragged toward the depths by something massive beneath the surface.

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Mermaid of Moon Lake: Part 1

jenbarb@rei.com (Jenny Barber) — Thu, 9 Oct 2025 10:00:00 +0000

On a quiet night at Moon Lake, Utah, Dean and Oren spot a figure standing on the rocks at the lake’s furthest point—small, still, and shadowy against the water.

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Hopkinsville Goblins: Part 2

jenbarb@rei.com (Jenny Barber) — Thu, 2 Oct 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Police officers Rile and Aarons’ encounter with the goblin-like creatures in Hopkinsville raised more questions than answers. Now, a new listener tip has surfaced—strange, undeniable details that shift the story in an unexpected direction...

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Hopkinsville Goblins: Part 1

jenbarb@rei.com (Jenny Barber) — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Hopkinsville, Kentucky police officers Rile and Aarons encounter glowing, goblin-like creatures in a cabin in the woods. Was it aliens— or something stranger?

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Camp Monsters Season 7

jenbarb@rei.com (Jenny Barber) — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 19:00:00 +0000

REI's Camp Monsters podcast returns Thursday, September 25th. Get ready for unexplainable sightings at Moon Lake, eerie encounters with goblin-like creatures in Kentucky and more...

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BONUS: A BTS Chat with Weston Davis

jenbarb@rei.com (Jenny Barber) — Thu, 7 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Join host, Weston Davis, and Camp Monsters’ sound design magician, Nick Patri, as they dive into their favorite creatures from Season 6, reveal how Weston crafts his monster stories, and share a few behind-the-scenes surprises!

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The Rougarou

jenbarb@rei.com (Jenny Barber) — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Lucie’s visit to her friend Elodie’s hometown in Louisiana has been filled with vivid experiences: bold new flavors, lively conversations around the table, and day trips through the bayou behind Elodie’s family home. It’s been a great trip, but as her time there draws to an end, Lucie finds herself increasingly restless, as if something is lingering beneath the surface—a secret she can’t quite grasp...

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The Hodag

jenbarb@rei.com (Jenny Barber) — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 10:00:00 +0000

In the quiet Northwoods of Wisconsin, a local taxidermist builds a bizarre, mish-mash creature to spark publicity and boost tourism. But when his odd creation mysteriously disappears, he suspects theft—until he uncovers the shocking truth of what really happened…

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La Llorona

jenbarb@rei.com (Jenny Barber) — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 10:00:00 +0000

A woman takes her young son, 'Nesto, to a riverside park in the Southwest, where they pass by an old woman dressed in black, weeping by the river...

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The Curse

jenbarb@rei.com (Jenny Barber) — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 10:00:00 +0000

A pair of film buffs stumble upon an old western movie set hidden deep in the desert outside Los Angeles. But as they explore the abandoned remains, strange noises start to echo through the empty set...

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The Dover Demon

jenbarb@rei.com (Jenny Barber) — Thu, 3 Oct 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Lena was taking a shortcut through the woods in Dover, Massachusetts, when something caught her eye—a pale figure with two round, black eyes, crouched on a wall, staring right at her...

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The Portal

jenbarb@rei.com (Jenny Barber) — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Mysterious disappearances have plagued the remote Beaver Dunes in Oklahoma's panhandle for years. Could it be the Devil’s Stovepipes—or something even more unsettling? Reports of eerie lights, voices of the vanished, and a mysterious creature emerging from the sands suggest there's much more to this story.

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The Taos Hum

jenbarb@rei.com (Jenny Barber) — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Since arriving in Taos, New Mexico, Frank has been plagued by a persistent, irritating hum. Hoping to escape it, he drives to Santa Fe to revisit old memories—but the hum follows, culminating in a strange and unsettling experience.

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The Sea Ape

jenbarb@rei.com (Jenny Barber) — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Sailing through the majestic waters of southeast Alaska, the crew spots something lurking in the water—like a seal, but not. What starts as a curious sighting soon becomes a chilling fight for survival.

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Camp Monsters is Back for Season 6

jenbarb@rei.com (Jenny Barber) — Thu, 5 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Camp Monsters podcast returns this September! This season, we’re venturing into the shadowy woods of Wisconsin, chasing an unexplainable hum in the Southwest, exploring an old haunted movie set near Los Angeles, and so much more…

Tune in next Thursday for the first full-length episode.

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Augerino

jenbarb@rei.com (Jenny Barber) — Wed, 8 Nov 2023 11:00:00 +0000

BONUS EPISODE from the Camp Monsters live show at the REI Flagship store in Denver, Colorado.

Join host, Weston Davis, as he shares a personal story of his encounter with the Augerino, a wormy-snake-like creature attracted to water who bores tunnels through the earth...

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Fresno Nightcrawler

jenbarb@rei.com (Jenny Barber) — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 10:00:00 +0000

One night in Fresno, California, Mateo's security camera caught strange, pale, billowy, disembodied legs walking across his front lawn. But when he looked out the window, there was nothing there...

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The Mujina

jenbarb@rei.com (Jenny Barber) — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 10:00:00 +0000

Honolulu in the late '50s was changing about as fast as a place can change. People and money were pouring in as quickly as the new jets could fly them— so no one remembers what had once occupied the spot that was paved and set up as the Waialae Drive-In Movie Theater. One night, Leilani was trying to catch a movie at the new theater when she walked into the bathroom and found a redheaded woman peering suspiciously into the mirror.

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Tommyknockers

jenbarb@rei.com (Jenny Barber) — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 10:00:00 +0000

Lara just moved into a new house in an old coal-mining town in West Virginia. One night, she begins to hear sounds behind the walls of her basement bedroom. Knocking, knocking…

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Tailypo

jenbarb@rei.com (Jenny Barber) — Wed, 4 Oct 2023 10:00:00 +0000

An old man at his cabin in Appalachia finds a dried-out old relic of a strange experience long ago. A hunt in the nearby woods that ended in a terrifying, near-fatal encounter. All these years later he'd found the old relic again, where he'd tucked it in the back of his safe. It brought back a lot of memories. And, as it turns out, that isn't all it brings back.

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Camp Monsters is Back for Season 5

jenbarb@rei.com (Jenny Barber) — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 10:00:00 +0000

Camp Monsters is back for season 5, and the monsters are more mysterious than ever. Tune in to hear tales of peculiar creatures wandering through neighborhood yards, a strange relic discovered in a cabin in the woods, unexplained knocking in the basement and more.

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Behind the Scenes of Camp Monsters

jenbarb@rei.com (Jenny Barber) — Wed, 9 Nov 2022 11:00:00 +0000

Join host Weston Davis for a behind the scenes look at the who, how and why of the Camp Monsters podcast! This is a BONUS EPISODE from Wes' interview on REI's Wild Ideas Worth Living podcast with host, Shelby Stanger. He spills the spooky tea and you don't want to miss it.

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Mothman

jenbarb@rei.com (Jenny Barber) — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Donald and Lydia moved into their first home together a little outside of Point Pleasant, West Virginia when Lydia started noticing strange occurrences— like the two skinny things, casting shadows in the light that streams under the front door. Shadows that look for all the world like what someone’s legs would cast, if they were standing, just outside. But there couldn't be anyone out there, right? If there were, they would have moved by now. No one stands so still for so long, without shifting at all. So…if it isn’t a person…what is it?

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Gumberoo

jenbarb@rei.com (Jenny Barber) — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Up in the Cascade Mountains of the Pacific Northwest, you can smell a Gumberoo before you hear it– a smell just like woodsmoke: faint at first, then thicker and thicker, like a campfire gone wild. If you’re smart you’ll get out of the woods right then– because Gumberoos can move fast. And if you gamble, and stick around, and the wind picks up and the Gumberoos came charging into the valley you’re in…well, there’s a reason that not many folks alive have heard the roar of a Gumberoo.

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Lizard Man

jenbarb@rei.com (Jenny Barber) — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Something feels off about this raining night in South Carolina. You can't put your finger on it. Driving through the intersection, you catch something in the rearview mirror. Something bathed in the red of your brake lights, something moving fast, close behind your car. You don’t get a good look at it, but…whatever it is, you decide you don’t like this. Whatever it is...you’re all alone out here.

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Alkali Lake Monster

jenbarb@rei.com (Jenny Barber) — Wed, 5 Oct 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Along the shores of Walgren Lake State Park in Nebraska, the wind is chilly and something seems off in the water. Little whirlpools are starting to form, like something is pushing the water around…something deep down in the lake...something far too big...

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Sharlie

jenbarb@rei.com (Jenny Barber) — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Iris was ice fishing on Payette Lake in McCall Idaho when suddenly, with an impact she could feel through her feet, something struck the ice beneath her...something greenish gray, and dark…and tipped with snapping teeth.

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Skunk Ape

jenbarb@rei.com (Jenny Barber) — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Molly, an adventurous dog visiting the Gulf Coast of Florida with her owner, realizes she may be in trouble when she finds herself in tall thick grass, thicker reeds, mud, and deep water. A perfect trap for the Skunk Ape.

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Hogzilla

jenbarb@rei.com (Jenny Barber) — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Beyond the high school football end zone, through that little gap in the fence, and all the way down the hill into the trees is where locals believe the legendary ghost hog lives. Landry, the small town football star, may find himself running from more than his opponent this Friday night.

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Melon Heads

jenbarb@rei.com (Jenny Barber) — Wed, 7 Sep 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Across Fairfield County, Connecticut, whispers grow that back in the trees and forests, along lonely country lanes, live the “Melon Heads” — dangerous creatures known to lure and attack wayward outsiders. Trevor, a new mail carrier, found himself on an unfamiliar country route and wanted to finish before the darkness closed in. He'll always question whether or not that was a good idea...

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