Eight true stories from summer camps, campgrounds and campfires, told slowly over the sound of a small fire. The real Boy Scout camp where Friday the 13th was filmed. A mountain that fell on a campground in 1959. A light over a lake in Maine, and four men who never agreed on what happened next. Two campsites in Glacier, nine miles apart, on one night in 1967. The footprints that gave Bigfoot his name. A canyon flood on the eve of Colorado's 100th birthday. A meadow in the Smokies where a little boy went missing. And a man lost in the Yellowstone for thirty seven days. No jump scares, no loud sounds. If you drift off, the fire keeps going until the hour is up.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Welcome

1:20 The Real Crystal Lake

5:40 The Night the Mountain Came Down

9:55 The Fire That Burned Too Fast

14:21 Nine Miles Apart

18:48 Big Foot

22:57 Climb to Safety

27:14 Spence Field

31:17 Thirty Seven Days

35:44 Campfire until morning

These are real events, told from the record. Where the sources disagree, or a story is a claim rather than a fact, the narration says so. Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco is a private Scout camp and is not open to visitors outside its official tour dates. Sources for every story are below.

Watch every episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZQTFsBiiqpA

SOURCES

The Real Crystal Lake (Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco, 1979): Smithsonian Magazine, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/the-1980-slasher-movie-friday-the-13th-was-filmed-at-this-boy-scout-camp-in-new-jersey-180978933/ ; Crystal Lake Tours, about the camp, https://www.crystallaketours.com/about-the-camp

The Night the Mountain Came Down (Hebgen Lake, 1959): USGS Yellowstone Volcano Observatory, The 1959 Madison Slide, https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/yvo/news/1959-madison-slide-part-1-a-deadly-consequence-hebgen-lake-earthquake ; USGS YVO, 60 years since the 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake, https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/yvo/news/60-years-1959-m73-hebgen-lake-earthquake-its-history-and-effects-yellowstone

The Fire That Burned Too Fast (Allagash, 1976): The County, part 1, https://thecounty.me/2016/09/21/houlton/how-much-of-a-famed-1976-ufo-abduction-is-true-4/ ; The County, part 2, https://thecounty.me/2016/09/28/caribou/how-much-of-a-famed-ufo-abduction-is-true/

Nine Miles Apart (Glacier, 1967): Flathead Beacon, https://flatheadbeacon.com/2017/08/09/lessons-night-grizzlies/ ; The Washington Post, via Anchorage Daily News, https://www.adn.com/nation-world/2017/08/03/the-story-of-2-fatal-grizzly-bear-attacks-that-changed-our-relationship-with-wildlife/

Big Foot (Bluff Creek, 1958): The Seattle Times, 5 Dec 2002, https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/20021205/raywallaceobit05m/lovable-trickster-created-a-monster-with-bigfoot-hoax ; Mental Floss, https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/bigfoot-word-origin-hoax

Climb to Safety (Big Thompson, 1976): USGS Fact Sheet 2006-3095, https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2006/3095/pdf/FS06-3095_508.pdf ; The Coloradoan, via Claims Journal, https://amp.claimsjournal.com/news/west/2016/08/08/272639.htm

Spence Field (Great Smoky Mountains, 1969): National Park Service case file, 1969, released under FOIA ; Hellbender Press, https://hellbenderpress.sustainably.org/item/7-missing-persons-in-the-park

Thirty Seven Days (Yellowstone, 1870): Truman Everts, Thirty-Seven Days of Peril (1871), https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30924 ; National Park Service, Yellowstone, https://home.nps.gov/yell/blogs/truman-c-everts-yellowstone-s-first-unlucky-adventurer.htm