Our tales for today are

Summer Camp - Think back to your late childhood, your early teens. When you were young and dumb enough to want to grow up, to want to be saddled with responsibility because that meant you were almost a grown up. Think of the first time your parents gave you a slip of paper with important phone numbers and said “they’d be back in a bit, don’t burn the house down”. The pride, the euphoria, the elation of that moment of true power. You could do anything you wanted. You were just like an adult! Of course this brings to mind the old adage about being cautious when wishing… Thank you GodDamnCommie

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Ghost in the Woods - How do you explain something you can understand? Or even more difficult, how do you explain something you aren’t sure is even possible? Now, explain that experience to a friend. Or even more difficult, to a stranger or a group of strangers. The only way they will believe you is if you believe yourself. But then you’d have to be able to understand and explain the inexplicable to yourself. And round and round we go… Original Poster Deleted

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My AT Ghost Story - Strange experiences in the forest needn’t always be nefarious. Some are sublime and transformative. Moments of stark clarity and stunning beauty. These are quiet, reflective encounters with the natural world that can be frightening but sustain in us a wonder for forces far beyond our comprehension. And sometimes we undergo strange net neutral events, just as bizarre and maybe more inexplicable because of their seeming lack of purpose, whether for good or ill. It’s possible that these inexplicable contacts with the other side are the most haunting for their utter lack of rationale or logic. Trying to find meaning in the meaningless, that way lies madness. Thank you RedBullSonOfRambo

Thanks for coming back to our little audio campfire. We are about to kick off another Monday with some weird and creepy stuff from the treeline. But first, some quick housekeeping,

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Music and SFX - A Hand In The Dark by Underbelly and Ty Mayer courtesy of YouTube Free Studio Library