Here's an episode in your feed for a potential new bonus series (maybe?) called Campfire Tales! In this upload, I want to introduce you to one of my FAVORITE podcasts out there, Cryptid Cocktail Party! If you haven't listened before, here's your chance, and then you can binge all their episodes over on their feed. If you dig what we do, you'll love their show. Dave and Sarge put on a great show, evidenced by them winning Best Cryptid Podcast last year at the Parapod Awards! And who wouldn't love a show sponsored by Narragansett!? (Crush it like Quint!)

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Welcome back to another episode of Cryptid Cocktail Party! This week, we dive into some relatively recent Scottish folklore and talk about the absolutely nightmarish entity known as the Gurning Man of Glasgow. Is he just a man? A ghost? Or something interdimensional? We have no idea. But we try to figure out!

This week we're staying local in Eric's backyard because nothing is scarier than a monster that can pop up in your neighborhood! We're digging into a few of the spooky encounters with the Black-Eyed Kids and trying to answer the question: Who or what are the Black-Eyed Kids?! And what do they want from us?!

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This week we're hanging out on the side of Lake Ontario while discussing Toronto's own cryptid, the Tunnel Monster of Cabbagetown. Join us to learn about this one-off cryptid's encounter with a man named Ernest, but stick around as we discuss our favorite cabbage recipes and forget the James McAvoy's name. Is the TMOC a random sewer-dwelling man, or does it have a connection to the history of the area?! Curl up by the fire with us to find out!

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This week we're staying local to discuss the global Black Stick Men phenomenon. As if a kid's drawing or the bathroom sign gender identifier stepped out of its 2D world and entered our reality, the Black Stick Men can pop up anywhere. Though these cryptids seem simple, we get into discussions about simulation theory, lower dimensionality, Gumby, shadow people comparisons, and video game animation bones!

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This week we're going international again and making camp on Umboi Island off the coast of Papa New Guinea! While sampling the local fruits, we discuss the Ropen, another giant flying cryptid that emits light (but not exactly like the Van Meter Visitor). We dig into its characteristics and eating habit before tripping into a discussion about Young Earth Creationism and how the Ropen itself opens up the possibility for a 6,000 to 10,000 year old Earth! So gather around the campfire and learn about this (pre)historic, potentially narrative-changing monster!

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This week we're in the beautiful Walnut Woods State Park to discuss the mysterious monster that terrorized the town of Van Meter, Iowa for 5 nights! Come learn about the escalation of the sightings and how the town reacted, and get a lesson in Kangaroo anatomy while you're here! There's no need for a lantern out in the woods this week when we've got an 8-foot, bat-winged, glowing-horned cryptid on the loose!

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This week we’re in Detroit, Michigan to dive into the city’s bad luck caused by a little red dwarf, the Nain Rouge! We’ll discuss what we think (hope?) he looks like, compare him to the Gremlins movies, and yearn to attend the Marche Du Nain Rouge celebration!

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Reference texts:

The United States of Cryptids: A Tour of American Myths and Monsters, 2002, J.W. Ocker

This week we’re in Louisiana, Missouri to learn about Momo, the pumpkin-headed, six-toed, dog-killing, sandwich-stealing, seven-foot-tall, stinky Bigfoot that terrorized the neighborhood! Could it be a bear? Or a couple kids on each other’s shoulders Little Rascals-style? Come along on our journey with the Missouri Monster!

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Reference texts:
Momo: The Strange Case of the Missouri Monster, 2019, Lyle Blackburn