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Listener Tales 111: Camping Tales

Explore episode Jun 25, 2026

Society & Culture

Man or Bear? A Real-Life Answer at McLeod Falls

Listener Tales 111: Camping Tales · Jun 25, 2026 Society & Culture

The viral 'would you rather meet a man or a bear in the woods' question got a real-life answer for one anonymous listener at McLeod Falls, California. A man with a fedora asked her to photograph him nude twice across separate years. Later that same night, a black bear walked past within 20 feet and moved on without incident. The bear was naked the whole time and still wasn't creepy about it.

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Tale 1 — Don't Drink Those Murder Beers: Oregon Camping Terror

At 28:15 · chapter starts 7:52

Sarah and her partner Chago, both tattoo artists who travel frequently, set up at a primitive BLM campsite near Phil's Trailhead in Bend, Oregon. After a tense first night with an eerie forest silence and Sarah's irrational Bigfoot fears, a white Ford cargo van begins circling their isolated site. The driver — described as having a greasy long black beard, a straw sun hat, and truck-stop sunglasses, singing erratically to AC/DC — rolls to a stop at their campsite and hands Chago two beers after their French bulldog charges at him and then projectile vomits in distraction.^{[1]

— Alaina Urquhart

"A greasy man in a white Ford cargo van approached Sarah and her partner Chago at their isolated Oregon campsite and handed them beers. What…"

07:52} The man's bizarre comment that Sarah looks like his sister and Chago's flat 'thanks, have a nice day' send him on his way. Later that day they discover via news reports that police had evacuated the entire campground because the same man — apprehended in his white van — had called in threats to kill everyone and had two loaded guns. The beers, the reaching into the back of the van, the weird eye contact: all of it recontextualizes into a near-massacre. Chago drinks the murder beers anyway, gets violently ill, and ultimately quits drinking entirely.

True Crime

The Murder Beer Guy: How a Vomiting French Bulldog Saved Two Campers

Listener Tales 111: Camping Tales · Jun 25, 2026 True Crime

A greasy man in a white Ford cargo van approached Sarah and her partner Chago at their isolated Oregon campsite and handed them beers. What looked like a weird but harmless encounter was revealed when police later arrested the same man — who had two firearms in his van and had threatened to kill everyone in the area. The French bulldog's perfectly-timed projectile vomit may have been the only thing that kept the guns in the bag.

I have a completely irrational fear of Bigfoot murdering me in my sleep while camping, and this forest was very squatchy.

Alaina Urquhart

Listener Tales 111: Camping Tales

I specifically remember thinking as he passed, 'Thank fuck he didn't see us down here alone in the woods.'

Alaina Urquhart

Listener Tales 111: Camping Tales

True Crime

Armed suspect had 2 guns in white van

Listener Tales 111: Camping Tales · Jun 25, 2026

The man who handed beers to Chago was later apprehended by police; he had two loaded guns in his van and had threatened to kill everyone in the area.

True Crime

The Most Important Camping Lessons from Sarah's Oregon Trip

Listener Tales 111: Camping Tales · Jun 25, 2026 True Crime

Sarah's camping tale near Bend, Oregon delivers three unforgettable lessons: the woods can conceal armed and dangerous people, a gut feeling at the wrong moment is worth listening to, and sometimes a projectile-vomiting French bulldog is the most valuable safety device you own. The armed man's decision to spare them — possibly because Sarah looked like his sister — is something Sarah and Chago will never fully understand.

Don't drink those fucking murder beers.

Alaina Urquhart

Listener Tales 111: Camping Tales

Health & Fitness

Chago quit drinking after the murder beer incident

Listener Tales 111: Camping Tales · Jun 25, 2026

After drinking the beers handed to them by the armed Oregon man (the 'murder beers'), Chago projectile vomited and subsequently quit drinking entirely, achieving sobriety.

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