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Listener Tales 111: Camping Tales

Explore episode Jun 25, 2026
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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.

2m 20s

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

At 25:40 · 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. 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.

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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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