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Listener Tales 111: Camping Tales

Explore episode Jun 25, 2026
Education
The Warnings Before Going Off-Trail in a National Park

Listener Tales 111: Camping Tales · Jun 25, 2026 Education

Before describing how he got lost in a Canadian national park for three days, the Manitoba listener delivered four concrete warnings: don't hike off-trail in an unknown forest, bring water and a compass, bring a first-aid kit, and never go alone. He then admitted he and his friends violated every single one of these rules. This self-aware opening makes the horror that follows even more gripping.

1 min

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Tale 3 — I Got Lost in a Horror Movie Forest With a Time Anomaly

At 45:20 · chapter starts 40:50

Growing up off-grid on the edge of a Canadian forest gave the Manitoba listener a deep connection to nature — and a dangerous overconfidence. On their fifth annual bare-bones camping trip, he, Ali, and Isaac hiked off-trail into a national park's symmetrical pine forest, where every tree looks identical and landmarks are nonexistent. Their phones all fail to turn on despite having charge. That night, the narrator hears a man screaming at the top of his lungs from 50 meters away, but his friends hear nothing. One friend hears footsteps; the others don't. Then, while relieving himself at night, the narrator encounters a massive creature at eye level from 70 meters away — antlered, making a shriek described as 'a fork scraping on a plate from the throat of someone with tuberculosis who smokes three packs a day.' He runs screaming, his friends hear nothing, and he returns from a completely different direction than he left. They eventually find a road and escape on Saturday — a full day sooner than they should have exited after three nights. Back home, his phone turns on with 60% battery. They went camping again the next year.

Science
Lost in a Symmetrical Forest: The Manitoba Time Anomaly

Listener Tales 111: Camping Tales · Jun 25, 2026 Science

Three university friends hiked into an unmarked national park forest in Manitoba on a Wednesday and became hopelessly lost for three days. All three phones failed to turn on despite having battery. They heard sounds no one else could hear, saw things that weren't there, and one camper encountered a large unknown creature with antler-like protrusions making an inhuman screech. When they finally escaped, it was Saturday — but they should have been out Sunday.

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Science
The Manitoba Forest Creature: Windigo or Something Worse?

Listener Tales 111: Camping Tales · Jun 25, 2026 Science

Twenty meters from his sleeping friends, the Manitoba listener encountered something in the forest that towered at his eye level from 70 meters away, had antler-like protrusions, and emitted a shriek described as 'a fork scraping a plate from the throat of someone with tuberculosis who smokes three packs a day.' He ran. His friends heard nothing. When he returned from a completely different direction than he left.

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