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Camp Monsters

Gumberoo

Camp Monsters

Jenny Barber

History, Kids & Family, Drama, Fiction, Folklore, Legends, Spooky, Halloween, Stories For Kids, Monsters, Thriller, Society & Culture, Family Friendly, Personal Journals

4.72.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Up in the Cascade Mountains of the Pacific Northwest, you can smell a Gumberoo before you hear it-- a smell just like woodsmoke: faint at first, then thicker and thicker, like a campfire gone wild.

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0:00.0

This is an REI co-op studios production.

0:14.0

You're a lumberjack, and the old acts and sawdays are the great virgin forests of the Pacific Northwest.

0:23.0

And you have to keep quiet.

0:26.0

You have to listen.

0:28.0

You have to listen for the...

0:30.0

WHOOSH!

0:32.0

A huge dead limb knocked loose by the ring of your axe, hurtling down to crush you.

0:39.0

You have to listen for the muffled...

0:42.0

A some old snag leaning its unseen top against your tree begins to crack and crumble,

0:49.0

tumbling down huge chunks of rotten timber because of horse.

0:53.0

You have to listen for the ticking...

0:57.0

WHOOSH!

0:59.0

Of the tree you're cutting beginning to split and shatter,

1:03.0

exploding into the tension of thousands of pounds of soaring trunk and limbs above.

1:09.0

A sudden crack, a hollow bone,

1:13.0

and you've turned to run with splinters as big as your arm, slicing the air,

1:18.0

and the whole tree collapsing down around you.

1:26.0

But you're also listening for the distant roar of the creature that you fear more than any of that.

1:34.0

Quiet.

1:37.0

Do you hear it?

1:39.0

This is the Camp Monsters Podcast.

1:53.0

As Halloween closes in, our favorite season of the year,

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