This is an REI co-op studios production.

No matter how dark the night, no matter how fast you run, no matter what is chasing you.

You'd be safe if only you could make it to the campfire.

There it is, up ahead through the trees. We're waiting for you, but...

Will you make it?

This is the Camp Monsters Podcast.

Our third full season will begin in September thanks to REI and our sponsors at YETI.

But once a month between now and then we thought we'd tell a story that we've been saving since before our very first season.

A story about Bigfoot, Sasquatch.

A story we've been saving because it's too long to fit into a single episode and...

...well, because it happened to me.

And like any incredible experience that you live through, some moments are seared with perfect clarity in my memory.

What it felt like to breathe the night air, what it smelled like.

The feel of soft rain on my face.

And then there are other moments I can barely remember at all.

Blurs of disbelief and terror memories I can hardly accept are real.

Last month we told the first part of this experience.

If you haven't heard it yet, I'd recommend you go and listen to it now.

But if you don't want to take the time, I can tell you that...

...in it we meet Roger, an aging, straight-laced computer engineer.

We meet him in a used bookshop some years ago in San Francisco.

The only odd thing about Roger is...

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