57: Camping Horrors

Three campfires. Three true stories from the places we go to feel free — and the dark that waits just past the firelight. A painter who knew his lake better than anyone alive, and drowned in it under questions we’re still arguing over a century later. Four teenagers who pitched a tent by a quiet Finnish lake one summer night in 1960 — and themorning only one of them came back. And a forest in Transylvania that people walk into, and don’t always walk back out of the same. This is the last one before we take a short break. So keep your fire built up, and your back to theflame.

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Sources & further reading:

· Confirmed: Northern Light: The Enduring Mystery of Tom Thomson and the Woman Who Loved Him by Roy MacGregor (Random House Canada, 2010). Adding it to the show-notes sources with a link.   Tom Thomson — Canadian Mysteries, ‘Death on a Painted Lake’: https://canadianmysteries.ca/sites/thomson/home/indexen.html

· Tom Thomson — CBC, ‘Why the 100-year-old mystery of Tom Thomson’s death lives on’: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/q/blog/why-the-100-year-old-mystery-of-tom-thomson-s-death-lives-on-1.4193463

· Lake Bodom — Wikipedia, ‘Lake Bodom murders’:   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Bodom_murders

·  Lake Bodom — All That’s Interesting, ‘The Lake Bodom Murders’:   https://allthatsinteresting.com/lake-bodom-murders

·  Lake Bodom — Mental Floss, ‘Campsite Killer’:   https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/584241/lake-bodom-murders

· Hoia-Baciu — Emil Barnea’s 1968 photographs (Patrick Gross archive):https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/picamaro01.htm

· Hoia-Baciu — Astronomer.pro, ‘History, Legends, and Reported Phenomena’:   https://astronomer.pro/hoia-baciu-forest-history-legends-and-reported-phenomena/

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