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Every week, sisters-in-law Gen and Kait deep-dive into stories of murder, survival, and the paranormal.
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- 2 days ago1h 24m
EP 143: Why Camping Is Canceled — The Gut Never Lies
This week, we are diving deep into the primal instincts and eerie "gut feelings" that tell us to pack up and get out of the woods. We scoured the backpacking subreddit to bring you a spine-chilling collection of stories where trusting that inner voice meant the difference between a close call and absolute disaster. We also explore real-life mysteries, like the tragic 1995 disappearance of a hiker in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness, and delve into the fascinating Shoshone legend of the Nimerigar "little people." Plus, we share incredible tales of hikers who listened to their intuition and ended up saving the lives of injured strangers. You have plenty of reasons to never ignore your instincts. Or better yet, just stay inside."That's Genevieve. And that's Kaitlyn."Sisters-in-law, best friends, former CNAs, and the sharp-witted duo behind Camping Is Canceled. Known for their mix of research-driven storytelling and unfiltered commentary, Gen and Kait tackle true crime cases (and paranormal rabbit holes) with empathy, curiosity, and a healthy dose of dark humor.📲 Instagram: @campingiscanceled 📲 TikTok: @campingiscanceled 📧 Contact: campingiscanceled@gmail.com🎧 Listen now — everywhere you get your podcasts.Want ad-free episodes 1-day early? Subscribe to Patreon and listen to the main feed episodes (plus weekly bonus episodes) every Thursday. Join for just $5.99/month!Sourcesr/backpacking, "A strong gut feeling to leave a wilderness camp..." https://www.reddit.com/r/backpacking/comments/1wb4r7x/a_strong_gut_feeling_to_leave_a_wilderness_camp/Belgrade News, "Beartooth mystery." https://www.belgrade-news.com/news/beartooth-mystery/article_de02ea76-cd0b-46fe-b782-94fdacc40695.htmlLA Times, "Forest service workers taken hostage held at gunpoint in NorCal, feds say." https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-07-17/forest-service-workers-taken-hostage-held-at-gunpoint-in-norcal-feds-say
- 1 weeks ago1h 25m
EP 142: Why Camping Is Canceled — Refrigerator Bodies & Tall Greys
This week, we're breaking from our usual deep dives for one of our favorite recurring bits: a big pile of user-submitted horror stories about why, exactly, camping is canceled. Genevieve just got back from a week backpacking in Wyoming and lived to tell about it, so naturally the timing felt right to remind everyone why sleeping outside is a terrible idea.We dig through some of Reddit's darkest camping and hiking threads for tales of vanishing children, humanoid figures crawling around tents during thunderstorms, ghost Marines pointing lost soldiers back to safety, and a Wicker Man sighting that's almost too on the nose. We also get into the story that broke both of us: a man who, decades apart, may have found the exact same refrigerator with a body inside it, twice. It's unsettling, it's funny, and by the end you'll understand exactly why we stay home."That's Genevieve. And that's Kaitlyn."Sisters-in-law, best friends, former CNAs, and the sharp-witted duo behind Camping Is Canceled. Known for their mix of research-driven storytelling and unfiltered commentary, Gen and Kait tackle true crime cases (and paranormal rabbit holes) with empathy, curiosity, and a healthy dose of dark humor.📲 Instagram: @campingiscanceled 📲 TikTok: @campingiscanceled 📧 Contact: campingiscanceled@gmail.com🎧 Listen now — everywhere you get your podcasts.Want ad-free episodes 1-day early? Subscribe to Patreon and listen to the main feed episodes (plus weekly bonus episodes) every Thursday. Join for just $5.99/month!
- 2 weeks ago1h 26m
EP 141: The White Darkness: A Solitary Journey Across Antarctica (Part III)
This week, we bring our blind read of "The White Darkness" to a close, and it's the ending we were both dreading to find. We follow Henry Worsley as he retraces the exact steps of his hero, Ernest Shackleton, sled harness and all, first as part of a three-man team chasing the pole Shackleton never reached, and later, alone, attempting something no one had ever survived: an unsupported solo crossing of Antarctica.What follows is one man's final chapter, and it left both of us completely wrecked. In this episode, Gen talks about what Worsley left behind, the wife and children who are still, in their own words, waiting for him to walk back through the door, and why a story about loss ended up being one of the most powerful survival stories we've ever covered.“That's Genevieve. And that's Kaitlyn."Sisters-in-law, best friends, former CNAs, and the sharp-witted duo behind Camping Is Canceled. Known for their mix of research-driven storytelling and unfiltered commentary, Gen and Kait tackle true crime cases (and paranormal rabbit holes) with empathy, curiosity, and a healthy dose of dark humor.📲 Instagram: @campingiscanceled 📲 TikTok: @campingiscanceled 📧 Contact: campingiscanceled@gmail.comListen now — everywhere you get your podcasts.New episodes drop every Friday. Want more stories, no ads, and exclusive bonus episodes every Thursday? Join our Patreon to support the show!SourcesGrann, D. The White Darkness. Doubleday, 2018.Grann, D. "The White Darkness." The New Yorker, 2018.
- 3 weeks ago1h 52m
EP 140: Case Retrace — The Rose Petal Murder (Part II)
When we last left you, police had two men in handcuffs, Christina Parcel's fiancé and her ex, and neither one turned out to be her killer. This week, that person finally speaks, and it's someone none of us saw coming: 31-year-old Zachary Hughes, a Juilliard-trained concert pianist who had never so much as met Christina Parcel before the day he killed her.We spend most of this episode inside Zach's own words, pulled straight from two and a half hours of trial testimony, tracing how a chance meeting outside a Greenville coffee shop turned into a friendship with Christina's ex, John Mello, and how that friendship slowly convinced Zach that a little girl was in danger. What follows is Zach's account of everything he says he tried before October 13th, 2021, and exactly what happened once he decided he'd run out of options.Fair warning, campers: this one does not wrap up clean. There are more bombshells still coming, and we're saving them for part three."That's Genevieve. And that's Kaitlyn."Sisters-in-law, best friends, former CNAs, and the sharp-witted duo behind Camping Is Canceled. Known for their mix of research-driven storytelling and unfiltered commentary, Gen and Kait tackle true crime cases (and paranormal rabbit holes) with empathy, curiosity, and a healthy dose of dark humor.📲 Instagram: @campingiscanceled 📲 TikTok: @campingiscanceled 📧 Contact: campingiscanceled@gmail.com🎧 Listen now — everywhere you get your podcasts.New episodes drop every Friday. Want more stories, no ads, and exclusive bonus episodes every Thursday? Join our Patreon to support the show!SourcesABC News 20/20, interviews related to the murder of Christina Parcel.Greenville County, SC family court records, custody proceedings (2016–2021).Trial testimony of Zachary Hughes, Greenville County murder trial (February 2025).
- Aug 21, 202652 min
EP 139: Case Retrace — The Rose Petal Murder (Part I)
A doorbell camera caught him walking up to the house with a bouquet of roses. Twelve minutes later, another camera caught him riding away in a mask and gloves. Inside, 43-year-old Christina Parcell had been stabbed 35 times, her body found surrounded by scattered rose petals. This week, we're pulling apart one of the most tangled cases we've ever covered.Christina left behind a sister who never doubted her, a fiancé who found her body and immediately asked for gloves before touching anything, and an ex-partner whose obsession with her stretched across a continent. We dig into the custody battle, the harassment campaign, and the pile of red flags nobody in her life could agree on. Part two, and the reveal of who actually did this, drops next week."That's Genevieve. And that's Kaitlyn."Sisters-in-law, best friends, former CNAs, and the sharp-witted duo behind Camping Is Canceled. Known for their mix of research-driven storytelling and unfiltered commentary, Gen and Kait tackle true crime cases (and paranormal rabbit holes) with empathy, curiosity, and a healthy dose of dark humor.📲 Instagram: @campingiscanceled 📲 TikTok: @campingiscanceled 📧 Contact: campingiscanceled@gmail.com🎧 Listen now — everywhere you get your podcasts.New episodes drop every Friday. Want more stories, no ads, and exclusive bonus episodes every Thursday? Join our Patreon to support the show!SourcesABC News, 20/20, interviews related to the murder of Christina Parcell.Greenville County, SC family court records, custody proceedings (2016).
- Aug 14, 20261h 4m
EP 138: BLIND READ — "A White Darkness: A Solitary Journey Across Antarctica" (Part II)
We're back for Part II of our blind read of David Grann's The White Darkness, and we already have several new fears we didn't have going into this one. Turns out surviving elite military training is somehow not even the most intense thing that happens in this episode.We are already emotionally invested and a little worried about what happens next. Join us next time for part 3 of this blind read."That's Genevieve. And that's Kaitlyn."Sisters-in-law, best friends, former CNAs, and the sharp-witted duo behind Camping Is Canceled. Known for their mix of research-driven storytelling and unfiltered commentary, Gen and Kait tackle true crime cases (and paranormal rabbit holes) with empathy, curiosity, and a healthy dose of dark humor.📲 Instagram: @campingiscanceled📲 TikTok: @campingiscanceled📧 Contact: campingiscanceled@gmail.com🎧 Listen now — everywhere you get your podcasts.New episodes drop every Friday. Want more stories, no ads, and exclusive bonus episodes every Thursday? Join our Patreon to support the show!SourcesGrann, D. "The White Darkness." The New Yorker, 2018. (The New Yorker)
- Aug 7, 202657 min
EP 137: BLIND READ — "The White Darkness: A Solitary Journey Across Antarctica" (Part I)
This week's blind read started with a black and white photo: a man grinning around a fat cigar, ice crusted thick in his beard, missing front tooth and all. That's Henry Worsley, and by the time this photo was taken he was deep into a solo, unsupported crossing of Antarctica ... over a thousand miles of ice, no dog team, no support crew, nobody coming to check on him if something went wrong.We went in knowing nothing except the title and the author (per usual for us) and came out somewhere we didn't expect: deep in the story of Ernest Shackleton, the polar explorer Worsley had idolized since he was a kid marking bird nests on his boarding school grounds. Turns out you can't understand what pushed one man onto the most dangerous ice on Earth without understanding who he was trying to become."That's Genevieve. And that's Kaitlyn."Sisters-in-law, best friends, former CNAs, and the sharp-witted duo behind Camping Is Canceled. Known for their mix of research-driven storytelling and unfiltered commentary, Gen and Kait tackle true crime cases (and paranormal rabbit holes) with empathy, curiosity, and a healthy dose of dark humor.📲 Instagram: @campingiscanceled📲 TikTok: @campingiscanceled📧 Contact: campingiscanceled@gmail.com🎧 Listen now — everywhere you get your podcasts.New episodes drop every Friday. Want more stories, no ads, and exclusive bonus episodes every Thursday? Join our Patreon to support the show!SourcesGrann, D. "The White Darkness." The New Yorker, 2018. (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/12/the-white-darkness)
- Jul 24, 20261h 47m
EP 136: "One Who Goes Over the Horizon" — The Incredible Ocean Survival of Tami Oldham Ashcraft (Part II)
We're picking up where we left off... Tami Oldham Ashcraft, alone on a gutted yacht in the middle of the Pacific. She’s grieving the fiancé the ocean took from her with nothing but raw grit, a broken sextant, and a voice in her head that will not shut up. Over the next 41 days, she rigs a mast out of pillows and a broken pole, argues with something she still can't fully explain, and has to decide, more than once, whether she even wants to make it home.This is the ending of one of the most incredible survival stories we've ever covered. Go listen to Part I first if you haven't (that's EP 131), then come back for the finale.That's Genevieve. And that's Kaitlyn.Sisters-in-law, best friends, former CNAs, and the sharp-witted duo behind Camping Is Canceled. Known for their mix of research-driven storytelling and unfiltered commentary, Gen and Kait tackle true crime cases (and paranormal rabbit holes) with empathy, curiosity, and a healthy dose of dark humor.📲 Instagram: @campingiscanceled📲 TikTok: @campingiscanceled📧 Contact: campingiscanceled@gmail.comListen now — everywhere you get your podcasts.New episodes drop every Friday. Want more stories, no ads, and exclusive bonus episodes every Thursday? Join our Patreon to support the show!
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