Jim Harold's Campfire

Jim Harold's Campfire has been running since 2009, making it one of the longest-running paranormal podcasts still in active production. The format is simple and effective: everyday people call in to share their real supernatural experiences with Jim, who listens, asks follow-up questions, and lets the callers tell their stories. No dramatization, no sound effects, no skeptical debunking. Just people describing the things that happened to them in their own words. The show releases weekly and has accumulated over 810 episodes covering ghosts, shadow people, UFOs, cryptid encounters, precognitive dreams, demonic activity, and basically every category of unexplained experience you can imagine. Jim has a warm, conversational interview style that puts callers at ease. He is clearly fascinated by the paranormal but maintains a respectful tone whether someone is describing a comforting encounter with a deceased relative or a terrifying home invasion by an unknown entity. What makes Campfire compelling is the sheer volume and variety of stories. After 810 episodes of listener submissions, you start to notice patterns. The same types of encounters get reported independently by people who have never spoken to each other, from different parts of the country, decades apart. Jim does not push any particular interpretation, but the cumulative effect of hearing hundreds of these accounts is genuinely thought-provoking. The podcast holds a 4.8 rating from nearly 7,000 Apple Podcasts reviews. Jim also hosts The Paranormal Podcast, a more interview-driven show with researchers and authors, but Campfire remains the flagship because there is something uniquely powerful about hearing ordinary people share extraordinary experiences without any production filter between you and their story.