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Campfire Tales: When Real Life Gets Stranger Than Fiction with Robert Bowers

After a 43-year career with ODOT, Robert Bowers began writing a few years before retirement, turning a lifetime of fishing, hunting, and unexplained encounters into stories that blend humor, suspense, and a touch of the supernatural. He's the author of the four-volume Campfire Tales From Uncle Rob series, along with cryptid horror novels Red Eyes at Black Mesa and Have Dog Will Travel.

In this episode, Robert shares what finally pushed him to start writing down decades of real-life stories, an unexplained moment from his years outdoors that still stays with him, and how he decides where true…

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