Campfire Stories

[kwikk9]

My wife and I are entertaining our neice's children at our camp in Maine next week. Two boys, 15 and 11, two girls, 13 and 7. I guess we're practicing to be grandparents!
The kids are coming up from Raleigh, NC to our camp in N. Waterboro, ME. We have pretty much worked out the food needs, activities, sleeping arrangements, etc.
But, being at camp requires a family gathering around the campfire at night. So much better than the boob tube.
Does any one have any suggestions for a site to find clean, not to scary, campfire tales. Do you have any personal favorites, true stories, old jokes?

 

[AK_Chappy]

Re: Campfire Stories

Hmmm,
I seem to remember one called

macscouter.com

Let me ck my favorites.

AK Chappy

 

[AK_Chappy]

Re: Campfire Stories

Yup.
Typed in MacScouter, hit Ctrl+Enter
and there it was.

It is a Scout oriented site, so ALL the stories are family friendly.

<br>
<A HREF="http://www.macscouter.com">MacScouter.com</A>
<br>
Click on Stories on the left side and there you go.

 

[KRS]

Re: Campfire Stories

Take a bowl, full of different colored lifesavers (five colors).

Pass the bowl around and ask everyone to take three lifesavers.

Then, hold up a legend that shows the five colors and what each color means......

Red = Most embarassing moment
Yellow = First kiss
Green = Favorite subject in school and why
Purple = Famous person you would like to meet
White = whatever you want

This is a great game. If they have 2 or 3 of the same color, let them go with it!

You start off and be sincere, it really brings family closer together!!!

 

[KRS]

Re: Campfire Stories

Favorite campfire joke, from readers digest years ago....

What's his name (your friend/brother/etc) and I were walking (talk like it's a true story) through the woods when we were kids/last week/yesterday, and came upon a large hole in the ground with a goat standing by it. It looked like an old mine shaft, we crept up to the edge and peered down inside, it was sooo deep we couldn't see the bottom.

Joe grabbed a rock and threw it down.... we never heard it hit bottom. He grabbed a bigger rock and lugged it over and threw it down.... never heard it hit bottom. We grabbed a large rock and lugged it over together and rolled it in.... never heard it hit bottom!!!!

So each of us grabbed the end of a large railroad tie that was sitting there and we threw it in.... and out of nowhere that goat jumped head first into the hole!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As we stood there in astonishment over what we had seen, two hikers came up the trail and asked if we had seen their goat. We started to explain that it was the strangest thing... that goat jumped into the hole! But they stopped us and said, No No, we chained our goat to a railroad tie

 

[Dunaruna]

Re: Campfire Stories

[colour=blue]The asylum escapee with a hook hand who was last sighted in this area 5 years ago? Nah, too scary.

 

[heycods]

Re: Campfire Stories

Your on the right trail, "wing it" we used to do that when we were kids camping on the creek. Stories usually centered on old Joe and his dog that came up missing on that same stretch of creek. And telling of seeing A mans and dogs tracks where they were getting a drink of water at the edge of the creek. The new guys would nearly always be the first up to go down by the water looking for tracks in the morning.
What made the story work so well was that "Old Joe" acutally came up missing on that stretch of creek, his car was found but to this day 50 years later no Joe.
Joe wasnt a homisidal maniac like in a lot of stories, more of a recluse which pulled the fear away, but enough truth in the story to really get the new guys wondering.

 

[kwikk9]

Re: Campfire Stories

Thanks to all who replied. You've all really got me thinking.
AK Chappy, that site (macscouter) is just what I was looking for and I'll be using it for sure.

 

[AK_Chappy]

Re: Campfire Stories

Glad to be of service!!!

There are a lot of good camping recipes on there too.

AK Chappy