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The Midnight Coal No One Should Have Seen

The Midnight Coal No One Should Have Seen

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The Midnight Coal No One Should Have Seen

A retired teacher finds a fire rekindled beside his sleeping tarp and wood in the ring that isn't his - a coal had been burning underground and someone else had cut and left tulip poplar in the pit. How did a careful, experienced outdoorsman wake to a blaze he swears he had put out, and who left the wood?

In this episode, we follow the timeline from the night Russell Sharp made camp to the morning Carl Owens discovered a man staring at a fire, and through the four-month reporting that traced the people and clues involved. Listen to hear how a hand-sawn stump, an invisible shelter, and an underground root fire almost close the story - and what detail remains unexplained.

Person: Russell Sharp
Person: George Pickett
Person: Carl Owens
Date: June 12-14 (night of June 12 to morning of June 14)
Location: Blackthorn State Forest pull-off

- Russell Sharp, age 62, retired earth science teacher with 28 years in the classroom and 9 years leading navigation workshops.
- Carl Owens stopped at the Blackthorn pull-off at 7:40 a.m. on June 14 and saw a man beside a burning fire.
- George Pickett, age 71, lived on a 42-acre private inholding within Blackthorn and had lived there since 1988.
- George found a burning coal pressed against a surface root at about 2:00 a.m. on June 13 and then rebuilt the fire using tulip poplar from his stand.
- Debra Keller spent four months reporting, finding a hand-sawn stump 1.5 miles from Russell's campsite and a 71-year-old man living in a shelter invisible from trails.

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