Turns out, the scariest thing I did this spooky season wasn’t a haunted house or horror movie marathon — it was opening the door to the wild and watching two tiny sweethearts run straight into it.

Every October, ghosts get top billing. They float through graveyards. They haunt our porches. But my favorite ghosts? The ones who camp. Not the horror-movie kind. I’m talking about the campers you don’t see. The ones who slip in quietly, treat the land like a sacred site, and vanish without a trace—leaving nothing but memories and maybe the faint smell of campfire smoke on a borrowed breeze.

You know that moment when the mosquitoes are winning, your citronella candle is failing, and you’re this close to reaching for the DEET? What if, instead of spraying your yard with chemicals, you could invite nature’s own pest control to the party? That’s the big idea behind BatBnB, the brainchild of outdoor-loving co-founders Chris Rannefors and Harrison Broadhurst. These two saw a problem (mosquitoes, myths, and disappearing bat habitat) and decided to solve it with desi

If you’ve ever looked at your energy bill and thought, “Wait, why is it so high?”—you might be hosting a whole coven of invisible energy vampires. No garlic or stakes required here, just a little know-how. It’s called phantom power, or standby power, and it’s what appliances and electronics suck up even when they’re “off.” The average U.S. household leaks about $100–$200 a year to phantom energy. Let’s track down the ghouls and kick ‘em out.