Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries
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Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries
Horrors, hauntings and mysteries! A collection of scary stories that will have you on the edge of your seat. If you’re a fan of all things spooky, creepy, and thrilling, this is the podcast for you. Want more darkly curious content? Join the Rogue Detecting Society on Patreon (https://www.patreon.co...
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197 episodes
190. Reddit Scary Stories: The Darkest Things Hiding in Plain Sight (feat. Angela Giarratana & Morgan Absher)
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189. Cave Diving Horror: 3 Deadly Underwater Cave Exploration Disasters
From the Maldives Cave System, where five divers entered with no proper permit or certification, of which none survived, to Norway's deepest cave pass...
188. Camping Horror: The Mysterious Disappearances of Theresa Bier & Madison Scott
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In the summer of 1987, sixteen-year-old Theresa Bier rode into the Sier...
187. Amelia Earhart Survived: The Theories Behind The Crash and Newly Discovered Evidence
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On the morning of July 2nd, 1937, Amelia Earhart lifted off from Lae, P...
186. Summer Camp Horror, Scary Camping, and Mimics: Campfire Scary Stories with Sylas Dean
A rock taken from a ritual site while at summer camp finds its way home… even after being thrown into the ocean. A smiling man in a suit beckons two g...
185. Shipwreck: A Tale Of Survival and Cannibalism
In 1864, two ships wrecked on opposite ends of Auckland Island. A frozen, abandoned archipelago south of New Zealand. The Grafton's five-man crew buil...
184. Alpine Divorce Horror: Husbands Who Leave Their Wives To Die On Hikes
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183. Honeymoon Cruise Disappearance: George Smith
A newlywed couple boarded a Mediterranean cruise for their honeymoon. Five days later, a teenager photographed blood splattered across a lifeboat cano...
182. Backwoods Horror: The Creatures Appalachians Still Fear
Across Appalachia, thousands of people keep reporting the same thing: a massive black cat in the woods that screams like a woman being murdered. The g...
181. Mount Everest Horror: The Khumbu Icefall Avalanche
On April 18th, 2014, a 14,000-tonne block of ice broke free above the Khumbu Icefall and killed sixteen Sherpa guides. It was the deadliest single dis...
180. Two Cold Cases Police Thought Would Never Be Solved (And How They Were Cracked This Year)
They call it the golden age of DNA testing, and this year, two cases that police thought would never be solved finally cracked open. But the answers w...
179. How Reddit Shut Down the Worst Troubled Teen School in America
In 1970, a man with no clinical training opened a "therapeutic boarding school" in the Maine woods. For forty-one years, students inside were subjecte...
Introducing Family Lore
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178. The Crash: The Mackenzie Shirilla Case (Going Beyond The Netflix Doc)
In July 2022, 18-year-old Mackenzie Shirilla drove her car into a brick wall at nearly 100 miles per hour, killing her boyfriend Dominic Russo and his...
177. Backrooms Horror: The Creepiest Levels and Darkest Lore
In 2019, an anonymous photo of a yellow hallway turned into one of the biggest creepypastas of a generation. Millions of people have since built out t...
176. Backwoods Horror: Why Do People Keep Disappearing in Nome, Alaska?
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175. Terrifying True Urban Legends: A Toilet Stalker, a Demon Camel, and a Cursed Mansion
Today, we're covering three terrifying true urban legends: a South African schoolyard legend called Pinky Pinky with an unnerving connection to a real...
174. Reddit Scary Stories: Stalkers, Setups, and a Serial Killer (feat. Psychopedia)
Today. Slater and I are reading Reddit scary stories about close encounters with people who were not who they said they were. A man offers a woman her...
173. The College Students That Cracked A 34 Year Old Cold Case
In September 1991, a young mother in Arlington, Texas, Cynthia Gonzalez, left for a late-night appointment and never came home. Her car was found 40 m...
172. Dark Mysteries of the Florida Everglades: The Flat Tire Murders, Missing Planes, and The Skunk Ape
In the summer of 1975, the bodies of young women began surfacing in canals along the edge of the Florida Everglades. To make matters worse, investigat...
171. Three Real Imposter Nightmares: Fake Uber Drivers, The Tourist From Hell, and more
A college student gets into what she thinks is her rideshare. A speech therapist spends years pretending to be someone's mother. And a backpacker in S...
170. The Mysterious Disappearance of Leah Roberts
In March 2000, 23-year-old Leah Roberts left a note for her roommate and took off on a solo cross-country trip. Nine days later, her wrecked Jeep was...
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169. Real Scary Stories: A Cursed Church Camp, An Eerie Ranch, and The Deep Woods (Feat. Morgan Absher)
Your terrifying stories are back, and they did not disappoint! From deep inside the Michigan woods, to a haunted church camp, to the backroads of Arge...
168. The Scariest Reddit Stories We’ve Heard (feat. Kris & Celina from Can't Sleep)
Today, we’re reading Reddit's scariest stories with KallMeKris and CelinaSpookyBoo. From glitches in the Matrix that defy all sense of logic, haunted...
167. Something’s Lurking In The Woods: Terrifying Tales of Crawlers
Why have so many people described seeing the same scary entity in the backwoods of Appalachia? Something that looks human, but not quite? Today, we’re...
166. Feral Children: The Wolf Girl of Devils River, The Ukrainian Dog Girl, and The Kellogg Experiment
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Feral Children used to be the stuff of legends, but their stories are s...
165. Terrifying True Urban Legends: A Haunted Forest, The Elevator Game, Britain’s Hannibal Lecter
When villagers in a remote Thai forest heard screams echoing from the woods every hour for three straight days, they were convinced the legends of anc...
164. Backwoods Horror: The Mysterious Disappearances of Amy Bechtel & Polly Melton
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One summer, a 24-year-old runner parked her car on a remote Wyoming roa...
163. Reddit Scary Stories: Djinn, Doppelgängers, and Imaginary Friends (feat. Two Girls One Ghost)
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162. How Reddit Solved a Cold Case // Lyle Stevik
In September 2001, a housekeeper discovered an unidentified man's body in a remote Washington motel room, no ID, no belongings, and a fake name scrawl...
161. The Mysterious Murder of An Aspen Socialite
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160. Lost Media: Tapes Too Dark For The Public
Today, I want to look at two pieces of “lost media” with you all. One piece is lost because it was deemed too dark for the public to ever hear, and th...
159. The Mystery of The Setagaya Family Murders
One of my most terrifying fears is the idea that someone is watching me without me knowing about it. Or worse, that someone is inside my home watching...
158. Inside the World's Most Haunted Castles | True Ghost Stories
This week, we're exploring three of the world's most haunted castles—and the dark histories that made them that way. At Windsor Castle in England, we'...
157. "Something Is Mimicking My Sister" and Other Terrifying True Stories From Listeners
Can listening to Heart Starts Pounding attract paranormal activity to your home? Today I'm reading the spooky stories YOU sent me, and they're absolut...
156. Lost Media Vol. 2: Missing Holiday Media
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What happens when beloved holiday entertainment crosses the line? From D...
155. Vanished At Christmas: Two Mysteries That Will Make You Question Everything
Today, I want to tell you about two winter mysteries that have haunted New York for over a century. The first is about Dorothy Arnold, who disappeared...
Presenting: Otherworld | Zaza
Otherworld tells real stories of people who have experienced something paranormal or unexplainable. Host Jack Wagner takes an open minded and journali...
154. Christmas Horror Folklore: Krampus, Frau Perchta & The Other St. Nick
Today I want to tell you about the dark origins of Christmas, before Santa Claus ever existed. We're diving into Frau Perchta, a Christmas witch who v...