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.com/heartstartspounding) for ad-free listening, exclusive bonus content and more! Follow @heartstartspounding on: YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@heartstartspounding/) // TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@heartstartspounding) // Instagram (https://instagram.com/heartstartspounding) // Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/people/Heart-Starts-Pounding/100087903971907/) Have a horrifying tale, paranormal encounter, or unsolved mystery that you’d like to share? Visit https://www.heartstartspounding.com/stories and submit your heart-pounding story to be featured on the podcast.
Episodes
June 18, 2025 • 41 mins
What kind of illness turns deer into stumbling, soulless shells of themselves—bodies wasting away, but never truly dying? Or drives healthy young men into violent frenzies that leave them strapped to hospital beds, terrified of water? This week, we’re diving into the terrifying world of zombie illnesses—real diseases that hijack the brain and erase what makes us human.
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June 13, 2025 • 41 mins
In 1989, the body of a woman was found hog tied off the side of a road in Richmond British Columbia.
What followed was one of the longest coroners inquest in Canadian history. An inquest that would say the woman had died by an unknown event.
Although she was found with her hands and feet tied with nylon behind her back, although she had told police that for 7 years she was being harassed by an unknown person, a jury of her peer...
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June 12, 2025 • 41 mins
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In 1989, the body of a woman was found hog tied off the side of a road in Richmond British Columbia.
What followed was one of the longest coroners inquest in Canadian history. An inquest that would say the woman had died by an unknown event.
Although she was found with her hands and feet tied with nylon behind her back, although s...
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A strange man stalks two women on their camping trip. A strange dog has been caught on a loop for hundreds of years at the foot of a mountain. And lights that have no source, and no explanation. Today we're taking a trip through the Appalachian trail. Bring your flashlight.
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May 21, 2025 • 38 mins
Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, isn't just the largest U.S. military installation in the Pacific—it's also one of the most haunted. From shadowy figures trying to enter through the gates to abandoned buildings that drive occupants to the edge, and the chilling laughter of ghostly children, Kadena’s legends are as eerie as they are enduring. But are the hauntings rooted in the base itself… or in the haunted history of Okinawa Isl...
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Today, Morgan and I share our favorite scary stories from Reddit. Which ones haunt you the most?
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May 14, 2025 • 51 mins
In 2018, 11 people in the Chundawat family were found dead from what looked like a ritual sacrifice. It left the public with questions: was the family corrupted by a evil guru? Was this a robbery gone wrong? Or was there something even darker at play?
TW: Suicide, child death
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May 7, 2025 • 43 mins
Let's look at three of the scariest legends from Brazilian Folklore: Corpo Secos that rise from their graves, Pisadeiras that creep into your room at night, and the mighty Mapinguari that stalks the rainforest
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April 30, 2025 • 50 mins
For 20 years in Tennessee, Georgia Tann ran American's biggest black market for children, trafficking over 5,000 kids. We cover how she built her business, and how some children eventually found their families.
TW: Kidnapping, child death, reference to sexual assault, reference to pedophilia
Show Notes: https://www.heartstartspounding.com/episodes/georgiatann
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April 24, 2025 • 83 mins
Check out the first episode of CLUES, a Crimehouse podcast that I'm hosting with Morgan Absher of Two Hot Takes. You can find future episodes of Clues on Youtube or wherever you get your podcasts
When Laci Peterson vanished on Christmas Eve in 2002, the nation watched closely — but what investigators uncovered was darker than anyone imagined. Morgan and Kaelyn break down Scott Peterson’s suspicious alibi, the affair he tried to ke...
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April 23, 2025 • 44 mins
For 20 years in Tennessee, a mysterious woman appeared on the doorsteps of single mothers, claiming to be a social worker. She would then disappear with their children.
TW: Kidnapping
Show Notes: https://www.heartstartspounding.com/episodes/tennesseekidnappings
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April 16, 2025 • 42 mins
A In 1957, a man approached a young girl in Illinois and asked if she wanted a piggyback. That was the last time she was seen alive
And in 1971, a man known as "DB Cooper" hijacked a plane, stole $200,000, and disappeared without a trace.
Both of these cases involved shocking confessions that were made with dying breaths.
TW: child death, kidnapping, reference to sexual assault
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A man sees someone who might not exist on the Appalachian Trail. Someone is lead into the
forrest by strange lights, and one woman smells something decomposing coming from a closet
on her campus…
These are Listener Stories, sent in from you guys.
Show Notes: https://www.heartstartspounding.com/episodes/appalachiantrail
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April 2, 2025 • 41 mins
The North Sea has the internet talking about how scary it is, but did you know people have been terrified of the sea for Centuries? Let's take a morbid tour through the history of the North Sea and talk about creatures from legends, the lost city that supposedly sits at the bottom of it, and the disaster known as the Byford Dolphin Incident.
Show Notes: https://www.heartstartspounding.com/episodes/northsea
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March 26, 2025 • 37 mins
On December 22nd, 2010, a man named Michael Faherty was found in his home nearly burned to ash. Nothing else around him had been touched by the fire, however. The official coroners report read: Spontaneous Human Combustion
But what is SHC, and why does it happen? Let’s take a morbid little tour through history
Show Notes: https://www.heartstartspounding.com/episodes/michaelfaherty
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Has the Martin Family's car been found in the Columbia River? What happened to the Brazilian poisoner who tried to kill her husbands family? What is Hantavirus, the incredibly rare illness that killed Gene Hackman's wife? I'm opening my mailbag today to ask some of your burning darkly curious questions
TW: references but not not descriptions of the following- Suicide, child abuse, sexual abuse, animal death
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March 19, 2025 • 43 mins
A man disappears in the middle of a race. A woman walks into the woods and is never seen
again. And a small town called Portlock swears there is something evil stalking them in the
Woods.
Some say there’s something supernatural happening in the ‘Alaskan Triangle’
Anyone having contact or information regarding Valerie Sifsof is asked to contact the Alaska State Troopers in Soldotna at 907-262-4453 and reference incident num...
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March 12, 2025 • 45 mins
Dentist by day, con man and serial killer by night. Glennon Englelman manipulated the woman around him to kill their loved ones in a get rich quick scheme, leaving a trail of devastation in his wake.
TW: References to sexual abuse
Show Notes: https://www.heartstartspounding.com/episodes/glennonenglelman
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March 5, 2025 • 41 mins
Does the devil stalk the Isle of the Dead near the Port Arthur Prison? And what supernatural force keeps people out of cell 17 at Old Melbourne Gaol?
TW: references to child death
Port Arthur Ghost Photo Referenced: https://www.reddit.com/r/ParanormalEncounters/comments/1b80att/just_got_back_from_port_arthur_ghost_tour_and/#lightbox
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February 26, 2025 • 48 mins
In 2024, over 600 bodies were found buried in shallow graves on a compound in the Shakahola forest. Paul Mackenzie had told his followers if they reduced their food intake, they would meet Jesus. This left many with the question- how did things get this bad?
Trigger warning: Child abuse
Show Notes: https://www.heartstartspounding.com/episodes/paulmackenzie
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