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.
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August 1, 2025 • 8 mins
College holds a mythic place in American culture, but behind the polished campus tours and glossy brochures lies a far more complicated reality. Each episode of Campus Files uncovers a new story that rocked a college or university. Consider this your unofficial campus tour.
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July 30, 2025 • 56 mins
In 2014, while looking for two missing hikers, Lisanne Froon and Kris Kremers, in Panama, officials came across a digital camera in the forest that they believed belonged to one of them.
The photos they found on that camera were disturbing, to say the least. And they held terrifying clues as to what happened to the missing girls.
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July 28, 2025 • 75 mins
From dodging serial killers, to fake ride share drivers, to finding someone in your room in the middle of the night, today we're talking all about terrifying close encounters.
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Mysterious disappearances, lost shipwrecks, the Lake Michigan “Stonehenge”, strange lights above Lake Erie and more.
There’s something strange happening in the great lakes. These lakes in North America are much bigger than you would ever imagine, they hold about a fifth of the entire world’s freshwater. But they also hold some of the greatest unsolved mysteries. They are quite literally full of secrets.
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July 16, 2025 • 50 mins
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In 2011, a 24 year old woman vanished from a Disney Cruise that was heading back to LA. And what at first seemed like an open and shut “man overboard” case quickly started to seem like something much darker. Leaving us with the question, does Disney know more than they’re saying??
TW: Reference to Se...
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July 9, 2025 • 45 mins
A young girl vanishes without a trace in the Alaskan wilderness. A camper loses 10.5 hours on his camping trip with no memory of what occurred in that time. And a young couple goes to a secluded part of a camp site, only to run into someone they’re not expecting.
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June 25, 2025 • 40 mins
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The internet freaked out last month when the haunted doll Annabelle was taken on tour around the country. Stories started circulating of buildings burning down in her wake, prisoners escaping, and even that she went missing at one point.
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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 ...
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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.
Show Notes: https://www.heartstartspounding.com/episodes/feralpeople
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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
Show Notes: https://www.heartstartspounding.com/episodes/burarideaths
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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
Show Notes: https://www.heartstartspounding.com/episodes/brazilianfolklore
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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…
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