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Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

Heart Starts Pounding

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

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139. Reddit Scary Stories: Reddit Stories That Could...

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries ·

2025/09/25

Go to https://kachava.com and use code HSP for 15% off your next order.From a woman's mother in law attempting to kill her with latex gloves, a near child kidnapping where the biological parents were doubted, to having to take matters into your own hands with your stalker, these are all real Reddit Scary Stories so dark they could be True Crime Documentaries. Find Annie Elise here! @annieelise https://www.youtube.com/@annieelise Subscribe on⁠ Patreon⁠ to become a member of our Rogue

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2:13

Introducing Simpsons Declassified with Nancy Cartwright

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries ·

2025/09/22

Simpsons fans —THE VAULT IS OPEN! I’m Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson for 35+ years, and I’m finally taking you inside Springfield. Simpsons Declassified is your all-access pass to the world’s most iconic, animated series. Each week, we crack open wild predictions, eerie coincidences and fan conspiracies and stories from 36 seasons (that’s 800+ episodes!) behind-the-scenes with writers, directors, the cast and celebrity superfans, PLUS…Simpsons-themed games— play along and test

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39:13

138. Tortured Live on Stream: The Death of Jean...

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries ·

2025/09/18

At 4:47 AM on August 18th, 2025, after 280 hours of torture streamed live to thousands of viewers, Jean Pormanove died in his sleep while on camera. The official cause of death was cardiac arrest. But what really killed him was a system perfectly designed to monetize human suffering, to turn degradation into content, to transform a vulnerable man's destruction into entertainment. The streaming continues. The algorithm watches. And somewhere, another Jean Pormanove is typing his first message to his

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41:25

137. Lost Media You'll Never See: The Nickelodeon...

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries ·

2025/09/11

Head to https://www.tryfum.com to start with Zero.Go to https://kachava.com and use code HSP for 15% off on your subscription for a limited time Lost media, TV urban legends, and the moments kids’ networks never wanted you to see. This episode investigates the rumored Nickelodeon “destroyed tape” from Legends of the Hidden Temple, real broadcast signal hijackings (including the infamous Handy Manny incident), and a haunting stop-motion short known only as “The Butcher.” From grueling game-show

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80:24

136. Reddit Scary Stories: True Camping Horror Tales...

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries ·

2025/09/03

From a recent and tragic double murder in Devil's Den State Park, to a hiker entering a time warp, to unknowingly encountering a serial killer while camping, today we're talking through all the terrifying and mysterious national park stories.Make sure to follow our guests of today's episode ‪@NationalParkAfterDarkPodcast‬ Episodes Mentioned: 110. Backwoods Horror: Unexplained Disappearances in the Alaska Triangle 122. Appalachian Trail Horror: Strange Encounters, Feral People, Mysterious

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39:17

135. How Did This Yacht Crew Vanish Into Thin Air?...

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries ·

2025/08/28

The idea of a “Ghost ship” -- a ship that is floating completely off course with its crew mysteriously gone or dead, has become more ridiculous over the years. Sure, maybe back in the day, with a lack of GPS tracking and communication a whole crew could vanish, but that could never happen today. Right?The Kaz II which has been coined “The Ghost Yacht,” perhaps a more modern version of a ghost ship, and the fate of those three men—Derek Batten, James Tunstead, and Peter Tunstead—still remains a

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52:45

134. The Mysterious Disappearance of The Beaumont...

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries ·

2025/08/21

In 1966, three children vanished without a trace in Australia, and no one knows what happened. It’s a mystery that still plagues the country to this day, and may credit it as the reason people started locking their doors there. But today, we have a much clearer picture of the crime, who might have been responsible, and there’s even been updates on the case as of this year. TW: mention of child abuse Subscribe on Patreon for bonus content and to become a member of our Rogue Detecting Society

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46:19

133. What Was Hiding in Germany's Göhrde Forest? The...

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries ·

2025/08/14

Match cakes, cookies, and candy in thousands of fun puzzles, when you download Cookie Jam today using the link: http://jamcity.me/HeartStartsPoundingOfficial Göhrde Police Investigation Website: https://www.pd-lg.polizei-nds.de/startseite/kriminalitaet/deliktsbereiche/cold_cases/ermittlungsgruppe-goehrde-113732.html This story starts with a police officer who was investigating a suspect in a missing woman's case. When the officer went down into the man’s basement, he found a secret, locked

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40:16

132. Abandoned Amusement Parks: Hauntings, Disasters,...

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries ·

2025/08/07

Go to https://kachava.com and use code HSP for 15% off on your subscription for a limited time!Head to https://www.tryfum.com/HEART and use promo code HEART to get your free gift with purchase and start the Good Habit today! Summer is the perfect time to visit an amusement park, but for every park that’s open and bustling during the warmer months, there’s one that’s fallen into disrepair and sits there abandoned. But what causes this to happen? Well, sometimes a series of horrible accidents

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8:13

Introducing: Campus Files

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries ·

2025/08/01

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. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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52:15

131. The Mysterious Disappearance of Kris Kremers and...

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries ·

2025/07/31

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. Subscribe on Patreon for bonus content and to become a member of our Rogue Detecting Society. Patrons have access to bonus content as well as other perks. And members

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75:09

130. Scary Reddit Stories: Terrifying Encounters...

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries ·

2025/07/29

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.Find Psychopedia and Slater on Socials! @investigatorslater @psychopediapod Psychopedia Episodes Mentioned: EP42: Sex Parts: Severed and Stored EP130: Greyhound Bus Beheading EPS 113 & 114: Pinup Predator: Serial Killer Harvey Glatman (Parts 1 and 2) EPS 134 & 135: The Serial Killer Next Door: Joel Rifkin (Parts 1

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43:26

129. Unsolved Mysteries of The Great Lakes: Ghost...

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries ·

2025/07/24

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. Subscribe on Patreon for bonus content and to become a member of our Rogue Detecting

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50:19

128. Rebecca Coriam: The Cruise Employee Who Vanished...

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries ·

2025/07/17

Head to https://www.tryfum.com/HEART and use promo code HEART to get your free gift with purchase and start the Good Habit today!Match cakes, cookies, and candy in thousands of fun puzzles, when you download Cookie Jam today using the link: http://jamcity.me/HeartStartsPounding 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

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45:10

127. Camping Horror Stories // DARK SUMMER VOL. 2

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries ·

2025/07/10

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. Subscribe on Patreon for bonus content and to become a member of our Rogue Detecting Society. Patrons have access to bonus content as well as other perks. And members of our High Council on Patreon have access to our after-show called

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40:53

126. Annabelle’s Tour of Terror

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2025/06/26

Dark Summer Merch is HERE! Shop now: https://shop.heartstartspounding.com/Subscribe to Patreon to get 10% off your order! 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. But what was really going on, and why was the Annabelle tour such a spiritually chaotic event? Subscribe on Patreon for bonus

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41:37

125. Zombie Illnesses: Rabies, Parasites and Prions

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2025/06/19

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.Subscribe on Patreon for bonus content and to become a member of our Rogue Detecting Society. Patrons have access to bonus

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41:03

124. The Mysterious Death of Cindy James Part 2

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries ·

2025/06/13

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 peers wasn’t convinced that any crime had taken place… But how could

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123. The Mysterious Death of Cindy James Part 1

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries ·

2025/06/12

Go to https://kachava.com and use code HSP for 15% off on your subscription for a limited time. 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

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41:41

122. Appalachian Trail Horror: Strange Encounters,...

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries ·

2025/06/05

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. Get stickers! https://shop.heartstartspounding.com/ Subscribe on ⁠⁠Patreon ⁠⁠for bonus content and to become a member of our Rogue Detecting Society. Patrons have access to bonus content as well as other perks. And

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