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Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

Heart Starts Pounding

Heart Starts Pounding is a weekly true crime and horror podcast hosted by Kaelyn Moore, covering unsolved mysteries, hauntings and urban legends. 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

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34:59

195. Cursed Horror Movies: The Omen and Nosferatu

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries ·

2026/10/08

Go to https://kachava.com and use code HSP for 15% off your first order.Open your SoFi Checking & Savings account today - head to https://sofi.com/HeartStarts to get started.They were warned: make a movie about the Devil, and the Devil will try to stop you. What followed were plane crashes, bombings of film locations, animal attacks, and a real-life decapitation that mirrored a scene from the film itself. From The Omen to Nosferatu, these are the horror movies where the curse might have been

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36:23

194. True Haunted House Stories: Ghost Children,...

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries ·

2026/10/01

Open your SoFi Checking & Savings account today - head to https://sofi.com/HeartStarts to get started.Today I’m telling you some true scary stories of people living in haunted houses, including my own! These are stories that will make you question: is your house cursed, or are you? Please join me, cozy up, and get a little scare for the start of Spooky Season! (Although for most of us, it’s a year-round affair 👻) If you have some of your own spooky stories, submit them at:

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3:39

Introducing Woman in the Woods

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries ·

2026/09/25

Nick and Mindi Kassotis believed they were being hunted. According to friends and family, Nick's classified military work had put them both in danger, so much so that Mindi rarely left the house. But the couple also shared they were expecting a child. Then, just after Thanksgiving, Mindi died suddenly in the hospital. Soon after, Nick died too. That's what everyone who loved them believed, that is until a woman's dismembered remains turned up in a wooded area. Stories started to unravel and a

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34:30

193. The Sting Operation That Ended “To Catch a...

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries ·

2026/09/24

To Catch a Predator was the biggest franchise in true crime television until a sting in Murphy, Texas spiraled into one of reality TV's darkest disasters. This is the story behind the show's most unexpected catch, and how it ultimately ended the show’s long-standing reputation as “the good guys” on TV. These are the facts of the story that inspired “Primetime,” A24’s movie starring Robert Pattinson as Chris Hansen.TW: Child Abuse, SA, SuicideLove true crime, horror, folklore, and the unexplained

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41:27

192. Revisiting the True Story Behind Monster: The...

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries ·

2026/09/17

Explore my Hungryroot Digital Cookbook "Kaelyn's Cookbook" and get 40% off your first order plus a free item in every box for life at https://hungryroot.com/HSP Go to https://kachava.com and use code HSP for 15% off your first orderToday, we’re revisiting the details of the Lizzie Borden trial. In 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were hacked to death in their locked Fall River home while their 32-year-old daughter Lizzie was the only other person inside. Over 130 years later, the case is still

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39:20

191. Mysteries of Nahanni Valley: Canada’s Cursed...

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries ·

2026/09/10

Go to https://kachava.com and use code HSP for 15% off your first orderIn Canada's Northwest Territories, Nahanni Valley stretches across eleven thousand square miles of pristine wilderness, and it's been swallowing people whole for over a century. From the headless remains of prospectors Willie and Frank McLeod in 1908 to filmmaker Angus MacKenzie, who survived a plane crash and then vanished without his supplies, the valley's death toll has never stopped growing. The Dene people have always known

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75:48

PRESENTING CLUES: Celeste Rivas Hernandez: The Case...

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries ·

2026/09/03

Today I’m sharing a special bonus episode fromClues, where we dig into the infamous d4vd case and the murder of Celeste Rivas Hernandez.In April 2024, 13-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez vanished from Lake Elsinore, California. Seventeen months later, her remains turned up in the trunk of an impounded Tesla at a Hollywood tow yard. The car was registered to rising R&B star named David Burke, known to millions as d4vd. We unpackthe case that's been dominating the headlines all summer.Cluesis a

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61:15

190. Reddit Scary Stories: The Darkest Things Hiding...

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries ·

2026/08/27

Explore my Hungryroot Digital Cookbook "Kaelyn's Cookbook" and get 40% off your first order plus a free item in every box for life at https://hungryroot.com/HSPA creepy neighbor ruins cousin sleepovers forever when he takes it too far. A blind date turns into a fertility ritual!? An online stranger messages a private photo to an OP that was never posted previously, and a boyfriend discovers that his partner is hoarding every single thing he disposes of…yes, everything…it gets gross. Today we’re

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36:48

189. Cave Diving Horror: 3 Deadly Underwater Cave...

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries ·

2026/08/20

From the Maldives Cave System, where five divers entered with no proper permit or certification, of which none survived, to Norway's deepest cave passage, where friends launched an illegal recovery for two men sealed underground, to a flooded Laos gold mine where trapped miners waited 10 days to see the light. Today, we’re covering the disasters connected by the rescue teams determined to recover everyone.TW: DrowningSubscribe on⁠ Patreon⁠ to become a member of our Rogue Detecting Society and enjoy

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41:41

188. Camping Horror: The Mysterious Disappearances of...

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries ·

2026/08/13

Go to https://kachava.com and use code HSP for 15% off your first order.In the summer of 1987, sixteen-year-old Theresa Bier rode into the Sierra Nevada mountains with a 43-year-old man who promised to show her Bigfoot, and only one of them came back. Twenty-four years later and a thousand miles north, twenty-year-old Madison Scott vanished from a crowded campfire party at Hogsback Lake in Vanderhoof, British Columbia, leaving behind her truck, her tent, and a mystery it would take twelve years to

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40:02

187. Amelia Earhart Survived: The Theories Behind The...

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries ·

2026/08/06

Go to https://kachava.com and use code HSP for 15% off your first order.On the morning of July 2nd, 1937, Amelia Earhart lifted off from Lae, Papua New Guinea, and flew into the most famous disappearance of the 20th century. The official story says she crashed into the Pacific and sank. And yet, evidence now shows the distress calls kept coming for days, the castaway campsite was discovered on a remote atoll, and a strange shape was spotted on Apple Maps in 2020. Now, with an expedition setting out

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186. Summer Camp Horror, Scary Camping, and Mimics:...

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries ·

2026/07/30

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 girls hiking toward a dark treeline. And a voice outside a tent whispers, "Are you inside, girls?" Kaelyn and Sylas read your creepiest true campfire stories: haunted camps, mimics, time slips, and the things waiting in the woods that none of you have been able to explain since.You can Find Sylas Here!Socials: https://www.instagram.com/sylasdean/?hl=en

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185. Shipwreck: A Tale Of Survival and Cannibalism

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries ·

2026/07/23

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 built a cabin, held elections, and taught each other languages for eighteen months. Twenty miles away, the Invercauld's twenty-five-man crew collapsed into starvation and cannibalism, and the one sailor who fought to keep them alive was erased from every published account.TW: Cannibalism, mention of animal huntingSubscribe on⁠ Patreon⁠ to become a member

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39:52

184. Alpine Divorce Horror: Husbands Who Leave Their...

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries ·

2026/07/16

Dark Summer Merch Is Here! Get your Tour Tee, Scrapbook Tee or Bandana at ⁠https://shop.heartstartspounding.com/Today we’re exploring the term that has been circulating online for the last few months, Alpine Divorce, and two cases where these “divorces” of sorts were life-threatening. In 2012, Toni Henthorn fell from an off-trail ledge in Rocky Mountain National Park. Her husband Harold said she slipped, but a ranger found a map that indicated otherwise. Thirteen years later, Arielle Konig was

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37:05

183. Honeymoon Cruise Disappearance: George Smith

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries ·

2026/07/09

Go to https://kachava.com and use code HSP for 15% off your first order!A newlywed couple boarded a Mediterranean cruise for their honeymoon. Five days later, a teenager photographed blood splattered across a lifeboat canopy, and the groom was gone. His bride says she blacked out. Four men were the last to see him alive. What happened to George Smith puzzled his family for years until they finally started pulling at the threads. TW: Mention of SA Dark Summer Merch Is Here! Get yours at

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35:08

182. Backwoods Horror: The Creatures Appalachians...

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries ·

2026/07/02

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 government says it doesn't exist, there are NO official reports of big black cats in the area. But the Cherokee had a name for what lives in those mountains, and its story is far older, and far more wicked, than a misidentified panther. Today, we’re diving into the stories of The Wampus Cat and Spearfinger. Subscribe on⁠ Patreon⁠ to become a member of

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181. Mount Everest Horror: The Khumbu Icefall Avalanche

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries ·

2026/06/18

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 disaster in Mount Everest's history. What followed wasn't just a rescue. It was a reckoning: a fight over $400 funeral payments, a historic strike, and the first time in ninety years that the world's most famous mountain went silent.TW: Mass death, descriptions of fatal injuries For more information on the 2013 Sherpa and Climber conflict, check out

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46:42

180. Two Cold Cases Police Thought Would Never Be...

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries ·

2026/06/11

Go to https://kachava.com and use code HSP for 15% off your first order.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 were nothing anyone expected. August 1990, Houston. A white Honda Civic sits abandoned at the end of a cul-de-sac on the city's edge. The keys are in the ignition, a woman's purse is on the floorboard, and blood is smeared down both doors. What detectives find in the woods beyond

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38:55

179. How Reddit Shut Down the Worst Troubled Teen...

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries ·

2026/06/04

Go to https://kachava.com and use code HSP for 15% off your first order.In 1970, a man with no clinical training opened a "therapeutic boarding school" in the Maine woods. For forty-one years, students inside were subjected to organized beatings, forced fight rings, and psychological torture while journalists, state investigators, and even Congress failed to shut it down. Then, in 2010, one anonymous Reddit post did what none of them could. TW: Child Abuse, mention of suicide,

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2:59

Introducing Family Lore

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries ·

2026/06/01

Family Lore is a weekly narrative podcast that celebrates and investigates ancestral mystique. Each episode begins with a guest sharing a fascinating family legend, followed by a historical deep-dive to uncover the truth and meaning behind the tale. Available now. https://link.pscrb.fm/f0281/FLFD 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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