Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

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1. 199. Backwoods Horror: The Appalachian Serial Killer Caught by Teenagers

   5 november 2026 · 43 min

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   In the 1980s, women with red hair kept turning up dead along Appalachian highways. Police held a six-hour summit, decided there was no serial killer, and shelved the cases for decades. Then a high school sociology class in East Tennessee picked them back up and did what no investigator could.

   TW: Mention of SA

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2. 198. Reddit Scary Stories: Terrifying Ring Camera Footage, a Crawling Stalker, and Other Mommy (feat. Sylas Dean)

   29 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 12 min

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   A newlywed couple buys a house that’s way too cheap, only to later find out about the dark murderous curse that they inherited with it. A teenager working the late shift at a run-down movie theater falls asleep past closing and wakes up to someone sitting alone in the dark, facing a blank screen. Today, we have Sylas Dean with us as we try to scare each other with our best Reddit story finds for spooky season, and Sylas shares a campfire story like I’ve never heard before!

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   Socials: https://www.instagram.com/sylasdean/?hl=en & https://www.tiktok.com/@creeptime?lang=en

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3. 197. Terrifying True Urban Legends: The Clown Panic of 2016 and Poison Candy

   22 oktober 2026 · 39 min

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   In the summer of 2016, children at a South Carolina apartment complex ran out of the woods screaming. They said there were clowns in the trees. No one believed them. Within weeks, the sightings had spread across the country, school lockdowns, armed mobs, arrests, and a panic so intense that McDonald’s benched Ronald McDonald. But where did it actually start? The answer is stranger than the legend. Lees meer

   Then: Halloween night, 1974. An eight-year-old boy in Pasadena, Texas eats a piece of candy from his trick-or-treat bag. He’s dead within the hour. For fifty years, parents have checked their children’s candy because of what happened that night but the real story is darker than the urban legend it created.

   TW: Child death

   Show Notes: https://www.heartstartspounding.com/episodes/clownpanic

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4. 196. Dangerous and Deadly Halloween Haunted Attractions

   15 oktober 2026 · 31 min

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   Halloween and Spooky Season bring many haunted attractions and events for people to attend and have a little fun, get a little scared. But what if I told you some of those scares aren’t props and dummies after all? In fact, it is way more common than you’d think for real corpses to be mistaken for Halloween decorations. Today we’re digging into some real deadly haunted attractions, from a High School production gone wrong to Disney Paris and a Queens basement the fire department called a death trap; these are the haunted attractions where the horror stopped being part of the show.

   Show Notes: https://www.heartstartspounding.com/episodes/hauntedattractions

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5. 195. Cursed Horror Movies: The Omen and Nosferatu

   8 oktober 2026 · 35 min

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   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 real, and the truth behind it is even stranger than the legend.

   TW: Suicide

   Show Notes: https://www.heartstartspounding.com/episodes/cursedhorrormovies

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6. 194. True Haunted House Stories: Ghost Children, Mimics, and Premonitions

   1 oktober 2026 · 36 min

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   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: https://www.heartstartspounding.com/stories and maybe I will tell your tale next!

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7. Introducing Woman in the Woods

   25 september 2026 · 4 min

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   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 mysterious new figure emerged. "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty separates fact from fiction in a case built upon unimaginable layers of deception. Available now. Lees meer

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8. 193. The Sting Operation That Ended “To Catch a Predator”: Bill Conradt

   24 september 2026 · 34 min

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   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. Lees meer

   TW: Child Abuse, SA, Suicide

   Show Notes: https://www.heartstartspounding.com/episodes/primetime

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9. 192. Revisiting the True Story Behind Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story

   17 september 2026 · 41 min

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   Today, 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 officially unsolved and now serves as the inspiration for Ryan Murphy’s latest installment of the "Monster" series. Let’s dive into mounting family resentment, the evidence the jury never heard, and Lizzie’s lavish lifestyle after the murders. Lees meer

   Show Notes: https://www.heartstartspounding.com/episodes/monsterlizzieborden

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10. 191. Mysteries of Nahanni Valley: Canada’s Cursed National Park

    10 september 2026 · 39 min

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    In 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 to stay away but, the question is what keeps claiming the men who don't. Lees meer

    Show Notes: https://www.heartstartspounding.com/episodes/nahannicanada

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