Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings, and Mysteries
Horrors, hauntings and mysteries! A collection of scary stories, real and imagined, 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. Have a horrifying tale, paranormal encounter, or unsolved mystery that you’d like to share? Visit https://www.heartstartspounding.com/ and submit your heart-pounding story to be featured on the podcast. Join the Heart Starts Pounding community on TikTok and Instagram @heartstartspounding for a daily dose of spine-tingling snippets and creepypastas.
Episodes

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What happened to Joan Risch the last day she was ever seen?
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Heart Starts Pounding is written and produced by Kaelyn Moore.

Wednesday Sep 20, 2023
Dark Therapy: Brainwashing and Forced Confinement
Wednesday Sep 20, 2023
Wednesday Sep 20, 2023
What happens when the system that says it'll help you instead uses you as part of their sick experiment? We're looking into two stories of people who were promised help, and instead became stuck in a broken system and faced brainwashing, torture, and imprisonment.
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Heart Starts Pounding is written and produced by Kaelyn Moore.

Wednesday Sep 13, 2023
Terrifying True Urban Legends
Wednesday Sep 13, 2023
Wednesday Sep 13, 2023
We've all heard terrifying urban legends growing up, but what happens when they're based on real events....
We're diving into some terrifying urban legends that ended up being true.
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Shownotes: https://www.heartstartspounding.com/episodes/urbanlegends

Wednesday Aug 30, 2023
Vanished in The Wilderness Pt. 2: The Cult
Wednesday Aug 30, 2023
Wednesday Aug 30, 2023
Why did Boris Weisfeiler disappear in 1985. And did the cult hiding out deep in the Chilean wilderness have anything to do with it? Today, we're exploring the Colonia Dignidad.
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Feat. Darkly Curious Melody by Joshua Zimmerman
Shownotes: https://www.heartstartspounding.com/episodes/boris2

Wednesday Aug 23, 2023
Vanished in The Wilderness Pt 1: The Professor Disappears
Wednesday Aug 23, 2023
Wednesday Aug 23, 2023
When Boris Weisfeiler embarked on a solo vacation to Chile, he never returned. What came next was a deeper and darker rabbit hole than anyone could have ever expected
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Shownotes: www.heartstartspounding.com/episodes/boris1

Wednesday Aug 16, 2023
Haunted DC: White House Seances, Lincoln’s Ghost, and More
Wednesday Aug 16, 2023
Wednesday Aug 16, 2023
We're diving into the two most haunted houses in DC, The White House and The Halcyon House. Who was the ghost that tormented Taft's staff, which first ladies are most often seen haunting the White House grounds, and who was the eccentric owner of one of DC's most haunted houses, The Halcyon House?
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Shownotes: https://www.heartstartspounding.com/episodes/haunteddc

Wednesday Aug 09, 2023
Nasubi: The Darkest Reality Show You Haven’t Heard Of
Wednesday Aug 09, 2023
Wednesday Aug 09, 2023
When Nasubi was cast for the Japanese reality show Sweepstakes Life in 1998, he didn't know he'd spend the next 15 months in a studio apartment with no food or clothes. All while 17 million people across Japan were watching...
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Shownotes: https://www.heartstartspounding.com/episodes/nasubi

Wednesday Aug 02, 2023
Morbid Medicine: History’s Deadliest Cures
Wednesday Aug 02, 2023
Wednesday Aug 02, 2023
From drilling holes in your skull to eating tapeworms for weight loss, we're looking at some of the most morbid medical advice that's been given throughout history
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Shownotes: https://www.heartstartspounding.com/episodes/morbidmedicine

Wednesday Jul 26, 2023
Folklore: Stories of Appalachian Horror
Wednesday Jul 26, 2023
Wednesday Jul 26, 2023
Witches in the woods, screams in the middle of the night, the most haunted piece of land in all of Appalachia. Bring a backpack, because we're going deep into the Appalachian wilderness to hear the most terrifying folklore around.
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Heart Starts Pounding is written and produced by Kaelyn Moore.
Kathi Littlejohn: https://www.youtube.com/@cherokeevideos9203
Shownotes: https://www.heartstartspounding.com/episodes/appalachia

I'm Kaelyn!
Here I am in my natural state, drinking a martini in a haunted mansion, dressed like a widow. Join me on this podcast as I hear terrifying stories from guests and try to make sense of it all.