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 t...
Episodes
"It's Just a Game." The Timekeeper Ep. 1
17-year-old Charlie (JUDAH LEWIS) shows up to his job at Funland to find his co-worker, Blake, dead and the building on fire with an ominous message scratched into the break room door: Tick Tock. Believing the message may be connected to th…
The Vampire: Peter Kurten, the Blood Sucking German Serial Killer // MONSTERS SERIES
Heart Starts Pounding is a Signal Awards Finalist! Go to https://vote.signalaward.com/ by October 9th to cast your vote for the Listener's Choice Award. In 1929, bodies were turning up all over Dusseldorf, Germany with one horrifying th…
Reddit Scary Stories: Reddit Stories That Could Be True Crime Docs (feat. Annie Elise)
Heart Starts Pounding is a Signal Awards Finalist! Go to https://vote.signalaward.com/ by October 9th to cast your vote for the Listener's Choice Award. Go to https://kachava.com and use code HSP for 15% off your next order. From a woman'…
Introducing Simpsons Declassified with Nancy Cartwright
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. E…
Tortured Live on Stream: The Death of Jean Pormanove
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 per…
Lost Media You'll Never See: The Nickelodeon Tapes, Children's Program Hijacks and more
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 ep…
Reddit Scary Stories: True Camping Horror Tales (feat. National Park After Dark)
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 storie…
How Did This Yacht Crew Vanish Into Thin Air? The Kaz II Disappearance // DARK SUMMER VOL. 2
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 who…
The Mysterious Disappearance of The Beaumont Children: Australia’s Most Puzzling Unsolved Mystery || DARK SUMMER VOL. 2
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, …
What was hiding in Germany's Göhrde Forest? // DARK SUMMER VOL. 2
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Abandoned Amusement Parks: Hauntings, Disasters, and more // DARK SUMMER VOL. 2
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Introducing: Campus Files
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…
The Mysterious Disappearance of Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon // DARK SUMMER VOL. 2
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…
Scary Reddit Stories: Terrifying Encounters (feat. Investigator Slater)
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 @ps…
Unsolved Mysteries of The Great Lakes: Ghost Ships, Lost Crews & Ancient Curses // DARK SUMMER VOL. 2
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 …
Rebecca Coriam: The Cruise Employee Who Vanished // DARK SUMMER VOL. 2
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! In 2011, a 24 year old woman vanished from a Disney Cruise that was heading back to LA. And what at first see…
Camping Horror Stories // DARK SUMMER VOL. 2
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…
Annabelle’s Tour of Terror
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 s…
Zombie Illnesses: Rabies, Parasites and Prions
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 …
The Mysterious Death of Cindy James Part 2
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 even…
The Mysterious Death of Cindy James Part 1
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 cor…
Appalachian Trail Horror: Strange Encounters, Feral People, Mysterious Lights, and more
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 Appalac…
The Ghosts of Kadena Air Base
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…
Reddit Scary Stories: Feral People, Hospital Hauntings, Close Calls with Killers,, and more (Feat. Morgan Absher)
Today, Morgan and I share our favorite scary stories from Reddit. Which ones haunt you the most? Get stickers! https://shop.heartstartspounding.com/ Subscribe on Patreon for bonus content and to become a member of our Rogue Detecting S…
The Burari Deaths: One Family, Eleven Bodies
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 dark…
Brazilian Horror Folklore: Animated Corpses, Old Hags, and Backwoods Creatures
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.hea…
America's Most Notorious Baby Thief: Georgia Tann
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…
The Murder of Laci Peterson | CLUES Podcast
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 podcastsWhen Laci Peterson vanished on Christmas Eve …
She Said She Was a Social Worker. Then Children Started Disappearing.
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/episo…
Deathbed Confessions: Who Killed Maria // I Am DB Cooper
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.…
Ghosts on the Appalachian Trail, Creature Encounters in The Backwoods, and more Listener Stories
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… These are Listener Stories, sent in from yo…
North Sea Horror: Terrifying Creatures, Lost Cities, and Submersible Disasters
The North Sea has the internet talking about how scary it is, but did you know people have been terrified of the sea for Centuries? Let's take a morbid tour through the history of the North Sea and talk about creatures from legends, the los…
Morbid Medicine: Spontaneous Human Combustion
On December 22nd, 2010, a man named Michael Faherty was found in his home nearly burned to ash. Nothing else around him had been touched by the fire, however. The official coroners report read: Spontaneous Human Combustion But what is SHC,…
Has The Martin Family Been Found? Case Updates And Answering Your Darkly Curious Questions // My Mailbag
Has the Martin Family's car been found in the Columbia River? What happened to the Brazilian poisoner who tried to kill her husbands family? What is Hantavirus, the incredibly rare illness that killed Gene Hackman's wife? I'm opening my mai…
Backwoods Horror: Unexplained Disappearances in the Alaska Triangle.
A man disappears in the middle of a race. A woman walks into the woods and is never seen again. And a small town called Portlock swears there is something evil stalking them in the Woods. Some say there’s something supernatural happening …
Glennon Engleman: The Serial Killer Dentist
Dentist by day, con man and serial killer by night. Glennon Englelman manipulated the woman around him to kill their loved ones in a get rich quick scheme, leaving a trail of devastation in his wake. TW: References to sexual abuse Show No…
Australia's Most Haunted Prisons
Does the devil stalk the Isle of the Dead near the Port Arthur Prison? And what supernatural force keeps people out of cell 17 at Old Melbourne Gaol? TW: references to child death Port Arthur Ghost Photo Referenced: https://www.reddit.com/…
Starvation Cult Uncovered in Backwoods of Kenya
In 2024, over 600 bodies were found buried in shallow graves on a compound in the Shakahola forest. Paul Mackenzie had told his followers if they reduced their food intake, they would meet Jesus. This left many with the question- how did th…
Staying In The Most Haunted Airbnb in Salem (Feat. Two Girls One Ghost)
In part one of our series, I chat with Corinne and Sabrina from the Two Girls One Ghost podcast from inside the most haunted Airbnb in Salem, Massachusetts, The Henry Derby House. We talk about the dark history of the house, how it was invo…
Backrooms Horror
In 2019, a photo of a liminal office space spawned a whole genre of horror called The Backrooms. But what are they, and what entities lurk inside? And are they a real place where some people actually get trapped? Check out Kane Pixels on Y…