Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

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…

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

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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 lost city that supposedly sits at the bottom of it, and the disaster known as the Byford Dolphin Incident. 

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

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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, and why does it happen? Let’s take a morbid little tour through history

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

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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 mailbag today to ask some of your burning darkly curious questions

TW: references but not not descriptions of the following- Suicide, child abuse, sexual abuse, animal death

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

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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 in the ‘Alaskan Triangle’

Anyone having contact or information regarding Valerie Sifsof is asked to contact the Alaska State Troopers in Soldotna at 907-262-4453 and reference incident number AK12219013 or the Alaska Bureau of Investigation Missing Persons Clearinghouse at 907-269-5038.

Anyone having contact or information regarding Michael LeMaitre is asked to contact the Alaska State Troopers (907) 269-5511 and reference incident number AK12217370

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

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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 Notes: https://www.heartstartspounding.com/episodes/glennonenglelman

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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/r/ParanormalEncounters/comments/1b80att/just_got_back_from_port_arthur_ghost_tour_and/#lightbox

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

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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 things get this bad?

Trigger warning: Child abuse

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

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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 involved in the Salem Witch Trials, and the entities people have reported seeing inside.

Check out part two, where we spend the night ghost hunting in the house! Available on the Two Girls One Ghost Feed

https://youtu.be/ayCVZpJdGxE

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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 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kanepixels

Check out the Backrooms Wiki: https://backrooms-wiki.wikidot.com/

Show Notes: https://www.heartstartspounding.com/episodes/bernardgore-backroomshorror

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 Footnotes, where I share my case file with our producer, Matt.

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