Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

Four bodies have been recovered from Lady Bird Lake in Austin, Texas this year, causing many to wonder- is there a serial killer currently operating, and are these drownings at all connected to similar ones five years ago?

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Heart Starts Pounding is written and produced by Kaelyn Moore. 

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Shownotes: https://www.heartstartspounding.com/episodes/austinkiller

Ghosts of Russian soldiers, red eyed creatures made from smoke. These are real life horror stories from soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq in the early 2000's who saw the unexplainable. 

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Shownotes: www.heartstartspounding.com/episodes/ghostsofwar

Spine tingling, bone chilling, and downright mysterious hauntings. Listeners share their own heart pounding tales about a headless cowboy, two separate ghost sightings in the military, and a girl who believes she may have gotten a sign from her deceased sister. 

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Shownotes: www.heartstartspounding.com/episodes/listenertalesghosts

When Mrs. Kent learned of the grisly murder of her three year old son, she had only one thing to say. “Someone in the house has done it”

What would follow would be the biggest whodunit of the 19th century. The Kent family would have their dirty laundry hung out to dry as London’s top detective investigated them all for the murder of Saville Kent

Heart Starts Pounding is written and produced by Kaelyn Moore. Follow the podcast on Instagram @heartstartspounding, subscribe on patreon, or support the podcast with a one time donation to Buy Me A Coffee. And if you have a heart pounding story you’d like to share on the podcast, you can visit heartstartspounding.com

Shownotes: https://www.heartstartspounding.com/episodes/roadhillhouse

Imagine if the final words you heard from someone were so bone-chilling that they forever altered your perception of them.

These deathbed confessions rocked families, changed the course of police investigations, and showed where the bodies were buried.

A child with a deadly capsule. A rich playboy who lost his jaw and then his life. A fuel plant worker who absorbed more radiation than anyone in history. 

We're telling three stories about one of the deadliest forms of energy and the people that shouldn't have gone near it. 

Listener discretion is advised

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In the middle of the night, strangers ripped Zara from her bed and told her she was going to a troubled teen wilderness therapy program. Little did she know, the troubled teen industry would prevent her from going home for over three years.

The Troubled Teen Industry is a multi-billion dollar industry that holds kids prisoner and may do more harm than good in their attempt to rehabilitate teens. Wilderness therapies expose teens to extreme physical conditions for months on end. Today we're going to hear stories from inside those programs, including Zara's.

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Heart Starts Pounding is written and produced by Kaelyn Moore. Music by Artlist. 

Links for this episode:

Breaking Code Silence (donate and read more stories)

https://wjactv.com/news/local/new-ruling-could-lead-to-retrial-for-man-convicted-of-1993-murder-of-teen

https://wildernesstherapyinfo.tripod.com/id22.html

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/losing-erica-cynthia-clark-harvey-doesnt-want-anyone-elses-child-to-die-in-a-wilderness-therapy-program-6431310

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/08/when-wilderness-boot-camps-take-tough-love-too-far/375582/

https://wwaspsdeath.blogspot.com/

https://allthatsinteresting.com/elan-school

https://wwaspsdeath.blogspot.com/ 

https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/life/health-wellness/2022/12/08/wilderness-therapy-troubled-teen-industry/9890694002/

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/litigation/committees/childrens-rights/practice/2021/5-facts-about-the-troubled-teen-industry/

https://bcsnetwork.org/category/our-stories/

Writer Jeff Topolski (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) joins us this week to answer the question: Was Natalia Grace Barnett a murderous woman parading as a child, or a victim of terrible adoptive parents?

In 2010, a 6-year-old girl named Natalia Grace was adopted by Michael and Kristine Barnett. The Barnetts, as well as national headlines, would go on to portray Natalia as a disturbed con artist pretending to be a child. According to the Barnetts, she made their lives hell and repeatedly threatened to kill their children. In today's episode, we're going to break this whole story down, piece by piece, and examine all it's layers to figure out what was really going on. Buckle up because it's going to get even crazier than what the headlines were writing.  

Thank you so much to Jeff Topolski  for joining me today. You can follow the podcast on instagram @heartstartspounding. Have a heart pounding story you'd like to share on the podcast? Email [email protected] 

Links cited in this episode:

https://www.amazon.com/Spark-Mothers-Nurturing-Genius-Autism/dp/0812983564?asin=0812983564&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/9884021/Russia-seeks-return-of-adopted-boy-in-US-after-brothers-death.html

https://nypost.com/2010/04/09/us-woman-put-adopted-russian-son-on-one-way-flight-alone-back-to-homeland/

https://www.insideedition.com/couple-who-hoped-to-adopt-ukrainian-orphan-shocked-people-think-shes-an-adult-posing-as-child-56997

https://www.jconline.com/story/news/local/lafayette/2022/02/20/kristine-michael-barnett-natalia-update/6802645001/

https://www.jconline.com/story/news/2019/09/18/michael-kristine-barnett-daughter-abandon-ukraine-adoption-dwarfism-prodigy/2364895001/

https://www.jconline.com/story/news/crime/2019/09/27/kristine-and-michael-barnett-walked-a-small-crowd-of-reporters-and-news-cameras-on-their-to-their-in/3779458002/

​​https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7479061/Mom-claims-Ukrainian-daughter-9-adopted-really-22-year-old-dwarfism.html

This episode is about the supernatural things that happen around the time of someone's death, either leading up to it or right after. We read stories from people who experienced the unexplainable right when their loved one died and hear from two healthcare workers about a supernatural phenomenon that is common when someone is dying. 

You can follow Hospice Nurse Julie on tiktok @hospicenursejulie

Follow the podcast on instagram @heartstartspounding

Read more from u/spinyfever here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Thetruthishere/comments/102xoha/experiences_from_working_overnight_at_a_old_folks/

Have a scary story you'd like to share on the podcast? Email [email protected]

Pack a bag, today we're going to a spooky campground. In this episode, we hear two terrifying campground tales.

The first one is The Tale of The Solo Traveler- a tale of a girl who learns something may have been watching her while she camped.

And then we hear a tale from a listener of a time when their husband's intuition while camping may have saved them both.

Heart Starts Pounding is written/produced by Kaelyn Moore

Instagram: @heartstartspounding 

Have a heart pounding tale you'd like to share on the podcast? Email [email protected]

Music by Artlist