Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

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Today, I am joined by Shane Madej who let me read a bunch of the creepiest Reddit scary stories I could find. This marks my 200th episode of Heart Starts Pounding!! Thank you to everyone who watches and listens, truly, it makes this show possible. I love the community we have made, and I look forward to diving into even more Horrors, Hauntings, and Mysteries! Stay Curious everyone!!!
Find Shane Here!
Watcher: https://www.youtube.com/@watcher
Quizard’s Pit: https://www.youtube.com/@TheQuizardsPit
Socials: https://www.instagram.com/shanemadej
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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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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
The Sinister Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/2TPaYb8hS9StH8hokGFvud
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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.
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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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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