Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

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Today I’m telling you some true scary stories of people living in haunted houses, including my own! These are stories that will make you question: is your house cursed, or are you? Please join me, cozy up, and get a little scare for the start of Spooky Season! (Although for most of us, it’s a year-round affair 👻) If you have some of your own spooky stories, submit them at: https://www.heartstartspounding.com/stories and maybe I will tell your tale next!
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Nick and Mindi Kassotis believed they were being hunted. According to friends and family, Nick's classified military work had put them both in danger, so much so that Mindi rarely left the house. But the couple also shared they were expecting a child. Then, just after Thanksgiving, Mindi died suddenly in the hospital. Soon after, Nick died too. That's what everyone who loved them believed, that is until a woman's dismembered remains turned up in a wooded area. Stories started to unravel and a mysterious new figure emerged. "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty separates fact from fiction in a case built upon unimaginable layers of deception. Available now.
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To Catch a Predator was the biggest franchise in true crime television until a sting in Murphy, Texas spiraled into one of reality TV's darkest disasters. This is the story behind the show's most unexpected catch, and how it ultimately ended the show’s long-standing reputation as “the good guys” on TV. These are the facts of the story that inspired “Primetime,” A24’s movie starring Robert Pattinson as Chris Hansen.
TW: Child Abuse, SA, Suicide
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Today, we’re revisiting the details of the Lizzie Borden trial. In 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were hacked to death in their locked Fall River home while their 32-year-old daughter Lizzie was the only other person inside. Over 130 years later, the case is still officially unsolved and now serves as the inspiration for Ryan Murphy’s latest installment of the "Monster" series. Let’s dive into mounting family resentment, the evidence the jury never heard, and Lizzie’s lavish lifestyle after the murders.
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In Canada's Northwest Territories, Nahanni Valley stretches across eleven thousand square miles of pristine wilderness, and it's been swallowing people whole for over a century. From the headless remains of prospectors Willie and Frank McLeod in 1908 to filmmaker Angus MacKenzie, who survived a plane crash and then vanished without his supplies, the valley's death toll has never stopped growing. The Dene people have always known to stay away but, the question is what keeps claiming the men who don't.
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