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  • From her tragic childhood, to her meteoric rise to fame, all the way through the scandal that ended her career. Who was Clara Bow? And why is her story so relevant today?

    My Clara Bow Playlist

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    Heart Starts Pounding is written and produced by Kaelyn Moore. Additional research done by Megan Fleming.

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    Old Hollywood Scandal: Clara Bow, the First ‘It’ Girl — Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

  • The ghost sightings of the Knickerbocker Hotel, a woman makes a final attempt to contact her husband on the other side, and an actress whose premonition proved fatal. Join me as we discuss the ghost stories of Old Hollywood.

    TW: Suicide, and brief mention of sexual assault

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    Old Hollywood Ghosts: Haunted Hotels, Star-Studded Seances, and more — Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

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  • The haunting of the Gray Man, The vengeful Witch of Yazoo, and the man who made a deal with the devil. Today, we're exploring the horrors of the gothic south

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    Folklore: Southern Gothic Horror — Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

  • The waist chop, slow slicing, being thrown to the beasts, and more. Today, we're traveling back in time to check out 8 of the most brutal execution methods from ancient times

    TW: Suicide, torture

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    8 Brutal Execution Methods from Ancient Times — Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

  • The legend of the Burned Woman, the Black House, and the ghosts of Lecumberri prison. Today, we're talking about the folklore, myths, and legends stemming from Mexico City

    TW: Suicide

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    Haunted Mexico City: Three Tales of Horror — Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

  • Rule #1: We Hate The Rich. Rule #2: Death is the only thing that awaits he who betrays this group. Rule #3: Never trust a woman, not even your own mother. This is the story of the Chijon Family, South Korea's most infamous gang, and the woman they kidnapped who lead to their undoing.

    TW: Death, Torture, Animal Death

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    Murder House: The Korean Cannibal Gang and the Woman Who Escaped Them — Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

  • A brain disease caused by a routine treatment, a deadly medical mixup during a medical trial, and a doctor hell bent on proving he can give patients cancer. Today's episode has 3 stories about what happens when you run tests on unsuspecting patients.

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    Heart Starts Pounding is written and produced by Kaelyn Moore. This episode is also produced by Matt Brown with additional research by Megan Fleming.

    Show Notes
    Morbid Medicine: Human Experiments — Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

  • When Juliane Koepcke boarded flight 508 with her mother on Christmas Eve, 1971, she knew the airline they were flying had a horrible reputation. She never imagined that she'd be the only person of the 92 on board to survive the flight.

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    She Fell From The Sky: The Sole Survivor of Flight 508 — Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

  • In 2015, Robert Hendy Freegard disappeared with Sandra Clifton. Robert's shocking past is uncovered in the search to find her, including the story of a woman he held captive for a decade.

    CW: Emotional abuse, kidnapping

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    Show Notes
    Love and Lies Pt.2: The Captor — Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

  • In 2011, Sanda Clifton found her perfect match on a dating site. Handsome, charming, successful--David Hendy was everything she wanted. The only problem was...David Hendy didn't exist.

    CW: Emotional abuse

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    Show Notes
    Love and Lies Pt.1: The Disappearance of Sandra Clifton — Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

  • What happens when a man tries to keep one of the deadliest creatures on the planet as a pet? Or when an Ohio man who has kept over 50 Lions in cages in his backyard decides he wants to unleash them on the town? Today, we're talking about the deadly consequences of people trying to keep wild animals as pets.

    CW: Animal Abuse, Suicide

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    Pet or Predator: The Deadly Consequences of Keeping Exotic Animals — Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

  • CW: Violence, Drug use, Kidnapping

    Before there was Pablo Escobar, there was Griselda Blanco, a woman who left the slums of Colombia to become a billionaire boss of the cocaine trade. If there's one thing Griselda knew, however, it's that the high couldn't last forever.

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    Show Notes & Transcript: Griselda Blanco: The Dark History of Cocaine’s Queenpin — Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

  • A ghost ship. The Button Man. A shark that threw up a major clue to a murder. Today we're talking about Australian urban legends and the terrifying truth behind them.

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    Show Notes & Transcript: Terrifying True Urban Legends: Australia — Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

  • Women dropping dead inside of temples, a haunted limestone mine, and a mysterious orb of light attacking locals. We're doing a taste of Indian history and folklore by sampling one story from each category.

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    Show Notes & Transcript: India: A Horror, a Haunting, and a Mystery — Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

  • Come with me on my trip to one of the most haunted cities in the world, New Orleans. Which ghosts haunt the St. Louis Cemetery No. 1? Could Marie Laveau truly influence the legal system with her voodoo? And for as hard as I tried, did I actually see a ghost?

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    Show Notes & Transcript: Haunted New Orleans: Cursed Cemeteries, Voodoo Queens, and more — Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

  • On December 7th, 1958, Ken Martin, his wife Barbara, and their three young daughters drove east of Portland to get a Christmas tree and were never seen again. What initially appears to be an accident, starts to feel sinister as more is revealed.

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    Show Notes & Transcript: Beneath the Icy Depths: The Mysterious Disappearance of the Martin Family — Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

  • A game of hide and seek takes a paranormal turn.

    In the spirit of the old Victorian tradition of telling ghost stories around the holidays, I present to you, a modern-day retelling of A.M Burrage's ghost story, "Smee"'

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    Show Notes & Transcript: Smee: A Christmas Ghost Story — Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

  • On the night of December 7th, 1946, a woman working the night shift at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia smells smoke. A few floors up, a man is woken by cries for help. Within two hours, almost half of the guests will be dead.

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    Show Notes & Transcript: The Winecoff Fire: The Deadliest Hotel Disaster in American History — Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

  • A woman loses the ability to move her arms, A man bursts into flames from seemingly nowhere, and one of the most notorious assassinations in history. What they all have in common may surprise you.

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    Show Notes & Transcript: When Looks Kill: Mad Hatters and Other Deadly Trends in Fashion and Beauty — Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

  • On Thanksgiving Day, 1985, Susan Blount awoke to screams coming from her living room. What she would find remains one of the strangest cold cases in Texas today.

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    If you have information relating to what happened to the Blount Family, the Attorney General of Texas’s general line is 512-463-2100

    Heart Starts Pounding is written and produced by Kaelyn Moore.

    Show Notes & Transcript: Thanksgiving Day Terror: The Unsolved Case of the Blount Family — Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries