Introducing: Campus Files
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
College holds a mythic place in American culture, but behind the polished campus tours and glossy br...
131. The Mysterious Disappearance of Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon // DARK SUMMER VOL. 2
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2014, while looking for two missing hikers, Lisanne Froon and Kris Kremers, in Panama, officials ...
130. Scary Reddit Stories: Terrifying Encounters (feat. Investigator Slater)
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From dodging serial killers, to fake ride share drivers, to finding someone in your room in the midd...
129. Unsolved Mysteries of The Great Lakes: Ghost Ships, Lost Crews & Ancient Curses // DARK SUMMER VOL. 2
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mysterious disappearances, lost shipwrecks, the Lake Michigan “Stonehenge”, strange lights abov...
128. Rebecca Coriam: The Cruise Employee Who Vanished // DARK SUMMER VOL. 2
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Head to https://www.tryfum.com/HEART and use promo code HEART to get your free gift with purchas...
127. Camping Horror Stories // DARK SUMMER VOL. 2
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A young girl vanishes without a trace in the Alaskan wilderness. A camper loses 10.5 hours on his ca...
126. Annabelle’s Tour of Terror
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dark Summer Merch is HERE! Shop now: https://shop.heartstartspounding.com/ Subscribe to Patreon t...
125. Zombie Illnesses: Rabies, Parasites and Prions
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What kind of illness turns deer into stumbling, soulless shells of themselves—bodies wasting away,...
124. The Mysterious Death of Cindy James Part 2
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1989, the body of a woman was found hog tied off the side of a road in Richmond British Columbia....
123. The Mysterious Death of Cindy James Part 1
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Go to https://kachava.com and use code HSP for 15% off on your subscription for a limited time....
122. Appalachian Trail Horror: Strange Encounters, Feral People, Mysterious Lights, and more
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A strange man stalks two women on their camping trip. A strange dog has been caught on a loop for hu...
121. The Ghosts of Kadena Air Base
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, isn't just the largest U.S. military installation in the Pacific—...
120: Reddit Scary Stories: Feral People, Hospital Hauntings, Close Calls with Killers,, and more (Feat. Morgan Absher)
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today, Morgan and I share our favorite scary stories from Reddit. Which ones haunt you the most? ...
119: The Burari Deaths: One Family, Eleven Bodies
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2018, 11 people in the Chundawat family were found dead from what looked like a ritual sacrifice....
118. Brazilian Horror Folklore: Animated Corpses, Old Hags, and Backwoods Creatures
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Let's look at three of the scariest legends from Brazilian Folklore: Corpo Secos that rise from thei...
117. America's Most Notorious Baby Thief: Georgia Tann
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For 20 years in Tennessee, Georgia Tann ran American's biggest black market for children, traffickin...
The Murder of Laci Peterson | CLUES Podcast
25 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Check out the first episode of CLUES, a Crimehouse podcast that I'm hosting with Morgan Absher of Tw...
116. She Said She Was a Social Worker. Then Children Started Disappearing.
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For 20 years in Tennessee, a mysterious woman appeared on the doorsteps of single mothers, claiming ...
115. Deathbed Confessions: Small Town Murder // I Am DB Cooper
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A In 1957, a man approached a young girl in Illinois and asked if she wanted a piggyback. That was t...
114. Ghosts on the Appalachian Trail, Creature Encounters in The Backwoods, and more Listener Stories
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A man sees someone who might not exist on the Appalachian Trail. Someone is lead into the forrest b...
113. North Sea Horror: Terrifying Creatures, Lost Cities, and Submersible Disasters
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The North Sea has the internet talking about how scary it is, but did you know people have been terr...
112. Morbid Medicine: Spontaneous Human Combustion
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On December 22nd, 2010, a man named Michael Faherty was found in his home nearly burned to ash. Noth...
111. Has The Martin Family Been Found? Case Updates And Answering Your Darkly Curious Questions // My Mailbag
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Has the Martin Family's car been found in the Columbia River? What happened to the Brazilian poisone...
110. Backwoods Horror: Unexplained Disappearances in the Alaska Triangle
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A man disappears in the middle of a race. A woman walks into the woods and is never seen again. And...
109. Glennon Engleman: The Serial Killer Dentist
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dentist by day, con man and serial killer by night. Glennon Englelman manipulated the woman around h...
108. Australia's Most Haunted Prisons
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Does the devil stalk the Isle of the Dead near the Port Arthur Prison? And what supernatural force k...
107. Starvation Cult Uncovered in Backwoods of Kenya
Thu, 27 Feb 2025 01:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 2024, over 600 bodies were found buried in shallow graves on a compound in the Shakahola forest. ...
107. Starvation Cult Uncovered in Backwoods of Kenya
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2024, over 600 bodies were found buried in shallow graves on a compound in the Shakahola forest. ...
106. Staying In The Most Haunted Airbnb in Salem (Feat. Two Girls One Ghost)
Tue, 25 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In part one of our series, I chat with Corinne and Sabrina from the Two Girls One Ghost podcast from...
106. Staying In The Most Haunted Airbnb in Salem (Feat. Two Girls One Ghost)
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In part one of our series, I chat with Corinne and Sabrina from the Two Girls One Ghost podcast from...
105: Backrooms Horror
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 01:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 2019, a photo of a liminal office space spawned a whole genre of horror called The Backrooms. But...
105: Backrooms Horror
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2019, a photo of a liminal office space spawned a whole genre of horror called The Backrooms. But...
104. Lovesick: A Tale of Poison
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In March of 2023, an office manager at a dentist office in Colorado received a package that would ma...
103. Terrifying True Urban Legends: Bodies, Bodies, Bodies
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A street in Turkey that swallows people whole. A lake full of mysterious bones in India. And a chang...
102. Mysterious Reappearances: Steven Kubacki and The Lake Michigan Triangle
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1978, Steven Kubacki went skiing near Lake Michigan and vanished without a trace. Danny Filippid...
101. Brandon Lawson: The Chilling 911 Call That Baffled Investigators
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In August of 2013, Brandon Lawson made a concerning 911 call, and then was never heard from again. H...
Introducing The Severance Podcast with Ben Stiller & Adam Scott
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Severance Podcast with Ben Stiller and Adam Scott is an episode-by-episode, behind-the-scenes br...
100. Real Life "Purge": Killers Inspired by Horror Movies
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2016, Jonathan Cruz went on a four day killing spree inspired by the movie "The Purge". In 1985, ...
99. Horror In The Mountains: The Khamar-Daban Incident
09 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
7 people hiked up a mountain in August of 1993, but only one made it down alive. What she saw up on ...
98. The Cases That Keep Us Up At Night // The Parlor (feat. Psychopedia)
07 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I sit down in the Parlor of the Rogue Detecting Society Headquarters with my good friends Tank and I...
97. Who Killed John O'Keefe? : The Karen Read Trial
02 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When John O'Keefe's body was found in the snow in January of 2022, there were more questions than an...
96. Heart Starts Pounding Wrapped!
27 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What was HSPs most downloaded episode? What was my favorite episode to make? Which one scared me the...
95. The Face In The Darkness // A Ghost Story
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Enjoy this rendition of Charles Dickens' ghost story "To Be Read At Dusk", and happy holidays! Sh...
94. Cold Cases That Were Solved This Year
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When a case goes cold, it's easy to lose hope that it will ever be sold. But sometimes a leap in tec...
93. Internet Mysteries That Were Solved This Year
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From the Mandela Effect, to a bunch of concerning Instagram accounts of AI generated children, to a ...
92. Long Haul Horror: Ghost Sightings and Creepy Encounters on The Open Road
28 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From ghostly hitchhikers and terrifying truck stops to suspicious looking roadkill and strange noise...
91. Folklore's Most Wicked Witches
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Have you heard about Baba Yaga who lives in the forrest in Russia and eats children down to the bone...
90: Trapped: Man Kept Family in Secret Room For Years Waiting For The End Of The World
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 2019, a 25-year-old man walked into a pub in Ruinerwold. He told the bartender that his father ha...
89: The Disturbing World Of Youtube Family Channels
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Stauffer family was accused of adopting a boy from China for social media clout, only to abandon...
88: Halloween Horror Folklore: The Scary Origin of Jack O' Lanterns, The Real Story Behind The Headless Horseman, and All Hallow's Eve Folklore
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Let's look into the legends, folklore, and history of the Halloween holiday. What does the devil hav...
87: America's Most Cursed Family: The Dark History of The Lemp Mansion
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Lemp Mansion is considered one of the most haunted places in the country, all because of the Lem...
86: McKamey Manor Arrest: Did Extreme Haunted House Owner Go Too Far?
17 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This past July, Russ McKamey (owner of the World's Most Intense Haunted Attraction, McKamey Manor) w...
85: The Hex Hollow 'Witch' Murder: A Spotify Podcast Serial Killers Crossover
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Legend says that a witch was murdered at Hex Hollow, and on Halloween Night it turns into a portal t...
84: 3 Stories That Prove You Shouldn't Go In Your Basement
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Basements are not just eerie, sometimes they hold secrets we may not want to know. Today, we're look...
83: Cursed Cemeteries: Vengeful Ghosts & A Portal To Hell
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Two stories of the most cursed cemeteries on earth; Recoleta Cemetery, where the ghost of a teen gir...
82: Listener Stories: Sleep Demons, Ghost Children, and more
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Real life horror stories coming straight from listeners. We dive into stories of astral projecting, ...
81: The Horrors Of Pennhurst Asylum
19 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Pennhurst is often referred to as one of the most haunted places in America. It's not surprising, co...
80: Eclipse Murders: An Astrology Influencer's Dark Spiral
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I'm doing a live show with Annie Elise on October 3rd in Brea, California! Get your tickets here: ...
79: Italy, a Murder and a Mystery: The Most Haunted Island & The Maso Murders
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we're going to Poveglia, Italy's most haunted island, to hear stories of plague victims burne...
78: The Isdal Woman Mystery: Norway's Most Puzzling Cold Case
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 1970, a woman's body was found in the Isdalen Valley of Norway. She was badly burned though no tr...
77: Terrifying True Urban Legends: Summertime Edition // Dark Summer Series
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lights of a ghost plane that illuminate a New Jersey forrest, the legend of a hermit who lives in th...
76: Help Wanted: Lured By A Killer // Dark Summer Series
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We're looking at two cases of people who believed they were answering help wanted ads for summer job...
75: Haunted Resorts: The White Witch of Rose Hall and The Ghosts of Hotel Del Coronado // Dark Summer Series
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We're continuing our descent into Dark Summer with a look at some of the most haunted, summery resor...
74: Human Experiments, Trafficked Athletes, and Poisoned Runners: America's First Olympics // Dark Summer Series
25 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The 1904 Olympic Games were considered to be the darkest games in history. A mad scientist was able ...
73: Vanished At Summer Camp // Dark Summer Series
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bonnie Bickwit vanished with her boyfriend from a summer camp in Upstate New York in 1973, during a ...
72: Backwoods Horror: Creepy Encounters, Cryptids, and more // Dark Summer Series
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We're exploring three tales of horror from the backwoods for this episode of Dark Summer. An army of...
71: Murder At Sea: A Cruise Mystery // Dark Summer Series
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The story of what happened to Klaus Schleke and Bettina Taxis one fateful night in 1987, and a twist...
70: Amusement Park Horrors: Dark Summer Series
13 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As we begin our Dark Summer Series, We're investigating three stories of deadly amusement park rides...
69: Hit Man: The True Story of a Fake Contract Killer
06 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What if I told you the most sought-after hit man in Houston in the 90's wasn't really a hit man? He ...
68: Stalking: Baby Reindeer Fact Vs. Fiction, Inside Venezuela's Nightmare Stalker, and Stories From Listeners
23 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What's true and what's exaggerated in the Netflix show Baby Reindeer? And what does the real woman b...
67: Listener Stories: True Horror Tales
16 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A demonic presence from a dream that appears in real life. A ghost that knows people better than the...
66: Terrifying True Urban Legends: The Canadian Wilderness
09 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Two terrifying legends from deep within the Canadian wilderness. The first is about creatures in the...
65: Old Hollywood Murder: The Mysterious Death of William Desmond Taylor
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hollywood's first whodunnit. Two young starlets, an angry mother, a scorned valet, a corrupt DA, and...
64: Old Hollywood Curses: The Superman Curse, Rosemary's Baby, and more
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Can films be cursed? What about specific roles? Today we're going to look into the story of a curse ...
63: Old Hollywood Scandal: Clara Bow, The First 'It' Girl
17 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From her tragic childhood, to her meteoric rise to fame, all the way through the scandal that ended ...
62: Old Hollywood Ghosts: Haunted Hotels, Star-Studded Seances, and more
11 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The ghost sightings of the Knickerbocker Hotel, a woman makes a final attempt to contact her husband...
61: Folklore: Southern Gothic Horror
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The haunting of the Gray Man, The vengeful Witch of Yazoo, and the man who made a deal with the devi...
60: 8 Brutal Execution Methods from Ancient Times
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The waist chop, slow slicing, being thrown to the beasts, and more. Today, we're traveling back in t...
59: Haunted Mexico City: Three Tales of Horror
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The legend of the Burned Woman, the Black House, and the ghosts of Lecumberri prison. Today, we're t...
58: Murder House: The Korean Cannibal Gang and the Woman Who Escaped Them
14 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rule #1: We Hate The Rich. Rule #2: Death is the only thing that awaits he who betrays this group. R...
57: Morbid Medicine: Human Experiments
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A brain disease caused by a routine treatment, a deadly medical mixup during a medical trial, and a ...
56: She Fell From The Sky: The Sole Survivor of Flight 508
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Juliane Koepcke boarded flight 508 with her mother on Christmas Eve, 1971, she knew the airline...
55: Love and Lies Pt. 2: The Captor
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 2015, Robert Hendy Freegard disappeared with Sandra Clifton. Robert's shocking past is uncovered ...
54: Love and Lies Pt.1: The Disappearance of Sandra Clifton
08 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 2011, Sanda Clifton found her perfect match on a dating site. Handsome, charming, successful--Dav...
53: Pet or Predator: The Deadly Consequences of Keeping Exotic Animals
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when a man tries to keep one of the deadliest creatures on the planet as a pet? Or when...
52: Griselda Blanco: The Dark History of Cocaine's Queenpin
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
CW: Violence, Drug use, Kidnapping Before there was Pablo Escobar, there was Griselda Blanco, a wom...
51: Terrifying True Urban Legends: Australia
18 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A ghost ship. The Button Man. A shark that threw up a major clue to a murder. Today we're talking ab...
50: India: A Horror, A Haunting, and A Mystery
11 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Women dropping dead inside of temples, a haunted limestone mine, and a mysterious orb of light attac...
49: Haunted New Orleans: Cursed Cemeteries, Voodoo Queens, and more
04 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Come with me on my trip to one of the most haunted cities in the world, New Orleans. Which ghosts ha...
48: Beneath The Icy Depths: The Mysterious Disappearance of the Martin Family
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On December 7th, 1958, Ken Martin, his wife Barbara, and their three young daughters drove east of P...
47: "Smee": A Christmas Ghost Story
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A game of hide and seek takes a paranormal turn. In the spirit of the old Victorian tradition of ...
46: The Winecoff Fire: The Deadliest Hotel Disaster in American History
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On the night of December 7th, 1946, a woman working the night shift at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta...
45: When Looks Kill: Mad Hatters and Other Deadly Trends in Fashion and Beauty
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A woman loses the ability to move her arms, A man bursts into flames from seemingly nowhere, and one...
44: Thanksgiving Day Terror: The Unsolved Case of The Blount Family
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On Thanksgiving Day, 1985, Susan Blount awoke to screams coming from her living room. What she would...
43: HSP x Murder With My Husband: Kaelyn and Payton Talk Strange Disappearances
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I'm joined by my friend Payton from Murder With My Husband to bring you two stories of disappearance...
42: Human Sacrifice: Dark Rituals Throughout History
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Human sacrifice has been a part of many cultures throughout history. But why did they do it? And mor...
41: Two Marys, Two Murders: A Houston Cold Case
02 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 2000, two Houston-area women named Mary Morris were murdered in their cars within a few days of e...
40: The Devil's Bible and Other Haunting Tales for Halloween
26 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In honor of Halloween, I'm sharing some of the most chilling tales I've heard this year Subscribe o...
39: Listener Stories: Ghost Children, Haunted Campgrounds, and More
19 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A ghost who steals, ghostly wailing being heard in the night. These are terrifying stories from list...
38: Cursed Movies: The Wizard Of Oz and The Exorcist
12 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Can movies really be cursed? Today, we're looking at what's fact and what's fiction when it comes to...