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Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

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Language: en True Crime History Fiction
Last Checked: 2025-08-02 10:45:22

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110. Backwoods Horror: Unexplained Disappearances in the Alaska Triangle

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108. Australia's Most Haunted Prisons

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107. Starvation Cult Uncovered in Backwoods of Kenya

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107. Starvation Cult Uncovered in Backwoods of Kenya

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106. Staying In The Most Haunted Airbnb in Salem (Feat. Two Girls One Ghost)

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105: Backrooms Horror

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105: Backrooms Horror

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104. Lovesick: A Tale of Poison

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102. Mysterious Reappearances: Steven Kubacki and The Lake Michigan Triangle

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99. Horror In The Mountains: The Khamar-Daban Incident

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84: 3 Stories That Prove You Shouldn't Go In Your Basement

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83: Cursed Cemeteries: Vengeful Ghosts & A Portal To Hell

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82: Listener Stories: Sleep Demons, Ghost Children, and more

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81: The Horrors Of Pennhurst Asylum

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80: Eclipse Murders: An Astrology Influencer's Dark Spiral

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79: Italy, a Murder and a Mystery: The Most Haunted Island & The Maso Murders

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78: The Isdal Woman Mystery: Norway's Most Puzzling Cold Case

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77: Terrifying True Urban Legends: Summertime Edition // Dark Summer Series

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76: Help Wanted: Lured By A Killer // Dark Summer Series

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75: Haunted Resorts: The White Witch of Rose Hall and The Ghosts of Hotel Del Coronado // Dark Summer Series

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74: Human Experiments, Trafficked Athletes, and Poisoned Runners: America's First Olympics // Dark Summer Series

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73: Vanished At Summer Camp // Dark Summer Series

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72: Backwoods Horror: Creepy Encounters, Cryptids, and more // Dark Summer Series

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71: Murder At Sea: A Cruise Mystery // Dark Summer Series

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70: Amusement Park Horrors: Dark Summer Series

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69: Hit Man: The True Story of a Fake Contract Killer

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68: Stalking: Baby Reindeer Fact Vs. Fiction, Inside Venezuela's Nightmare Stalker, and Stories From Listeners

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67: Listener Stories: True Horror Tales

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66: Terrifying True Urban Legends: The Canadian Wilderness

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65: Old Hollywood Murder: The Mysterious Death of William Desmond Taylor

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64: Old Hollywood Curses: The Superman Curse, Rosemary's Baby, and more

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63: Old Hollywood Scandal: Clara Bow, The First 'It' Girl

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62: Old Hollywood Ghosts: Haunted Hotels, Star-Studded Seances, and more

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61: Folklore: Southern Gothic Horror

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60: 8 Brutal Execution Methods from Ancient Times

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59: Haunted Mexico City: Three Tales of Horror

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58: Murder House: The Korean Cannibal Gang and the Woman Who Escaped Them

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57: Morbid Medicine: Human Experiments

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56: She Fell From The Sky: The Sole Survivor of Flight 508

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55: Love and Lies Pt. 2: The Captor

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54: Love and Lies Pt.1: The Disappearance of Sandra Clifton

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52: Griselda Blanco: The Dark History of Cocaine's Queenpin

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51: Terrifying True Urban Legends: Australia

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50: India: A Horror, A Haunting, and A Mystery

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49: Haunted New Orleans: Cursed Cemeteries, Voodoo Queens, and more

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48: Beneath The Icy Depths: The Mysterious Disappearance of the Martin Family

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47: "Smee": A Christmas Ghost Story

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46: The Winecoff Fire: The Deadliest Hotel Disaster in American History

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45: When Looks Kill: Mad Hatters and Other Deadly Trends in Fashion and Beauty

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44: Thanksgiving Day Terror: The Unsolved Case of The Blount Family

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43: HSP x Murder With My Husband: Kaelyn and Payton Talk Strange Disappearances

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42: Human Sacrifice: Dark Rituals Throughout History

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41: Two Marys, Two Murders: A Houston Cold Case

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40: The Devil's Bible and Other Haunting Tales for Halloween

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39: Listener Stories: Ghost Children, Haunted Campgrounds, and More

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38: Cursed Movies: The Wizard Of Oz and The Exorcist

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