74: Human Experiments, Trafficked Athletes, and Poisoned Runners: America's First Olympics // Dark Summer Series
The 1904 Olympic Games were considered to be the darkest games in history. A mad scientist was able to run experiments on athletes while the games went on, runners were given poison to enhance their p...
25 Jul 202435min
73: Vanished At Summer Camp // Dark Summer Series
Bonnie Bickwit vanished with her boyfriend from a summer camp in Upstate New York in 1973, during a summer where a serial killer was terrorizing the area. And in 1991, Jared Negrete was left behind ...
18 Jul 202432min
72: Backwoods Horror: Creepy Encounters, Cryptids, and more // Dark Summer Series
We're exploring three tales of horror from the backwoods for this episode of Dark Summer. An army of the undead in Hawaii, a Cryptid in the woods of Wisconsin, and a strange man on the edge of someone...
27 Jun 202435min
71: Murder At Sea: A Cruise Mystery // Dark Summer Series
The story of what happened to Klaus Schleke and Bettina Taxis one fateful night in 1987, and a twist you wont believe. TW: minor descriptions of gore Be sure to subscribe to Heart Starts Pounding on...
20 Jun 202439min
70: Amusement Park Horrors: Dark Summer Series
As we begin our Dark Summer Series, We're investigating three stories of deadly amusement park rides. TW: child death, minor descriptions of gore Be sure to subscribe to Heart Starts Pounding on Yo...
13 Jun 202439min
69: Hit Man: The True Story of a Fake Contract Killer
What if I told you the most sought-after hit man in Houston in the 90's wasn't really a hit man? He worked for the police Gary Johnson spent his career working with members of his community who thoug...
6 Jun 202436min
68: Stalking: Baby Reindeer Fact Vs. Fiction, Inside Venezuela's Nightmare Stalker, and Stories From Listeners
What's true and what's exaggerated in the Netflix show Baby Reindeer? And what does the real woman behind Martha think about it? We're also going to dive into the story of a woman who has been relentl...
23 Mai 202438min
67: Listener Stories: True Horror Tales
A demonic presence from a dream that appears in real life. A ghost that knows people better than they know themselves. And a little girl who thought her friend in her basement was just imaginary. We'...
16 Mai 202429min
