Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

197. Terrifying True Urban Legends: The Clown Panic of 2016 and Poison Candy

In the summer of 2016, children at a South Carolina apartment complex ran out of the woods screaming. They said there were clowns in the trees. No one believed them. With

196. Dangerous and Deadly Halloween Haunted Attractions

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195. Cursed Horror Movies: The Omen and Nosferatu

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194. True Haunted House Stories: Ghost Children, Mimics, and Premonitions

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Introducing Woman in the Woods

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 Min

193. The Sting Operation That Ended “To Catch a Predator”: Bill Conradt

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 sto

192. Revisiting the True Story Behind Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story

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191. Mysteries of Nahanni Valley: Canada’s Cursed National Park

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 c

PRESENTING CLUES: Celeste Rivas Hernandez: The Case Against D4VD

Today I’m sharing a special bonus episode from Clues, where we dig into the infamous d4vd case and the murder of Celeste Rivas Hernandez. In April 2024, 13-year-old Celes

190. Reddit Scary Stories: The Darkest Things Hiding in Plain Sight (feat. Angela Giarratana & Morgan Absher)

A creepy neighbor ruins cousin sleepovers forever when he takes it too far. A blind date turns into a fertility ritual!? An online stranger messages a private photo to an

189. Cave Diving Horror: 3 Deadly Underwater Cave Exploration Disasters

From the Maldives Cave System, where five divers entered with no proper permit or certification, of which none survived, to Norway's deepest cave passage, where friends l

188. Camping Horror: The Mysterious Disappearances of Theresa Bier & Madison Scott

In the summer of 1987, sixteen-year-old Theresa Bier rode into the Sierra Nevada mountains with a 43-year-old man who promised to show her Bigfoot, and only one of them c

187. Amelia Earhart Survived: The Theories Behind The Crash and Newly Discovered Evidence

On the morning of July 2nd, 1937, Amelia Earhart lifted off from Lae, Papua New Guinea, and flew into the most famous disappearance of the 20th century. The official stor

186. Summer Camp Horror, Scary Camping, and Time Slips: Campfire Scary Stories with Sylas Dean

A rock taken from a ritual site while at summer camp finds its way home… even after being thrown into the ocean. A smiling man in a suit beckons two girls hiking toward a

185. Shipwreck: A Tale Of Survival and Cannibalism

In 1864, two ships wrecked on opposite ends of Auckland Island. A frozen, abandoned archipelago south of New Zealand. The Grafton's five-man crew built a cabin, held elec

184. Alpine Divorce Horror: Husbands Who Leave Their Wives To Die On Hikes

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183. Honeymoon Cruise Disappearance: George Smith

A newlywed couple boarded a Mediterranean cruise for their honeymoon. Five days later, a teenager photographed blood splattered across a lifeboat canopy, and the groom wa

182. Backwoods Horror: The Creatures Appalachians Still Fear

Across Appalachia, thousands of people keep reporting the same thing: a massive black cat in the woods that screams like a woman being murdered. The government says it do

181. Mount Everest Horror: The Khumbu Icefall Avalanche

On April 18th, 2014, a 14,000-tonne block of ice broke free above the Khumbu Icefall and killed sixteen Sherpa guides. It was the deadliest single disaster in Mount Evere

180. Two Cold Cases Police Thought Would Never Be Solved (And How They Were Cracked This Year)

They call it the golden age of DNA testing, and this year, two cases that police thought would never be solved finally cracked open. But the answers were nothing anyone e