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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 century. From the headless remains of prospectors Willie and Frank McLeod in 1908 to filmmaker Angus MacKenzie, who survived a plane crash and then vanished without his supplies, the valley's death toll has never stopped growing. The Dene people have always known to stay away but, the question is what keeps claiming the men who don't.

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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 Celeste Rivas Hernandez vanished from Lake Elsinore, California. Seventeen months later, her remains turned up in the trunk of an impounded Tesla at a Hollywood tow yard. The car was registered to rising R&B star named David Burke, known to millions as d4vd. We unpack the case that's been dominating the headlines all summer. 
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TW: Child Abuse, SA of a minor, Grooming

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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 OP that was never posted previously, and a boyfriend discovers that his partner is hoarding every single thing he disposes of…yes, everything…it gets gross. Today we’re getting into some of the craziest stories from the internet with Angela from Smosh and Morgan from Two Hot Takes. 

TW: Stalking 

Find Angela here! https://www.instagram.com/angelagiovanagiarratana/?hl=en 

Find Morgan here! https://www.instagram.com/twohottakes/?hl=en 

Listen to mentioned episodes here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01d0Km1IHcg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS_6HxCb0kQ

https://youtu.be/9To4Mxnam7A?si=lkSbhMfwHq9rIm09&

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About Heart Starts Pounding

Hosted by Kaelyn Moore, Heart Starts Pounding explores the terrifying, the mysterious, and the downright spooky. Kaelyn brings you chilling true crime, unexplained phenomena, and haunting stories from across the globe and submitted by listeners like you.

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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 launched an illegal recovery for two men sealed underground, to a flooded Laos gold mine where trapped miners waited 10 days to see the light. Today, we’re covering the disasters connected by the rescue teams determined to recover everyone.

TW: Drowning

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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 came back. Twenty-four years later and a thousand miles north, twenty-year-old Madison Scott vanished from a crowded campfire party at Hogsback Lake in Vanderhoof, British Columbia, leaving behind her truck, her tent, and a mystery it would take twelve years to crack open. Two campsites, two missing girls, and the question of what… or who… was really waiting in the dark.

TW: Kidnapping/abduction of a minor, Grooming and alleged sexual abuse of minors, Child abuse and neglect

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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 story says she crashed into the Pacific and sank. And yet, evidence now shows the distress calls kept coming for days, the castaway campsite was discovered on a remote atoll, and a strange shape was spotted on Apple Maps in 2020. Now, with an expedition setting out to finally identify the object buried off Nikumaroro, the mystery of what really happened to Amelia may be about to break wide open.

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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 dark treeline. And a voice outside a tent whispers, "Are you inside, girls?" Kaelyn and Sylas read your creepiest true campfire stories: haunted camps, mimics, time slips, and the things waiting in the woods that none of you have been able to explain since. 

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Socials: https://www.instagram.com/sylasdean/?hl=en & https://www.tiktok.com/@creeptime?lang=en 

Creeptime The Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ETo1REWYsqJgebv5jx5Uy https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/creeptime-the-podcast/id1637005250 

The Sinister Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/2TPaYb8hS9StH8hokGFvud 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sinister/id1701665672

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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 elections, and taught each other languages for eighteen months. Twenty miles away, the Invercauld's twenty-five-man crew collapsed into starvation and cannibalism, and the one sailor who fought to keep them alive was erased from every published account.

TW: Cannibalism, mention of animal hunting

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Today we’re exploring the term that has been circulating online for the last few months, Alpine Divorce, and two cases where these “divorces” of sorts were life-threatening. In 2012, Toni Henthorn fell from an off-trail ledge in Rocky Mountain National Park. Her husband Harold said she slipped, but a ranger found a map that indicated otherwise. Thirteen years later, Arielle Konig was attacked by her husband, Gerhardt, on a cliffside trail in Hawaii on her birthday, but against all odds, she made it out alive.

TW: Domestic abuse, mention of sexual assault on a minor, description of head injury

The National Domestic Violence Hotline is available 24 hours a day at 1-800-799-7233, or text START to 88788.

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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 was gone. His bride says she blacked out. Four men were the last to see him alive. What happened to George Smith puzzled his family for years until they finally started pulling at the threads.

TW: Mention of SA

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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 doesn't exist, there are NO official reports of big black cats in the area.

But the Cherokee had a name for what lives in those mountains, and its story is far older, and far more wicked, than a misidentified panther. 

Today, we’re diving into the stories of The Wampus Cat and Spearfinger.

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