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Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

103. Terrifying True Urban Legends: Bodies, Bodies, Bodies

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

True Crime, Fiction, Drama, History

4.8 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

A street in Turkey that swallows people whole. A lake full of mysterious bones in India. And a changeling in America. These are times that the legends were true. Subscribe on Patreon for bonus content and to become a member of our Rogue Detecting Society. Patrons have access to bonus content as well as other perks. And members of our High Council on Patreon have access to our after-show called Footnotes, where I share my case file with our producer, Matt. Apple subscriptions are now live! Get access to bonus episodes and more when you subscribe on Apple Podcasts. Follow on Tik Tok and Instagram for a daily dose of horror. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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There's a lonely span of highway in Turkey, just south of the Black Sea, the D-100. It stretches for hundreds of miles across the entire country, from Bulgaria to Iran.

0:42.3

And if you were driving along it at night, you'd find long stretches of near darkness between the scattered towns.

0:49.3

The headlight beams would be the only light for miles.

0:53.3

It's incredibly eerie as you're winding through the mountains trying to find your destination.

0:58.9

And because of that, there's a lot of urban legends about this road,

1:03.6

specifically one that comes to mind from a small town called Karghale Hanbaba,

1:10.1

two and a half hours east of Istanbul.

1:13.3

The legend says that one night, just after midnight, the townspeople of Kargala Hanbaba

1:19.5

were awoken by the unmistakable sound of a car crash.

1:24.3

One man was awake at the time, and he described it like a large crunch, followed by other

1:30.5

large crunches, like cars were just piling up on one another. He hurried out of his house down

1:36.8

towards the D-100, which cut through their town, and as he approached, he could smell something burning,

1:43.6

acrid and horrible, and there was smoke in the air.

1:46.7

In the faint light from a cracked headlight, he watched a dozen passengers rush out of their cars and flee across the road.

1:55.1

He ran towards them trying to help, but before he could reach them, he heard screams erupt from the group.

2:03.6

The man ran the last few yards to the highway, but could only watch in horror at what unfolded.

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