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Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

130. Scary Reddit Stories: Terrifying Encounters (feat. Investigator Slater)

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

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4.83.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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From dodging serial killers, to fake ride share drivers, to finding someone in your room in the middle of the night, today we're talking all about terrifying close encounters. Find Psychopedia and Slater on Socials! @investigatorslater @psychopediapod Psychopedia Episodes Mentioned: EP42: Sex Parts: Severed and Stored  EP130: Greyhound Bus Beheading EPS 113 & 114: Pinup Predator: Serial Killer Harvey Glatman (Parts 1 and 2) EPS 134 & 135: The Serial Killer Next Door: Joel Rifkin (Parts 1 and 2) Heart Starts Pounding Episode Mentioned: Listener Stories: Sleep Demons, Ghost Children, and morehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP1Wqa_oCkc 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 ad-free episodes and bonus episodes 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

All right. I'm here with Investigator Slater once again on Heart Southing. Welcome.

0:06.3

Thank you. Thank you so much for having me back. Yeah, I'm so excited to have you back. I'm really

0:10.7

excited for this episode because on Psychopedia, I feel like you cover really, really dark cases.

0:18.6

That we do, yes. Yeah, I have to decompress sometimes after I listen to episodes.

0:24.3

So the theme of today's episode that I wanted to have with these stories is like close encounters.

0:30.4

I wanted to just find like a bunch of really scary close encounter stories for us to go over

0:35.8

because I feel like that's your wheelhouse.

0:38.4

It is. Well, my wheelhouse is definitely close encounters, but also like full-blown encounters.

0:43.8

You know what I mean? Oh, yes. No, of course. Yeah. You cover a lot of encounters. Has there been an

0:48.2

episode you've done recently that's really stuck with you? So I recently covered the case of the Greyhound

0:53.6

bus beheading in Canada.

0:56.2

I feel like I remember when that happened, but do you want to give me a quick refresher?

1:00.6

Yeah, I'm sure you do remember. I feel like anybody who was, you know, alive when this incident

1:05.9

happened, not only remembers it, but feels traumatized by it, which is completely understanding because it was

1:13.1

such a horrific event. And the way it concluded, it just leaves everybody so incredibly uneasy.

1:20.8

So in July of 2008 on a Greyhound bus, which is a public bus. A man that was struggling with mental health issues

1:29.5

boarded the bus with a knife that nobody saw, of course,

1:32.5

and he sat next to a young man only 22 years old.

1:36.9

His name was Tim McLean, the victim,

1:38.4

and he was just sleeping.

1:39.9

He had his head against the pillow, excuse me, against the window.

1:43.1

And this man, Vince Lee,

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