Hello and welcome back to Heart Starts Pounding, a podcast of horrors, hauntings, and mysteries. As always,

I'm your host, Kayla Moore. Today, we are going to talk about terrifying but true stories of things

that people have encountered while hiking and camping. You're going to hear stories about strange

clapping noises coming from nowhere in the woods, people losing time while hiking that they can't account for,

horrifying encounters with strangers on secluded trails, and so much more.

And there is no one better to join me today than the hosts of National Park After Dark, Danielle and Cassie.

These girls have covered hundreds of episodes showcasing the beauty, but also the horrors

inside of national parks. Because even though there's more and more people entering these parks

every year, more and more of them never leave. And what do we always say here at Hartzart's

founding? When you enter the forest, you reenter the food chain. So welcome to Danielle

and Cassie. Hello. Thank you so much for the lovely introduction. Yes, it's so good to be here.

I'm so glad we're doing this one. I am terrified of the woods, but I love camping. I love national parks.

But I also really love exploring all of the scary and weird and bizarre

and supernatural things that go on inside of those parks. And that's really your forte.

It is. Yeah, that's part of the draw, right? You're curious about what happens in the woods

and you want to experience it for yourself. Yeah, and exactly what you just said

where when you enter the woods, you enter the food chain back in and it's so true. I mean,

there are just a lot of things that can happen when you're out there. I know. It feels like

we're no longer apex predators when we enter the woods. I have to ask before we jump into

the stories because we have a lot of

really good and really scary stories picked out today that we're going to go into. What is the

scariest national park? Oh, that's tough. Oh, that is tough. Scary, like which category of scary?

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