Deep inside the archive room of the Kids Network Nickelodeon, there was an urban legend that floated around for decades.

If you work in the archive, your job is to catalog every episode, every sketch of every cartoon, every role of film from every kid's show the network has ever aired.

These archives truly have everything.

But the urban legend was that there was one tape that had been destroyed because

execs at Nickelodeon never wanted anyone to see it. It's not from a cartoon, it's not from a sitcom,

but one of the many game shows that the network had at the time. The legend said that something bad

had happened during filming to a preteen girl that was competing in the

game show. Whatever it was, it was bad enough that the network had the tape permanently destroyed.

And for decades, this rumor floated around from employee to employee. And sometimes an archivist

would go through the old tapes and try to find what it was that people were really talking about.

But no trace of this event was ever recovered.

However, in 2013, a man named Kirk Fogg sat down to give an interview.

Twenty years prior, he was the host of the Nickelodeon game show Legends of the Hidden Temple,

and in this interview, he hinted at the fact that this tape wasn't just an urban legend,

that he was there the day the incident really did occur, and he knew exactly why the network had destroyed the tape.

This is Heart Starts Pounding.

I'm your host, Kaila Moore, and today I want to tell you about the tape that Nickelodeon

never wanted anyone to see, but I also want to tell you about a few other pieces of lost media.

Now, Lost Media refers to any audio, visual, or other type of media that was once publicly

available or known to exist, but is now believed to be lost, missing, destroyed, or irrecoverable

in any format. Sometimes, a fire burns down an old film archive and all the films are destroyed.

But more often than we realize, pieces of media are

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