Welcome to Heart Starts Pounding, a podcast of horrors, hauntings, and mysteries.

I'm your host, Kayla Moore, and today I have some terrifying true stories that I want to share with you.

I'm talking a woman who got an overwhelming feeling that there were cameras hidden in her smoke alarms,

someone who was very certain that their mother-in-law was trying to kill them,

and even the story of one woman who had to take a terrifying

situation with her stalker into her own hands. And I felt like there was no one better to join me

this episode than my dear friend Annie Elise. You might know Annie from her shows serialously and

Tent to Life, where she covers all things true crime and breaks down some of the most interesting, bizarre, and breaking cases of the moment.

Check out her shows if you haven't already, and I hope you enjoy our episode together.

It's when your heart starts pounding.

Annie, welcome to heart starts pounding.

Hi, thanks for having me.

So happy to have you on.

This episode that I have planned for you is going to be a little bit of a doozy.

I'm excited.

I wanted to pick stories, especially for you and the stuff that you cover.

I found a lot of Reddit stories that feel like

they could be true crime documentaries. For sure. People just writing about some of the craziest stuff

that's ever happened to them, which is really your domain. I mean, I live for that. I just like,

hopefully it's not like overly true crime, but like I love when people talk about what they experienced

firsthand and you kind of get to like dive into their world from their perspective.

I'm the same way. I feel like a lot of times like at least on Harsows Pounding, what we cover, I read a lot of newspaper articles and books and stuff, but it's so great to actually like be in the skin of the person experiencing something. Have you watched any true crime documentaries recently that have really stuck out to you? So not true crime, but I guess true crime adjacent, kind of true crime, the catfish documenting unknown, unknown texter, caller, whatever it's called. I did a whole deep dive on my podcast about that this Monday. Unhinged. And you did this stuff that wasn't in the documentary, right? They left quite a bit out. They did. Yes. Because the mom was a lot more of a problem than they actually talked about in the documentary. Yes. And how she like just so casually is like, well, yeah, everybody messes up. It's like, no, you were a predator sending the most graphic text messages to this kid. Why aren't you on the registry? Like,

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