156. Lost Media Vol. 2: Missing Holiday Media

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

True Crime, History, Fiction, Drama

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🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Go to https://kachava.com and use code HSP for 15% off your next order. What happens when beloved holiday entertainment crosses the line? From Disney's The Santa Clause hiding adult Easter eggs that horrified parents, to the 1997 Macy's Day Parade disaster NBC tried to erase, to Vincent Price's final grief-stricken performance that Disney deemed "unusable". These aren't just missing tapes; they're pieces of holiday history someone decided we shouldn't remember. TW: Graphic Description of injury Subscribe on⁠ Patreon⁠ to become a member of our Rogue Detecting Society and enjoy ad-free listening, monthly bonus content, merch discounts and more. Members of our High Council on Patreon also have access to our weekly after-show, Footnotes, where I share my case file with our producer, Matt. You can also enjoy many of these same perks, including ad-free listening and bonus content 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	What would cause a piece of media to become lost?
0:03.0	Throughout history, before things could really become catalogued on the internet,
0:06.5	it wasn't uncommon for a piece of media to just vanish,
0:10.0	leaving behind a weird ghost in our memories.
0:12.5	Some was just never aired again.
0:14.5	Some was accidentally damaged,
0:16.5	but some of it was intentionally destroyed,
0:19.5	all because someone didn't want the public to see it.
0:23.2	This is Hard Starts Founding. I'm your archivist today, Kaylin Moore. Now, I spend most of my time
0:28.8	on this show hunting down information. I have subscriptions to newspapers and languages I can't read.
0:33.9	I hunt down old books that were once banned by different governments. I even reach
0:38.2	out to journalists and authors for more information a lot of the times. I even sometimes get resources
0:43.3	from you guys, which I wanted to give a shout out to Bill, our mountaineering listener, who sent me some
0:48.0	really interesting books to check out after we did our episode on Mount Everest. My reading list
0:52.7	right now is really all books that you guys have
0:54.3	sent me and I absolutely love that. My point being, it's rare that I can't find something.
1:00.4	And I think that's why I'm so obsessed with media that becomes lost, which is what I want
1:06.3	to tell you about today. As a reminder, if you like mysteries of the internet disappearances that make you
1:11.7	question everything, and if you have an otherwise dark curiosity, you are in the right place because
1:16.2	you are just like me. We put out episodes once a week, so make sure you're subscribed or you're
1:21.1	following along or leaving comments wherever you listen so you don't miss out. Okay, let's get back
1:26.4	into it. It's when your heart starts
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