166. Feral Children: The Wolf Girl of Devils River, The Ukrainian Dog Girl, and The Kellogg Experiment

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

History, Fiction, True Crime, Drama

4.8 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Go to https://kachava.com and use code HSP for 15% off your first order. Feral Children used to be the stuff of legends, but their stories are shocking, devastating, and real. Today, we're diving into multiple stories of feral children: the girl who was raised by her dog when her parents forgot about her, the legend of the wolf girl of Devils River, and the human experiment where a scientist tried to raise his son alongside a chimpanzee to unforeseen consequences. TW: Child Abuse, Animal Abuse, and Mention of Suicide Our Small Business Spotlight this week is Wicked Wick Candle Co! Shop their products here! https://shopwickedwickcandleco.com/ After Dark Collection: https://shopwickedwickcandleco.com/collections/after-dark-collection https://www.heartstartspounding.com/episodes/feralchildrenSubscribe 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	Welcome back to Heart Starts Pounding, a podcast of horrors, hauntings, and mysteries.
0:04.9	I'm your host, Kayla Moore.
0:06.8	For hundreds of years, there's been legends of children that live in the woods who were entirely raised by animals.
0:14.0	Well, what if I told you? The legend was actually true.
0:17.8	And not only that, but the real stories behind the legend are far more strange and at times
0:23.0	devastating than you would ever imagine. And what if I told you that someone once tried to do
0:28.0	a very inhuman human experiment to figure out why this was happening? Well, we're going to get
0:34.4	into all of that today here at Heart Source Pounding. The legend, the truth, the experiments. So buckle up because it's going to get dark and historical. Two of my favorite things. But before we dive in, I wanted to take a second to say, thank you guys. March marks three years of weekly heart source pounding episodes. It's actually wild to me that has been three years. I know some of you have been here the entire time. I'm so thankful for each and every one of you and I wanted
0:58.7	to do something to say thank you. So we're turning all of March into listener appreciation month.
1:04.0	First, we're going to do free shipping across the entire hard source pounding store at harpsarounding.com.
1:08.5	And of course, Patreon and and apple subscribers you have your usual
1:11.6	discounts as well the code will be auto applied at checkout where available i wish we could make
1:16.3	it work in every country but we have a couple limitations second i wanted to give some free things away
1:21.4	so we're going to do something on instagram called where i listen i want to see where you listen to
1:26.0	heart's founding old cemeteries a haunted hospital maybe while you crochet on your couch whatever it is where I listen. I want to see where you listen to Heart's Ice Pounding. Old Cemetery's
1:27.9	haunted hospital, maybe while you crochet on your couch, whatever it is, post a photo on
1:32.7	Instagram with the hashtag Where I Listen, HSP. Or you can tag me in your story. That's at
1:38.3	Hertz Arts Pounding. I'm going to feature some of my favorites and send you a code to something free
1:42.5	on the HeartSarts Pounding store, maybe a notebook, maybe a hoodie, maybe a mysterious potion I've concocted.
1:48.8	Who knows?
1:49.8	Make it weird and creepy guys.
1:50.8	I know you have it in you.
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