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Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

176. Backwoods Horror: Why Do People Keep Disappearing in Nome, Alaska?

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

History, Fiction, True Crime, Drama

4.84.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Go to https://kachava.com and use code HSP for 15% off your first order. To find out how you can get involved and provide advocacy and support, visit the website for the Data for Indigenous Justice organization at www.dataforindigenousjustice.org and click on “Resources” in the top left menu. In 2003, 19-year-old Sonya Ivanoff was walking home from a friend's house in Nome, Alaska when a witness saw her get into a vehicle marked 'Nome Police Department.' Her body was found the next day. But Sonya's murder is just one piece of a much larger pattern. Since 1960, at least 25 people have gone missing or died under suspicious circumstances in this isolated town of fewer than 4,000 people, and the community has been fighting for answers that local authorities seem determined not to give. 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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1:02.9

Welcome back to another episode of heart starts pounding. As always, I'm your host, Kaelin Moore.

1:08.4

Today, I want to tell you about a town in Alaska where more people

1:11.7

go missing per capita than anywhere else in the U.S. And I want to tell you about the cover-up

1:16.9

that might be causing this. But first, I just want to say thank you to everyone who reached out to me

1:21.5

with urban legends that you were raised with. Last week, I did an episode on urban legends

1:26.1

and the true stories behind them, and I heard

1:28.2

some wild tales from you all. Theo commented that he was raised in the Czech Republic with an urban

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