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

I'm your host, Kaelin Moore.

This is our community of people who love to follow their dark curiosity wherever it leads

them.

If you'd like to dive further into the community, and I hope you do, you can follow the show

on Instagram and TikTok at Heart Starts Pounding for smaller bites of horror, or you can join

me on Patreon, where you'll have access to some bonus content for just $3 a month.

This episode, I want to share with you some spooky stories sent in from listeners.

Every now and then, I'll get a truly spine-tangling email from someone.

And because it's summer, and I find myself quite nostalgic for camp nights nestled under

the stars, fire roaring, and ghost tales being shared, I'm dubbing this one the Heart

Starts Pounding Camp Fire.

It seems as though some of the episodes struck a chord with some listeners.

Many of the stories I've heard over the past few months were about memories that were

awoken after hearing one of the stories shared on the podcast.

When you're laying in bed late at night, thinking about the episode in all of a sudden,

there's a flash of an image in your mind, a shadow in a corner you ignored, a bone-chilling

sense of fear you thought you could forget, and then a memory floods in, coloring the

rest of the terrifying image.

Today, I'm going to share some of those scary memories people shared with me.

The first half is going to be stories that tie into the themes of previous episodes,

but then the second half, hold on to your hats, because the second half is a really terrifying

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