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Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

34: Terrifying True Urban Legends

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

True Crime, Fiction, Drama, History

4.83.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

We've all heard terrifying urban legends growing up, but what happens when they're based on real events....

We're diving into some terrifying urban legends that ended up being true.

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Heart Starts Pounding is written and produced by Kaelyn Moore.

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0:00.0

Hi everyone, this is James Harkin and Anna Toshinsky, two writers of the TV show QI and

0:06.1

two-fourths of the hip-podcast, no such thing as a fish.

0:09.5

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0:11.9

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0:14.0

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0:18.5

whether you like sports or not.

0:20.2

Did you know that legendary Cricketer Gary Sobers scored his final century while drunk?

0:26.6

Or that games of LaCrosse used to involve 100,000 players?

0:31.7

Learn that and so much more by getting everything to play for the QI Book of Sports available

0:36.3

in all bookshops and online right now.

0:41.1

You know, there's a house that sits at the bottom of this lake.

0:46.6

Residents of Salem, Connecticut had heard this urban legend their entire lives.

0:52.5

That sitting at the bottom of their town's own lake was a fully intact house.

0:59.4

No way, kids would shout on playgrounds while their peers tried to creep them out with stories.

1:05.1

No, it's true.

1:06.5

My dad heard piano music playing from the bottom of the lake while he was out fishing.

1:10.6

There's something down there.

1:13.0

Tales of this mysterious house and how it got to the bottom of the lake swirled around the

1:18.1

town of Salem for generations and many credited it as just another urban legend.

1:24.8

What they would eventually find out, however, was that if you were to slip beneath the murky

1:31.6

surface of Gardener Lake and sink to the bottom like a stone, you would find an old wooden house

1:41.7

on the lake's floor. But how did it get there?

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