44: Thanksgiving Day Terror: The Unsolved Case of The Blount Family

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

True Crime, Fiction, Drama, History

4.8 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

On Thanksgiving Day, 1985, Susan Blount awoke to screams coming from her living room. What she would find remains one of the strangest cold cases in Texas today.

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Heart Starts Pounding is written and produced by Kaelyn Moore.

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0:00.0	It's that feeling when the energy and the room shifts, when the air gets sucked out of
0:10.2	a moment and everything starts to feel wrong.
0:15.6	It's the instinct between fight or flight.
0:19.0	When your brain is trying to make sense of what it's seeing, it's when your heart starts
0:23.8	pounding.
0:26.8	Welcome to Heart Starts Pounding, a podcast of horrors, hauntings, and mysteries.
0:32.3	I'm your host, Kaelin Moore.
0:34.9	Happy Thanksgiving to all my U.S. listeners.
0:38.0	I hope you're enjoying time with your family and eating some really good food.
0:42.4	And even if you're international or just don't celebrate, I hope you can find a moment
0:46.9	to think about what you're grateful for.
0:48.9	That's always been my favorite part of Thanksgiving, taking time to actually think
0:53.1	about my life and how grateful I am for it.
0:56.4	And funeral potatoes.
0:59.0	My aunt used to always make funeral potatoes for Thanksgiving, and it's probably the one
1:03.6	food I could eat for the rest of my life.
1:06.0	For those unfamiliar, it's those potatoes that have the cornflakes on top.
1:09.3	Ugh, they're just so good.
1:11.0	If you're listening to the ad-supported version of the show, I am grateful for you.
1:16.1	Our sponsors make this show possible.
1:18.4	And if you're listening on Patreon, I'm also grateful for you.
1:22.0	We'll have access to ad-free episodes as well as other perks like bonus content and
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