47: "Smee": A Christmas Ghost Story

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

True Crime, Fiction, Drama, History

4.8 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

A game of hide and seek takes a paranormal turn.

In the spirit of the old Victorian tradition of telling ghost stories around the holidays, I present to you, a modern-day retelling of A.M Burrage's ghost story, "Smee"'

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0:34.8	Welcome back to another episode of Heart Starts Pounding, a podcast of horrors, hauntings,
0:41.0	and mysteries. I'm your host, Kaelin Moore. This is a community for the Darkly Curious and I
0:47.6	just want to let you all know that I have been indulging in my dark curiosity lately for you all.
0:54.3	Over Thanksgiving, I visited Galveston, Texas, one of the most haunted places in America.
1:00.5	In the late 1800s, it was a huge port city full of wealthy people, industry, casinos, you name it.
1:08.6	But a devastating hurricane in 1900 wiped out half of the city's population. It was so bad they
1:15.5	couldn't find all the people who died in the storm, so they just rebuilt everything.
1:21.8	Some people say that the whole city is built on a graveyard, and that those who died in the storm
1:27.5	are all around, restlessly haunting the current inhabitants. Well, I did some digging while I was
1:34.7	down there, and I'm really excited to share with you the history and ghost stories of the place
1:39.6	in an upcoming Patreon episode. Also, I may have visited the most requested haunted city I get
1:47.8	on this show. So many of you guys have been asking me to visit this one place, and I did.
1:55.3	I toured the cemeteries, I drank at the haunted bars, I walked the streets, and I talked to locals.
2:01.5	All for an episode I'm planning for you all early next year.
2:05.3	If you have any guesses as to which place I'm talking about, I'm sure you already know.
2:09.6	You can write your guess underneath the Instagram post I'm putting up for this episode. That's
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