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Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

47: "Smee": A Christmas Ghost Story

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

Drama, True Crime, Fiction, History

4.84.7K 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"' Subscribe on Patreon for bonus content and to become a member of our Rogue Detecting Society. Patrons have access to ad-free listening and bonus content. Follow on Tik Tok and Instagram for a daily dose of horror. We have a monthly newsletter now! Be sure to sign up for updates and more. Heart Starts Pounding is written and produced by Kaelyn Moore. Show Notes & Transcript: Smee: A Christmas Ghost Story — Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries 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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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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