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Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

48: Beneath The Icy Depths: The Mysterious Disappearance of the Martin Family

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

True Crime, Fiction, Drama, History

4.83.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

On December 7th, 1958, Ken Martin, his wife Barbara, and their three young daughters drove east of Portland to get a Christmas tree and were never seen again. What initially appears to be an accident, starts to feel sinister as more is revealed.

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Heart Starts Pounding is written and produced by Kaelyn Moore.

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It's that feeling when the energy and the room shifts, when the air gets sucked out of a moment, and everything starts to feel wrong.

0:45.0

It's the instinct between fight or flight.

0:49.0

When your brain is trying to make sense of what it's seeing, it's when your heart starts pounding.

0:58.0

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

1:04.0

I'm your host, Kaelin Moore.

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Okay, so this is our last episode of 2023.

1:11.0

Recently, I asked on Instagram what everyone's favorite episode of the year was, and I kinda thought that there would be like one or two standout episodes.

1:19.0

But no, I feel like almost everyone had a different answer.

1:23.0

I was honestly really surprised.

1:25.0

For me, this past year, I really enjoyed doing the research for the Boris Weissviler Disappearance episodes,

1:32.0

and I loved doing the compilation episodes like Urban Legends, Appalachian folklore, and Dark Therapy.

1:38.0

But feel free to let me know what your favorite episode was.

1:42.0

I'll make that the question on Spotify so you can easily answer there, or on Instagram.

1:47.0

I typically start planning my episodes pretty far in advance, like a month or so,

1:52.0

so I have essentially all of January planned, but knowing what your favorite episodes have been will really help me plan the rest of the year.

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If you are listening to the ad-supported version of the show, thank you so much.

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