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.

It's the instinct between fight or flight,

when your brain is trying to make sense of what it's seeing.

It's when your heart starts pounding. Welcome to heart starts pounding, a podcast of horrors, hauntings, and mysteries.

I'm your host, Caitlin Moore.

This is a community for The Darkly Curious,

and if you're unfamiliar with Hard Starts Pounding,

I like to think of this as a place where all the legends are true.

The stories you've heard of witches that live in the woods, the ghosts that haunt the

abandoned buildings in your town, and the feeling you get of being watched

by something otherworldly while walking home at night.

Here in our little world, all of these things exist.

When the show is over and you enter your reality again,

then it's up to you to decide what's real and what's legend. Today I want to tell you about a place that is steeped in myths,

legends, and ghost sightings.

It's another place where all of the legends feel true.

The American South.

There, ghosts seem to walk about freely.

Folklore passed from person to person 100 years ago

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