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. As always, I'm your host, Caitlin Moore. I want to talk about something

that's been on the top of everyone's mind recently. Stalking. In April, Netflix released a show titled Baby Reindeer, which follows the story of a man named

Donnie as he's followed and harassed by a stalker named Martha believes they are in a relationship

and even goes as far as to sit outside his home at a bus stop all day long for weeks

just hoping to catch a glimpse of him. The show is based on the

real life story of the show's creator Richard Gad who plays the role of Donnie and he does a great job of showing the gray areas of stalking. He explores where he believes he was a victim and where he believes he manipulated his stalker into giving him more attention.

He also hints at the issues men face when they report stalking,

and how women aren't always seen as a threat by authorities.

But watching this show opened up a can of worms for me. I mean, this

podcast is for those with dark curiosities, and my curiosity was peaked. As I researched the case of Richard Gadstalker, I found that there is a horrible

stalking case that's currently unfolding in Venezuela.

One that you guys actually told me about.

Women in Venezuela have been stalked by a woman there

for up to seven years.

And for the longest time, police did not take it seriously.

Then I asked on Instagram if any of you had stories of stalking that you wanted to share

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