9: Horrifying Tales from the Troubled Teen Industry

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

History, Fiction, True Crime, Drama

4.8 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In the middle of the night, strangers ripped Zara from her bed and told her she was going to a troubled teen wilderness therapy program. Little did she know, the troubled teen industry would prevent her from going home for over three years. The Troubled Teen Industry is a multi-billion dollar industry that holds kids prisoner and may do more harm than good in their attempt to rehabilitate teens. Wilderness therapies expose teens to extreme physical conditions for months on end. Today we're going to hear stories from inside those programs, including Zara's. You can support the podcast and hear more of Zara's story on our new Patreon Follow Zara on Tik Tok Follow the podcast on instagram Have a heart pounding story you'd like to share on the podcast? Email heartstartspounding@gmail.com Heart Starts Pounding is written and produced by Kaelyn Moore. Music by Artlist. Links for this episode: Breaking Code Silence (donate and read more stories) https://wjactv.com/news/local/new-ruling-could-lead-to-retrial-for-man-convicted-of-1993-murder-of-teen https://wildernesstherapyinfo.tripod.com/id22.html https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/losing-erica-cynthia-clark-harvey-doesnt-want-anyone-elses-child-to-die-in-a-wilderness-therapy-program-6431310 https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/08/when-wilderness-boot-camps-take-tough-love-too-far/375582/ https://wwaspsdeath.blogspot.com/ https://allthatsinteresting.com/elan-school https://wwaspsdeath.blogspot.com/ https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/life/health-wellness/2022/12/08/wilderness-therapy-troubled-teen-industry/9890694002/ https://www.americanbar.org/groups/litigation/committees/childrens-rights/practice/2021/5-facts-about-the-troubled-teen-industry/ https://bcsnetwork.org/category/our-stories/ 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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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. I just wanted to add a little note at the beginning of this episode to let
0:09.2	you know that this one is heavy. It's incredibly important, but it features stories of physical
0:15.5	and sexual abuse done to minors at the hands of the troubled teen industry. If you need
0:20.7	to sit this one out, I totally understand, and I'll meet you at the next episode on March
0:25.0	2nd. Thanks. It's that feeling when the energy and the room shifts, when the air gets sucked
0:37.2	out of a moment, and everything starts to feel wrong. It's the instinct between fight
0:44.5	or flight. When your brain is trying to make sense of what it's saying, it's when your
0:50.5	heart starts pounding. Welcome to Heart Starts Pounding, a podcast of terrifying tales. I'm your
0:59.2	host, Kaelin Moore. On this podcast, we've covered everything from the paranormal to the supernatural
1:06.6	and some true crime in between. But today, we're going to take a look at an ongoing real life horror.
1:15.8	It's happened in our backyards, to some of our schoolmates, and maybe even to some of you.
1:24.0	Picture this. It's 1997, and the world is asleep. Or at least, all of the residents in this
1:31.9	gated community in Southampton, New York are. The streetlights are on, the moon is high,
1:38.3	the only sound is the purr of the neighborhood watches car, a multi-million dollar Dutch colonial
1:44.4	home sits at the end of a long road flanked by potato fields, and inside, sleeps a teen girl.
1:51.7	Her life is one of opulence. But here, in this moment, she's just like any other girl,
1:59.9	trying to get enough sleep to be able to function at school the next day. She's peaceful,
2:06.0	but unaware her life is about to change forever. She's woken by the sound of her bedroom door
2:13.2	being kicked in, two intruders enter and rip her from her bed. The sleep has barely worn off,
2:19.9	but her adrenaline kicks into overdrive, and she starts screaming, trying to get the attention
2:25.8	of her parents. She's dragged from her bedroom down into the foyer, where she sees her parents both
2:32.7	standing there, watching. They don't look concerned at all. They just look sad. As if they're upset
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