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Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

Introducing: Campus Files

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

True Crime, Fiction, Drama, History

4.83.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

College holds a mythic place in American culture, but behind the polished campus tours and glossy brochures lies a far more complicated reality. Each episode of Campus Files uncovers a new story that rocked a college or university. Consider this your unofficial campus tour.  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

Hey there, Rogue Detecting Society. I wanted to let you know about a show that covers some darkly curious topics at unexpected places, specifically America's colleges and universities. Okay, maybe it's not that unexpected. Some hearts arts pounding episodes have definitely taken us into higher learning on several occasions. But campus files digs into the archives of American colleges and universities

0:22.8

to take us behind some of the most outrageous scandals in the history of higher education.

0:28.7

From rigged admissions to sports scandals to Greek life drama, campus files shares the stories

0:35.3

you won't hear on the campus tours.

0:37.9

Check out this preview and be sure to listen to and follow Campus Files shares the stories you won't hear on the campus tours. Check out this preview and be sure to listen to and follow Campus Files, an Odyssey

0:42.3

Original podcast.

0:43.7

Available now wherever you get your podcasts.

0:45.9

Thanks, guys.

0:47.5

So I am from Alabama and went to University of Alabama from 2010 to 2014.

0:55.0

This is Abby Crane.

0:56.7

She's a third-generation University of Alabama student.

1:00.7

Really not a whole lot went into choosing my school.

1:04.0

My dad went to Alabama,

1:06.2

and my grandfather on my mom's side went to Alabama.

1:09.7

Abby grew up watching Alabama football, which has a nearly religious following.

1:14.6

Ask anyone at Alabama, and they'll tell you that football is one of the two dominant forces on campus,

1:20.6

the other being Greek life.

1:22.6

Alabama actually has the largest Greek system of any university in the country, with over 12,000 members.

1:29.8

To put that in perspective, Alabama has more Greek members than Notre Dame has students.

1:36.2

I want to say it's like 25 to 30 percent of the total student population, which honestly is

1:42.0

less than you'd imagine, but it's just so visible. The sorority houses are right

1:47.3

across the street from the stadium. The fraternity houses are the first thing you see when you drive

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