Dare to delve deeper into the shadows? Join the Heart Starts Pounding Patreon family for even more spine-tingling content, including ad-free listening, exclusive bonus episodes and a community of fellow darkly curious minds. Unlock the full vault of chilling tales! 👻 https://www.patreon.com/heartstartspounding Dark Summer Merch is HERE! Shop now: https://shop.heartstartspounding.com/ Subscribe to Patreon to get 10% off your order! What kind of illness turns deer into stumbling, soulless shells of themselves—bodies wasting away, but never truly dying? Or drives healthy young men into violent frenzies that leave them strapped to hospital beds, terrified of water? This week, we’re diving into the terrifying world of zombie illnesses—real diseases that hijack the brain and erase what makes us human. Show Notes: https://www.heartstartspounding.com/episodes/zombie-illnesses Watch More! Seven Years of Terror: The Chilling Stalking of Cindy James Pt.1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-cEvQtkCzU&list=PLY7bFJ2eh_Bp_cWmjqLZ5n1fN66g8ztQL&index=2 Was She Doing This to Herself? Conclusions on Cindy James's Case Pt.2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPA1xRp2F2I&list=PLY7bFJ2eh_Bp_cWmjqLZ5n1fN66g8ztQL&index=1 Creepy Stories From Appalachia That Will Give You Chills https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvKXA5cjZBY&list=PLY7bFJ2eh_Bp_cWmjqLZ5n1fN66g8ztQL&index=3 ❥๑━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━๑❥ About Heart Starts Pounding Hosted by Kaelyn Moore, Heart Starts Pounding explores the terrifying, the mysterious, and the downright spooky. Kaelyn brings you chilling true crime, unexplained phenomena, and haunting stories from across the globe and submitted by listeners like you. Have a heart-pounding story to tell or a case request? Submit your story at https://www.heartstartspounding.com/stories Socials https://www.instagram.com/heartstartspounding/ https://www.tiktok.com/@heartstartspounding https://www.facebook.com/heartstartspounding/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6mbxMOHKjy7jQGl3V08rE3 ApplePodcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/heart-starts-pounding-horrors-hauntings-and-mysteries/id1618084297 Web: https://heartstartspounding.com/ 0:00 Furious Rabies 13:38 Gina's Fight for Survival 18:43 Nenah's Hidden Parasite 25:37 Zombie Deer Disease 31:51 Can Humans Get Chronic Wasting Disease? 36:00 Mad Cow Disease #Rabies #ZombieDeerDisease #ParasiticInfections