Feral Children: The Wolf Girl of Devils River, The Ukrainian Dog Girl, and The Kellogg Experiment
3/5/202640 min
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Feral Children used to be the stuff of legends, but their stories are shocking, devastating, and real. Today, we're diving into multiple stories of feral children: the girl who was raised by her dog when her parents forgot about her, the legend of the wolf girl of Devils River, and the human experiment where a scientist tried to raise his son alongside a chimpanzee to unforeseen consequences.
TW: Child Abuse, Animal Abuse, and Mention of Suicide
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Kayla Moore· Host0:28
Welcome back to Heart Starts Pounding, a podcast of horrors, hauntings, and mysteries. I'm your host, Kayla Moore. For hundreds of years, there's been legends of children that live in the woods who were entirely raised by animals. Well, what if I told you the legend was actually true? And not only that, but the real stories behind the legend are far more strange and, at times, devastating than you would ever imagine. And what if I told you that someone once tried to do a very inhuman human experiment to figure out why this was happening? Well, we're gonna get into all of that today here at Heart Starts Pounding, the legend, the truth, the experiments. So buckle up, because it's gonna get dark and historical, two of my favorite things. But before we dive in, I wanted to take a second to say thank you guys. March marks three years of weekly Heart Starts Pounding episodes. It's actually wild to me that it's been three years. I know some of you have been here the entire time. I'm so thankful for each and every one of you, and I wanted to do something to say thank you,