

The Devil Within
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The Devil Within is a cinematic podcast about the stories that refuse to die — the legends, disappearances, curses, and supernatural encounters that linger long after the world moves on.
Each episode blends history, folklore, and investigation to explore what really happened… and why these stories still haunt us.
From mythical creatures and haunted places, to strange crimes and unexplained phenomena, The Devil Within starts where the facts end — and the unanswered questions begin.
New episodes weekly. Bring a light. You may need it.
BINGE THE FIRST FOUR SEASONS NOW!
Season 1: The Jersey Devil - The brutal slaying of BETTY ANN SULLIVAN shocked the small town of Jefferson Township, New Jersey. The violence of that evening shocked the nation for the perpetrator... was her own son, a boy of fourteen who would take his own life only hours later. What the investigation revealed left a community in tatters, unwilling to believe the evil that had befallen them.
Season 2: The Demons of Yorkshire - In 1974 after experiencing financial hardship, Michael Taylor joined a local church in the rolling hills of Northern England. After falling in love with a young, beautiful preacher, Michael’s personality began to change. The mild-mannered family man became abusive and unhinged. His new church believed he was possessed by no fewer than 48 demons and would require an exorcism to save his soul and protect his family from evil. But the supposed remedy would come at a very steep price...
Season 3: A Season in Hell - In the late 1970's New York City had it all: Hip Hop, Punk Rock... and the Son of Sam. The third season of The Devil Within takes listeners into the belly of the beast and explores the wicked origins, reign of terror and ultimate capture of one of the most feared serial killers in history. With exclusive interviews from journalists, FBI agents, historians and mental health experts this season promises to be the most comprehensive - and most terrifying - account of how one man brought New York City to a standstill.
Season 4: Satan's Shadow - In the 1980s, California learned that fear doesn’t always lurk in the dark.
Sometimes, it walks right through the door.
SATAN’S SHADOW follows the terrifying rise of Richard Ramirez — the Night Stalker — while tracing his crimes alongside Dante Alighieri’s Inferno. As Ramirez descends deeper into violence, we descend with him through Dante’s circles of hell, asking what happens to a city — and a soul — when darkness becomes a spectacle.
Across nine episodes, each chapter pairs the facts of the case with a brief lesson from Dante: desire twisted into obsession, cruelty masquerading as power, betrayal, violence, and the chilling fascination that draws us closer instead of pushing us away.
Because Ramirez didn’t just kill.
He captivated.
He made the world watch — and forced us to confront the part of ourselves that can’t look away.
Bonus episodes explore the trial, aftermath, and the myths that followed — along with glimpses into Purgatorio and Paradiso, and whether redemption or meaning is possible after horror.
SATAN’S SHADOW isn’t only about a murderer.
It’s about a culture slowly walking toward darkness…
and what it costs to climb back out.
Each episode blends history, folklore, and investigation to explore what really happened… and why these stories still haunt us.
From mythical creatures and haunted places, to strange crimes and unexplained phenomena, The Devil Within starts where the facts end — and the unanswered questions begin.
New episodes weekly. Bring a light. You may need it.
BINGE THE FIRST FOUR SEASONS NOW!
Season 1: The Jersey Devil - The brutal slaying of BETTY ANN SULLIVAN shocked the small town of Jefferson Township, New Jersey. The violence of that evening shocked the nation for the perpetrator... was her own son, a boy of fourteen who would take his own life only hours later. What the investigation revealed left a community in tatters, unwilling to believe the evil that had befallen them.
Season 2: The Demons of Yorkshire - In 1974 after experiencing financial hardship, Michael Taylor joined a local church in the rolling hills of Northern England. After falling in love with a young, beautiful preacher, Michael’s personality began to change. The mild-mannered family man became abusive and unhinged. His new church believed he was possessed by no fewer than 48 demons and would require an exorcism to save his soul and protect his family from evil. But the supposed remedy would come at a very steep price...
Season 3: A Season in Hell - In the late 1970's New York City had it all: Hip Hop, Punk Rock... and the Son of Sam. The third season of The Devil Within takes listeners into the belly of the beast and explores the wicked origins, reign of terror and ultimate capture of one of the most feared serial killers in history. With exclusive interviews from journalists, FBI agents, historians and mental health experts this season promises to be the most comprehensive - and most terrifying - account of how one man brought New York City to a standstill.
Season 4: Satan's Shadow - In the 1980s, California learned that fear doesn’t always lurk in the dark.
Sometimes, it walks right through the door.
SATAN’S SHADOW follows the terrifying rise of Richard Ramirez — the Night Stalker — while tracing his crimes alongside Dante Alighieri’s Inferno. As Ramirez descends deeper into violence, we descend with him through Dante’s circles of hell, asking what happens to a city — and a soul — when darkness becomes a spectacle.
Across nine episodes, each chapter pairs the facts of the case with a brief lesson from Dante: desire twisted into obsession, cruelty masquerading as power, betrayal, violence, and the chilling fascination that draws us closer instead of pushing us away.
Because Ramirez didn’t just kill.
He captivated.
He made the world watch — and forced us to confront the part of ourselves that can’t look away.
Bonus episodes explore the trial, aftermath, and the myths that followed — along with glimpses into Purgatorio and Paradiso, and whether redemption or meaning is possible after horror.
SATAN’S SHADOW isn’t only about a murderer.
It’s about a culture slowly walking toward darkness…
and what it costs to climb back out.
Episodes
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Dec 26, 2025 • 31min
The Devil Within: Christmas Special - Part Two
THE DEVIL WITHIN — CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
Episode Two: Merry Christmas, You’re Barely Holding It Together
Christmas movies aren’t comforting because they’re gentle.
They’re comforting because they tell the truth—quietly, sideways, and usually with jokes.
🎄 CHAPTERS & THEMES
Chapter One — National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
Clark Griswold isn’t chasing joy—he’s chasing proof.
This chapter explores financial insecurity, masculine identity, estranged family dynamics, and why a Christmas comedy casually escalates into corporate kidnapping, a SWAT raid, and what amounts to accidental domestic terrorism. Beneath the slapstick is a portrait of the American father under siege, holding everything together until he can’t.
Chapter Two — Home Alone
A childhood fantasy built on abandonment.
We look at how Home Alone feeds into fears children rarely get to articulate: being forgotten, being bullied, being left to survive on their own. Beneath the laughs are violent home invasions, unreliable adults, and the terrifying premise that busy working parents can forget one of their children—and not realize it until it’s almost too late.
Chapter Three — Die Hard
Yes. It’s a Christmas movie. Case closed.
This chapter puts the debate to rest and examines Die Hard as a story about estrangement, marriage, career versus identity, corporate espionage, terrorism, and reunion under existential threat. We also confront uncomfortable moments the movie doesn’t hide—including the use of deportation threats as leverage—and why Christmas is the only frame that makes reconciliation possible.
Bonus Chapter — Love Actually
A holiday classic made of red flags.
A rapid-fire breakdown of why Love Actually sends several terrible messages at once: workplace affairs, emotional coercion, infidelity, shame for choosing family over romance, power imbalances, fat jokes, and the normalization of harmful behavior—all wrapped in music, mistletoe, and sentimentality.
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Dec 24, 2025 • 31min
The Devil Within: Christmas Special!
🎄 THE DEVIL WITHIN — CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
EPISODE 1 — “THE CHRISTMAS NIGHTMARES”
Chapters 1–3
This holiday season, we unwrap something darker than tinsel — the films from our childhood that should never have been shown to children.
These weren’t cozy specials. They were cinematic trauma disguised in red bows and VHS plastic.
In Part One of our Christmas special, we descend into the uncanny valley of 1980s holiday movies and their psychologically disturbing plotlines, the ones that slipped into our living rooms and shaped our nightmares.
🎬 CHAPTERS
Chapter 1 — “When Christmas Movies Wanted to Hurt Us”
We revisit the VHS aisles of the 80s — where “family movies” secretly harbored dead Santas, abandoned kids, demonic puppets, and trauma disguised as jolly cheer. A cultural excavation of how innocence collided with horror in the most festive decade.
Chapter 2 — “The Gremlins Monologue”
Perhaps the most disturbing speech ever delivered in a PG Christmas film: Phoebe Cates’ haunted reveal of her father’s death in the chimney while playing Santa. The silence it produced in theaters — and why it still hits us like grief disguised as comedy.
Chapter 3 — “Silent Nights and Slasher Clauses”
From Silent Night, Deadly Night to Christmas Evil, we unpack Santa-suited killers, vigilante elves, and the thin line between folklore reverence and full-tilt cinematic violence.
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Dec 23, 2025 • 29min
The Ides of April: A Christmas Assassination
THE IDES OF APRIL
A Christmas Assassination: The Death of Rasputin
Christmas 1916.
Russia is starving. The First World War is grinding the empire into dust. Faith, monarchy, and legitimacy are collapsing in real time.
And inside a candlelit palace, a small group of aristocrats convinces itself that killing one man might still save the nation.
In this stand-alone holiday episode of The Ides of April, we examine the assassination of Grigori Rasputin—a murder born of fear, myth, and desperation, carried out just days before Christmas, and destined to change nothing.
🎄 IN THIS EPISODE
Cold Open — “They Killed Him Once”
A story that refuses to end quietly. Poison. Bullets. Ice. And the unsettling question of why Rasputin’s death had to be so absolute.
Chapter One — Russia in December: War, Winter, and the Need for a Devil
World War I has hollowed out the Russian Empire. Soldiers freeze at the front. Cities starve. The Tsar is absent. And Rasputin—mystic, peasant, outsider—becomes the human symbol of everything the ruling class can no longer control. Christmas approaches as faith collides with collapse.
Chapter Two — The Night at the Moika Palace
Inside a palace dressed for the holidays, a plan unravels. Poison fails. Gunshots follow. Panic replaces precision. Rasputin’s murder becomes legend not because it was supernatural—but because it was chaotic, amateur, and fueled by fear rather than certainty.
Chapter Three — The Assassination That Saved NothingRasputin’s death does not stabilize Russia. It accelerates its collapse. This chapter examines why political assassinations so often fail to deliver the futures they promise—and how killing a symbol can reveal the moment an empire stops believing in itself.
❄ CLOSING THOUGHT
The murder of Rasputin was not an act of strength.
It was an admission of panic.
Violence did not save imperial Russia.
It only revealed how desperate its guardians had become.
🎁 HOLIDAY GREETING
As the year closes and the season asks us to reflect on endings and beginnings, we wish you peace, safety, and perspective.
History rarely offers clean endings.
Be gentle with yourselves—and with each other.
🔮 NEXT WEEK ON THE IDES OF APRIL
Another assassination.
Another belief that history could be redirected by a single act of violence.
It couldn’t.
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Dec 23, 2025 • 16min
The Devil's Ledger: Week of December 22nd
📖 The Devil’s Ledger — Week of December 22
Christmas Shadows, Haunted Lodges, and the Things We Can’t Leave Behind
This week on The Devil’s Ledger, the books close out the year the only way they know how — by leaning into the darker side of the holidays.
We begin with The Creepiest Thing I Heard This Week: a chilling account of the Whistler Ski Lodge Poltergeist, where staff and guests alike report unexplained footsteps, moving objects, and the unsettling feeling that the lodge is never truly empty. Set against the long winters and deep history of Whistler, it’s a reminder that beautiful places can still hold something restless.
From there, we move across the Evio Creative slate for a holiday-themed tour of fear, reflection, and reckoning.
🎄 This Week on The Devil Within
It’s the Christmas Special, where we step away from cults and crime scenes to explore the Christmas movies that scared us, unsettled us, or left us with an existential dread about what the holidays really mean. From ghostly visitations to stories of isolation, regret, and time running out, we unpack why so many holiday films feel more like reckonings than celebrations.
📖 This Week on Criminal Mischief
Carolyn Ossorio takes a rare break from murder and mystery to read The Velveteen Rabbit, the classic Christmas story about love, loss, and becoming real. There are no suspects this week — just a quiet, moving reminder that being loved often means being changed forever.
🩸 This Week on The Ides of April
Christmas turns deadly as The Ides of April revisits one of history’s most infamous holiday murders: the assassination of Grigori Rasputin. Poisoned, shot, beaten, and drowned, Rasputin’s death reads like myth — but its consequences were very real, accelerating the collapse of an empire already on borrowed time.
🗝️ This Week on Taboo Treasures
The boys are taking the week off to enjoy the holidays, but they’ll be back in the New Year with more strange objects, dangerous histories, and cursed curiosities.
🎬 What’s New in Horror
28 Years Later, directed by Danny Boyle, returns to a world long past the initial panic of apocalypse. Rather than chaos, the film explores endurance — and asks whether survival without hope is really survival at all. Bleak, mature, and occasionally haunting, it’s less about thrills and more about what remains when the world simply refuses to end.
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Thank you for listening this year — we’ll see you in the New Year, with the ledger open once again.
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Dec 19, 2025 • 30min
Blood on the Blue Grass - Part Two
Blood on the Bluegrass,
Part Two (Chapters 4–6)
Episode Title:
Blood on the Bluegrass — Part Two
In the conclusion of this two-part series, fantasy collapses into murder, the manhunt and trial
reshape the lives of everyone involved, and the lingering aftermath reveals the true cost of a
story believed too deeply.
CHAPTERS
Chapter Four — “The Double Murder Inside the Wendorf Home”
Rod steps into a quiet Florida home and commits an act of violence that shatters two families and
destroys the world his followers thought they understood.
Chapter Five — “The Vampire on Trial”
The justice system confronts Rod’s mythmaking as prosecutors dismantle the Vesago persona
and seek the harshest penalty allowed.
Chapter Six — “The Appeal of the Damned”
From death row to life without parole, Rod’s myth erodes under the weight of time as the
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Dec 17, 2025 • 31min
Blood on the Bluegrass - Part One
Blood on the Bluegrass
Part One (Chapters 1–3)
Episode Title:
Blood on the Bluegrass — Part One
We begin the story of Rod Ferrell and the so-called Vampire Clan by exploring the myth he built,
the vulnerable teenagers he pulled into it, and the road trip that carried them from fantasy into
imminent tragedy.
CHAPTERS
Chapter One — “The Vampire of Murray, Kentucky”
A lonely teenager crafts an identity powerful enough to mask his wounds and attract followers
who see him as something larger than life.
Chapter Two — “The Lost and the Searching”
Rod gathers a circle of fragile, impressionable teens who mistake his certainty for purpose and
mistake his mythology for truth.
Chapter Three — “Crossing the Threshold”
The clan leaves Kentucky for Florida on what they believe is a rescue mission, unaware that they
are driving toward irrevocable violence.
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Dec 15, 2025 • 10min
The Devil's Ledger - Week of Dec. 15th.
The Devil’s Ledger — Week of December 15
Welcome back—and happy holidays.
It’s that special time of year filled with forced cheer, soft lighting, and quietly wondering whether leftovers have crossed from festive into forensic. Whether you’re decking halls, dodging relatives, or just surviving December, we’re glad you’re here.
This week’s Ledger is packed with folklore, fanaticism, lost idealism, and a reminder that some remakes exist solely to make us feel ancient.
🔥 The Creepiest Thing I Heard This Week
In Icelandic folklore, a ritual known as nábrók—or necropants—promised endless wealth at an unimaginable cost. Crafted from the skin of a dead man and worn directly against the flesh, the necropants blurred the boundary between survival and damnation. It’s a story where greed literally wears the dead, and prosperity requires intimacy with decay.
Fair warning: once you hear it, you won’t forget it.
🩸 This Week on The Devil Within
We begin a brand-new two-part series, Blood on the Blue Grass, examining the disturbing case of Rod Ferrell, the so-called Kentucky Vampire. This is not a gothic fantasy—it’s a chilling exploration of teenage alienation, unchecked belief, and how confidence and charisma can become lethal forces when pointed in the wrong direction.
🕯️ On The Ides of April
We conclude our series on the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy with Part Two of The Death of the New America. From the Ambassador Hotel pantry to the gunshots that silenced a movement, this episode explores not just how Bobby Kennedy died—but what died with him. A nation’s momentum. A generation’s hope. A future that never arrived.
🧠 Criminal Mischief
Life mirrors fiction on this week's CM...we delve into the horrifying details of a real life Fatal Attraction and the deveststingly cruel consequences of obsession, jealousy and rage...
🗝️ Taboo Treasures
Content TBD. Even the devil needs a week to sharpen his pitchfork.
🎬 This Week in Horror
It’s officially “I’m super old” week with a remake of The Hand That Rocks the Cradle—a psychological thriller I remember being filmed right here in Los Angeles what feels like a century ago. A nanny who never should’ve been let into the house, and proof that the scariest monsters often arrive smiling.
As we close out the episode, warm Hanukkah wishes to those celebrating, and holiday greetings to everyone navigating this strange, sparkly, emotionally complicated season.
Lock your doors. Trust cautiously.
If something feels off—you’re probably right.
Sleep well. Or don’t.
We’ll see you next week. 🎄🕯️👁️
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Dec 12, 2025 • 26min
The Mantis Man - Part Two
🌙EPISODE 2
🕸 “The Mantis Man of the Musconetcong — Part Two: The River Keeps Its Secrets”
In Part Two, we zoom out from my childhood river to the global phenomenon hiding behind the
Mantis Man legend. Ancient mantis gods. Insectoid aliens. Evolutionary fears wired straight into our DNA. Biological impossibilities. Folklore that refuses to die.
Then we return home — to the Musconetcong, to Jefferson, to the quiet bridge where something tall and translucent allegedly stepped out of the water and vanished into the trees.
📚 Chapters
4. 🪳 The Insect Gods
5. 🧠 Why Bugs Terrify Us
6. 🌫 The River Keeps Its Secrets
A final reflection on childhood landscapes, memory, fear, and why certain places cling to the monsters we project onto them.
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Dec 10, 2025 • 28min
The Mantis Man - Part One
🔥EPISODE 1
🕷 “The Mantis Man of the Musconetcong — Part One: The
Thing in the River”
This week, we head back to Jefferson Township — back to the lake, the spillway, and the
narrow stretch of river where I spent my entire childhood swimming, boating, fishing… and
apparently missing a seven-foot translucent praying mantis humanoid lurking just
downstream.
While I was buried in Tommy Sullivan and chasing the Jersey Devil through the Pines, a
monster was hiding in plain sight — right where I grew up.
In Part One, we break down the origin story of Mantis Man, the eerie local legend born from a
handful of eyewitnesses who swear they saw something tall, thin, silent, and very unhuman
standing in the Musconetcong River.
📚 Chapters
1. 🌊 Where the Water Comes From
2. 🎣 The Fisherman Who Didn’t Expect Company
3. 🚗 The Driver on the Bridge
A hometown haunting. A river full of secrets. And a cryptid I cannot believe I never heard about
until adulthood.
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Dec 9, 2025 • 32min
The Ides of April Presents: The Death of the New America - The Assassination of Robert Kennedy
🕊The Death of the New America - Part One
“THE RISE OF ROBERT F. KENNEDY”
In the first installment of this two-part series, The Ides of April traces the origins of the Kennedy
dynasty—its ruthless ambition, its early tragedies, and the extraordinary forces that shaped
Robert F. Kennedy into the most unlikely moral voice of the 1960s.
We begin with the unvarnished story of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and the empire he built through
Hollywood maneuvering, shrewd investments, insider access, and political calculation. From
there, we follow the family’s early ascent into American power—and their first devastating fall
with the death of Joseph Kennedy Jr. in WWII.
We then explore the partnership between Jack and Bobby, forged in crisis and defined by the
Cuban Missile standoff, internal political strife, and the enormous emotional cost of holding up a
crumbling world order. RFK’s transformation—from loyal strategist to grieving brother to
emerging moral leader—sets the stage for his unprecedented rise in 1968.
📚 CHAPTERS
1. The House of Kennedy: Power, Fortune, and Tragedy
2. The Brothers and the Burden: From Cuba to Dallas
3. Bobby for President: A Nation Fractured, A Hope Rising
✨ WHAT TO EXPECT
• A cinematic retelling of the Kennedy dynasty
• RFK’s deep involvement in the Cuban Missile Crisis
• The emotional aftermath of JFK’s assassination
• The explosive political climate of 1968
• RFK’s evolution into the frontrunning voice of a divided nation
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