The Devil’s Ledger

Week of February 22

The flame is out. The mountains fall quiet.

This week on The Devil’s Ledger, we say farewell to the Winter Olympics — and to the Italian Alps, whose beauty, history, and lingering shadows reminded us that even the most breathtaking places tend to keep a few secrets.

But while the games end, the stories across the network are just getting started.

The Creepiest Thing I Heard This Week

Nature delivered the reminder.

In March of 1888, a storm known as The White Hurricane buried the Northeast under up to 50 inches of snow, with drifts rising to the height of buildings. Communication collapsed. Cities were cut off. More than 400 people died — many only steps from safety.

The storm didn’t just paralyze the region.

It changed it.

In response, New York began moving critical infrastructure underground — a decision that eventually led to the creation of the subway system.

Sometimes the scariest stories aren’t about monsters.

They’re about how quickly control disappears.

On The Devil Within

By listener request, we begin a two-part series on one of America’s most enduring and unsettling legends:

The Mothman

West Virginia. The 1960s.

Glowing red eyes. Massive wings. Dozens of witnesses.

And a chilling pattern — sightings that seem to appear before tragedy.

Folklore? Mass hysteria? Something unknown?

Or a warning.

On The Ides of April

A new historical arc begins:

Alexander the Great

A young king who conquered the known world before the age of thirty — and may have outrun the limits of power itself.

Empire. Ambition. Destiny.

And the question history always asks:

What happens when there’s nothing left to conquer?

On Taboo Treasures

The guys return with a sharp and satirical look at one of humanity’s stranger traditions:

The most dangerous jobs we’ve ever created.

From ancient hazards to modern risks, it’s a darkly funny exploration of the ways people have risked their lives… for a paycheck.

On Criminal Mischief

Carolyn Ossorio brings updates on several major cases currently dominating the news, including developments involving Nancy Guthrie, Brendan Banfield, and other ongoing investigations.

Because in true crime, the story rarely ends when the headlines move on.

On Finding Me with Josh Wolf

Josh continues his daily journey into the uncomfortable territory most of us try to avoid:

Accountability.

Honesty.

And the work of figuring out what actually needs attention.

Personal. Raw. Necessary.

This Week in Horror

For Gen X horror fans, this one feels personal.

The seventh installment of the Scream franchise arrives in theaters.

When a new Ghostface targets Sidney’s daughter, she’s forced to confront her past — and end the cycle of violence once and for all.

Some franchises fade.

Others grow up with us.

And somehow… Ghostface is still calling.

Closing Thought

As this episode releases, a major winter storm is moving toward the Northeast.

A reminder — like the storms of the past — that control is often temporary.

If you’re in its path:

Slow down.

Stay warm.

Check on each other.

We’re thinking of you.

Until next week…

Stay curious. Stay careful. And stay safe out there.

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Frozen Evidence: The Duncan MacPherson Case

In August of 1989, Duncan MacPherson — a former first-round NHL draft pick from Canada — stepped onto the Stubai Glacier in the Austrian Alps.

He rented a snowboard.

He rode the lifts.

And then he vanished.

His car remained in the resort parking lot. His belongings were untouched. Search teams scoured the glacier and surrounding terrain, assuming the kind of tragedy the mountains know too well — a fall, a crevasse, an accident swallowed by ice.

Nothing was found.

For fourteen years, the glacier kept its silence.

Then, in the summer of 2003, melting ice revealed human remains.

The mountain had given Duncan back.

But what emerged raised more questions than answers. 

This episode of The Devil Within explores the unsettling details surrounding Duncan MacPherson’s disappearance and recovery, including:

    •    His final known movements at a managed glacier resort — not remote wilderness

    •    The condition of his recovered snowboard, which showed crushing damage that some analysts believe could be consistent with heavy machinery

    •    Injuries that did not clearly align with a simple fall

    •    Questions about nighttime snowcat operations on the glacier

    •    And the most troubling possibility: that elements of his rental equipment may have been returned through resort systems long before his body emerged

No definitive conclusion has ever been reached.

But the case raises a disturbing question:

What if Duncan’s tragedy began as an accident… and was complicated by human systems that chose silence over scrutiny?

Glaciers preserve what they take.

But time can erode records, memories, and accountability.

Fourteen years later, the ice returned a body.

The truth may still be buried.

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The Devil in the Painting

In the Alps, faith and fear have always lived close together.

In this episode of The Devil Within, we travel to a quiet sanctuary in northern Italy — a place where generations have climbed in search of healing, protection, and answers when suffering felt too heavy to carry alone.

In 1731, a woman from the surrounding region was brought to the hilltop church at Madonna di Pinè after her behavior began to change in ways her family could not understand. Sudden outbursts. Withdrawal. A voice that no longer sounded like her own. In a world without modern psychological language, her condition was understood the only way people knew how:

Something had taken hold of her.

What followed was a solemn ritual of exorcism — not spectacle, but prayer, command, and communal fear. Witnesses later described a moment during the rite when something dark and serpentine seemed to leave her body.

Whether miracle, misinterpretation, or a psychological turning point shaped by belief, the event left a permanent mark.

A small ex-voto painting inside the sanctuary still depicts the moment: a priest at prayer, a woman in distress, and a shadowed form emerging as if suffering itself had been given a shape.

But this episode goes beyond the question of what happened.

Because possession stories, across cultures and centuries, often reveal something deeper — a human need to separate pain from identity. To believe that darkness is something on us, not something we are. To see suffering as something that can be confronted… and expelled.

In the harsh Alpine world — where avalanches, illness, and long winters reminded communities how little they controlled — that kind of narrative wasn’t superstition.

It was survival.

As the Winter Olympics conclude and the crowds leave the mountains behind, this episode explores the older stories that still live there — stories of fear, faith, and the enduring hope that even the most invisible suffering can loosen its grip.

Because sometimes the most powerful miracle isn’t the disappearance of the unknown.

It’s the belief that healing is possible.

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The Devil’s Ledger – Week of February 16

Welcome back to The Devil’s Ledger — your weekly guide to everything happening across the Evio Creative universe. 

As we head into the second week of the Winter Games, we’re sending a big congratulations to all of our U.S. Olympians still competing — and if you suddenly find yourself understanding the strategy behind curling, you’re not alone. 

This week’s edition begins, as always, with The Creepiest Thing I Heard This Week — a chilling look at the 1959 Dyatlov Pass Incident, where nine experienced hikers fled their tent barefoot into subzero temperatures after encountering what investigators later described only as a “compelling natural force.” Some believe the group may have encountered something else entirely — a mysterious humanoid figure long rumored in the region’s winter forests. 

On The Devil Within

We travel to a remote stone sanctuary in northern Italy to examine a centuries-old Ex-Voto painting — a devotional image created to commemorate a miracle. The artwork depicts the exact moment an exorcism was believed to succeed, including an artist’s rendering of a dark, serpentine figure leaving a woman’s body. Faith, psychology, or something more? 

On The Ides of April

We conclude our two-part series on the assassination of Philip of Macedon — a political killing that may have changed the course of human history. His death didn’t stop expansion. It removed the one man who might have restrained his son, unleashing Alexander the Great on the known world. 

On Taboo Treasures

Bruce and Jef return with a fun and surprising deep dive into the strange origins and evolution of Valentine’s Day — from ancient rituals to modern traditions. 

On Criminal Mischief

Carolyn Ossorio brings the latest updates in the ongoing search for Nancy Guthrie, breaking down new clues, updated timelines, and expert analysis from law enforcement professionals. 

And every day…

You can check in with Josh Wolf on Finding Me with Josh Wolf — a daily podcast journal documenting his honest journey toward becoming the best version of himself. 

This Week in Horror

Diabolic, a 2026 Australian supernatural horror film directed by Daniel J. Phillips, opened in limited theaters on February 13 and begins streaming February 20. The story follows a woman who returns to a restrictive religious community to address trauma-induced blackouts — only to encounter a vengeful witch with unfinished business. 

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When Winter Wears a Face

Winter can feel empty — silent landscapes, long nights, and the sense that the world has gone still.

But in the mountain villages of the Alps and northern Italy, winter was never seen as empty. It was seen as dangerous.

In this episode of The Devil Within, we explore three chilling winter traditions born from isolation, fear, and the psychological weight of the dark season.

🐐 The Schnabelgeiss — Switzerland

Masked figures known as the “beaked goats” storm through villages wearing grotesque costumes and ringing bells. The noise and spectacle aren’t for entertainment — they’re meant to drive away illness, misfortune, and the lingering spirits of winter.

🌊 The Anguane — Northern Italy

Beautiful but dangerous water spirits said to lure travelers off safe paths and toward icy streams and hidden drops. Their legend reflects a harsh truth: in winter, the mountains deceive, and one wrong step can be fatal.

🔥 Giubiana — Burning the Winter Witch

In Lombardy and Piedmont, communities build and burn a straw effigy representing hunger, illness, and hardship. The ritual marks a psychological turning point — the moment when people believe the worst of winter is finally behind them.

These traditions didn’t change the season.

But they gave fear a face — and when fear has a face, it can be chased, confronted, and burned away.

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⛪ The Devil Within — Episode 3: The Battle No One Sees

The Winter Olympics celebrate control — bodies trained to precision, minds sharpened to the edge of physics, every movement calculated against gravity and risk.

But in the shadow of those same Alpine peaks, another kind of battle has been unfolding for centuries. One without medals. Without spectators. Without a finish line.

This week, The Devil Within turns inward.

We travel to northern Italy, near the slopes and valleys that have long shaped both faith and folklore, to the Sanctuary of Monte Berico overlooking Vicenza. A place of prayer for generations — and, in recent years, the setting of a reported exorcism that left witnesses shaken and clergy emotionally drained.

This episode explores a case that moved quietly through layers of scrutiny before a formal rite was performed. Those close to the woman at the center of the story described personality changes, emotional volatility, and distress that resisted conventional treatment. What followed inside the stone walls of the sanctuary was not spectacle, but hours of prayer, repetition, exhaustion, and uncertainty.

We examine:

    •    How the modern Catholic Church approaches exorcism with caution and psychological screening

    •    Why Alpine communities often interpret suffering through both spiritual and folkloric lenses

    •    The emotional strain on those present during prolonged religious rites

    •    The thin, uneasy line between spiritual belief and mental health realities

    •    What possession stories may reveal about the fragility of identity and the human need for meaning in moments of internal chaos

Rather than focusing on dramatic portrayals, this episode sits with the quieter, more unsettling questions. What does it feel like when a person no longer feels at home in their own mind? Why do cultures across time describe that experience as something foreign taking hold? And how do faith, ritual, and psychology all attempt — in their own ways — to bring someone back to themselves?

In a region where the mountains constantly remind people that control is never absolute, it may not be surprising that some believe struggle can come from within just as easily as from storm or avalanche.

The Alps remain vast. The sanctuary remains still. And somewhere between belief and biology lies a story that resists easy answers.

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🎙️ The Ides of April — Two-Part Series

Philip of Macedon: The Father Behind the Empire

Before the legend of Alexander the Great, there was the man who made his rise possible.

In this two-part series of The Ides of April, we travel to the rugged northern kingdom of Macedonia to explore the life, ambition, and violent death of Philip II of Macedon — the ruler who transformed a dismissed frontier state into the dominant power of the Greek world.

Part One — The King from the Edge of Greece

Long before Macedonia commanded armies and alliances, it was considered backward by the great city-states of southern Greece.

This episode traces:

    •    The harsh frontier culture that shaped Philip’s early life

    •    His time as a political hostage in Thebes — where he studied the future of warfare

    •    The military revolution that created the Macedonian war machine

    •    The rise of Philip’s power across Greece

    •    The complex royal family dynamics that shaped succession

    •    The early signs of greatness in his young son — including the famous taming of Bucephalus

By the time Philip stands at the height of his power, Greece is unified under his leadership and a massive invasion of Persia is within reach.

But success has created enemies — both abroad and within his own court.

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🎙️ The Devil’s Ledger — Week of February 9

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Welcome back to The Devil’s Ledger, your weekly guide to everything happening across the Evio Creative Network.

This week, we open with a show of support for Team USA as they compete on the world stage at the 2026 Winter Olympics — a reminder of what preparation, discipline, and pressure can produce at the highest level.

The Creepiest Thing I Heard This Week

The Storm That Buried Iran

In February 1972, a blizzard dropped as much as 26 feet of snow across parts of Iran — the deadliest winter storm in recorded history.

Entire villages disappeared. More than 4,000 people died. Rescue teams arrived to find a landscape flattened into silence — towns erased beneath smooth fields of snow.

Survivors later described shapes moving in the whiteout, voices outside buried homes, and dark figures appearing at the edges of the storm.

Science offers explanations — hypothermia, oxygen deprivation, sensory distortion.

But knowing the science doesn’t make it less terrifying.

Because when a storm buries entire communities and leaves nothing behind but silence… it begins to feel less like weather.

And more like something that came looking for the living.

On The Devil Within

This week’s episode takes us to the historic sanctuary at Monte Berico, where an alleged exorcism took place in 2010.

What makes this case especially unsettling isn’t folklore or legend — it’s the documentation. Witnesses. Church involvement. Medical oversight. And a sequence of events that remains difficult to explain.

Atmospheric, grounded, and deeply unsettling, this is a story that lives in the uneasy space between faith and the unknown.

On The Ides of April

We begin a two-part series on the assassination of Philip II of Macedon — and what may be one of history’s greatest strategic miscalculations.

The conspirators believed they were ending a growing threat to the Greek world.

Instead, they cleared the path for a twenty-year-old successor: Alexander the Great.

History has a word for that outcome.

Oops.

On Criminal Mischief

At the moment, Carolyn is reportedly celebrating somewhere in the Pacific Northwest after the Seattle Seahawksdelivered a decisive victory over the New England Patriots.

We expect normal programming to resume once the celebration — and possibly the parade — concludes.

Daily: Finding Me with Josh Wolf

Josh Wolf continues his daily check-ins, blending humor, vulnerability, and honest self-reflection that has quickly become part of listeners’ everyday routines.

Real. Relatable. And absolutely can’t miss.

This Week in Horror

In honor of its record-breaking awards recognition, this week’s pick is the vampire thriller Sinners, directed by Ryan Coogler and starring Michael B. Jordan.

Now streaming on HBO Max, it delivers atmosphere, intensity, and enough supernatural dread to make your head spin.

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🐐 The Devil Within — The Legend of the Baladisc

High in the mountains, where the air thins and the world feels older than memory, some legends refuse to die.

This week on The Devil Within, we descend into one of the strangest and most unsettling alpine folktales you’ve probably never heard of: the Baladisc.

Described in scattered regional accounts as something not quite human and not quite animal, the Baladisc is said to haunt remote mountain passes and dense, shadowed forests. Witnesses across generations have claimed to see a dark, horned figure moving between the trees at dusk — too tall, too still, and far too aware of the people who stumble into its territory.

Some say it watches from ridgelines during snowstorms. Others claim it follows lone travelers just out of sight, its presence marked only by the feeling of being hunted… and the sudden silence of the forest around them.

In this episode, we explore:

    •    The earliest known references to the Baladisc in mountain folklore

    •    Reports from shepherds and woodcutters who believed they encountered it

    •    Why isolated alpine communities often describe similar horned or hybrid beings

    •    The psychological effects of high-altitude isolation and winter darkness

    •    Whether the Baladisc is a supernatural entity… or something born from fear, landscape, and survival

As always, the line between legend and lived experience is razor-thin. These stories come from people who knew the mountains well — people who understood storms, predators, and the dangers of the wild. And yet, what they described didn’t behave like any known animal.

The Baladisc may be folklore. It may be metaphor. Or it may be something older than either — a reminder that the wilderness has never belonged entirely to us.

Turn down the lights, listen closely, and decide for yourself what’s really moving between the trees.

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The Devil Within
Tatzelwurm —The Thing That Watches From the Snowline

High above the tree line, where oxygen thins and old superstitions thicken, something has been slithering through European folklore for centuries.

This week on The Devil Within, we journey into the jagged spine of the Alps — a place of avalanches, isolation… and sightings of a creature that by all rights should not exist.

It has the body of a serpent.
The face of a cat.
The temper of something ancient and territorial.

They call it The Tatzelwurm.

🐍 Episode Overview

Long before modern mountaineering turned the Alps into a playground for climbers and skiers, shepherds and hunters told darker stories — of livestock found mutilated, of travelers collapsing after encounters with a “poison-breathing” beast, and of clawed tracks appearing in fresh snow where no animal should be.

In this episode, we explore:

• The earliest documented Tatzelwurm sightings in the 18th and 19th centuries

• Why so many encounters happen at high elevations near remote caves

• Theories ranging from misidentified wildlife… to a surviving Ice Age predator

• The strange pattern of witnesses becoming violently ill after close encounters

• The unsettling consistency in descriptions across centuries and countries

Is the Tatzelwurm just folklore born from altitude sickness and fear?
Or is it one more example of something real hiding in the blind spots of modern science?

🏔️ Why This Story Still Matters

With global attention turning back to the Alps for the upcoming 2026 Winter Olympics, millions will soon be watching — and traveling into — these very mountains.

But while cameras focus on ski slopes and stadiums, vast stretches of alpine wilderness remain untouched… and largely unexplored.

Legends don’t survive for centuries without a reason.
And in the Alps, the line between myth and memory has always been dangerously thin.

🧭 Themes in This Episode

• Mountain isolation and the psychology of fear

• Cryptids rooted in regional history, not modern invention

• How folklore can preserve eyewitness accounts long before science catches up

• The uneasy relationship between wilderness and human certainty

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