New Year's Eve, 1974. The campus of Stanford University is shocked to discover that a ritualistic murder that was committed in the sprawling and beautiful university church had ties to Satanism. In this stunning precursor to the Satanic Panic, the case would go cold for almost forty years...

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A listener was kind enough to wrote in and inform me of a tradition from the Pennsylvania Dutch community that I had never heard of before... The Belsnickel. Enjoy!

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What does a Christmas tree have to do with the birth of christ? Was the Nativity really on December 25th? And what about this guy in a red suit bringing presents to little kids? Didi Christianity steal Christmas from the pagans? You decide...

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The Headless Horseman has been haunting the village of Sleepy Hollow for centuries... find out the origin of this spectral warrior and why he's so angry... only today on The Devil Within.

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A desperate act by a student of mysticism led to the creation of a terrible beast... originally meant to protect, it soon became clear that creation is not something to be trifled with.

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Ireland and England have deep and often violent histories... and their superstitions surrounding Christmas are a terrifying reflection of that fact.

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From an island nation born from fire and ice in the frosty North Atlantic to an ancient land in the British Isles... the old ways that pre-date Christianity are rife with terrifying creatures that dominated the nightmares of good and bad, young and old alike when the calendar turned to late December...

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An innocent toy or a symbol of resistance? A carved piece of wood... or a vessel for a diabolical demon? The story of the haunted dreidel will make you think twice this Hannukah...

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From remote alpine villages to Hollywood blockbuster movies, Krampus is a creature from folklore that's sure make you want to stay off the naughty list...

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From the earliest times of the Colorado's Gold Rush, miners from all over the world would brave the dangers of the job and seek their fortunes beneath the mighty Rocky Mountains... and nearly all of them reported experiencing the power of what became known as the Tommyknockers, spirits that dwelt in the tunnels and whispered to the men who worked them. But were these beings friend or foe...?

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