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.

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?

🏔️ 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.

🧭 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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🎙️ The Devil’s Ledger — Week of February 2

A weekly dispatch from the shadows of history, mystery, and the unexplained across the Evio Creative Network.

Happy Groundhog’s Day 🐾❄️

Here’s hoping that furry little meteorologist gives us the forecast we want — winter loosening its grip and spring on the horizon. Until then, we’ve got plenty of chills to keep you company.

👻 The Creepiest Thing I Heard This Week

This week’s nightmare comes from the frozen forests near Houska Castle — a place long rumored to be built over a gateway to hell.

Last year, we explored the infamous pit beneath the castle chapel. But what we didn’t realize then is that winter brings its own layer of terror. Local legends describe travelers vanishing in snowstorms after following a mysterious woman in white who walks effortlessly through deep snow… leaving no footprints.

One 19th-century woodcutter reportedly followed her into the forest, believing she was lost. When he finally saw her face, he described it as frozen and lifeless — like something long dead preserved in ice. He later died from exposure, and villagers insisted he wasn’t lost… he was lured.

Snow erases tracks. It swallows sound. And according to local folklore, winter around Houska Castle isn’t peaceful.

It’s hunting season.

🏔 On The Devil Within

We remain high in the Alps for two eerie legends of creatures said to stalk remote passes and dense forests. These are tales born from isolation, blizzards, and the unsettling feeling of being watched in a place where help is miles away.

The Alps are breathtaking. They are also ancient… and not everything up there may be accounted for.

🕯 On The Ides of April

We conclude our series on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. with a focus on James Earl Ray. His guilty plea was meant to bring closure, but instead it deepened suspicions and left lingering questions that still echo decades later.

A sobering, necessary close to one of the most painful moments in American history.

🪓 On Criminal Mischief

We travel back to 1893 in Fall River, where Andrew Borden and Abby Borden were brutally murdered with a hatchet. The arrest of Lizzie Borden shocked the nation and launched one of America’s most infamous trials.

More than 130 years later, the case remains officially unsolved. This week, an expert walks us through the investigation and courtroom drama that still fascinates true crime fans today.

🎤 Daily: Finding Me with Josh Wolf

Comedian Josh Wolf continues his daily check-ins — honest, funny reflections on growth, family, and becoming the best version of himself.

🎬 This Week in Horror

Grizzly Night

Based on real events from 1967, the film recounts two grizzly bear attacks that occurred nine miles apart in Glacier National Park — a chilling reminder that sometimes the scariest stories don’t need the supernatural.

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The Track That Ate Him

Vancouver 2010 → Haunted Host Cities → Italy Adjacency

In 2010, the Winter Olympics arrived in Vancouver polished to a mirror shine — perfect lighting,

perfect branding, perfect spectacle.

And then, before the Opening Ceremony even began… the world watched a young man die.

Episode Two is where the story becomes modern horror: Vancouver 2010, Whistler Sliding

Centre, one luge run at nearly unthinkable speed — and one moment that turned Olympic

infrastructure into a permanent ghost.

But this episode isn’t only about what happened on camera.It’s about what happens to places after tragedy — how host cities become haunted, how tracks

become shrines, how mountains remember what humans try to forget. And finally, we widen the

lens toward Italy: the quieter, untelevised side of the Olympic dream — where ambition can still

end behind closed doors, long before the world is watching.

Because winter doesn’t care about the Olympics.

Winter only cares what it can take.

In this episode:

• Vancouver 2010: the day the Olympics lost its innocence in real time

• Why “fixes” made after tragedy carry a darker implication: if it could change after… why

not before?

• How modern media turns death into replay — and replay into haunting

• The hidden psychology of haunted host cities

• The unsettling adjacency truth: not all Olympic tragedies happen on television

Listener warning:

This episode contains discussions of accidental death during Olympic training and death-related

themes.

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The Games of Ice

Innsbruck 1964 → Albertville 1992

The Winter Olympics are marketed as triumph — humanity’s most elegant rebellion against cold,

gravity, and fear. But long before the medals… before the fireworks… before the world even

begins clapping — winter is already collecting its price.

In Episode One of this two-part Devil Within series, we descend into the hidden history of

Olympic tragedy — starting with Innsbruck, 1964, where two athletes died before the Opening

Ceremony even began, and moving forward to Albertville, 1992, where modernity itself

became the killer: a collision not with a mountain… but with the machinery designed to tame it.

This episode isn’t about gore. It isn’t even about blame.

It’s about the human condition — what happens when ambition meets physics, when spectacle

meets reality, and when a celebration quietly becomes a grave.

Because the devil within isn’t always evil.Sometimes… it’s certainty.

In this episode:

• Why winter sports are the purest form of “beautiful danger”

• Innsbruck 1964: the Games begin in tragedy before they begin in ceremony

• How grief gets packaged, polished, and pushed aside so the machine can keep moving

• Albertville 1992: the terrifying moment the Olympics becomes a system — and systems

fail

• The quiet truth Olympic branding never says out loud: winter is not scenery

Listener warning:

This episode contains discussions of accidental death during Olympic training and preparation.

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April's Shadow :

“The Balcony in Memphis”

In Episode One of this two-part Ides of April event series, we step into Memphis, 1968—not as a footnote in civil rights history, but as a pressure cooker where the fight for equality evolves into something even more threatening to power: economic justice.

Martin Luther King Jr. comes to Memphis to support the sanitation workers’ strike, sparked by the horrific deaths of Echol Cole and Robert Walker, and fueled by a single, uncompromising demand—human dignity—carried through the streets on signs that read: I AM A MAN.

As King’s mission expands from civil rights leader into a broader advocate for labor and class justice, the atmosphere darkens and the stakes intensify. Memphis becomes a mirror reflecting America’s deepest fear: that justice may require redistribution—not just of rights, but of power.

The episode moves into the prophetic gravity of King’s final night. At Mason Temple, he delivers the iconic “Mountaintop” speech—part sermon, part warning—before returning to the Lorraine Motel. The next day, a moment of ordinary life becomes a national rupture: 6:01 PM on the balcony outside Room 306.

And in the hour after his death, America ignites—grief spilling into unrest and reckoning—while the machinery of investigation begins turning, hunting for a suspect as the country struggles to make meaning out of the impossible.

In this episode

    •    Why Memphis became the inevitable battleground in 1968

    •    The sanitation strike, labor, and the radical power of I AM A MAN

    •    King’s evolution into a leader focused on class justice

    •    The “Mountaintop” speech and the calm before catastrophe

    •    The assassination, the aftermath, and the beginning of the manhunt

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🔥 ANNOUNCEMENT: The #1 MGM+ documentary series Let the Devil In is currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video for a limited time! 🔥

Based on the #1 true-crime podcast The Devil Within, this gripping documentary chronicles the harrowing murder/suicide of Tommy Sullivan in New Jersey during the brutal winter of 1988 — a story that captivated listeners and redefined the true-crime genre.

📻 The Devil Within has 30 million+ downloads to date, with more than 200 episodes diving deep into cold cases, unsolved mysteries, and the psychology of crime. Now, its most chilling chapter has been brought to life in cinematic form.

🎬 Let the Devil In isn’t just another adaptation — it knocked MGM+’s massively popular sci-fi show From out of the #1 spot for more than two weeks after its premiere. The series is executive produced by horror movie legend Eli Roth, bringing his signature intensity and narrative edge to this unforgettable story.

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THE DEVIL’S LEDGER

Week of January 26 — Blizzard Stories, History’s Turning Points, and Hard Truths

This week on The Devil’s Ledger, winter takes center stage — both outside our windows and inside the stories we’re telling.

We open by acknowledging the massive snowstorm that’s crippled much of the country, especially the Northeast, and how winter has a way of shrinking the world and amplifying the dark.

❄️ The Creepiest Thing I Heard This Week comes straight out of a blizzard — a terrifying story that proves when visibility drops and isolation rises, the line between survival and disappearance gets dangerously thin.

🏔️ Over on The Devil Within, in honor of the upcoming Winter Olympics, we launch a two-part series exploring the darker side of the Winter Games — the training deaths, the tragedies tied to host cities, and the sobering truth that winter doesn’t care about spectacle, branding, or medals.

🕊️ On The Ides of April, we begin the long-awaited two-part series covering the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Originally planned for release during the national holiday, the episode was delayed after the flu took out Branden’s voice — but the story arrives with the weight and respect it deserves. This series examines the official narrative and the way one moment in Memphis reshaped a nation.

⚖️ Criminal Mischief brings a major update to Episode 103 — the “Bizarre Love Triangle” Virginia Au Pair case. The trial of Brendan Banfield is underway, and explosive testimony from a former lover is offering a chilling new perspective on the double homicide.

🎙️ On Finding Me with Josh Wolf, Josh takes a deeply personal turn, confronting his five biggest insecurities — one per day, publicly and honestly. It’s still funny (because it’s Josh), but it’s also hitting deeper as he works to become the best version of himself.

🎬 This Week in Horror features a new entry from master filmmaker Sam Raimi. Send Help blends action, suspense, and horror into a tense story about power, reversal, and how extreme situations can expose who we really are — especially in the workplace.

Closing Thought

Winter reminds us how little control we truly have. Storms erase roads, silence cities, and force us to sit with what’s real. Maybe that’s why these stories land harder this time of year — because when the world goes quiet, we hear everything else more clearly.

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The Flatwoods Monster (Part Two): The Monster That Wasn’t

When daylight arrives… the legend doesn’t disappear. It gets stranger.

Morning light insists on clarity. It wants the world restored to order. It wants last night’s fear to look small, even silly, in the daylight.

But in Flatwoods, morning didn’t repair the night.

It amplified it.

In Part Two, we walk back up that hill — this time with investigators, law enforcement, soldiers, reporters, and skeptics — all determined to quiet the story and restore calm. 

Flatwoods Monster

And what they find is not a clean debunking… but a more unsettling truth: sometimes the scariest part of the story isn’t a monster in the woods.

It’s the human mind trying to survive uncertainty.

This episode dives deep into the official investigation, the physical symptoms, the strange odor, the meteor explanation… and the chilling possibility that what the witnesses saw was something both ordinary and terrifying — an illusion forged by fog, fear, adrenaline… and biology.

In this episode:

    •    The next-day investigation: what authorities did (and didn’t) find

    •    Why witnesses reported nausea, dizziness, and burning throats

    •    The “meteor” explanation — and why it didn’t erase the fear

    •    The barn owl theory: how an animal can become a nightmare under the right conditions

    •    The deeper horror: not lying… but misinterpretation that grows teeth

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This episode includes discussion of fear psychology, misperception, physical illness symptoms, and investigative theories.

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The Flatwoods Monster (Part One)

A meteor. A hill. A flashlight beam… and something that should not have been there.

There are nights when darkness behaves — predictable, familiar, almost gentle. And then there are nights when it feels purposeful. A night that seems aware of the people beneath it… and hungry to test the limits of what they believe is possible.

On September 12, 1952, in Braxton County, West Virginia, witnesses reported a blazing light streaking across the sky — red, incandescent, like a wound in the heavens. What followed became one of the most enduring creature legends in American folklore: The Flatwoods Monster. 

Flatwoods Monster

In Part One, we return to the very beginning — the original eyewitness account, the climb up the hill, the metallic air, the fog, and the moment a group of locals became absolutely certain they were standing in the presence of something not from Earth. 

Flatwoods Monster

But this isn’t really a story about aliens.

It’s a story about people — about what the mind does when the world refuses to explain itself, and how fear can transform shadows into certainty.

In this episode:

    •    The meteor-like streak that sparked a legend

    •    The group who climbed the hill searching for answers

    •    The reported metallic odor, strange air, and mounting unease

    •    The first description of the “monster”: towering shape, glowing eyes, hissing breath

    •    The “Devil Within” theme: how perception becomes destiny

Content note:

This episode includes descriptions of panic reactions, illness symptoms, and fear responses.

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THE DEVIL’S LEDGER — Week of January 19th, 2026

Winter dread. Strange lights. Real monsters. And the fog rolling back in.

Welcome back to The Devil’s Ledger — the weekly dispatch from the edge of the week… where the stories don’t end so much as they linger. And in the heart of winter, when everything goes quiet, the quiet starts to feel like it’s thinking.

This week’s episode takes us from haunted Massachusetts stonework to middle America’s strangest alleged UFO encounter — plus a brutal true crime deep dive, a new show format from Josh Wolf, and a return to one of horror’s most iconic nightmares.

THE CREEPIEST THING I HEARD THIS WEEK

The Hoosac Tunnel “Wailing Wind” Deaths (1850s–1860s)

In the Berkshires, the Hoosac Tunnel was supposed to be progress — but winter construction turned it into a nightmare. During a brutal stretch, dozens of workers died underground. Survivors later described hearing screams carried on the wind, and even stranger: lantern lights moving deep within sealed shafts where no one could possibly be. A mass grave with train tracks… still echoing its debt.

ON THE DEVIL WITHIN

The Flatwoods Monster

We’re back in middle America for one of the most infamous alleged UFO encounters in U.S. folklore. In 1952, a fiery streak crosses the sky over Braxton County, West Virginia. A group climbs a hill searching for a crash… and claims to encounter something towering, hissing, metallic, and absolutely not human. But as the story spreads, the real question becomes the Devil Within question: what happens when fear and perception collide in the dark — and certainty becomes legend?

ON THE IDES OF APRIL

The Ides of April has the week off — but returns next week with a brand-new two-part series.

ON CRIMINAL MISCHIEF

This week on Criminal Mischief, Carolyn covers the kidnapping, torture, and murder of DEA agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena Salazar, carried out at the behest of the Guadalajara Cartel in the mid-1980s. What cartel leaders didn’t expect was a years-long response that became one of the DEA’s largest murder investigations ever — a relentless hunt stretching across borders and decades. Carolyn interviews a retired DEA agent who witnessed the “war on drugs” up close for more than 30 years.

ON FINDING ME WITH JOSH WOLF

Josh introduces a new format: Theme Weeks. Every Monday a theme is announced — and every episode that week focuses on it. This week’s theme is HEALTH, and Josh kicks it off with the first installment of a terrifying (and often darkly funny) health journey he and his wife endured after battling an almost invisible enemy: mold — in their home and their bodies. The lesson that lands hardest: the mirror is NOT your doctor.

THIS WEEK IN HORROR

The fog rolls back in with Return to Silent Hill — the third installment in the franchise. James receives a mysterious letter that leads him back to Silent Hill, hoping to find the woman he loves… only to discover the town reshaped by something malevolent, filled with terrifying figures that force him to question reality itself.

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