THE DEVIL WITHIN — The Wrong Road (Part One)

Five young men leave a college basketball game on February 24, 1978—excited for the Special Olympics tournament waiting the next morning. They should have been home within hours.

Instead, they drive into the Sierra Nevada foothills… and the road begins to climb.

In Part One, we follow the Yuba County Five—Gary Mathias, Bill Sterling, Ted Weiher, Jack Huett, and Jack Madruga—as the night quietly turns hostile. A familiar drive becomes unfamiliar territory. A dependable car becomes a stranded shelter. And the most unsettling part isn’t what happened to them…

…it’s what they did next.

The Mercury Montego wasn’t wrecked. It wasn’t empty. It could have kept them alive.

But they abandoned it—walking uphill into the darkness, away from help, into a forest that swallowed logic and sound.

This isn’t the story of a killer hiding in the trees.

It’s a story about panic, cold, and how winter can turn the human mind against itself.

Part Two is coming next—deep in the forest, where the real questions begin.

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The Devil’s Ledger — January 12, 2026

The Dead Time of WinterWelcome back to The Devil’s Ledger — and to the cold dead heart of winter. For the next six

weeks, the world slows down, the nights stretch longer, and the quiet gets louder. Stay alert, stay

calm… and stay inside.

This week, on The Devil Within, we launch a two-part series on one of the most haunting

disappearances in American true crime: The Yuba County Five. Five young men leave a

basketball game in 1978 and take the wrong road into the mountains. Their car is found

abandoned — functional, not wrecked, and capable of sheltering them — but they left it behind

and walked uphill into the snow. No killer. No chase. Just winter, fear, and the terrible power of

confusion.

On The Ides of April, we conclude The Quiet Death of an Empire with Part Two of the

assassination of Tsar Nicholas II, and examine the enduring controversy that Anastasia may

have survived the bloodbath.

This week on Criminal Mischief, Carolyn delivers an update on the so-called Torso Killer case

from New York and New Jersey in the 1970s — including a new jailhouse confession and an

exclusive interview with Dr. Peter Vronsky, the author and expert who literally wrote the book

on the Golden Age of serial killers.

The boys from Taboo Treasures are still on winter break, but they’ll be back soon.

In This Week in Horror, we recommend We Bury the Dead — a chilling zombie film where a

military mistake sparks catastrophe… and the cover-up doesn’t go as planned.

And don’t miss our new daily show on the network: Finding Me with Josh Wolf — honest,

hilarious, and quickly becoming a must-listen.

See you this week across the Evio universe.

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The Kelly–Hopkinsville Goblins, Part Two: What We Brought Into the Dark

Daylight was supposed to explain everything.

Instead, the sheriff found shattered glass, bullet-scarred walls, shaken witnesses — and almost no evidence that anything had ever been there.

As investigators, skeptics, neighbors, and UFO hunters descended on the Sutton farm, a new explanation crept into the story: meteor trails… unusual bird behavior… and the unsettling truth about how fear spreads through a room like wildfire.

In Part Two, we walk the property again — slowly, carefully — and ask the question no one really wants to face:

What if the attack came not from the sky…

…but from inside the human mind?

Because if the monsters weren’t real — then something far more disturbing was.

Stay through the closing thought.

This one lingers.

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Sometimes the unknown isn’t out there.

Sometimes it’s us.

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The Kelly–Hopkinsville Goblins, Part One: The Things at the Window

On a sweltering Kentucky night in 1955, a family on a rural farm claimed they were surrounded by small, shining “beings” that moved through the yard, climbed onto the roof, and pressed their faces against the windows.

They fired round after round into the dark.

And nothing — and no one — fell.

This isn’t really a story about “goblins.”

It’s about fear, perception, and the split second when reality stops behaving the way we expect it to.

In Part One, we step inside that farmhouse and live the night as they did: the lights in the sky, the barking dogs, the guns, and the single moment that turned unease into terror — the face at the window.

Because sometimes, the real monster isn’t outside the house.

It’s what the human mind creates when darkness refuses to explain itself.

Listen to the end — the cliffhanger will pull you straight into Part Two.

And remember:

The dark doesn’t have to be empty…

for it to be terrifying.

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THE IDES OF APRIL

Episode One: The End of the Romanovs — Power, Abdication, and Inevitability

In this first episode, we trace how the fall of the Romanov dynasty began long before gunfire echoed in a basement. From battlefield catastrophe to political collapse, this is the story of how abdication ended authority—but not danger.

CHAPTERS

Chapter One — The Abdication

The Russian Empire collapses under the weight of war, famine, and failed leadership. Nicholas II abdicates the throne in 1917, believing surrendering power will save his family and stabilize the nation. Instead, it seals his fate.

Chapter Two — Five Children and a Dynasty

Behind the crown stood a family: five children, a sickly heir, and a court defined by secrecy and ritual. Fabergé Easter eggs become symbols of continuity, illusion, and imperial fragility as the Romanovs slip from rulers to prisoners.

Chapter Three — Why the Bolsheviks Could Not Let Him Live

As civil war erupts, the Bolsheviks confront a brutal reality: Nicholas no longer rules—but he still represents. Alive, he remains a rallying point, a bargaining chip, and a threat. The decision is not vengeance—it is preemption.

Abdication ends power.

It does not end meaning.

And revolutions cannot tolerate symbols that still breathe.

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The Devil’s Ledger — January 5, 2026

Happy New Year — and welcome back. We’re kicking off 2026 with a chilling slate across the Evio universe.

We start with The Creepiest Thing I Heard This Week — a winter nightmare from Japan about the Yuki-onna, the mysterious “snow woman” who appears during blizzards… and quietly breathes the warmth out of anyone who helps her.

Then, on The Devil Within, we open a two-part investigation into the 1955 Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter — the farmhouse siege that helped shape modern alien mythology.

Over on The Ides of April, we begin our deep dive into the fall of Tsar Nicholas II and the brutal end of the Romanov dynasty. History turns fast — and it doesn’t look back.

The guys from Taboo Treasures are still shaking off the holidays — they’ll be back next week with something wild.

This week on Criminal Mischief, we examine the disappearance of Anna Walshe — a mother of three whose New Year’s Day “work emergency” unraveled into something far darker. A true can’t-miss.

And in This Week in Horror, we’re talking PRIMATE — the pet-turned-predator creature feature that feels like CUJO’s unhinged cousin.

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On a quiet winter afternoon in Bogota, New Jersey, Patricia “Patty” Viola stepped out of her home and vanished.

No forced entry.

No sign of struggle.

Nothing left behind but silence — until years later, when the river returned part of her story.

This isn’t a case about villains lurking in the shadows.

It’s about the invisible weight people carry, the questions that haunt families, and the quiet breaking points we almost never see coming.

Sometimes, the devil within isn’t outside the door.

It’s inside us.

In this episode, we revisit Patricia’s final known moments, the search that stretched on for years, the discovery that reopened old wounds, and the deeper truth hiding beneath the surface — grief, mental health, and the human need for answers that may never fully arrive.

This is not sensational.

It’s human — and that may be the hardest part.

❗ If you or someone you love is struggling

Please reach out. In the U.S., dial or text 988 for the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.

You’re not alone.

LISTEN NEXT

If you connected with this episode, you may also appreciate:

• The Ley Lines of New Jersey

• The Holiday Horror Series

• The Legend of the Yeti

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The Woodchipper and the New Year: The Murder of Helle Crafts

In the final days of 1986, while the world was preparing resolutions and fresh starts, one woman quietly vanished from her Connecticut home — and her disappearance would force American justice to confront an impossible question:

Can you prove a murder when there is no body?

This episode follows the chilling, meticulously documented case of Helle Crafts — a Danish flight attendant, mother of three, and woman who clearly saw danger coming… and tried to warn the people around her.

What investigators would eventually uncover — a missing freezer, strange purchases, the shoreline of a frozen lake, and fragments almost too small to comprehend — changed forensic history, legal precedent, and the way investigators think about “no-body” homicides forever. 

HELLE CRAFTS

This isn’t a story about spectacle.

It’s a story about erasure — and the relentless people who refused to let that erasure hold.

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The Devil’s Ledger — Year’s End Episode

Standing at the doorway between what was… and whatever comes next.

We close out the year with a New Year’s wish, a reflection on winter, and a few stories that feel colder the longer you sit with them.

🧊 The Creepiest Thing I Heard This Week

The Michigan Dogman — Winter Screams

In the deep Michigan winter, the snow stays, the forests go silent — and sometimes, the stories return. A family’s holiday trip turns unsettling when something steps into the edge of the porch light and reminds them that winter may not belong to us after all. 

👿 The Devil Within

Two cases tied to the season — separated by a decade — and forever changed by loss.

• Helle Crafts — the case so shocking that prosecutors argued murder without a body, reshaping how courts understand circumstantial evidence.

• Patricia Viola — a disappearance that left only silence, lingering questions, and a mystery that never quite settled. 

One story defined by devastating certainty.

The other — by what we still don’t know.

🗡 The Ides of April

A quick visit into myth, murder, and the artifacts we insist on believing.

We explore the legend of the Rasputin dagger — whether it ever existed… and why some objects take on more power in our imaginations than they ever had in reality. Full episodes return next week. 

🏺 Taboo Treasures

Still on hiatus. The vault remains locked — for now. 

🤠 Criminal Mischief

Part of our Best of 2025 — Carolyn revisits Billy the Kid: the real person behind the myth, and why we still romanticize the chaos he left behind. 

🐍 This Week in Horror

Take a breather from the terrifying, and lean into something gloriously absurd:

ANACONDA — a monster movie, a giant snake, Paul Rudd, Jack Black… and the cinematic equivalent of popcorn you didn’t need, but absolutely ate anyway. 

As we close the book on the year — stay safe, stay warm, and remember: whatever is standing outside your door is not invited in.

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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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