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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