The Devil Within

The Devil Within 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. ⭐ RATE & REVIEW Ratings and reviews genuinely help independent shows grow. If you have a moment, leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify—it helps more than you think, and yes, we read them. 📺 WATCH & SUBSCRIBE ON YOUTUBE You can now watch full video episodes, clips, and exclusives from all Evio Creative shows on our YouTube channel. 👉 Subscribe to Evio Creative on YouTube and turn on notifications so you don’t miss new drops across the network. 📲 FOLLOW ON SOCIAL Follow us on Instagram for updates, visuals, and behind-the-scenes content:     •    @thedevilwithinpod     •    @idesofaprilpod     •    @eviocreative 🌐 VISIT THE NETWORK Explore all of our shows, projects, and upcoming releases at eviocreative.com ✉️ GET IN TOUCH Have a story, tip, correction, or something you think we should cover? Email us at info@eviocreative.com 🔁 SHARE THE SHOW If you know someone who loves true crime, history, horror, or stories that refuse to let go—share the episode. Word of mouth keeps this network alive. 💼 SPONSORS 🧥 QUINCE Luxury essentials at affordable prices. Free shipping + 365-day returns: www.QUINCE.com/MISCHIEF (http://www.quince.com/MISCHIEF) 📱 MINT MOBILE Premium wireless for just $15/month. Switch and get free shipping: http://www.mintmobil.com/DEVILWITHIN 🛰️ EXPRESSVPN Protect your data anywhere. Get up to 4 months free: www.ExpressVPN.com/DEVILWITHIN (http://www.expressvpn.com/DEVILWITHIN) 🌿 MOOD CBD and THC gummies shipped nationwide. 20% off: http://www.mood.com/DEVILWITHIN 🐶 OLLIE DOG FOOD Real, fresh, human-grade meals for your dog. 60% off your first box: http://www.ollie.com/IDES 🔥 MONARCH  The only finance app you’ll ever need. For 50% off your first year: http://www.monarch.com/IDES Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. 🎧 LISTEN & FOLLOW Make sure you’re following The Devil’s Ledger and the full Evio Creative lineup so you never miss an episode: The Devil Within • The Ides of April • Criminal Mischief • Taboo Treasures, and more.  ⭐ RATE & REVIEW If you can, drop a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify — it genuinely helps independent shows grow (and yes, we read them).  📺 WATCH & SUBSCRIBE ON YOUTUBE Watch full video episodes, clips, and exclusives. 👉 Subscribe to Evio Creative on YouTube and turn on notifications.  📲 FOLLOW US Instagram:     •    @thedevilwithinpod     •    @idesofaprilpod     •    @eviocreative 🌐 VISIT Explore everything at eviocreative.com  ✉ GET IN TOUCH Story tip? Correction? Something we should hear? Email: info@eviocreative.com  🔁 SHARE If you know someone who loves true crime, history, horror, or stories that refuse to let go — share the show. 💼 SPONSORS 🧥 QUINCE Luxury essentials at honest prices. Free shipping + 365-day returns: www.QUINCE.com/MISCHIEF (http://www.quince.com/MISCHIEF)  📱 MINT MOBILE Premium wireless for just $15/month. Free shipping: http://www.mintmobil.com/DEVILWITHIN  🛰 EXPRESSVPN Protect your data anywhere. Up to 4 months free: www.ExpressVPN.com/DEVILWITHIN (http://www.expressvpn.com/DEVILWITHIN)  🌿 MOOD CBD & THC gummies shipped nationwide. 20% off: http://www.mood.com/DEVILWITHIN  🐶 OLLIE DOG FOOD Real, fresh, human-grade meals for dogs. 60% off your first box: http://www.ollie.com/IDES  🔥 MONARCH The only finance app you’ll ever need. 50% off your first year: http://www.monarch.com/IDES  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. 🎧 THE USUAL EVIO CREATIVE CTAs LISTEN & FOLLOW Follow The Devil Within and the entire Evio Creative lineup wherever you get your podcasts so you never miss an episode. RATE & REVIEW If you’re enjoying the show, leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. It helps more than you think—and we read every one. WATCH & SUBSCRIBE ON YOUTUBE Watch full episodes, clips, and exclusives from all Evio Creative shows. 👉 Subscribe to Evio Creative on YouTube and turn on notifications. VISIT THE NETWORK Explore all shows and upcoming projects at eviocreative.com GET IN TOUCH Have a story, tip, or something you think we should cover? Email info@eviocreative.com 💼 SPONSORS 🧥 QUINCE Luxury essentials at affordable prices. Free shipping + 365-day returns: www.QUINCE.com/MISCHIEF (http://www.quince.com/MISCHIEF) 📱 MINT MOBILE Premium wireless for just $15/month. Switch and get free shipping: http://www.mintmobil.com/DEVILWITHIN 🛰️ EXPRESSVPN Protect your data anywhere. Get up to 4 months free: www.ExpressVPN.com/DEVILWITHIN (http://www.expressvpn.com/DEVILWITHIN) 🌿 MOOD CBD and THC gummies shipped nationwide. 20% off: http://www.mood.com/DEVILWITHIN 🐶 OLLIE DOG FOOD Real, fresh, human-grade meals for your dog. 60% off your first box: http://www.ollie.com/IDES 🔥 MONARCH  The only finance app you’ll ever need. For 50% off your first year: http://www.monarch.com/IDES Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

🎄 THE DEVIL WITHIN — CHRISTMAS SPECIAL EPISODE 1 — “THE CHRISTMAS NIGHTMARES” Chapters 1–3 This holiday season, we unwrap something darker than tinsel — the films from our childhood that should never have been shown to children. These weren’t cozy specials. They were cinematic trauma disguised in red bows and VHS plastic. In Part One of our Christmas special, we descend into the uncanny valley of 1980s holiday movies and their psychologically disturbing plotlines, the ones that slipped into our living rooms and shaped our nightmares. 🎬 CHAPTERS Chapter 1 — “When Christmas Movies Wanted to Hurt Us” We revisit the VHS aisles of the 80s — where “family movies” secretly harbored dead Santas, abandoned kids, demonic puppets, and trauma disguised as jolly cheer. A cultural excavation of how innocence collided with horror in the most festive decade. Chapter 2 — “The Gremlins Monologue” Perhaps the most disturbing speech ever delivered in a PG Christmas film: Phoebe Cates’ haunted reveal of her father’s death in the chimney while playing Santa. The silence it produced in theaters — and why it still hits us like grief disguised as comedy. Chapter 3 — “Silent Nights and Slasher Clauses” From Silent Night, Deadly Night to Christmas Evil, we unpack Santa-suited killers, vigilante elves, and the thin line between folklore reverence and full-tilt cinematic violence. ⭐ CALLS TO ACTION • Follow us on Instagram: @thedevilwithinpod • Visit eviocreative.com• Rate, review & share • Subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen • Tell a friend who loves dark holidays & childhood trauma disguised in wrapping paper 💼 SPONSORS 🧥 QUINCE Luxury essentials at affordable prices. Free shipping + 365-day returns: www.QUINCE.com/MISCHIEF 📱 MINT MOBILE Premium wireless for just $15/month. Switch and get free shipping: www.mintmobil.com/DEVILWITHIN 🛰 EXPRESSVPN Protect your data anywhere. Get up to 4 months free: www.ExpressVPN.com/DEVILWITHIN 🌿 MOOD CBD & THC gummies shipped nationwide. 20% off: www.mood.com/DEVILWITHIN 🐶 OLLIE DOG FOOD Real, fresh, human-grade meals for your dog. 60% off your first box: www.ollie.com/IDES 🔥 MONARCH The only finance app you’ll ever need. 50% off your first year: www.monarch.com/IDES Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

THE IDES OF APRIL A Christmas Assassination: The Death of Rasputin Christmas 1916. Russia is starving. The First World War is grinding the empire into dust. Faith, monarchy, and legitimacy are collapsing in real time. And inside a candlelit palace, a small group of aristocrats convinces itself that killing one man might still save the nation. In this stand-alone holiday episode of The Ides of April, we examine the assassination of Grigori Rasputin—a murder born of fear, myth, and desperation, carried out just days before Christmas, and destined to change nothing. 🎄 IN THIS EPISODE Cold Open — “They Killed Him Once” A story that refuses to end quietly. Poison. Bullets. Ice. And the unsettling question of why Rasputin’s death had to be so absolute. Chapter One — Russia in December: War, Winter, and the Need for a Devil World War I has hollowed out the Russian Empire. Soldiers freeze at the front. Cities starve. The Tsar is absent. And Rasputin—mystic, peasant, outsider—becomes the human symbol of everything the ruling class can no longer control. Christmas approaches as faith collides with collapse. Chapter Two — The Night at the Moika Palace Inside a palace dressed for the holidays, a plan unravels. Poison fails. Gunshots follow. Panic replaces precision. Rasputin’s murder becomes legend not because it was supernatural—but because it was chaotic, amateur, and fueled by fear rather than certainty. Chapter Three — The Assassination That Saved NothingRasputin’s death does not stabilize Russia. It accelerates its collapse. This chapter examines why political assassinations so often fail to deliver the futures they promise—and how killing a symbol can reveal the moment an empire stops believing in itself. ❄ CLOSING THOUGHT The murder of Rasputin was not an act of strength. It was an admission of panic. Violence did not save imperial Russia. It only revealed how desperate its guardians had become. 🎁 HOLIDAY GREETING As the year closes and the season asks us to reflect on endings and beginnings, we wish you peace, safety, and perspective. History rarely offers clean endings. Be gentle with yourselves—and with each other. 🔮 NEXT WEEK ON THE IDES OF APRIL Another assassination. Another belief that history could be redirected by a single act of violence. It couldn’t. 🎧 THE USUAL EVIO CREATIVE CTAs LISTEN & FOLLOW Follow The Ides of April and the entire Evio Creative lineup wherever you get your podcasts. ⭐ RATE & REVIEW If this episode stayed with you, leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. It helps independent shows survive—and we read every one.📺 WATCH & SUBSCRIBE ON YOUTUBE Watch full episodes, clips, and exclusives from all Evio Creative shows. 👉 Subscribe to Evio Creative on YouTube and turn on notifications. 🌐 VISIT THE NETWORK Explore all shows and upcoming projects at ⁠eviocreative.com⁠ ✉ GET IN TOUCH Have a story, tip, or correction? Email ⁠info@eviocreative.com⁠ 🔁 SHARE THE SHOW If this episode felt worth sitting with, share it. Word of mouth keeps this network alive. QUINCELuxury essentials at affordable prices.Free shipping + 365-day returns: www.QUINCE.com/MISCHIEF 📱 MINTMOBILEPremium wireless for just $15/month.Switch and get free shipping: www.mintmobil.com/DEVILWITHIN 🛰 EXPRESSVPNProtect your data anywhere.Get up to 4 months free: www.ExpressVPN.com/DEVILWITHIN 🌿 MOOD CBD and THC gummies shipped nationwide. 20% off: www.mood.com/DEVILWITHIN 🐶 OLLIE DOG FOODReal, fresh, human-grade meals for your dog. 60% off your first box: www.ollie.com/IDES 🔥 MONARCH The only finance app you’ll ever need.For 50% off your first year: www.monarch.com/IDES Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

📖 The Devil’s Ledger — Week of December 22 Christmas Shadows, Haunted Lodges, and the Things We Can’t Leave Behind This week on The Devil’s Ledger, the books close out the year the only way they know how — by leaning into the darker side of the holidays. We begin with The Creepiest Thing I Heard This Week: a chilling account of the Whistler Ski Lodge Poltergeist, where staff and guests alike report unexplained footsteps, moving objects, and the unsettling feeling that the lodge is never truly empty. Set against the long winters and deep history of Whistler, it’s a reminder that beautiful places can still hold something restless. From there, we move across the Evio Creative slate for a holiday-themed tour of fear, reflection, and reckoning. 🎄 This Week on The Devil Within It’s the Christmas Special, where we step away from cults and crime scenes to explore the Christmas movies that scared us, unsettled us, or left us with an existential dread about what the holidays really mean. From ghostly visitations to stories of isolation, regret, and time running out, we unpack why so many holiday films feel more like reckonings than celebrations. 📖 This Week on Criminal Mischief Carolyn Ossorio takes a rare break from murder and mystery to read The Velveteen Rabbit, the classic Christmas story about love, loss, and becoming real. There are no suspects this week — just a quiet, moving reminder that being loved often means being changed forever. 🩸 This Week on The Ides of April Christmas turns deadly as The Ides of April revisits one of history’s most infamous holiday murders: the assassination of Grigori Rasputin. Poisoned, shot, beaten, and drowned, Rasputin’s death reads like myth — but its consequences were very real, accelerating the collapse of an empire already on borrowed time. 🗝️ This Week on Taboo Treasures The boys are taking the week off to enjoy the holidays, but they’ll be back in the New Year with more strange objects, dangerous histories, and cursed curiosities. 🎬 What’s New in Horror 28 Years Later, directed by Danny Boyle, returns to a world long past the initial panic of apocalypse. Rather than chaos, the film explores endurance — and asks whether survival without hope is really survival at all. Bleak, mature, and occasionally haunting, it’s less about thrills and more about what remains when the world simply refuses to end. 🎧 Listener CTAs     •    ⭐ Follow, rate, and review The Devil’s Ledger on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.     •    📤 Share this episode with someone who likes their Christmas stories a little haunted.     •    📩 Send your thoughts — or the creepiest thing you heard this week — to info@eviocreative.com.     •    🎙️ Explore the full Evio Creative lineup at eviocreative.com, including The Devil Within, Criminal Mischief, The Ides of April, and Taboo Treasures. 🎄 Happy Holidays from all of us at Evio Creative. Thank you for listening this year — we’ll see you in the New Year, with the ledger open once again. 💼 SPONSORS 🧥 QUINCE Luxury essentials at affordable prices. Free shipping + 365-day returns: www.QUINCE.com/MISCHIEF (http://www.quince.com/MISCHIEF) 📱 MINT MOBILE Premium wireless for just $15/month. Switch and get free shipping: http://www.mintmobil.com/DEVILWITHIN 🛰️ EXPRESSVPN Protect your data anywhere. Get up to 4 months free: www.ExpressVPN.com/DEVILWITHIN (http://www.expressvpn.com/DEVILWITHIN) 🌿 MOOD CBD and THC gummies shipped nationwide. 20% off: http://www.mood.com/DEVILWITHIN 🐶 OLLIE DOG FOOD Real, fresh, human-grade meals for your dog. 60% off your first box: http://www.ollie.com/IDES 🔥 MONARCH  The only finance app you’ll ever need. For 50% off your first year: http://www.monarch.com/IDES Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Blood on the Bluegrass, Part Two (Chapters 4–6) Episode Title: Blood on the Bluegrass — Part Two In the conclusion of this two-part series, fantasy collapses into murder, the manhunt and trial reshape the lives of everyone involved, and the lingering aftermath reveals the true cost of a story believed too deeply. CHAPTERS Chapter Four — “The Double Murder Inside the Wendorf Home” Rod steps into a quiet Florida home and commits an act of violence that shatters two families and destroys the world his followers thought they understood. Chapter Five — “The Vampire on Trial” The justice system confronts Rod’s mythmaking as prosecutors dismantle the Vesago persona and seek the harshest penalty allowed. Chapter Six — “The Appeal of the Damned” From death row to life without parole, Rod’s myth erodes under the weight of time as the surviving clan members search for lives beyond the story that defined their youth.💼 SPONSORS Don’t forget to check the show notes for amazing deals from the great companies that still support long form storytelling: 🧥 QUINCE – Luxury essentials at affordable prices. Free shipping + 365-day returns: www.QUINCE.com/MISCHIEF 📱 MINT MOBILE – Premium wireless for just $15/month. Free shipping: www.mintmobil.com/DEVILWITHIN 🛰 EXPRESSVPN – Protect your data & unlock global content. 3 months free: www.ExpressVPN.com/DEVILWITHIN 🌿 MOOD – Premium THC-free gummies & botanicals. 20% off: www.mood.com/DEVILWITHIN 🐶 OLLIE DOG FOOD – Fresh, human-grade meals for your dog. 50% off: www.ollie.com/IDES 🔥 MONARCH MONEY – The finance app Branden actually uses. 60% off your first year: www.monarch.com/IDES Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Blood on the Bluegrass Part One (Chapters 1–3) Episode Title: Blood on the Bluegrass — Part One We begin the story of Rod Ferrell and the so-called Vampire Clan by exploring the myth he built, the vulnerable teenagers he pulled into it, and the road trip that carried them from fantasy into imminent tragedy. CHAPTERS Chapter One — “The Vampire of Murray, Kentucky” A lonely teenager crafts an identity powerful enough to mask his wounds and attract followers who see him as something larger than life. Chapter Two — “The Lost and the Searching” Rod gathers a circle of fragile, impressionable teens who mistake his certainty for purpose and mistake his mythology for truth. Chapter Three — “Crossing the Threshold” The clan leaves Kentucky for Florida on what they believe is a rescue mission, unaware that they are driving toward irrevocable violence. 💼 SPONSORS Don’t forget to check the show notes for amazing deals from the great companies that still support long form storytelling: 🧥 QUINCE – Luxury essentials at affordable prices. Free shipping + 365-day returns: www.QUINCE.com/MISCHIEF 📱 MINT MOBILE – Premium wireless for just $15/month. Free shipping: www.mintmobil.com/DEVILWITHIN🛰 EXPRESSVPN – Protect your data & unlock global content. 3 months free: www.ExpressVPN.com/DEVILWITHIN 🌿 MOOD – Premium THC-free gummies & botanicals. 20% off: www.mood.com/DEVILWITHIN 🐶 OLLIE DOG FOOD – Fresh, human-grade meals for your dog. 50% off: www.ollie.com/IDES 🔥 MONARCH MONEY – The finance app Branden actually uses. Extended 30-day free trial: www.monarch.com/IDES Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Devil’s Ledger — Week of December 15 Welcome back—and happy holidays. It’s that special time of year filled with forced cheer, soft lighting, and quietly wondering whether leftovers have crossed from festive into forensic. Whether you’re decking halls, dodging relatives, or just surviving December, we’re glad you’re here. This week’s Ledger is packed with folklore, fanaticism, lost idealism, and a reminder that some remakes exist solely to make us feel ancient. 🔥 The Creepiest Thing I Heard This Week In Icelandic folklore, a ritual known as nábrók—or necropants—promised endless wealth at an unimaginable cost. Crafted from the skin of a dead man and worn directly against the flesh, the necropants blurred the boundary between survival and damnation. It’s a story where greed literally wears the dead, and prosperity requires intimacy with decay. Fair warning: once you hear it, you won’t forget it. 🩸 This Week on The Devil Within We begin a brand-new two-part series, Blood on the Blue Grass, examining the disturbing case of Rod Ferrell, the so-called Kentucky Vampire. This is not a gothic fantasy—it’s a chilling exploration of teenage alienation, unchecked belief, and how confidence and charisma can become lethal forces when pointed in the wrong direction. 🕯️ On The Ides of April We conclude our series on the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy with Part Two of The Death of the New America. From the Ambassador Hotel pantry to the gunshots that silenced a movement, this episode explores not just how Bobby Kennedy died—but what died with him. A nation’s momentum. A generation’s hope. A future that never arrived. 🧠 Criminal Mischief Life mirrors fiction on this week's CM...we delve into the horrifying details of a real life Fatal Attraction and the deveststingly cruel consequences of obsession, jealousy and rage... 🗝️ Taboo Treasures Content TBD. Even the devil needs a week to sharpen his pitchfork. 🎬 This Week in Horror It’s officially “I’m super old” week with a remake of The Hand That Rocks the Cradle—a psychological thriller I remember being filmed right here in Los Angeles what feels like a century ago. A nanny who never should’ve been let into the house, and proof that the scariest monsters often arrive smiling. As we close out the episode, warm Hanukkah wishes to those celebrating, and holiday greetings to everyone navigating this strange, sparkly, emotionally complicated season. Lock your doors. Trust cautiously. If something feels off—you’re probably right. Sleep well. Or don’t. We’ll see you next week. 🎄🕯️👁️ 💼 SPONSORS 🧥 QUINCE Luxury essentials at affordable prices. Free shipping + 365-day returns: www.QUINCE.com/MISCHIEF (http://www.quince.com/MISCHIEF) 📱 MINT MOBILE Premium wireless for just $15/month. Switch and get free shipping: http://www.mintmobil.com/DEVILWITHIN 🛰️ EXPRESSVPN Protect your data anywhere. Get up to 4 months free: www.ExpressVPN.com/DEVILWITHIN (http://www.expressvpn.com/DEVILWITHIN) 🌿 MOOD CBD and THC gummies shipped nationwide. 20% off: http://www.mood.com/DEVILWITHIN 🐶 OLLIE DOG FOOD Real, fresh, human-grade meals for your dog. 60% off your first box: http://www.ollie.com/IDES 🔥 MONARCH  The only finance app you’ll ever need. For 50% off your first year: http://www.monarch.com/IDES Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

🌙EPISODE 2 🕸 “The Mantis Man of the Musconetcong — Part Two: The River Keeps Its Secrets” In Part Two, we zoom out from my childhood river to the global phenomenon hiding behind the Mantis Man legend. Ancient mantis gods. Insectoid aliens. Evolutionary fears wired straight into our DNA. Biological impossibilities. Folklore that refuses to die. Then we return home — to the Musconetcong, to Jefferson, to the quiet bridge where something tall and translucent allegedly stepped out of the water and vanished into the trees. 📚 Chapters 4. 🪳 The Insect Gods 5. 🧠 Why Bugs Terrify Us 6. 🌫 The River Keeps Its Secrets A final reflection on childhood landscapes, memory, fear, and why certain places cling to the monsters we project onto them. 📣 CALL TO ACTION • 📸 Follow us on Instagram: @thedevilwithinpod • @eviocreative • @idesofaprilpod • ⭐ Subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen • 📝 Leave a rating & review — it really helps • 👁 Share this episode with someone who loves folklore anthropology or hometown hauntings 💼 SPONSORS 🧥 QUINCE Luxury essentials at affordable prices. Free shipping + 365-day returns: www.QUINCE.com/MISCHIEF (http://www.quince.com/MISCHIEF) 📱 MINT MOBILE Premium wireless for just $15/month. Switch and get free shipping: http://www.mintmobil.com/DEVILWITHIN 🛰️ EXPRESSVPN Protect your data anywhere. Get up to 4 months free: www.ExpressVPN.com/DEVILWITHIN 🌿 MOOD CBD and THC gummies shipped nationwide. 20% off: http://www.mood.com/DEVILWITHIN 🐶 OLLIE DOG FOOD Real, fresh, human-grade meals for your dog. 60% off your first box: http://www.ollie.com/IDES 🔥 MONARCH  The only finance app you’ll ever need. For 50% off your first year: http://www.monarch.com/IDES Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices