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When Winter Wears a Face

Winter can feel empty — silent landscapes, long nights, and the sense that the world has gone still.

But in the mountain villages of the Alps and northern Italy, winter was never seen as empty. It was seen as dangerous.

In this episode of The Devil Within, we explore three chilling winter traditions born from isolation, fear, and the psychological weight of the dark season.

🐐 The Schnabelgeiss — Switzerland

Masked figures known as the “beaked goats” storm through villages wearing grotesque costumes and ringing bells. The noise and spectacle aren’t for entertainment — they’re meant to drive away illness, misfortune, and the lingering spirits of winter.

🌊 The Anguane — Northern Italy

Beautiful but dangerous water spirits said to lure travelers off safe paths and toward icy streams and hidden drops. Their legend reflects a harsh truth: in winter, the mountains deceive, and one wrong step can be fatal.

🔥 Giubiana — Burning the Winter Witch

In Lombardy and Piedmont, communities build and burn a straw effigy representing hunger, illness, and hardship. The ritual marks a psychological turning point — the moment when people believe the worst of winter is finally behind them.

These traditions didn’t change the season.

But they gave fear a face — and when fear has a face, it can be chased, confronted, and burned away.

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⛪ The Devil Within — Episode 3: The Battle No One Sees

The Winter Olympics celebrate control — bodies trained to precision, minds sharpened to the edge of physics, every movement calculated against gravity and risk.

But in the shadow of those same Alpine peaks, another kind of battle has been unfolding for centuries. One without medals. Without spectators. Without a finish line.

This week, The Devil Within turns inward.

We travel to northern Italy, near the slopes and valleys that have long shaped both faith and folklore, to the Sanctuary of Monte Berico overlooking Vicenza. A place of prayer for generations — and, in recent years, the setting of a reported exorcism that left witnesses shaken and clergy emotionally drained.

This episode explores a case that moved quietly through layers of scrutiny before a formal rite was performed. Those close to the woman at the center of the story described personality changes, emotional volatility, and distress that resisted conventional treatment. What followed inside the stone walls of the sanctuary was not spectacle, but hours of prayer, repetition, exhaustion, and uncertainty.

We examine:

    •    How the modern Catholic Church approaches exorcism with caution and psychological screening

    •    Why Alpine communities often interpret suffering through both spiritual and folkloric lenses

    •    The emotional strain on those present during prolonged religious rites

    •    The thin, uneasy line between spiritual belief and mental health realities

    •    What possession stories may reveal about the fragility of identity and the human need for meaning in moments of internal chaos

Rather than focusing on dramatic portrayals, this episode sits with the quieter, more unsettling questions. What does it feel like when a person no longer feels at home in their own mind? Why do cultures across time describe that experience as something foreign taking hold? And how do faith, ritual, and psychology all attempt — in their own ways — to bring someone back to themselves?

In a region where the mountains constantly remind people that control is never absolute, it may not be surprising that some believe struggle can come from within just as easily as from storm or avalanche.

The Alps remain vast. The sanctuary remains still. And somewhere between belief and biology lies a story that resists easy answers.

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🎙️ The Ides of April — Two-Part Series

Philip of Macedon: The Father Behind the Empire

Before the legend of Alexander the Great, there was the man who made his rise possible.

In this two-part series of The Ides of April, we travel to the rugged northern kingdom of Macedonia to explore the life, ambition, and violent death of Philip II of Macedon — the ruler who transformed a dismissed frontier state into the dominant power of the Greek world.

Part One — The King from the Edge of Greece

Long before Macedonia commanded armies and alliances, it was considered backward by the great city-states of southern Greece.

This episode traces:

    •    The harsh frontier culture that shaped Philip’s early life

    •    His time as a political hostage in Thebes — where he studied the future of warfare

    •    The military revolution that created the Macedonian war machine

    •    The rise of Philip’s power across Greece

    •    The complex royal family dynamics that shaped succession

    •    The early signs of greatness in his young son — including the famous taming of Bucephalus

By the time Philip stands at the height of his power, Greece is unified under his leadership and a massive invasion of Persia is within reach.

But success has created enemies — both abroad and within his own court.

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🎙️ The Devil’s Ledger — Week of February 9

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Welcome back to The Devil’s Ledger, your weekly guide to everything happening across the Evio Creative Network.

This week, we open with a show of support for Team USA as they compete on the world stage at the 2026 Winter Olympics — a reminder of what preparation, discipline, and pressure can produce at the highest level.

The Creepiest Thing I Heard This Week

The Storm That Buried Iran

In February 1972, a blizzard dropped as much as 26 feet of snow across parts of Iran — the deadliest winter storm in recorded history.

Entire villages disappeared. More than 4,000 people died. Rescue teams arrived to find a landscape flattened into silence — towns erased beneath smooth fields of snow.

Survivors later described shapes moving in the whiteout, voices outside buried homes, and dark figures appearing at the edges of the storm.

Science offers explanations — hypothermia, oxygen deprivation, sensory distortion.

But knowing the science doesn’t make it less terrifying.

Because when a storm buries entire communities and leaves nothing behind but silence… it begins to feel less like weather.

And more like something that came looking for the living.

On The Devil Within

This week’s episode takes us to the historic sanctuary at Monte Berico, where an alleged exorcism took place in 2010.

What makes this case especially unsettling isn’t folklore or legend — it’s the documentation. Witnesses. Church involvement. Medical oversight. And a sequence of events that remains difficult to explain.

Atmospheric, grounded, and deeply unsettling, this is a story that lives in the uneasy space between faith and the unknown.

On The Ides of April

We begin a two-part series on the assassination of Philip II of Macedon — and what may be one of history’s greatest strategic miscalculations.

The conspirators believed they were ending a growing threat to the Greek world.

Instead, they cleared the path for a twenty-year-old successor: Alexander the Great.

History has a word for that outcome.

Oops.

On Criminal Mischief

At the moment, Carolyn is reportedly celebrating somewhere in the Pacific Northwest after the Seattle Seahawksdelivered a decisive victory over the New England Patriots.

We expect normal programming to resume once the celebration — and possibly the parade — concludes.

Daily: Finding Me with Josh Wolf

Josh Wolf continues his daily check-ins, blending humor, vulnerability, and honest self-reflection that has quickly become part of listeners’ everyday routines.

Real. Relatable. And absolutely can’t miss.

This Week in Horror

In honor of its record-breaking awards recognition, this week’s pick is the vampire thriller Sinners, directed by Ryan Coogler and starring Michael B. Jordan.

Now streaming on HBO Max, it delivers atmosphere, intensity, and enough supernatural dread to make your head spin.

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🐐 The Devil Within — The Legend of the Baladisc

High in the mountains, where the air thins and the world feels older than memory, some legends refuse to die.

This week on The Devil Within, we descend into one of the strangest and most unsettling alpine folktales you’ve probably never heard of: the Baladisc.

Described in scattered regional accounts as something not quite human and not quite animal, the Baladisc is said to haunt remote mountain passes and dense, shadowed forests. Witnesses across generations have claimed to see a dark, horned figure moving between the trees at dusk — too tall, too still, and far too aware of the people who stumble into its territory.

Some say it watches from ridgelines during snowstorms. Others claim it follows lone travelers just out of sight, its presence marked only by the feeling of being hunted… and the sudden silence of the forest around them.

In this episode, we explore:

    •    The earliest known references to the Baladisc in mountain folklore

    •    Reports from shepherds and woodcutters who believed they encountered it

    •    Why isolated alpine communities often describe similar horned or hybrid beings

    •    The psychological effects of high-altitude isolation and winter darkness

    •    Whether the Baladisc is a supernatural entity… or something born from fear, landscape, and survival

As always, the line between legend and lived experience is razor-thin. These stories come from people who knew the mountains well — people who understood storms, predators, and the dangers of the wild. And yet, what they described didn’t behave like any known animal.

The Baladisc may be folklore. It may be metaphor. Or it may be something older than either — a reminder that the wilderness has never belonged entirely to us.

Turn down the lights, listen closely, and decide for yourself what’s really moving between the trees.

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