The Devil Within

🐐 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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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.
The face of a cat.
The temper of something ancient and territorial.

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?
Or is it one more example of something real hiding in the blind spots of modern science?

🏔️ 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.
And in the Alps, the line between myth and memory has always been dangerously thin.

🧭 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.

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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.

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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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