The Devil Within

The Flatwoods Monster (Part Two): The Monster That Wasn’t

When daylight arrives… the legend doesn’t disappear. It gets stranger.

Morning light insists on clarity. It wants the world restored to order. It wants last night’s fear to look small, even silly, in the daylight.

But in Flatwoods, morning didn’t repair the night.

It amplified it.

In Part Two, we walk back up that hill — this time with investigators, law enforcement, soldiers, reporters, and skeptics — all determined to quiet the story and restore calm. 

Flatwoods Monster

And what they find is not a clean debunking… but a more unsettling truth: sometimes the scariest part of the story isn’t a monster in the woods.

It’s the human mind trying to survive uncertainty.

This episode dives deep into the official investigation, the physical symptoms, the strange odor, the meteor explanation… and the chilling possibility that what the witnesses saw was something both ordinary and terrifying — an illusion forged by fog, fear, adrenaline… and biology.

In this episode:

    •    The next-day investigation: what authorities did (and didn’t) find

    •    Why witnesses reported nausea, dizziness, and burning throats

    •    The “meteor” explanation — and why it didn’t erase the fear

    •    The barn owl theory: how an animal can become a nightmare under the right conditions

    •    The deeper horror: not lying… but misinterpretation that grows teeth

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The Flatwoods Monster (Part One)

A meteor. A hill. A flashlight beam… and something that should not have been there.

There are nights when darkness behaves — predictable, familiar, almost gentle. And then there are nights when it feels purposeful. A night that seems aware of the people beneath it… and hungry to test the limits of what they believe is possible.

On September 12, 1952, in Braxton County, West Virginia, witnesses reported a blazing light streaking across the sky — red, incandescent, like a wound in the heavens. What followed became one of the most enduring creature legends in American folklore: The Flatwoods Monster. 

Flatwoods Monster

In Part One, we return to the very beginning — the original eyewitness account, the climb up the hill, the metallic air, the fog, and the moment a group of locals became absolutely certain they were standing in the presence of something not from Earth. 

Flatwoods Monster

But this isn’t really a story about aliens.

It’s a story about people — about what the mind does when the world refuses to explain itself, and how fear can transform shadows into certainty.

In this episode:

    •    The meteor-like streak that sparked a legend

    •    The group who climbed the hill searching for answers

    •    The reported metallic odor, strange air, and mounting unease

    •    The first description of the “monster”: towering shape, glowing eyes, hissing breath

    •    The “Devil Within” theme: how perception becomes destiny

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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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THE DEVIL WITHIN — The Wrong Road (Part Two)

Months after the Mercury Montego was discovered abandoned in the snow, searchers find something deeper in the forest:

A U.S. Forest Service trailer.

Inside is everything that could have saved them—bunks, blankets, matches, propane… and enough food to keep multiple men alive for weeks.

And in the back room—wrapped carefully in sheets—are the remains of Ted Weiher.

He didn’t die quickly. He likely survived for weeks.

The horror of this story isn’t supernatural. It isn’t even mysterious.

It’s unbearably human.

Part Two examines the theories, the folklore, and why people need this to be a conspiracy—because the truth is harder to accept: that confusion, fear, and rigid obedience to “rules” can trap a person even when salvation is right in front of them.

This is not a whodunit.

It’s a warning.

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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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