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Welcome to The Devil Within, the podcast that explores true stories of demonic possession and the supernatural. With new episodes every week and new, immersive seasons every year, The Devil Within begins where the answers run out… and the truth, no matter how extraordinary, will be brought into the light. From ancient spirits to modern day ghost stories… demonic possession to creatures of legend. For all things unexplainable - and more than few that are better left alone - The Devil Within has you covered.

BINGE THE FIRST THREE SEASONS NOW!
Season 1: The Jersey Devil - The brutal slaying of BETTY ANN SULLIVAN shocked the small town of Jefferson Township, New Jersey. The violence of that evening shocked the nation for the perpetrator... was her own son, a boy of fourteen who would take his own life only hours later. What the investigation revealed left a community in tatters, unwilling to believe the evil that had befallen them.
Season 2: The Demons of Yorkshire - In 1974 after experiencing financial hardship, Michael Taylor joined a local church in the rolling hills of Northern England. After falling in love with a young, beautiful preacher, Michael’s personality began to change. The mild-mannered family man became abusive and unhinged. His new church believed he was possessed by no fewer than 48 demons and would require an exorcism to save his soul and protect his family from evil. But the supposed remedy would come at a very steep price... 
Season 3: A Season in Hell - In the late 1970's New York City had it all: Hip Hop, Punk Rock... and the Son of Sam. The third season of The Devil Within takes listeners into the belly of the beast and explores the wicked origins, reign of terror and ultimate capture of one of the most feared serial killers in history. With exclusive interviews from journalists, FBI agents, historians and mental health experts this season promises to be the most comprehensive - and most terrifying - account of how one man brought New York City to a standstill.

The Devil Within

🜏 THE DEVIL WITHIN

The Sean Sellers Story — Part Two

Chapters IV–VI: A Killer Reborn? Or a Script Well-Read?

A prison cell can become a tomb—or a pulpit.

In Part Two, we return to Sellers not as the eyeliner-clad teen who chanted to shadows, but as

the soft-voiced inmate who prayed to Christ and mailed cassette-sermons across America. Sean

Sellers reinvented himself. He claimed salvation. And in doing so, forced a country to ask

whether redemption has limits—or if we only pretend to believe in change until the incarcerated

actually change.

Advocates saw a conversion story. Critics saw a performance. Psychologists saw untreated

trauma. The state saw only the law.

We follow his prison years, his religious awakening, the movement to spare his life, and the

midnight hour in February 1999 when Oklahoma drew the curtain and pushed the chemicals. The

only juvenile killer executed in modern American history — and the case that helped end

juvenile death sentences forever.

Did Sean Sellers find grace? Escape responsibility? Fool the world?

Or did we witness something even harder to accept:

A monster made at sixteen, a man made by solitude, and a soul no court could truly sentence?

📜 Chapters

• Chapter IV — The Confession Tapes

A demon becomes a preacher; redemption meets skepticism.

• Chapter V — The Executioner's Prayer

A quiet last meal, a scripture-laden farewell, and a death chamber lit in fluorescent truth.

• Chapter VI — A Shadow Over Innocence

Legacy, law, and the ghost of a boy standing between morality and policy.

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🔮 Next Week on The Devil Within

A new case begins — whispered prayers in a borrowed room, obsession disguised as prophecy,

and a community that learns fear can bloom anywhere faith does.

If God speaks in silence…

what else might?
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The Sean Sellers Story - Part Two

🜏 THE DEVIL WITHIN

The Sean Sellers Story — Part One

Chapters I–III: The Boy Who Called Himself Ezurate

Before the headlines, before the courtroom sermons, before the televised tears, there was only a

boy—born in California, raised across the plains of Oklahoma, and restless inside a world too

small to hold the storm gathering in his head.

In Part One, we walk into the dark heart of the 1980s, when Satanic Panic crackled across

America like static, and fear of the occult seeped into living rooms as fast as MTV and

microwave dinners. But this wasn’t a case of suburban hysteria clashing with teenage rebellion.

This was a child who drifted—from fascination, to obsession, to ritual, and finally into violence.

We follow Sean Sellers from lonely adolescence to Black Mass role-play that stopped being play.

His journals filled with sigils, his world narrowed to demonology and control, until fantasy

crossed the threshold into murder. A convenience-store clerk shot without a word. Parents killed

as they slept. A teenager insisting he was possessed. A justice system unprepared for a killer still

in high school.

This is the first half of a tragedy where belief—real or claimed—becomes blood.

🔪 Chapters

• Chapter I — The Making of a Killer

A childhood marked by drift, a mind marked by fracture, and a boy who began speaking

the language of the occult.

• Chapter II — A Pact in Blood

The murders that shook Oklahoma — and a confession that blurred the line between

belief and convenience.

• Chapter III — The Trial of a Child

Satanism meets jurisprudence in a courtroom that had no script for a teenage “demon

prince.”

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• The Devil’s Ledger — weekly real-world hauntings, mysteries & folklore

• The Ides of April — candle-lit historical storytelling

• Criminal Mischief — true crime with Carolyn Ossorio

• Taboo Treasures — forbidden history & cultural deep-dives

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Part Two: A Broken Mind, A Saved Soul, and a Death Chamber in Oklahoma.

A killer turned evangelist. A nation divided. And the last juvenile ever executed in America.The question shifts from “What did he do?”

to “Can a soul be redeemed, even when the body cannot?”
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The Sean Sellers Story - Part One

🎙️ The Devil’s Ledger - Week of Nov. 3rd.

The Creepiest Thing I Heard This Week: The Vanishing Hitchhiker of Route 66

On Thanksgiving night, 1971, a family driving the quiet stretch of Route 66 near Sapulpa, Oklahoma, encountered a barefoot girl in a torn white dress.

She asked for a ride home.

They wrapped her in a blanket.

She vanished before they reached the house.

What followed — a deserted foundation, a decades-old crash record, and sightings that recur every Thanksgiving — has made Mary Ellen one of the most haunting legends on America’s most famous road.

Was she a desperate spirit looking for her family — or just a story truckers tell to stay awake on long night drives?

Tonight, we ride along.

🔎 This Week on the Evio Network

🜏 The Devil Within

A chilling new two-part series on Sean Sellers, the Oklahoma teen who claimed demonic possession drove him to murder — the last juvenile executed in modern U.S. history.

⛪ The Ides of April

We conclude the epic saga of Pope John VIII, the first pope assassinated in office — a tale of power, betrayal, and a Vatican learning the limits of divine protection.

💎 Taboo Treasures

“Smart Phones, Dumb People” — Bruce Witkin & Jeff Levine trace our evolution from rotary phones to glowing rectangles and ask: Did our devices get smarter, or did we get dumber?

🏚 Criminal Mischief

“FEAR” — Carolyn Ossorio tells the chilling true story of Byron Smith, the Minnesota homeowner whose self-defense turned into a deadly ambush.

🎬 This Week in Horror

🧟 Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein

Beautiful, grotesque, and haunting — a visionary retelling reminding us monsters aren’t born… they’re made.

👵☠️ Dorothea: Portrait of a Killer Granny

The unsettling true story of Dorothea Puente, who allegedly turned her boarding house into a graveyard and cashed the checks of the dead.

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🎙️ The Devil’s Ledger - Week of Nov. 3rd.

🕯️ The Devil Within — A Prayer in Spring: REDUX (Part Two)

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In this second and final part of A Prayer in Spring: REDUX, Branden returns to Jefferson Township — not as an outsider, but as someone who can’t quite let go of the town that shaped his understanding of faith, tragedy, and the supernatural.

It’s a homecoming of sorts: a drive down Berkshire Valley Road, through White Rock, and finally down the infamously haunted stretch of Clinton Road. What begins as a quiet spring morning soon becomes a meditation on evil, loss, and the ways grief can echo through a place long after the headlines fade.

Branden recalls his first visit to Clinton Road in daylight — the peaceful forests and winding asphalt that hide centuries of whispered legends. But when he returns to the Sullivan home, intending to introduce himself to the new owners, he learns the unthinkable: another tragedy has unfolded in the same house where Betty Ann Sullivan was murdered in 1988.

Within a single generation, two families have suffered unspeakable loss under the same roof. Whether coincidence or curse, Jefferson Township seems to exist on a knife’s edge between beauty and darkness.

“It’s the people that leave. The house remains. The town remains. The forest remains. But something in the air here — something unseen — never lets go.”

As the episode closes, Branden reflects on his connection to Jefferson: its resilience, its silence, and the way the town has learned to carry its ghosts quietly.

“Despite the sorrow and horror that fueled my reasons for visiting, I’m reminded that this small town has weathered terrible tragedy — and endured. Maybe that’s the true nature of grace.”

🌲 In This Episode

 • Branden’s first visit to Clinton Road in daylight

 • The disturbing discovery of a second tragedy inside the Sullivan home

 • Reflections on evil, grief, and the possibility of something supernatural

 • A meditation on Jefferson Township’s strength, faith, and quiet beauty

💀 Credits

Written and hosted by Branden Morgan

Produced by Evio Creative in association with Bellaire Studios

Original score and sound design by [Engineer Name]

For press or partnerships, visit eviocreative.com (https://www.eviocreative.com/)

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A Prayer in Spring: REDUX - Part Two

⛪ Blood and Papal Gold – Part One
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Before the Vatican was marble and gold… before the Church had armies and crowns… there was Rome — a ruin with a heartbeat.
In this first half of The Keys of Blood: The Assassination of Pope John VIII, we enter the smoke and silence of the ninth century — a time when popes ruled by letter instead of sword, when faith was a fragile currency, and when the empire that once conquered the world had been reduced to a city clinging to its own memory.
⚜️ Episode I: The Broken Empire
Europe is in fragments. Charlemagne’s heirs bicker over borders while Viking and Saracen raiders carve the continent apart. Into this chaos steps Pope John VIII, a scholar forced into kingship. His Rome is a relic surrounded by wolves, and his only weapon is diplomacy — or what’s left of it. But when he dares to pay tribute to Saracen pirates to spare the city, his mercy is mistaken for weakness, and whispers of betrayal begin to echo through the marble halls of the Lateran.
⚓ Episode II: The Pope and the Pirates
As the raiders tighten their grip, John is forced to choose between faith and survival. His decision to ransom Rome with gold saves lives but shatters his reputation. The Frankish kings mock him; the clergy call him coward; the nobles begin to conspire. When he crowns Charles the Bald as Holy Roman Emperor, hoping for salvation, the emperor dies within months — leaving the papacy more isolated than ever. Rome’s enemies circle closer, and John’s greatest fear becomes clear: the Church will not fall to pagans, but to its own believers.
👑 Episode III: The Emperor’s Shadow
In this final chapter of Part One, the illusion of empire collapses for good. As Saracens burn the coasts and noble families tear Rome apart from within, Pope John VIII fights a losing battle to keep faith alive in a city that no longer believes. He writes, he pleads, he endures. Yet within the candlelit halls of the Lateran, betrayal is already gathering — not in the form of armies, but of whispers. The hammer that will one day kill him has not yet fallen, but its echo is already in the air.

🕯️ What to Expect
A cinematic historical narrative written in the immersive, literary tone of The Ides of April, exploring:
 • The fall of Charlemagne’s empire and the rise of feudal chaos
 • The paradox of a pope who bought peace with gold
 • How faith, politics, and paranoia became indistinguishable
 • The first cracks in the illusion of papal invincibility

💀 Credits
Written and narrated by Branden Morgan
Produced by Evio Creative in partnership with Bellaire Studios
Sound design and original score by [Audio Engineer Name]
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Evio Presents: ⛪ Blood and Papal Gold – Part One

🕯️ The Devil Within — A Prayer in Spring: REDUX (Part One)

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This week, The Devil Within reaches the closing chapter of its season one re-release in support of the upcoming MGM+ docuseries Let the Devil In.

In A Prayer in Spring: REDUX (Part One), Branden reflects on the final full episode of the original series — an episode that blends poetry, tragedy, and geography into a meditation on grief and faith in Jefferson Township.

🎙️ Poetry Corner with Branden: “A Prayer in Spring” by Robert Frost

The episode begins where it all began — with a poem.

Robert Frost’s “A Prayer in Spring” becomes the anchor for a discussion of gratitude, impermanence, and surrender — how Frost’s plea to “keep us here, all simply, in the springing of the year” mirrors the Sullivans’ own brief, fragile peace before tragedy struck.

Branden unpacks Frost’s lesser-known work and its place within the poet’s canon, contrasting its gentle acceptance with the melancholy of “Stopping by Woods,” “The Road Not Taken,” and “Nothing Gold Can Stay.”

“It’s not joy Frost struggles with — it’s permission. Permission to enjoy something beautiful without waiting for it to end.”

109 Redux

🌲 The Newark Watershed

The episode then turns to the land itself.

Branden explores the Newark Watershed, a vast system of reservoirs and protected forest that spans 35,000 acres across Sussex, Morris, and Passaic counties — explaining how the isolation of this region helped shape the haunting stillness that defines northern New Jersey.

“When people think of New Jersey and the only images conjured are Newark or Atlantic City… get up north and you’ll see why it’s called The Garden State.”

109 Redux

🕯️ The Sullivan Family’s Unfinished Story

Finally, the episode revisits the Sullivan family’s grim aftermath.

Years after Tommy Sullivan’s death, tragedy continued to follow.

 • His brother Brian died by suicide just over a decade later.

 • His aunt, Betty Ann’s sister, left behind her entire life after seeing the crime scene photos — and spent the next twenty years living as a cloistered nun.

Branden recounts how investigators later tracked down members of the family and uncovered new, disturbing details about Tom Sullivan Sr., whose life and secrets take center stage in next week’s Part Two.

“It seems the family just can’t escape tragedy — like it was written in blood in some cosmic contract that began that night.”

109 Redux

🔥 Next Time

Part Two reveals what became of Tom Sullivan Sr. — the man at the heart of it all — and why his story changes everything you thought you knew about The Devil Within.

💀 Credits

Written and hosted by Branden Morgan

Produced by Evio Creative in association with Bellaire Studios

Original music and sound design by [Engineer Name]

For press or partnerships, visit eviocreative.com (https://www.eviocreative.com/)

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A Prayer in Spring: REDUX - Part One

🎙️ The Devil’s Ledger — Week of October 27th

Presented by the Evio Creative Podcast Network

This week, The Devil’s Ledger dives headfirst into Halloween season with one of the eeriest true stories ever told — the tragic case of The Hanging Decoration.

🕯️ The Creepiest Thing I Heard This Week:

A Delaware neighborhood wakes up the morning after Halloween to find what they think is a particularly realistic decoration hanging from a tree. It isn’t.

In this haunting story from 2005, Branden explores how real horror can hide in plain sight — and what it says about our need to keep death at a safe distance, especially on the one night we pretend to welcome it.

🔥 This Week Across the Evio Creative Network

 • The Devil Within — The re-release of Season One concludes with Episode Nine: A Prayer in Spring. Branden takes a deeply personal journey through the aftermath of the Tommy Sullivan murder-suicide, reflecting on faith, forgiveness, and how Jefferson Township has changed in the decades since that night.

 • The Ides of April — Alec Baldwin narrates the brand-new two-part story “The Assassination of Pope John VIII.” A pope murdered by his own court in 882 A.D. — who killed him, why, and how that single act reshaped both the Catholic Church and all of Europe.

 • Taboo Treasures — Bruce Witkin and Jeff Levine explore “Halloween in Hollywood.” The origins of the slasher genre, the famous actors who got their start in horror films, and a deep dive into John Carpenter’s classic Halloween.

 • Criminal Mischief — Carolyn Ossorio delivers a chilling Halloween homage to The Amityville Horror House. The 1974 murder of six family members, and the haunting that drove the Lutz family out just 28 days later.

🎥 This Week in Horror & Suspense

On Netflix, Taken in Plain Sight has climbed to #2 — a true-crime documentary that’s not technically horror, but every parent’s worst nightmare: a story of abduction, manipulation, and the evil that lives next door.

And premiering On Demand this week — Bitter Taste, a neo-gothic slasher with an occult twist. When a former athlete is trapped in the clutches of an undead countess and her cursed fellowship, she must rely on her instincts — and an unlikely alliance with a cynical fisherman and a grumpy cop — to survive a cannibalistic manhunt.

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🩸 About The Devil’s Ledger

The Devil’s Ledger is your weekly descent into the strange and the true — the stories that haunt, the crimes that echo, and the history that refuses to die.

Follow @thedevilwithinpod and @eviocreative for episode drops, behind-the-scenes features, and upcoming projects across The Devil Within, The Ides of April, Criminal Mischief, and Taboo Treasures.

For Evio Creative, I’m Branden Morgan.

Stay curious. Stay careful.

And if something on your block looks a little too real this Halloween … maybe cross the street.
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The Devil’s Ledger — Week of October 27th

👹 The Devil Within — Nothing Gold Can Stay: REDUX

Robert Frost wrote that “Nothing gold can stay.”

It’s only eight lines long, but inside those lines is a lifetime: birth, decline, grief, and the eternal fall from innocence.

In this special Redux edition, I break down Frost’s masterpiece—its rhythm, its ache, and the hidden theology within the line “So Eden sank to grief.” Behind that quiet phrasing lies the ancient idea of the Felix Culpa—the fortunate fall, the notion that through tragedy comes salvation.

We’ll also revisit how this fragile little poem found new life on screen in The Outsiders, becoming a cinematic elegy for youth, decay, and the inevitable end of innocence.

And then, the darkness returns.

Because in the final days before the Clinton Road murder-suicide, Tommy Sullivan claimed he saw something staring back at him from the mirror. Something that wasn’t him.

When the Catholic Church learned of what Tommy described, the fear was immediate—and absolute.

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 • 💀 The Devil’s Ledger — your weekly dispatch from the underworld.

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👁️‍🗨️ The Devil Within — A Story You Can’t Unhear

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Nothing Gold Can Stay: REDUX - Part One

👹 The Devil Within — Nothing Gold Can Stay: REDUX - Part II
In the final hours of his life, Tommy Sullivan was surrounded by violence, confusion, and a darkness that no one fully understood.
This episode revisits those final moments — the ones we think we know — and looks closer. Through timelines, testimony, and small, nearly invisible details, we explore a haunting possibility:
that Tommy wasn’t consumed by evil… but fighting it.
What if, in his final act, Tommy was trying to save the lives of his father and brother — not take them?
Nothing Gold Can Stay: REDUX, Part II examines the blurred line between madness and martyrdom, and how the attempt to understand what happened that night may say more about us than about him.
🎧 Listen now to The Devil Within, where true crime meets the supernatural.

🩸 From the Evio Network
Explore the full slate of dark, award-winning storytelling from Evio Creative:
 • 👹 The Devil Within — True crime through a haunted lens.
 • ⚔️ The Ides of April — Alec Baldwin narrates history’s most violent turning points.
 • 🏺 Taboo Treasures — The world’s most forbidden relics and their stories.
 • 💀 The Devil’s Ledger — Your weekly wrap-up from the underworld.
 • 🔪 Criminal Mischief — Real crimes. Real motives. The psychology of evil.
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Nothing Gold Can Stay: REDUX - Part II

🩸 THE DEVIL’S LEDGER — Week of October 20, 2025

This week across the Evio Creative network, we’re crossing timelines, centuries, and even the strange borders between the living and the dead.

🔥 The Creepiest Thing I Heard This Week

Story: The Wheeze and the Moam

From the woods of northern New Jersey comes a local legend that’s never quite gone quiet. A strange sound, a child’s made-up word, and something in the trees that still breathes when the wind dies. Is it a haunting? A warning? Or something else entirely?

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👹 The Devil Within — “Nothing Gold Can Stay: Redux”

The haunting story of Tommy Sullivan comes to its final, chilling close. We revisit his writings, the artist’s perfection of another Frost masterpiece, and the creeping panic that spread through the Catholic Church when his private notes were revealed.

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🏺 Taboo Treasures — “All Hallows Past”

The Halloween series continues: from the ancient world to the modern age, Taboo Treasures unearths real historical events that happened on October 31st—moments where the veil between the sacred and the profane was just a little too thin.

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⚔️ The Ides of April — “Franz Ferdinand: The End of Empires”

The series concludes with the assassination that ignited the world’s first great war. The shots in Sarajevo echo through history, leading to four years of horror, revolution, and the collapse of everything Europe thought it knew.

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A horror movie with more truth than comfort—it’s paranoia wrapped in hospitality. We’ll tell you whether to stream it, skip it, or never open the door again.

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THE DEVIL’S LEDGER — Week of October 20, 2025

Show Notes:

It started as a story whispered at campfires and on playgrounds. But on Staten Island, the name Cropsey became something far more terrifying—a legend that seemed to step out of the shadows and into reality.

In the first half of this two-part episode of The Devil Within, we trace the origins of the Cropsey myth, from abandoned asylums to forgotten tunnels. We explore how fear took root in a community, and how a monster of folklore became linked to real-life tragedy.

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Cropsey - Part One

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