A Spellbound Palace: REDUX - Part One

The Devil Within

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True Crime

3.2 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Show Notes – A Spellbound Palace: REDUX We’re going back inside the ruins of Cross Castle. In this REDUX re-release of The Devil Within, Branden Morgan revisits A Spellbound Palace, a chilling tale of occult rituals, isolation, and the haunted ground that lured Tommy Sullivan to Clinton Road. Originally released in Season One, this episode has been updated with new commentary and insights—exploring how the story has evolved over the last four years and how it aligns with the new MGM+ documentary series Let the Devil In. From the legacy of Richard Cross’s Bearfort estate to the whispered satanic rituals of the 1980s, the legend of the so-called “Most Haunted Road in America” takes on new meaning when paired with fresh testimony, cinematic retellings, and the investigative depth of the MGM+ series. Whether you’ve heard this story before or are stepping into the shadows for the first time, this Redux version pulls you even deeper into the darkness of Jefferson Township. Follow & Connect • Subscribe to MGM+ to watch Let the Devil In, the documentary series based on Season One of The Devil Within. • Follow us on Instagram: @thedevilwithinpod (https://instagram.com/thedevilwithinpod) & @eviocreative (https://instagram.com/eviocreative). • For press & inquiries: [email protected]. • Don’t forget to rate, review, and follow The Devil Within wherever you get your podcasts. 🔥 The Devil Within. The story that started it all—now reimagined on screen. 💥 Go to http://www.quince.com/devilwithin for FREE shipping and 365-day returns! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	EVO
0:02.0	This series contains adult language and depictions of graphic violence.
0:10.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:12.0	Welcome back to The Devil Within.
0:15.0	This is episode 3 in the re-release of season one in support of the MGM Plus docu-series, Let the Devil in.
0:23.3	I hope you're watching.
0:24.2	New episodes every Sunday night.
0:25.7	Episode 3 is in wide release now.
0:28.8	I'd love to know what you think of it.
0:30.2	Please email me at info at evoCreative.com.
0:33.8	Or you can follow us at The Devil Within Pod on Instagram.
0:38.2	So episode three of season one is entitled A Spellbound Palace.
0:42.2	A Spellbound Palace is the title of a poem by 19th century English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy.
0:49.2	Thomas Hardy is known for, at least in his poetry, for writing about locations specifically that are important
0:56.4	to him. Now, a spellbound palace isn't one of his better known works, but critics from his time
1:02.9	and in our time all point to this poem as one of the better examples of his power as a poet,
1:09.5	both for the sense of nostalgia, the really powerful
1:13.8	sense of nostalgia that the poem elicits, as well as Hardy's, I guess, masterful use of descriptors.
1:21.8	You really puts you in the world of the poem. And when Hardy is writing about these grand Tudor mansions with their,
1:30.1	with their gardens and all of their grandeur, he was among the best to do it. And in a spellbound palace,
1:36.3	it's this Thomas Hardy at his best, where he's recounting a trip to the Hampton Court Palace.
1:41.8	And it's evocative of a time in his life where he was happy, where he was with someone he loved,
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