The Boy in the Walls

The Devil Within

EVIO Creative

True Crime

3.3 • 176 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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🔪 The Boy in the Walls Before the blood, before the murders, before the courtroom sketches that froze his face in time—there was the knocking. The scratching. The whispers in the walls. In this season premiere, we journey to 1980s suburban Massachusetts, where the Andrews sisters believed they were being haunted. Grieving the recent loss of their mother, the girls turned to a Ouija board for comfort… and something answered. The walls began to speak. Notes appeared. Furniture moved. And then, one night, they found him. Not a ghost. Not a demon. But a boy. Daniel LaPlante had been living inside their walls, pretending to be the spirit of their dead mother. He watched them sleep. He wrote them notes. He wore her clothes. This is the origin story of one of New England’s most disturbing murderers—a tale so surreal it blurs the line between supernatural horror and true crime. The scariest part? It all really happened. 📍 Highlights of this episode: • Ouija boards and ghostly games gone wrong • The terrifying events inside the Andrews home • The shocking discovery behind the bedroom wall • Who was Daniel LaPlante before the bloodshed began? 🎧 The Devil Within is written and hosted by Branden Morgan. Produced by Evio Creative and Bellaire Studios. 🩸 Follow for new episodes every week — and leave a five-star review on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen. It helps others find the show… and keeps us in business. 📸 Follow us on Instagram for behind-the-scenes extras: @devilwithinpod (https://instagram.com/devilwithinpod) 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.
0:16.0	It always starts the same way, doesn't it?
0:19.0	With a sound you just shouldn't hear.
0:22.8	Not the symphonic cacophony of a haunted house in a movie.
0:26.6	Not the kind of Hollywood poltergeist that shakes chandeliers and rattles the cupboards.
0:31.9	No.
0:32.5	The real ones, the ones that actually haunt you,
0:36.1	they don't start with screaming. They start with a whisper.
0:40.5	A subtle creek, a breath that doesn't belong, a footstep, one room too far from where anyone
0:47.2	should be. The kind of thing you write off the first time. And maybe the second time. But by the
0:53.9	third, the house starts to feel smaller,
0:57.0	like the walls are holding their breath,
1:00.0	like something's crouched just behind them,
1:03.0	listening.
1:05.0	In 1986, in the gentle and unremarkable town
1:09.0	of Pepperell, Massachusetts, the Andrews family became
1:12.8	acquainted with this kind of silence, the eerie listening kind. And as much as it pains me to say
1:19.7	it, they weren't the first or the last family to mistake grief for a haunting.
1:27.5	Welcome back to The Devil Within. I'm Brandon Morgan.
1:31.0	This is The Boy in the Walls, the story of Daniel Laplant.
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