The Devil's Ledger: Week of December 22nd

The Devil Within

EVIO Creative

True Crime

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🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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📖 The Devil’s Ledger — Week of December 22 Christmas Shadows, Haunted Lodges, and the Things We Can’t Leave Behind This week on The Devil’s Ledger, the books close out the year the only way they know how — by leaning into the darker side of the holidays. We begin with The Creepiest Thing I Heard This Week: a chilling account of the Whistler Ski Lodge Poltergeist, where staff and guests alike report unexplained footsteps, moving objects, and the unsettling feeling that the lodge is never truly empty. Set against the long winters and deep history of Whistler, it’s a reminder that beautiful places can still hold something restless. From there, we move across the Evio Creative slate for a holiday-themed tour of fear, reflection, and reckoning. 🎄 This Week on The Devil Within It’s the Christmas Special, where we step away from cults and crime scenes to explore the Christmas movies that scared us, unsettled us, or left us with an existential dread about what the holidays really mean. From ghostly visitations to stories of isolation, regret, and time running out, we unpack why so many holiday films feel more like reckonings than celebrations. 📖 This Week on Criminal Mischief Carolyn Ossorio takes a rare break from murder and mystery to read The Velveteen Rabbit, the classic Christmas story about love, loss, and becoming real. There are no suspects this week — just a quiet, moving reminder that being loved often means being changed forever. 🩸 This Week on The Ides of April Christmas turns deadly as The Ides of April revisits one of history’s most infamous holiday murders: the assassination of Grigori Rasputin. Poisoned, shot, beaten, and drowned, Rasputin’s death reads like myth — but its consequences were very real, accelerating the collapse of an empire already on borrowed time. 🗝️ This Week on Taboo Treasures The boys are taking the week off to enjoy the holidays, but they’ll be back in the New Year with more strange objects, dangerous histories, and cursed curiosities. 🎬 What’s New in Horror 28 Years Later, directed by Danny Boyle, returns to a world long past the initial panic of apocalypse. Rather than chaos, the film explores endurance — and asks whether survival without hope is really survival at all. Bleak, mature, and occasionally haunting, it’s less about thrills and more about what remains when the world simply refuses to end. 🎧 Listener CTAs • ⭐ Follow, rate, and review The Devil’s Ledger on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. • 📤 Share this episode with someone who likes their Christmas stories a little haunted. • 📩 Send your thoughts — or the creepiest thing you heard this week — to [email protected]. • 🎙️ Explore the full Evio Creative lineup at eviocreative.com, including The Devil Within, Criminal Mischief, The Ides of April, and Taboo Treasures. 🎄 Happy Holidays from all of us at Evio Creative. Thank you for listening this year — we’ll see you in the New Year, with the ledger open once again. 💼 SPONSORS 🧥 QUINCE Luxury essentials at affordable prices. Free shipping + 365-day returns: www.QUINCE.com/MISCHIEF (http://www.quince.com/MISCHIEF) 📱 MINT MOBILE Premium wireless for just $15/month. Switch and get free shipping: http://www.mintmobil.com/DEVILWITHIN 🛰️ EXPRESSVPN Protect your data anywhere. Get up to 4 months free: www.ExpressVPN.com/DEVILWITHIN (http://www.expressvpn.com/DEVILWITHIN) 🌿 MOOD CBD and THC gummies shipped nationwide. 20% off: http://www.mood.com/DEVILWITHIN 🐶 OLLIE DOG FOOD Real, fresh, human-grade meals for your dog. 60% off your first box: http://www.ollie.com/IDES 🔥 MONARCH The only finance app you’ll ever need. For 50% off your first year: http://www.monarch.com/IDES Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	EEO
0:02.0	Welcome back to the devil's legend, your weekly accounting of the strange, the unsettling, in the things that refuse to stay buried.
0:17.0	As the year winds down and the holidays settle in, this week's ledger leans into a
0:22.7	familiar truth. Christmas has always had a shadow. So let's open the books. We start as we always do
0:30.6	with the creepiest thing I heard this week. The Whistler Ski Lodge Poultergeist.
0:40.6	So the creepiest thing I heard this week didn't come from a police blotter or a courtroom
0:44.4	transcript.
0:45.5	It came from a ski town, from a place that markets itself as pristine, athletic, aspirational,
0:52.8	a place where the snow is powdery, the drinks are super expensive,
0:56.3	and the views are so beautiful that they almost feel staged.
1:00.6	So, Whistler, more specifically, one of its lodges.
1:04.5	Now, before we get to the poltergeist, it helps to understand, you know, where we're standing.
1:10.5	Whistler Mountain.
1:11.9	Now inseparable from Whistler Blackcomb wasn't always the global luxury destination that it is today.
1:19.1	So long before gondolas and apra ski, this was dense forest pressed hard against rock and ice.
1:27.0	The first non-indigenous settlers arrived in the
1:29.5	early 20th century drawn by logging and just isolation. skiing came later, much later. In the
1:36.2	1960s, Whistler was still rough around the edges, a frontier resort, trying to convince the world
1:42.3	that it belonged on the same map as Aspen or St. Maritz.
1:47.3	Lodges were built quickly. Staff housing was really tight.
1:50.8	Winters were long, dark, and punishing.
1:53.7	It wasn't a place for comfort yet.
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