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

The Devil Within

EVIO Creative

True Crime

3.2 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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🎙️ 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. 🛠️ Sponsors Support the storytellers who keep the shadows close: • Quince — timeless essentials without luxury markups 👉 quince.com/DEVILWITHIN • Mint Mobile — premium wireless for $15/month 👉 mintmobile.com/DEVILWITHIN • ExpressVPN — online privacy & security 👉 expressvpn.com/DEVILWITHIN • MOOD — legal THC & CBD delivered nationwide 👉 mood.com/DEVILWITHIN • Ollie Dog Food — human-grade meals for dogs 👉 ollie.com/IDES • Monarch — powerful personal finance platform 👉 monarch.com/IDES 📣 Follow & Subscribe Explore more from Evio Creative: • The Devil Within • The Devil’s Ledger • Criminal Mischief • Taboo Treasures • The Ides of April Follow for drops & behind-the-scenes: @eviocreative · @thedevilwithinpod · @idesofaprilpod · @taboo_treasures Stay curious, stay skeptical… and stay out of the woods at night. 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 ledger for the week of November 3rd, where we take a short stroll into the shadows, we peek behind the curtain of true crime and folklore. And occasionally, we remind ourselves that New Jersey really shouldn't have that many haunted roads.
0:27.9	But let's begin, as always, with the creepiest thing I heard this week.
0:33.9	This is the vanishing hitchhiker of Route 66.
0:37.4	So Thanksgiving is coming up. So let's go back to Thanksgiving night,
0:41.3	1971. The air outside Tulsa, Oklahoma was cold enough to freeze the edges of your breath,
0:47.3	and the last of the fog was beginning to roll in from the Arkansas River.
0:52.3	A family of four, the Millers, from Norman, Oklahoma,
0:55.8	were driving home after a long holiday dinner.
0:58.8	Kids were dozing off in the back seat.
1:01.1	Leftovers were stacked in those foil trays on the floor,
1:04.6	and the radio was fading between Johnny Cash and static,
1:09.1	depending on how close they were to the city. The mother later
1:12.5	said that she saw the girl first, barefoot, standing on the shoulder of Old Route 66, just
1:19.5	beyond the sepulipulet city limits. Her white dress was torn, one-armed, wrapped around her waist
1:25.0	against the cold. The father slowed down instinctively.
1:28.8	The man was raised not to leave someone stranded.
1:31.3	He rolled the window down, and she said that she'd been in an accident,
1:35.2	that her car had gone off the road near Rock Creek Bridge.
1:38.8	She just needed to get home to her parents.
1:41.1	It was a small farmhouse a few miles up the highway.
1:45.3	She climbed quietly into the back seat. The mother wrapped her up in a blanket and the girl kept her eyes down. She said her
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