The Devil’s Ledger — Week of October 27th

The Devil Within

EVIO Creative

True Crime

3.2 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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🎙️ 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. 💀 Sponsor Shoutouts A special thank-you to the partners who keep The Devil’s Ledger and every Evio Creative show alive: 🧥 Quince — timeless essentials at honest prices. Visit https://www.quince.com/DEVILWITHIN for free shipping and 365-day returns. 📱 Mint Mobile — premium wireless for just $15 a month. Visit mintmobile.com/DEVILWITHIN for unlimited talk and text. 🕵️ ExpressVPN — protect your data everywhere. Visit https://www.expressvpn.com/DEVILWITHIN for up to four months free. 🌿 MOOD — legal THC and CBD gummies shipped nationwide. Visit https://www.mood.com/DEVILWITHIN for 20% off your first order. 🐾 Ollie Dog Food — fresh, human-grade meals for your dog. Visit https://www.ollie.com/IDES for 60% off your welcome kit. 💰 Monarch — take control of your finances at https://www.monarch.com/IDES and get 50% off your first year. 🩸 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	EVO
0:02.0	Welcome back to the devil's ledger for the week of October 27th, 20205, from the EVOC creative podcast network.
0:21.6	Late October.
0:23.4	Nights are getting colder.
0:25.1	Pumpkins are starting to maybe collapse in on themselves.
0:28.3	And the line between decoration and decay is getting pretty thin.
0:32.9	So let's start the week as we always do with the creepiest thing I heard this week.
0:39.6	This is a story, probably an urban myth.
0:41.7	It's called the hanging decoration, but I'd never heard it before.
0:45.1	And it kind of feels like it could be true.
0:48.6	But let me know in the comments.
0:51.9	So there's this kind of stillness that hangs over these small towns, especially the morning after Halloween.
0:59.0	The sugar crash, that leftover kind of fog, the costumes that are maybe laid out in the sun
1:06.0	or drying on the radiators in the house.
1:08.4	It's the one day of the year where the make
1:11.6	believe is worn off, but some of the ghosts maybe quite haven't left yet. So this is Frederica
1:18.1	Delaware in 2005. It's a town small enough to forget that there are stoplights in other towns,
1:25.2	kind of like my town, kind of like Jefferson. So that Halloween morning, the neighbors woke up, the sounds of birds, the sight of the decorations,
1:33.0	still swaying in the trees, skeletons, scarecrows, orange lights, the usual. And on one front lawn,
1:40.7	something new, a woman in black hanging by a rope from a branch. The neighbors nodded,
1:47.3	admiring the realism. A bus full of kids drives by. They were waving. One of them even joked
1:52.7	it was the best prop on the block. Hours went by before anyone realized she wasn't part of some
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