The Girl in the Red Coat - Part One

The Devil Within

EVIO Creative

True Crime

3.2 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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🩸 THE DEVIL WITHIN THE GIRL IN THE RED COAT EPISODE ONE: Into the Silent Woods (Chapters 1–3) In Episode One, we step into the cold, haunted shadow of Glastenbury Mountain—home to the legend of the Bennington Triangle and the mysterious, enduring disappearance of Paula Jean Welden, an 18-year-old Bennington College sophomore who walked onto the Long Trail one November afternoon in 1946… and was never seen again. Across three cinematic chapters, we explore: CHAPTER 1 — The Mountain That Remembers The strange history of Glastenbury Mountain, a place the Abenaki once warned was alive… a place where sound dies, compasses falter, and the forest seems to lean in and listen. Here we meet Paula: quiet, restless, radiant in her bright red parka—stepping onto the trail with no idea she is walking into a legend. CHAPTER 2 — The Search That Found Nothing The frantic multi-day search that drew hundreds into the freezing woods with lanterns, dogs, and fading hope. No footprints. No torn cloth. No trace. Even the red coat refused to be found. Searchers spoke of “silent pockets,” strange warmth in the air, radios that lagged by a heartbeat, and the creeping sense they were being watched by something old and patient. CHAPTER 3 — The Forest That Eats People Paula’s story is only one thread in a pattern of disappearances stretching across five years: a woodsman, a veteran, a child, a hiker. Five vanished. One mountain. Zero answers. As folklore and fact twist together, Glastenbury begins to look less like wilderness… and more like a presence that chooses who gets to walk back out. CALL TO ACTION (Episode One)If this episode stayed with you, if Paula’s red coat still appears in your imagination like a beacon in the trees, follow, rate, and review The Devil Within. Your support keeps the darkness lit. Explore the Evio Creative slate: The Devil Within • Criminal Mischief • Taboo Treasures • The Devil’s Ledger • The Ides of April Visit eviocreative.com and follow us on Instagram: @thedevilwithinpod • @eviocreative • @idesofaprilpod • @taboo_treasures SPONSORS (Episode One) QUINCE — Luxury essentials without the luxury markup 👉 quince.com/IDES for free shipping & 365-day returns MINT MOBILE — Premium wireless for just $15/month 👉 mintmobile.com/DEVILWITHIN EXPRESSVPN — Protect your data everywhere 👉 expressvpn.com/DEVILWITHIN for up to four months free MOOD — Legal THC & CBD shipped nationwide 👉 mood.com/DEVILWITHIN for 20% off OLLIE — Human-grade dog food delivered to your door 👉 ollie.com/IDES for 60% off MONARCH MONEY — The modern way to manage your finances 👉 monarch.com/IDES for 50% off your first year 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 within.
0:16.5	This week we explore a story stitched into the darker seams of American folklore.
0:22.6	A disappearance wrapped in cold weather, strange witnesses, and a single flash of scarlet cloth
0:30.2	that still haunts the people who saw it.
0:33.8	They called it the red coat.
0:36.9	A detail too bright, too bold, too wrong for the quiet town it passed through.
0:44.3	A detail that shouldn't have mattered, and yet somehow it means everything.
0:51.3	So settle in, because however you think this story begins, it doesn't.
0:57.0	And however you think it ends, it won't.
1:02.0	There are places in America where the land behaves like a neighbor, always visible, always talkative, forever minding your business.
1:14.1	And then there's Glastonbury Mountain, which behaves more like an old house that never quite
1:20.7	accepted its occupants. It rises from the Vermont Hills without fanfare, a long, brooding shoulder of forest that has outlasted towns,
1:31.7	industries, even whole generations of people who tried to civilize it.
1:38.2	Locals treat it with an unsettling mixture of respect and avoidance.
1:43.6	And if you ask them why, they tend to answer in careful
1:48.0	half sentences, as though finishing the thought might wake something sleeping nearby. They say
1:56.3	Glastonbury listens. They say the wind changes its mind when it crosses those pines.
2:02.6	And they say the mountain has a long history of accepting things that were never returned.
2:09.6	The Abinacchi, thousands of years ago, had stories about it, quiet ones,
2:14.6	not the sort you carve into woodcuts or selling ranger stations.
2:18.3	Places where the air pressed close.
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