The Devil's Ledger - Week of March 9th

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We're back to the devil's ledger for the week of March 9th.

This is the weekly dispatch from across the Evio Universe,

where we catch you up on everything happening on the network,

and we occasionally ask the kind of questions

that make you realize that nobody's really in charge of anything.

Prime example, daylight savings time.

Really? Come on.

Are we really still doing this?

I'm so tired right now.

I almost forgot to record this episode.

I got out of bed this morning,

and I spent the first hour of the day wandering around the house,

trying to remember why every clock in the kitchen was wrong.

My kid was late to volleyball practice.

I mean, let's do better, government.

Although now I think about it,

who would even handle something like that?

Who would really handle ending daylight savings time?

It feels like something like the department of the interior would do.

We, doesn't it?

The department of the interior. What do they actually do?

Is it the land? Are they in charge of it?

The land? Is it the parks?

The clocks?

Is there someone in Washington somewhere with a big lever at his command

that just says sunlight?

I honestly have no idea.

Something with the farmers.

Anyway, before I fall down to federal bureaucracy rabbit home,

we all lose the will to live.

Let's start where we always start.

Creepiest thing I heard this week.

All right.

So.

Creepiest thing I heard this week.

It's called the shape in the courthouse

or sometimes the thermal camera incident.

So the story comes from a place built for order, for evidence, for certainty.

It's courthouse in Ohio.

And the building itself is more than a hundred years old.

The kind of structure with thick stone walls, long corridors.

In a history that isn't measured just in years, but in verdicts, arguments,

lives changed inside its courthouse.

Like most public buildings, it's equipped with overnight security monitoring.

This one includes thermal cameras to detect heat signatures after hours.

And that's where things become difficult to explain.

During a routine review of overnight footage,

security staff noticed movement inside one of the rooms.

On the thermal feed, a human shaped heat signature appeared near the center of the space.

The problem was simple.

The room was supposed to be empty.

No staff were working late.

No cleaning crews were scheduled.

No access had been logged.

All entry points were secured.

And yet, on the thermal display, there it was.

A shape roughly the size and outline of a human.

Warmer than the surrounding environment, distinct enough to register clearly on their system.

It remained visible for several seconds.

And then it faded.

It didn't walk away.

It faded.

Now, no corresponding figure appeared on standard video.

No door opened.

No alarm triggered.

There are possible explanations.

Thermal imaging systems can occasionally register false positives.

Variations in airflow.

Heating systems, you know, cycling on and off.

Or residual heat from earlier activity can sometimes create unusual patterns.

But what makes this case unsettling isn't just the image.

It's the context.

Employees working in the building over the years have reported footsteps in empty hallways.

Doors found open after being locked.

The persistent feeling, common and older institutional buildings that the space never fully empties even after everyone leaves.

Courthouses, after all, aren't quiet places, you know, emotionally.

There were people sometimes hear the worst news of their lives.

Where conflicts end.

Sometimes badly.

Where anger and grief, fear, desperation, linger long after the paperwork is filed.

And buildings, like people, can hold onto things.

Thermal cameras don't see ghosts.

They see heat.

Which raises a question known in that courthouse seems eager to answer.

If the room was empty, what was warm enough to leave a human shape behind?

Sometimes the creepiest evidence isn't a shadow or a story or a feeling.

Sometimes it's a machine designed to measure reality.

Quietly recording something that wasn't supposed to be there at all.

Now let's take a look at what's happening this week across the network.

This week on the devil within, we travel to Scotland and investigate one of the most ominous places in the entire United Kingdom.

Hermitage Castle.

Now, Hermitage Castle has a reputation.

And not the kind that brings in tourists looking for, you know, a nice castle selfie and a gift shop magnet.

For centuries, this fortress has been associated with demonic possession, violent hauntings, shadow figures,

and really enough verified paranormal encounters to make even experienced investigators take a step back and say,

you know what?

Maybe we'll just admire this one from the parking lot.

This is the castle that guards what historians call the bloodiest valley in Britain.

And if the accounts are even half true, Hermitage Castle might be one of the most paranormally active places in Europe.

So if you've ever wanted to visit a castle where people have reported demonic manifestations ghostly figures wandering the halls

and the occasional feeling that something, you know, unseen is watching you?

Well, maybe don't.

That's this week on the devil within.

Meanwhile, on the Isle of April, we conclude our series, Son of the Blade.

For more than 2,000 years, historians have been arguing about the untimely death of Alexander the Great.

One of the greatest military commanders in human history conquers most of the known world by age 32.

And then suddenly dies.

Poison, disease, political conspiracy, a slow fever brought on by exhaustion and war.

The truth is, we're never going to know.

But the final chapter of Son of the Blade explores the competing theories and the strange historical clues that continue to keep historians arguing centuries later.

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Over on criminal mischief.

We're proud to re-release episode 1 of The Shadow Girls.

For many listeners around the world.

This was the podcast that first introduced journalist Carolyn Asorio to a global audience.

But this isn't just a re-release for nostalgia.

There's a reason we're bringing this episode back.

And that reason will be revealed during the episode itself.

So if you've never heard The Shadow Girls or if you remember the impact it had when it first premiered.

Don't miss this one.

Taboo Treasures is dark for the week but the show will return soon with more strange, rare, and occasionally unsettling artifacts from history.

Unfinding me meanwhile comedian Josh Wolf is, as they say, here all week.

His daily podcast and journal Finding Me continues to explore his personal journey of self-discovery, creativity, family life, comedy, and the strange process of figuring out who we are while we're still in the middle of becoming it.

It's honest, it's funny, it's thoughtful, occasionally chaotic.

Which is exactly what life tends to be.

And finally, in the horror world this week we have a fascinating adaptation coming to streaming.

The long walk based on Stephen King's 1979 novel.

The premise is simple and terrifying.

In a dystopian version of the United States, 50 teenage boys are forced into a televised endurance competition.

The rules are brutally straightforward.

Each walker must maintain a pace of three miles per hour.

If they slow down, they receive a warning.

Three warnings and soldiers execute them.

The walk continues without stopping day and night until only one person remains alive.

One winner, 49 dead competitors.

It's psychological horror, dystopian thriller, in classic Stephen King, all rolled into one very unsettling concept.

That's the long walk coming to streaming this week.

And that's it for this week's Devil's Ledger.

Thanks for listening and we'll see you this week across the EVO universe.

Until then, stay safe out there.

The Devil's Ledger is an EVO production recorded live at Bel Air Studios in Los Angeles, California.

For The Devil's Ledger, I'm your writer and host, Brandon Morgan.

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