🎙️ 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.

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