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5 min readOne evening in 2019, a 17-year-old girl from Utica, New York named Bianca Devens went to a concert with a 21-year-old man she had met online. After the show, along a roadside, he killed her with a knife. Then he took photos of her body and posted them to Instagram. Before the police had even arrived at the scene, Bianca Devens had already been reduced to an image file circulating across the internet. That story, told in the middle of this episode of As the Raven Dreams, is the darkest thread in a collection of eight true stories about rainy days, online encounters, and the ways digital and physical danger can bleed into each other.
The Missing Person Who Was Still Messaging
The episode opens with a story about a woman who joined a Discord server for a game during the pandemic. She became close friends with another user who went by a flower-themed screen name and said her name was Ashley. Over months of private chats, they shared personal details—both were young women interested in veterinary work, and Ashley said she lived in Kentucky. One night, Ashley sent an old photo of herself. Something about it looked off: it had the scan lines of a photo taken of a computer screen. The narrator reverse-image-searched it and found it linked to a missing persons report. The name and location matched: Ashley had been missing for eight years. When confronted, Ashley's account went s
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What you'll learn
- 1 (02:01) **The Missing Ashley** - A woman befriends someone online who shares a photo that turns out to be from a missing persons report
- 2 (15:03) **The Man in the Rain with a Dead Squirrel** - Two kids playing in the rain encounter a strange man who throws a dead squirrel at them
- 3 (25:10) **The Server Rack Pickup That Led to a Federal Investigation** - A former computer repair employee recounts how a routine server pickup spiraled into a dark web criminal case
- 4 (42:46) **The Girl with Clean Feet** - A teenager's mother refuses to help a stranded girl during a storm, sensing something is wrong
- 5 (53:40) **The Bianca Devens Case** - The story of a 17-year-old girl whose murder was broadcast online by her killer
- 6 (63:12) **The LimeWire Download That Wrecked the Family Computer** - A kid's attempt to download a movie leads to a malware infection that costs the family dearly
- 7 (73:28) **Followed Home from the Bus Stop** - A woman walking home in the rain realizes she's being followed and uses a fake phone call to deter her stalker
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Show Notes
Today, on the 231st episode of the As The Raven Dreams podcast, we have 8 True Chilling stories. These stories come from the shadowy corners of reality, where everyday life takes an eerie twist & ordinary people experience the extraordinary. Today we will be diving into the horror that is in the internet & Some scary things that happened in the Rain.
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2 ➤ 13:46
3 ➤ 23:53
4 ➤ 40:24
5 ➤ 51:36
6 ➤ 1:00:56
7 ➤ 1:11:11
8 ➤ 1:20:10
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