The Vanishing Musician of Memphis

A man was working with the devil, and the recordings he left behind still terrify investigators

today. During the late 1950s, in Memphis, Tennessee,

there lived an unknown musician named Lucian DeVille. He played outside diners and half-empty

bars. Nobody listened. He wasn't talented. He wasn't charismatic. and he wasn't going

anywhere. But in 1958, everything changed. Lucian released a song called "Midnight

Promise." It spread through Memphis overnight. Jukeboxes replayed it nonstop.

Listeners said the melody felt "magnetic," as if something inside the song was pulling them

back. Lucian's career exploded instantly. Too instantly. By 1962,