Stories with Sapphire
Join host Sapphire Sandalo, a queer Filipino (Cebuano/Ilonggo) American occultist on a mission to add more empathy and diversity to the paranormal, supernatural, and horror communities through stories and interviews from the Philippines and around the world. Each episode includes true stories, with Sapphire's thoughtful commentary woven throughout. To share your story, send an email to story@storieswithsapphire.com | Support the show on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/storieswithsapphire "...It’s almost like the storytellers are in a therapy session, with Sapphire as their wise guide." -Lifehacker
Episodes
July 9, 2025 • 34 mins
Have you ever heard a mysterious bell while hiking? Or woken up in the middle of the night to your room filled with mysterious light? Have you ever time travelled in a dream? In today’s episode, you’ll hear true stories from real people who have.
If you have also experienced something unexplainable and would like to share it with the show, you can email it to story@storieswithsapphire.com
Ch 1 - The Mexican bell witch; submitted ...
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June 25, 2025 • 31 mins
Have you ever experienced a time slip? Or caught physical proof of a spirit? Have you ever lived among the dead without knowing it? Or ever had a deceased relative come back to say hello? In today’s episode, you’ll hear real stories from people who can say yes to all these questions.
And if you can also say yes and would like your story read on the show, you can send it in an email to story@storieswithsapphire.com
Ch 1 - The sil...
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June 11, 2025 • 35 mins
A hot topic right now is the ethics of AI generated images and audio. What these programs are able to mimic can be scarily accurate. But this type of trickery has been going on for a long time…by spirits. People all over the world have been reporting seeing or hearing family or friends in places they actually weren’t. Spirits have already been doing what we fear AI will do in the future.
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June 4, 2025 • 33 mins
In today’s episode, you’ll hear about a phantom face that shows up in a photo in Greece, an entity who likes to steal things, the spirit that appeared on a beach in Indonesia, and a person who believes they are the reincarnation of their great-grandmother.
If you have a real paranormal experience you’d like to share on the show, send it in an email to story@storieswithsapphire.com
Ch 1 - The face in the car; submitted by Mary ...
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May 28, 2025 • 31 mins
In today’s episode, you’ll hear about a group of college students who had to work a late night in a haunted building, and a young girl who befriended a nuisance in her home. If you’d like early access to ad-free versions of the podcast, you can join my patreon at patreon.com/storieswithsapphire
Ch 1 - The seventh stranger, submitted by Hiro
Ch 2 - The girl with no eyes, submitted by Hannah
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In today’s episode, you’ll hear about the girl who asks you to throw rocks at the devil with her down by the river, the crystal enthusiast who starts experiencing strange activity, the girl whose arm became injured out of nowhere, and the gift Lindsay Stanton received from her husband after he passed.
Ch 1 - Throw rocks at the devil, submitted by Bethany
Ch 2 - Something doesn't like my crystals, submitted by Pookie
Ch 3 - Spi...
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May 7, 2025 • 14 mins
Regular episodes of the show will be returning next week! But here is an update about my short film "BREEDER" that you may or may not have seen me post about before.
Thank you to Decentralized Pictures, Jed Shepherd, Eduardo Sanchez, and Roman Coppola!
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April 30, 2025 • 59 mins
In this week's bonus episode (recorded on April 3rd), the Paranormal Pinays (me, Lyn Pacificar, and Rannie AuGoGo) have a casual chat about some cool synchronicities that happened before our batok ceremony, the meanings behind our markings, our blood ritual, the accuracy of the horror movie Talk To Me, and as always we gush about how much we love and appreciate each other lol <3
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April 23, 2025 • 32 mins
In today's episode, you'll hear from Rob Gutro: author, medium, and retired NASA meteorologist. He had so much incredible and scientific insight about the spirit world, along with many amazing stories to share, I could've talked to him for hours. But for now, you’ll hear about how he interacts with the ghosts of historical places, the difference between a ghost and a spirit,
his theory on what demons are, and so much more.
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April 16, 2025 • 33 mins
In today’s episode, you’ll hear about the woman who was cursed by a jealous Vietnamese witch, a nursing student in a haunted hospital in the Philippines, and a cat who screamed for help.
Ch 1 - Vietnamese black magic, submitted by Viet
Ch 2 - The peeking spirit, submitted by Shane
Ch 3 - The talking cat, with Kat & Jethro of Box of Oddities https://www.boxofoddities.com
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April 9, 2025 • 33 mins
In this episode, you'll hear from Sadhu Dah, a world-traveling digital nomad and exorcist. While originally from the states, he now resides in Southeast Asia. You'll hear about the alien hand case in Russia, the very first possession that launched his work as an exorcist, the differences between spirit interaction in Western and Eastern cultures, and so much more.
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April 2, 2025 • 36 mins
Welcome to a brand new season! In today’s episode, you’ll hear about a haunted house in central California, a home in Australia inhabited by a ghost boy and an elongated shadow, and a restaurant in the Philippines populated by a family of entities.
Ch 1 - House of scaredy cats, submitted by Em
Ch 2 - The ghost boy and elongated shadow, submitted by Ella
Ch 3 - The family of entities, submitted by Bao
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March 28, 2025 • 30 secs
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March 26, 2025 • 55 mins
The show returns from break NEXT WEEK, so here is another bonus episode from the weekly Paranormal Pinays livestream that I do with Lyn Pacificar and Rannie Augogo, where we discuss the paranormal and supernatural from our perspectives as magickal Bisaya women.
This episode was filmed on National Love Your Pet Day, so we shared stories of our pets on the other side, and even how our pets help us magickally in this physical realm. ...
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March 19, 2025 • 55 mins
The show is still on a break. In the meantime, here is another edition of Paranormal Pinays, the weekly livestream that I do with Lyn Pacificar and Rannie AuGoGo, where we casually discuss everything paranormal and supernatural from our perspectives as magickal Bisaya women. This livestream was recorded back in November of last year after the election, and we thought it would be a good idea to talk about spiritual protection.
We d...
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March 12, 2025 • 58 mins
This episode is NOT censored, and brushes on topics like sexual abuse, so listener discretion is advised.
This week’s bonus episode is from a weekly livestream that I do with my friends Lyn Pacificar and Rannie Augogo. We call ourselves Paranormal Pinays, and we casually discuss the paranormal and supernatural from our perspectives as magickal Bisaya women.
This episode was recorded back on Halloween last year, and as usual we st...
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February 12, 2025 • 39 mins
LISTENER DISCRETION ADVISED. In this episode, I speak with the human witch Janelle Lassalle (and the demon Lilith) about her book based on her real life paranormal experiences, how demons helped medically diagnose what doctors could not, how Lucifer saved her from a Tinder date gone bad, what’s really behind the fear of demonic possession, and so much more.
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January 29, 2025 • 38 mins
In today’s episode, you’ll hear about the strange apparitions a teenager witnessed during an eclipse, a Latvian trickster spirit that’s become a family friend, a deceased father who said one last goodbye, and a description of what heaven might be like.
Ch 1 - Eclipse strangeness, submitted by Dylan
Ch 2 - Little Man from the Woods, submitted by Lennon
Ch 3 - It's going to be okay, submitted by Sofie
Ch 4 - I've seen heaven, submit...
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January 15, 2025 • 32 mins
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Ch 1 - The rosary, submitted by Anonymous. A grandpa provokes an entity in his home.
Ch 2 - The hitchhiker, submitted by Min. A girl witnesses a mysterious hitchhiker.
Ch 3 - The Chuppa night, submitted by Ely. A kid and their dad have a run in with a Dominican folkloric creature.
Ch 4 - My brother's double, submitted by Nicci. Somethi...
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January 1, 2025 • 43 mins
Rissa Miller is a ghost tour guide in Maryland and a tea leaf reader. She is a wonderful encyclopedia of knowledge and tales and today she tells us of the fiery entity that appears to her throughout her life, a ghost named Loretta that she frequently speaks with, the shapeshifting imp of Clark Alley, a bartender who developed a relationship with the resident ghost, and she demonstrates how she reads tea leaves.
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