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Stories Philippines Podcast is The Original, longest running and the Very First Filipino Horror Podcast. Truth is far more scarier. Journey into the deepest shadows of the archipelago to confront the terrifying truths behind the legends. We are your definitive source for Filipino folklore, meticulously blending spine-tingling narrative with deep cultural context and dark historical insight. From the whispering haunts of colonial streets to modern encounters with the Aswang and Tiyanak, we explore the psychological and historical roots of the darkness that defines the islands. Sometimes, the truth is even more terrifying than horror stories. RSSVERIFY Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. S87 E1: The Gold of the Serpent

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    S87 E1: The Gold of the Serpent

    The Ultimate Destructive Force Fueled by Insatiable GreedBut this isn’t just a tale of a jealous monster; it’s a chilling metaphor for corruption itself. The Bakunawa embodies the kind of greed that doesn’t stop at possession—it destroys. It consumes beauty, hope, and light until all that’s left is an empty void. Think about it: greed is never satisfied. It claws deeper into your soul, twisting your very nature until you become unrecognizable—a beast driven by hunger for more, no matter the cost. The Bakunawa’s endless appetite for moons becomes a terrifying symbol of how unchecked desire can corrupt everything pure. Every swallowed moon darkens not just the sky but the spirit of those who witness its horror. The serpent’s envy is a mirror to our own destructive impulses—the shadow lurking beneath ambition and desire. It screams a warning: when greed rules, beauty dies. Why This Story Still MattersWe live in a world where greed often masks itself behind ambition and progress. The Bakunawa’s tale is more than superstition; it’s a stark reminder of what happens when envy consumes us. It whispers from the depths that unchecked desire doesn’t just take—it annihilates. The seven moons are like the precious things in life we must protect—our values, our kindness, our light. And if we let greed rule unchecked? We become monsters in our own right, devouring what makes us human. So next time you look up at the night sky, remember the Bakunawa lurking in the shadows—hungry, jealous, and waiting to swallow what we hold dear. DISCLAIMER 📢This episode might be ad-supported. You can support us by subscribing for as little as $5 a month on our Patreon page or through Apple Podcast Subscriber-Only Audio. 🎉 Subscription Benefits 🌟Ad-free weekly podcastExclusive podcast promosEarly access to select episodes👉 Check our Patreon 👉 Or subscribe using the Apple Podcasts app Thank you so much for your generosity! 🙏 Connect with Us 📱Visit us on Facebook Episode SponsorsNoota: The best transcription and AI Meeting Zoom alternative! Sign Up here Moxie 🌟 The Moxie app is designed specifically for freelancers and small business owners. It offers tools for: Invoicing: Create professional invoices.Client Relationship Management (CRM): Manage client info and communication.Project Management: Organize tasks and files.Expenses: Keep track of business expenses.Proposals and Contracts: Craft and manage them easily.Time Tracking: Efficiently manage your time.Streamline your freelance workflow with Moxie! 😊 Learn more about Moxie 🎧 Transform Your Audio into Content Magic! 🎤Join our community of creators and enhance your Castmagic experience with custom Presets and Community Prompts. 🚀 🔥 Why You'll Love It: Instantly turn audio into engaging contentAccess Featured Community Prompts 🌟Enhance your workflow with tailored solutions🔗 Ready to Revolutionize Your Content? Sign up now and start creating magic today! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    35 min

  2. 12/22/2025

    S86 E12: The Midnight Mass Curse

    A child’s voice—small, crystalline—sings a Christmas carol from an empty bell tower after midnight mass: too fast, too high, always the same hymn. Then follows a wet, heavy slapping across the cobblestones, the smell of old incense and something metallic clinging to the night. In this episode, we trace how the nine nights of Simbang Gabi—devotion, tradition, and communal hope—can also become the stage for a darker bargain: the Sacred Betrayal, where perfect faith, once broken, turns into a curse. Listen as I, Paul, weave together chilling folklore, personal tragedy, and historical memory—from Marco’s failed nine-day vow and the vanished spirit of his sister, to Clarissa’s wartime moral compromise and the eerie signs left on a family’s farm. We explore how pre-colonial spirits, colonial theology, and modern fear collide, creating stories where compassion, weariness, or one careless sound can open the door to something hungry in the shadows. This episode contains themes and scenes that may be deeply unsettling. Listener discretion advised. ======= DISCLAIMER 📢This episode might be ad-supported. You can support us by subscribing for as little as $5 a month on our Patreon page or through Apple Podcast Subscriber-Only Audio. 🎉 Subscription Benefits 🌟Ad-free weekly podcastExclusive podcast promosEarly access to select episodes👉 Check our Patreon 👉 Or subscribe using the Apple Podcasts app Thank you so much for your generosity! 🙏 Connect with Us 📱Visit us on Facebook Share Your Stories 🎤Record and submit your narrated stories here Episode SponsorsNoota: The best transcription and AI Meeting Zoom alternative! Sign Up here Moxie 🌟 The Moxie app is designed specifically for freelancers and small business owners. It offers tools for: Invoicing: Create professional invoices.Client Relationship Management (CRM): Manage client info and communication.Project Management: Organize tasks and files.Expenses: Keep track of business expenses.Proposals and Contracts: Craft and manage them easily.Time Tracking: Efficiently manage your time.Streamline your freelance workflow with Moxie! 😊 Learn more about Moxie 🎧 Transform Your Audio into Content Magic! 🎤Join our community of creators and enhance your Castmagic experience with custom Presets and Community Prompts. 🚀 🔥 Why You'll Love It: Instantly turn audio into engaging contentAccess Featured Community Prompts 🌟Enhance your workflow with tailored solutions🔗 Ready to Revolutionize Your Content? Sign up now and start creating magic today! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/storiesph/exclusive-content Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    24 min

  3. 12/15/2025

    S86 E11: The Final Judgment

    Warning: This broadcast delves into the harrowing realms of spiritual conflict and dark history. Listener caution is strongly suggested — themes may unsettle sensitive ears. What does it take to stare into true malice and not flinch? Is it faith, or a courage born of having nothing left to lose? Tonight, we open the archive on a silent war fought for souls. From the global shock of The Exorcist to a secluded convent by the Philippine shore, we trace the long, brutal history of exorcism and the uneasy meeting of Catholic ritual with local folk beliefs. Hear the case of “Celestine,” a young Visayan woman whose slow descent into torment pushed her family from an albularyo’s bulong to a formal Catholic rite. We follow Father Virgilio into weeks of prayer, Latin invocations, terrifying revelations, and a final, bone-deep confrontation that left survivors changed forever. Along the way we ask the hard questions: when should suffering be read as pathology, and when as spiritual assault? How have centuries of religious power, hysteria, and folklore shaped what we call possession? If the unseen has ever touched your life, share it with us — we honor anonymity and courage. Tune in for history, theology, folklore, and one nightmarish exorcism that brings the battle close to home. ======= DISCLAIMER 📢This episode might be ad-supported. You can support us by subscribing for as little as $5 a month on our Patreon page or through Apple Podcast Subscriber-Only Audio. 🎉 Subscription Benefits 🌟Ad-free weekly podcastExclusive podcast promosEarly access to select episodes👉 Check our Patreon 👉 Or subscribe using the Apple Podcasts app Thank you so much for your generosity! 🙏 Connect with Us 📱Visit us on Facebook Share Your Stories 🎤Record and submit your narrated stories here Episode SponsorsNoota: The best transcription and AI Meeting Zoom alternative! Sign Up here Moxie 🌟 The Moxie app is designed specifically for freelancers and small business owners. It offers tools for: Invoicing: Create professional invoices.Client Relationship Management (CRM): Manage client info and communication.Project Management: Organize tasks and files.Expenses: Keep track of business expenses.Proposals and Contracts: Craft and manage them easily.Time Tracking: Efficiently manage your time.Streamline your freelance workflow with Moxie! 😊 Learn more about Moxie 🎧 Transform Your Audio into Content Magic! 🎤Join our community of creators and enhance your Castmagic experience with custom Presets and Community Prompts. 🚀 🔥 Why You'll Love It: Instantly turn audio into engaging contentAccess Featured Community Prompts 🌟Enhance your workflow with tailored solutions🔗 Ready to Revolutionize Your Content? Sign up now and start creating magic today! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/storiesph/exclusive-content Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    18 min

  4. 12/08/2025

    S86 E10: The Christmas Cannibal

    A darkness falls on Noche Buena in a small barrio of Santa Cruz. It’s December 24, 1985—ham and halo-halo should fill the night, but the air carries a metallic tang and the bamboo chimes are eerily still. Lola Corazon stirs a pot of chocolate while her grandson Jomar fights to sleep, haunted by the old stories: the Aswang, a shapeshifting ghoul drawn to the most vulnerable. As fiesta lights brighten the streets, the monster that feeds on unborn life and stolen livers moves closer, hiding in plain sight at the banquet, slipping in among relatives and neighbors. This episode traces the Aswang’s terror across time and place—from Capiz and Iloilo’s cane fields and the hill sitios of Samar to a cramped Sampaloc apartment in Manila—showing how folklore, colonial history, and modern anxieties fuse into a single, chilling legend: the Christmas Cannibal. Through scenes of flickering lamplight, terrified mothers, and the unsettling inversion of a feast into a trap, we ask: what if the brightest night is the most dangerous? Trigger warning: this episode contains scenes and themes some listeners may find deeply unsettling. Listener discretion advised. If you have an unnerving memory or a true encounter, share it with us at storiesphpodcast@gmail.com. Follow Stories Philippines for daily folklore facts and updates. ======= DISCLAIMER 📢This episode might be ad-supported. You can support us by subscribing for as little as $5 a month on our Patreon page or through Apple Podcast Subscriber-Only Audio. 🎉 Subscription Benefits 🌟Ad-free weekly podcastExclusive podcast promosEarly access to select episodes👉 Check our Patreon 👉 Or subscribe using the Apple Podcasts app Thank you so much for your generosity! 🙏 Connect with Us 📱Visit us on Facebook Share Your Stories 🎤Record and submit your narrated stories here Episode SponsorsNoota: The best transcription and AI Meeting Zoom alternative! Sign Up here Moxie 🌟 The Moxie app is designed specifically for freelancers and small business owners. It offers tools for: Invoicing: Create professional invoices.Client Relationship Management (CRM): Manage client info and communication.Project Management: Organize tasks and files.Expenses: Keep track of business expenses.Proposals and Contracts: Craft and manage them easily.Time Tracking: Efficiently manage your time.Streamline your freelance workflow with Moxie! 😊 Learn more about Moxie 🎧 Transform Your Audio into Content Magic! 🎤Join our community of creators and enhance your Castmagic experience with custom Presets and Community Prompts. 🚀 🔥 Why You'll Love It: Instantly turn audio into engaging contentAccess Featured Community Prompts 🌟Enhance your workflow with tailored solutions🔗 Ready to Revolutionize Your Content? Sign up now and start creating magic today! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/storiesph/exclusive-content Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    21 min

  5. 12/01/2025

    S86 E9: The Altar of Betrayal

    The flicker of a lone bulb, the cold breath of an empty rectory, and a priest whose gift for sermon hid a hunger for wealth—this week on Stories Philippines we travel to San Pedro, Quezon, where faith and avarice collided at the foot of Mount Banahaw. From Father Leandro’s slow slide into corruption and the missing parish funds, to a brutal death and the lingering sense of greed that seems to replay itself within the stone walls, this episode probes a terrifying question: can a soul corrupted by betrayal become its own eternal punishment — or did something darker answer that call from the mountain? Hear eyewitness accounts, recordings of unexplained sounds, EMF spikes, and the bone-deep cold reported by priests and parish workers who dared to return. We examine local folklore about the Sumpa, parallels to global cases of residual hauntings and simony, and the theological weight of broken vows. Proceed with caution—this episode contains themes of spiritual betrayal and paranormal horror that may be unsettling. ======= DISCLAIMER 📢This episode might be ad-supported. You can support us by subscribing for as little as $5 a month on our Patreon page or through Apple Podcast Subscriber-Only Audio. 🎉 Subscription Benefits 🌟Ad-free weekly podcastExclusive podcast promosEarly access to select episodes👉 Check our Patreon 👉 Or subscribe using the Apple Podcasts app Thank you so much for your generosity! 🙏 Connect with Us 📱Visit us on Facebook Share Your Stories 🎤Record and submit your narrated stories here Episode SponsorsNoota: The best transcription and AI Meeting Zoom alternative! Sign Up here Moxie 🌟 The Moxie app is designed specifically for freelancers and small business owners. It offers tools for: Invoicing: Create professional invoices.Client Relationship Management (CRM): Manage client info and communication.Project Management: Organize tasks and files.Expenses: Keep track of business expenses.Proposals and Contracts: Craft and manage them easily.Time Tracking: Efficiently manage your time.Streamline your freelance workflow with Moxie! 😊 Learn more about Moxie 🎧 Transform Your Audio into Content Magic! 🎤Join our community of creators and enhance your Castmagic experience with custom Presets and Community Prompts. 🚀 🔥 Why You'll Love It: Instantly turn audio into engaging contentAccess Featured Community Prompts 🌟Enhance your workflow with tailored solutions🔗 Ready to Revolutionize Your Content? Sign up now and start creating magic today! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/storiesph/exclusive-content Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    17 min

  6. 11/24/2025

    S86 E8: The Priest’s Head

    Proceed with caution, dear listener — the shadows we explore today are deep and unsettling. This episode contains mature themes and graphic descriptions. Listener prudence is strongly encouraged. In this episode of Stories Philippines Podcast, I tell the legend of the Headless Priest of Fort Santiago: a fictionalized composite of Father Rafael De La Vega, a Jesuit accused of aiding the resistance during the brutal 1945 battle for Intramuros. Dragged into the dungeons of Fort Santiago, tortured, and executed in a single, devastating strike, his violent end is said to have ripped his soul from rest. Decades later, night watchmen and guides still report a robed, headless apparition wandering the cold stone corridors — searching, keening, and forever tethered to the place of its betrayal. We weave three threads together: the historical horrors of Fort Santiago, eyewitness accounts from the 1980s and 2000s, and paranormal investigations that captured eerie EMF spikes and a whispered “Padre… cabeza.” Along the way we consider folklore, theology, and psychology — from Filipino concepts of lost souls to theories like the “stone tape” and pareidolia — asking whether this is a trapped martyr, an energetic imprint, or a communal memory given form by trauma. If you like history soaked in shadow and folklore that chills the spine, this episode walks you through damp dungeons, echoing courtyards, and the weight of an unresolved past. ======= DISCLAIMER 📢This episode might be ad-supported. You can support us by subscribing for as little as $5 a month on our Patreon page or through Apple Podcast Subscriber-Only Audio. 🎉 Subscription Benefits 🌟Ad-free weekly podcastExclusive podcast promosEarly access to select episodes👉 Check our Patreon 👉 Or subscribe using the Apple Podcasts app Thank you so much for your generosity! 🙏 Connect with Us 📱Visit us on Facebook Share Your Stories 🎤Record and submit your narrated stories here Episode SponsorsNoota: The best transcription and AI Meeting Zoom alternative! Sign Up here Moxie 🌟 The Moxie app is designed specifically for freelancers and small business owners. It offers tools for: Invoicing: Create professional invoices.Client Relationship Management (CRM): Manage client info and communication.Project Management: Organize tasks and files.Expenses: Keep track of business expenses.Proposals and Contracts: Craft and manage them easily.Time Tracking: Efficiently manage your time.Streamline your freelance workflow with Moxie! 😊 Learn more about Moxie 🎧 Transform Your Audio into Content Magic! 🎤Join our community of creators and enhance your Castmagic experience with custom Presets and Community Prompts. 🚀 🔥 Why You'll Love It: Instantly turn audio into engaging contentAccess Featured Community Prompts 🌟Enhance your workflow with tailored solutions🔗 Ready to Revolutionize Your Content? Sign up now and start creating magic today! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/storiesph/exclusive-content Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    20 min

  7. 11/17/2025

    S86 E7: The Unforgivable Sin

    Warning: this episode contains intense descriptions of psychological distress and themes of eternal guilt. Listener care advised. A cold, manufactured chill in a Manila detention center waiting room can’t match the ice that forms around a soul that knows it has done the unforgivable. In this episode, Paul reads the true-crime folktale of Ernesto San Gabriel — a reckless young driver whose one terrible night in 1968 destroyed a fisherman’s family and set in motion two decades of quiet ruin. Through the notes of a legal researcher named Nila, we trace Ernesto’s slow unraveling: haunted houses that echo the sound of a fishing boat, a string of tragic accidents, heartbreak across generations, and a cultural verdict called Gaba — a moral consequence that slowly corrodes fortune and sanity. We explore cultural, psychological, and theological angles: how Gaba functions as communal justice where law fails, how chronic guilt can produce psychosomatic torment, and whether true punishment can be a lifetime of self-inflicted penance. This is a story about memory, retribution, and the human capacity to become one’s own jailer. If you have a similar story — an unexplained turn of fortune or a haunting tied to past wrongs — send it to storiesphpodcast@gmail.com and let your truth be heard. ======= DISCLAIMER 📢This episode might be ad-supported. You can support us by subscribing for as little as $5 a month on our Patreon page or through Apple Podcast Subscriber-Only Audio. 🎉 Subscription Benefits 🌟Ad-free weekly podcastExclusive podcast promosEarly access to select episodes👉 Check our Patreon 👉 Or subscribe using the Apple Podcasts app Thank you so much for your generosity! 🙏 Connect with Us 📱Visit us on Facebook Share Your Stories 🎤Record and submit your narrated stories here Episode SponsorsNoota: The best transcription and AI Meeting Zoom alternative! Sign Up here Moxie 🌟 The Moxie app is designed specifically for freelancers and small business owners. It offers tools for: Invoicing: Create professional invoices.Client Relationship Management (CRM): Manage client info and communication.Project Management: Organize tasks and files.Expenses: Keep track of business expenses.Proposals and Contracts: Craft and manage them easily.Time Tracking: Efficiently manage your time.Streamline your freelance workflow with Moxie! 😊 Learn more about Moxie 🎧 Transform Your Audio into Content Magic! 🎤Join our community of creators and enhance your Castmagic experience with custom Presets and Community Prompts. 🚀 🔥 Why You'll Love It: Instantly turn audio into engaging contentAccess Featured Community Prompts 🌟Enhance your workflow with tailored solutions🔗 Ready to Revolutionize Your Content? Sign up now and start creating magic today! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/storiesph/exclusive-content Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    19 min

  8. 11/10/2025

    S86 E6: The Ghost of the Confessional

    The air inside a confessional sometimes holds more than prayer. In this episode, I take you into the dark, cedar-lined booth where whispered sins were meant to disappear — but some never did. From a terrified student who heard a single, damning whisper of “Unforgiven,” to an amateur investigator’s late-night EMF spike and a camera that caught a voice that simply ordered, “Get out,” we trace how guilt, history, and faith collide inside an old Philippine church. We explore: The haunted confessional as a folkloric and psychological phenomenon in the Philippines — Spanish-era Catholicism layered over animist beliefs.Firsthand accounts: Celeste’s whisper, Danilo’s recording, and Julian’s camera footage.Possible explanations: stone-tape theory, collective trauma, priestly psychological burden, and theological views on sin, absolution, and demonic deception.The idea of a spiritual protector that can push back against the darkness — and whether sacred places can truly become vessels of despair.If you’ve ever wondered what happens when a place of mercy becomes the keeper of the worst of human secrets, this episode peels back the veil. Send us your own church‑or shrine‑based encounters — we’re listening. ======= DISCLAIMER 📢This episode might be ad-supported. You can support us by subscribing for as little as $5 a month on our Patreon page or through Apple Podcast Subscriber-Only Audio. 🎉 Subscription Benefits 🌟Ad-free weekly podcastExclusive podcast promosEarly access to select episodes👉 Check our Patreon 👉 Or subscribe using the Apple Podcasts app Thank you so much for your generosity! 🙏 Connect with Us 📱Visit us on Facebook Share Your Stories 🎤Record and submit your narrated stories here Episode SponsorsNoota: The best transcription and AI Meeting Zoom alternative! Sign Up here Moxie 🌟 The Moxie app is designed specifically for freelancers and small business owners. It offers tools for: Invoicing: Create professional invoices.Client Relationship Management (CRM): Manage client info and communication.Project Management: Organize tasks and files.Expenses: Keep track of business expenses.Proposals and Contracts: Craft and manage them easily.Time Tracking: Efficiently manage your time.Streamline your freelance workflow with Moxie! 😊 Learn more about Moxie 🎧 Transform Your Audio into Content Magic! 🎤Join our community of creators and enhance your Castmagic experience with custom Presets and Community Prompts. 🚀 🔥 Why You'll Love It: Instantly turn audio into engaging contentAccess Featured Community Prompts 🌟Enhance your workflow with tailored solutions🔗 Ready to Revolutionize Your Content? Sign up now and start creating magic today! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/storiesph/exclusive-content Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Stories Philippines Podcast is The Original, longest running and the Very First Filipino Horror Podcast. Truth is far more scarier. Journey into the deepest shadows of the archipelago to confront the terrifying truths behind the legends. We are your definitive source for Filipino folklore, meticulously blending spine-tingling narrative with deep cultural context and dark historical insight. From the whispering haunts of colonial streets to modern encounters with the Aswang and Tiyanak, we explore the psychological and historical roots of the darkness that defines the islands. Sometimes, the truth is even more terrifying than horror stories. RSSVERIFY Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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