126 episodes

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 that share a theme, with Sapphire's thoughtful commentary weaving them together. To share your story, send an email to story@storieswithsapphire.com | Support the show on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/storieswithsapphire

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    • Society & Culture
    • 4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

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 that share a theme, with Sapphire's thoughtful commentary weaving them together. To share your story, send an email to story@storieswithsapphire.com | Support the show on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/storieswithsapphire

    Explain Yourself: Stories of brief creepy encounters with unidentified figures and spirits

    Explain Yourself: Stories of brief creepy encounters with unidentified figures and spirits

    Back in 2011, my sister's friend took the strangest photo I've ever seen: an unidentified person appeared in the center, with no explanation. So for this week’s episode, I wanted to share true stories from real people who have also witnessed an unexplainable figure, in the hopes that we can find some answers together. Visit storieswithsapphire.com to see the photo.

    Ch 1 - The Cat Skull, submitted by Mew. I tell the tale of a dark figure staring into a young girl’s bedroom in Croatia.
    Ch 2 - The eternal footprints, with Martin Tracey. Martin shares the time he stayed in a cottage with mysterious reappearing footprints. www.martintracey.co.uk
    Ch 3 - The racing spirit, submitted by Katelyn. I read a story of a tall shape racing through a driveway.
    Ch 4 - The Millennium Biltmore, with Kasia and Abhi. I speak with my sister’s friends about their unexplainable time at the Millennium Biltmore hotel in Los Angeles. 

    • 37 min
    Stories Revisited: Favorite Guest Stories

    Stories Revisited: Favorite Guest Stories

    In this week's bonus episode, I compiled some of my favorite guest stories from the past 4 years.
    Ch 1 - How did we end up here? with Cory Choy. Originally aired July 2020
    Ch 2 - Dont mess with me, with Lyn Pacificar. Originally aired March 2020
    Ch 3 - The woman in the church, with Rachel Marr. Originally aired March 2021
    Ch 4 - The man with features crawling on his face, with Mark Alan Miller. Originally aired Feb 2020

    • 38 min
    Identity Theft: Stories of Shapeshifters and Trickster Entities

    Identity Theft: Stories of Shapeshifters and Trickster Entities

    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.
    So for this week’s episode, I wanted to share true stories from real people who have been targets of a spirit mimicking someone they knew, just to show you how common this phenomenon is. 
    First, I tell the tale of a community in St Lucia haunted by a mysterious wolf.
    Then, I narrate the account of a girl who thought she was being tucked into bed by her father.
    Next, I recall the times a kid witnessed an entity mimic the members of his family.
    And finally, I read the experience of a person who had a close call with shapeshifting creatures at camp.

    Ch 1: The Wolf, submitted by Kenzi

    Ch 2: Second Dad, submitted by Chloe

    Ch 3: It keeps imitating my family, submitted by Dan G

    Ch 4: The Tah-tah-kle-ahs, submitted by Squeam


    Submit your own stories to story@storieswithsapphire.com

    • 36 min
    Stories Revisited: The Intelligent Ball of Light in Joshua Tree, The Twentynine Palms Shadow Man

    Stories Revisited: The Intelligent Ball of Light in Joshua Tree, The Twentynine Palms Shadow Man

    A couple weeks ago I went to Twentynine Palms and had some really incredible paranormal experiences that you’ll hear about in the future. While I was out there I was reminded of a couple stories from a few years back. So while the show is still on a break, I wanted to share these stories again - as a reminder of just how freaky the desert is.First, my friend Arthur tells us of the intelligent beam of light he witnessed in Joshua Tree. Then, my cousin’s friend Raeha tells us of the crawling shadow man in Twentynine Palms. Since these are from older episodes the audio will be a little inconsistent, so my apologies. Ch 1 - Joshua Tree, with ArthurCh 2 - The Desert Shadow Man, with Raeha Keller

    • 30 min
    Small Tales & Emails: The Hand Trembler

    Small Tales & Emails: The Hand Trembler

    In this week's bonus episode, I read an email from Brenda Draper, a Navajo woman in Arizona who's had quite a journey. If you have any advice for Brenda, send it to storieswithsapphire@gmail.com. Regular episodes will be returning soon, thank you for your patience!

    • 30 min
    Small Tales & Emails: I also see Animal Auras, Updates from Ted

    Small Tales & Emails: I also see Animal Auras, Updates from Ted

    In this week’s minisode, I’ll be reading an email from someone who also sees Animal Auras like Aurora from S5 E4 "Creature Companions", and I have some interesting updates from Ted, who you may remember from S9 E2 "A Haunted Life". Regular episodes will be returning soon! If you'd like to submit an email or story, you can send it to storieswithsapphire@gmail.com 

    • 21 min

Customer Reviews

4.9 out of 5
1.4K Ratings

1.4K Ratings

Littleworldcunningly ,

By far my favorite paranormal podcast

Thank you, Sapphire, for bringing much needed diversity and thoughtfulness to the paranormal podcast world. What you’ve got here goes above and beyond other similar podcasts. 🖤✨

Carioca57 ,

I tried

I reallllly love the stories and Saphire is great, but the commercials are overkill and by the time we get through them I have forgotten what we were originally talking about. I get you need to be sponsored, but maybe having a subscription option to opt out of commercials?

The amoung us player ,

Almost nostalgic…

Personally, the depression I felt realizing Sapphire left the Something Scary podcast caused me to drift towards Snarled a little more, but recently I found this podcast starring Sapphire. It’s nice to hear your voice again, Auntie Sapphire. :)

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