The following episode contains a story about suicide. In March of this year, I received an email from a woman named Aura, a fellow Filipino American. She claimed to have had countless paranormal experiences so she wrote out the titles and asked which…

I feel like we put a lot of emphasis on SEEING the paranormal: You need to see it to believe it… If you can’t capture it on camera, it’s not real. But that severely limits our understanding to one sense. Spirit shows itself to us in so many…

Ian Sta. Maria (author and Sr Concept Artist at LEGO) shares an absolutely wild story about his decades long run-in with creatures from Filipino folklore: the Laman Lupa, and an entity whose name we cannot repeat — because it will begin following Ian…

Knowing what happens before it happens is impossible. But then why does it happen so frequently? I receive so many emails from people who have their own wild moments of knowing something they couldn’t have known. I want to share them with you today so…

On May 25, 2022, BongBong Marcos was elected President of the Philippines. He is the son of Ferdinand Marcos Sr, who ran a brutal 20 year dictatorship. So in this bonus episode, Motzie Dapul (Hi Nay Podcast) briefly goes over the terrors of martial…

It’s hard to tell what’s real or not when it’s the middle of the night and you’re half asleep. But in the stories you’ll hear today, these people did not have the luxury of blaming it on a dream. Today’s episode is all about dopplegangers and people…

This episode contains stories about domestic violence, sexual assault, and genocide.  In this week’s episode, I speak with Simon Moya-Smith, Oglala Lakota and Chicano writer and journalist. He reached out to me with an interest in sharing an…

There is no shortage of ghost stories and horror movies with little kids, living or dead. And that’s what I wanted to explore in today’s episode. Why are little kids so creepy? First, I share a life-changing encounter I had while filming Ghost Town…

While Stories With Sapphire is still on hiatus, I’d like to share with you a compilation of the best stories from Jim Harold’s Campfire this past year, one of the OG paranormal podcasts! The stories are sometimes creepy, sometimes heartwarming, but…

Stories with Sapphire is still on a brief hiatus until the next season, and as I’m writing this script, so much has happened in the last few weeks. I’ve been on a very intense spiritual awakening of my own, and making this podcast has provided me with…