Stories with Sapphire

Hosted BySapphire Sandalo

Join host Sapphire Sandalo (Something Scary, Paranormal Caught On Camera), a Filipino American on a mission to add more empathy and diversity to the paranormal community through stories, interviews, and poems. To share your story, ask for paranormal advice, or share interesting news, send an email to StoriesWithSapphire@gmail.com | http://www.storieswithsapphire.com

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Creepier Than Fiction, with Kwento Comics

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For the final episode of 2022, I met with some of the Kwento Comics team (the first all-women, all-Asian comic book company highlighting Filipino and Asian mythology through the medium of graphic novels) as they shared some of their unsettling…

Light Among Shadows, with Ivotres Littles

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The paranormal isn’t always creepy ghosts or malicious demons. If you move past fear you can experience some of the most profound and beautiful moments imaginable. First, I speak with Ivotres Littles, a woman who found healing through horror movies….

Alternate Realities and Lucid Dreaming

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Do you believe that when we dream, we are accessing alternate realities? Do you believe it’s possible to temporarily travel to the past or future? Your sense of reality might be changed after this week’s episode. First, I tell the tale of a woman who…

The Book My Father Left Me: A Campfire Tale

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This episode contains mentions of abuse, graphic descriptions of violence, and brief profanity. Two weeks ago, I had the honor of writing a show for a Halloween event at the beach where storytellers spun tales for an audience sitting around a bonfire….

What’s Become of Me?: Stories of Possessions

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Welcome to the 7th season of Stories With Sapphire! Last season ended with a pretty divisive episode on demonic possession, featuring exorcist trainer Adam Blai.  In today’s episode, I’ll be sharing more stories from people who have encountered…

Talking Possession with an Exorcist Trainer (Adam Blai)

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Welcome to the Season 6 finale! I will be going out of town for work – the next season of Stories With Sapphire will return in October. Do you have burning questions about demonic possession? In today’s episode, Adam Blai shares his fascinating…

The Mystery Woman on the Highway & The After-life Hotel, with Aura

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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…

The Unseen All Around Us

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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…

The Laman Lupa and The Entity Who Must Not Be Named, with Ian Sta. Maria

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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 the Unknowable

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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…

Stories For Change: The Horrors of the Marcos Regime

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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…

Something Is Mimicking Us

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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…

Your Spirit Animal is a Jackass (with Simon Moya-Smith)

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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…

The Little Children Have A Message

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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…

Introducing: Jim Harold’s Campfire

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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 Revisited: The Dreams That Changed My Life

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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…

Answering Your Listener Mail!

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At the end of every season, I like to answer your emails! Thank you to everyone who sent in a question. Thank you to this week’s sponsors! Current
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Miracles, with Rannie AuGoGo

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Welcome to the final episode of Season 5. There will still be bonus episodes while the show is on a brief break. In this episode, medium and priestess Rannie AuGoGo recounts how she was initiated into this work through possession, and the many…

Why Are You Still Here? with Megan Goetz (Real Chills Podcast)

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What causes some spirits to stay behind while others peacefully move on?  In this episode, we will hear stories of entities that are stuck on earth, by choice or not, and learn how to manage them. First, I narrate a story from someone who was haunted…

Orbs Caught On Camera, with Joycie Dungca Weatherby

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When I was on a show called Paranormal Caught On Camera, we reacted to a lot of internet videos claiming to have captured paranormal activity, and a lot of those videos were of orbs (small balls of light believed to be spirits). But orb photography is…