Stories Philippines Podcast - Pinoy Horror Stories

Good Friday in the Pampanga plains: the sun bakes the earth, the faithful line the dusty road, and for some the ritual of Penitencia becomes more than sacrifice — it becomes a doorway.In this episode, Arthur Benedict Salcedo, a grieving rice farmer whose brutal self-flagellation opens him to something that is not mercy; and Roberto “Bert” Santiago, a repeat crucifixion devotee whose public suffering is hijacked into a spectacle of condemnation. We trace how extreme pain, cultural expectation, and old Kapampangan spirits converge—creating a volatile mix where humility can curdle into pride and penance can invite a darker hunger.=======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 appThank you so much for your generosity! 🙏Connect with Us 📱Visit us on FacebookShare Your Stories 🎤Record and submit your narrated stories hereEpisode SponsorsNoota: The best transcription and AI Meeting Zoom alternative!Sign Up hereMoxie 🌟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-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In the suffocating dark of a remote convent, sanctity becomes a mask for something older and murderous. Inspired by The Nun, this episode traces how the image of a corrupted holy person—an upside-down symbol of trust—strikes a particularly deep chord in the Filipino imagination. From colonial priests and nuns who once held civic power, to tales of mangkukulam and tiyanak that twist the sacred into the profane, we map how historical betrayal and folklore sharpen the fear that a protector could become the predator.=======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 appThank you so much for your generosity! 🙏Connect with Us 📱Visit us on FacebookShare Your Stories 🎤Record and submit your narrated stories hereEpisode SponsorsNoota: The best transcription and AI Meeting Zoom alternative!Sign Up hereMoxie 🌟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-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Analiza Joy thought the worst rule she’d ever break was one her mother set. She was wrong. On a forbidden Good Friday night, a dance meant to steal back her freedom becomes a public reckoning—one that blurs the line between supernatural bargain and collective guilt. Meet Gabriel Andres: handsome, hypnotic, and impossibly cold. When the music stops, the town watches as Ana’s joy is traded for something far darker. This episode explores religious transgression, supernatural horror, and the terrifying power of consequence. 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 appThank you so much for your generosity! 🙏Connect with Us 📱Visit us on FacebookShare Your Stories 🎤Record and submit your narrated stories hereEpisode SponsorsNoota: The best transcription and AI Meeting Zoom alternative!Sign Up hereMoxie 🌟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-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The bell tolls—not for worship, but for despair. When a devout lay minister finds a lost newborn on a rainy night, a desperate act of mercy becomes a doorway to something older and darker. In a provincial town outside San Pablo, Laguna, Celso Rafael Diaz brings the foundling Elias into his home believing baptism will save the child’s soul. But the waters meant to cleanse instead reveal a monstrous truth: the Tiyanak — a demon baby born from an unbaptized soul — preys on faith, guilt, and the thin places between indigenous spirits and imposed dogma. Faith, ritual, and grief collide in a small house where a crucifix, holy water, and a father’s fear are all that stand between salvation and damnation.Tune in for a tense retelling that explores how ritual can both protect and betray, and how cultural anxieties shape the monsters we fear.If you have a story that chills you to the bone and should be shared, we are listening. Send your accounts of the paranormal, folklore, or dark history to storiesphpodcast@gmail.com — your tale could be a future episode.=======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 appThank you so much for your generosity! 🙏Connect with Us 📱Visit us on FacebookShare Your Stories 🎤Record and submit your narrated stories hereEpisode SponsorsNoota: The best transcription and AI Meeting Zoom alternative!Sign Up hereMoxie 🌟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-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The moon hung white and arrogant over the sleeping fields, the air tasting of decay and something metallic—like blood. At that hour, when the night swallows sound and the mind sharpens to every scrape and whisper, something that was once human tears itself in two to hunt. Imagine a silhouette under the moon: vast, leathery wings beating without sound, and below it—the lower half—left behind in the shadowed earth, waiting. The roof slaps with a wet, flapping sound. A long, hollow tongue unspools through the darkness, seeking the unborn.This episode of Stories Philippines goes deep into the terror of the Manananggal: the beautiful neighbor who becomes a self-severing, blood-drinking nightmare. We travel from provincial nipa huts to suburban terraces and moonlit pools, hearing firsthand accounts—roofs torn, garlic crushed, salt thrown, and old orasyons muttered aloud—to confront a creature that embodies cultural anxieties about pregnancy, purity, and the boundary between human and monster. Along the way we compare cousins of the beast across Southeast Asia, trace the lore’s colonial and religious overtones, and unpack the rituals and community responses that turned terror into survival.Warning: this episode contains scenes and themes that some listeners may find deeply unsettling. Listener discretion—and perhaps a well-placed clove of garlic—is advised.Submit your own stories to storiesPHpodcast@gmail.com. Want a deeper dive into regional Aswang variations and protective rituals? Become a patron for exclusive content and show notes.=======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 appThank you so much for your generosity! 🙏Connect with Us 📱Visit us on FacebookShare Your Stories 🎤Record and submit your narrated stories hereEpisode SponsorsNoota: The best transcription and AI Meeting Zoom alternative!Sign Up hereMoxie 🌟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-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The provincial night is a different kind of dark—oil-slick roads, abandoned streetlights, and the constant hum of a single-cylinder engine slicing through mountains that remember more than living names. Tonight’s episode follows the habal-habal: the overloaded motorcycle that links remote villages to the rest of the world—and sometimes, to the dead.From a pale face that appears in a side mirror to a vanished passenger whose chill remains on the seat, we collect true-feeling encounters that ask the same impossible question: what happens when the traveler is no longer the only thing on the road? Hear Aica’s rattle-down a mountain lane where a rider’s mirror reveals a hanged man; Jerry’s escape from a barrio feast that hid a darker appetite; Jay’s blurry selfies and a mirror that refuses to show him; and other tales where the Encanto, Aswang, and the dead blur the boundary between passage and peril.A warning: this episode contains scenes and themes some listeners may find deeply unsettling. Listener vigilance 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 appThank you so much for your generosity! 🙏Connect with Us 📱Visit us on FacebookShare Your Stories 🎤Record and submit your narrated stories hereEpisode SponsorsNoota: The best transcription and AI Meeting Zoom alternative!Sign Up hereMoxie 🌟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-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The old concrete halls of Diliman sleep by day and remember by night. When the jeepneys have gone and the acacia trees cast long shadows, the campus becomes a place where history, grief, and ambition take shape as whispering presences. In this episode: Jobert wakes from a nap to a dream that is not his—a phone snatched by a tall shadow, a warped campus, and a one-year-old child who runs beside him in silence toward a blinding white light. Waking to his aunt’s account of a mysterious child on the stairs, Jobert uncovers a family secret: two unborn siblings buried in the backyard. As he learns to honor them, the story opens into a wider tour of Diliman’s darker lore—the whispered jars in the Main Library, Marisa the theater ghost who returns for a perfect performance, the Vargas Museum’s quiet watchers, and the sorrowful girl who haunts the A.S. Steps in spectral flames.We explore how places steeped in pressure and history—like the University of the Philippines, Diliman—become vessels for lost potential: aborted dreams, sudden deaths, and the weight of a nation’s expectations. Psychological explanations meet Filipino spiritual beliefs: hypnagogic visions and pareidolia sit beside suffering souls and family rites, each offering a way to understand why some presences never leave. Listener caution: this episode deals with themes of loss, abortion, and trauma that some may find deeply 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 appThank you so much for your generosity! 🙏Connect with Us 📱Visit us on FacebookShare Your Stories 🎤Record and submit your narrated stories hereEpisode SponsorsNoota: The best transcription and AI Meeting Zoom alternative!Sign Up hereMoxie 🌟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-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Season 2 Premiere Episode. A darkness sits heavy over this episode — listener discretion advised.In the sun‑blasted rows of Hacienda Luisita, the sugarcane remembers. What sounds like the simple tale of harvest and hunger becomes something far bleaker: a modern massacre, a land soaked with blood, and the restless echo of farmers who refused to be erased. We trace the events of November 2004, the strike that met water cannons and gunfire, and follow the stories that came after — the voices in the cane at night, the phantom smell of burnt sugar, the apparitions re‑enacting a protest that never ended. This is part history, part folklore, and entirely a confrontation with injustice: when the powerful hold the land, what happens to those who lose it — in body and in memory?Through eyewitness accounts, local belief, and the idea of a landscape as a living archive, we ask: can the earth itself demand justice? The hauntings at Luisita are not cheap scares. They are living reminders of a wound left open — and they keep calling for reparation.=======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 appThank you so much for your generosity! 🙏Connect with Us 📱Visit us on FacebookShare Your Stories 🎤Record and submit your narrated stories hereEpisode SponsorsNoota: The best transcription and AI Meeting Zoom alternative!Sign Up hereMoxie 🌟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-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

On a hot April night, Noel and Veronica drive a quiet bypass until a sudden surge of speed over a bridge. Noel swears he saw someone standing at the bridge approach — maong pants, no slippers, no visible head — only for the figure to vanish when they pass. Later, a text shatters the last calm: “It was in the backseat. No head. It disappeared when I made the last turn into our street.”Join me, Paul, on Stories Philippines as we trace the country’s most chilling highway hauntings: vanishing hitchhikers, headless passengers, and the long-haul rituals drivers use to keep the road spirits at bay. We connect these encounters to history — from Spanish-era caminos reales and wartime violence to modern bypasses carved through ancestral land — and explore how geography, fatigue, and faith shape the eerie tales that keep drivers vigilant after dark. From Baguio’s misty mountain passes to Cavite’s revolutionary fields, learn why our roads feel less like routes and more like memorials where the past refuses to be left behind.If you’ve ever felt a presence in your rear-view mirror or caught a shadow that shouldn’t be there, send your story to storiesphpodcast@gmail.com — we read every submission.=======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 appThank you so much for your generosity! 🙏Connect with Us 📱Visit us on FacebookShare Your Stories 🎤Record and submit your narrated stories hereEpisode SponsorsNoota: The best transcription and AI Meeting Zoom alternative!Sign Up hereMoxie 🌟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-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

A darkness sits heavy in this episode. Listener caution is not just advised — it’s necessary.Tonight: the Kapre — the giant, cigar-smoking guardian of the balete and mango. Through childhood memory, eyewitness accounts, and the slow, painful loss of old trees, we trace how this towering spirit became both protector and avenger: a territorial force born from the islands’ ancient belief that the land itself is alive. From a ten-year-old’s stolen glance at a glowing ember in a mango tree, to phantom tobacco smoke that fills sealed rooms, to sleep paralysis and uncanny mimicry, these stories show the Kapre’s methods — smell, weight, and relentless patience — and what they mean when ancestral ground is ripped away for progress.You’ll hear accounts of offerings and rituals that defused obsession, possessions that point to a larger spiritual hierarchy, and small acts of deference that kept families safe. Whether you treat this as folklore, cultural psychology, or a literal warning from the earth, the message is the same: respect the old trees. Cut them down, and something very old may come live in your house.Find episode notes and options to support the show in the description. If you have your own experience with the uncanny — a smell that wasn’t there, a presence in the dark — send it to storiesphpodcast@gmail.com.=======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 appThank you so much for your generosity! 🙏Connect with Us 📱Visit us on FacebookShare Your Stories 🎤Record and submit your narrated stories hereEpisode SponsorsNoota: The best transcription and AI Meeting Zoom alternative!Sign Up hereMoxie 🌟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-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

A chill settles in the air—metal grates meet concrete dust, and the rhythm of a desperate heartbeat seems to hammer through cinderblock. This episode takes you inside Camp Bagong Diwa, New Spirit Camp: an annex built to contain the country’s most dangerous and politically charged detainees, where the state’s attempt to restore order on March 15, 2005, became a night of brutal finality.We reconstruct the siege in SICA: how a protest over conditions turned into hostage-taking, the arrival of tear gas and special forces, and the close‑quarters violence that left dozens dead. Beyond the official tally, survivors and witnesses spoke of something darker—reports of executions after the assault, the mop‑up that blurred the line between neutralizing a threat and cold retribution. In a place already steeped in political tension, those sudden, unjust deaths left more than bodies. They left a psychic residue of trauma: cold spots, whispered echoes, and the uneasy feeling of being watched—signs that in Filipino belief become multo, lost souls chained to a violent end.This is not folklore about manananggal or tikbalang. It’s a meditation on state power, collective trauma, and the moral cost when justice becomes vengeance. We explore the known facts, witness accounts, and the cultural weight that turns a prison into a haunted monument to human cruelty.Warning: this episode contains scenes and themes some listeners will find deeply unsettling. Listener discretion is required.I am Paul. You are listening to Stories Philippines.=======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 appThank you so much for your generosity! 🙏Connect with Us 📱Visit us on FacebookShare Your Stories 🎤Record and submit your narrated stories hereEpisode SponsorsNoota: The best transcription and AI Meeting Zoom alternative!Sign Up hereMoxie 🌟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-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

A chill settles in this episode — a quiet dread that traces the choices and hunger that can turn a person monstrous. In a modest home outside Roxas City, the comforting scent of coconut milk and lemongrass hides a metallic tang of something else. Analyn’s family seems whole until the return of a woman changed by distance, debt, and the strange bargains of the outside world. The legend of Maria Labo—an Aswang born of poverty, migration, and desperate hunger—unspools into a gutting tale of filicide, betrayal, and a wound across a cheek that won’t stop bleeding into memory.We trace the story from the green mountains of Panay to the global anxieties of OFW life, unpacking how folklore becomes a mirror for social trauma. This episode is as much a tragedy about survival and family as it is a horror story — vivid, unsettling, and not for the faint of heart. Listener discretion strongly advised.If you’ve got a local legend or a bone-chilling family tale, send it to storiesphpodcast@gmail.com. Find show notes and support options in the episode description.=======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 appThank you so much for your generosity! 🙏Connect with Us 📱Visit us on FacebookShare Your Stories 🎤Record and submit your narrated stories hereEpisode SponsorsNoota: The best transcription and AI Meeting Zoom alternative!Sign Up hereMoxie 🌟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-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Between wartime massacres, colonial betrayals, and the political compromises that built fortunes, the house has collected more than dust — it has gathered voices. As Marco peels back each layer, the home forces him to reckon with the sins that anchor it: a daughter executed in the name of survival, disappeared political rivals, and generations of violence that played out on the same patch of wall. Is this a haunting born of spirits… or of history refusing to be ignored?Trigger warning: this episode contains scenes and themes some listeners may find deeply unsettling. Listener discretion advised.Show notes and ways to support are in the description. If you’ve lived through a place that won’t forget, share your story with us.=======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 appThank you so much for your generosity! 🙏Connect with Us 📱Visit us on FacebookShare Your Stories 🎤Record and submit your narrated stories hereEpisode SponsorsNoota: The best transcription and AI Meeting Zoom alternative!Sign Up hereMoxie 🌟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-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Valentine’s Day, 2005. Three ordinary places — an LRT platform in Makati, a crowded public market in General Santos, and a provincial bus rolling toward Davao — become scenes of coordinated terror. In this episode of Stories Philippines, I tell the story of the Broken Heart Bomb: the carefully timed attacks that turned a day of love into a night of smoke, fire, and grief. We follow survivors whose lives were fractured in different ways — the commuter who never rode a train again, the market-goer who flinches at loud noises, the boyfriend whose roses were found blackened on the highway — and trace how a single act of human cruelty erodes trust, reshapes public life, and leaves a scar on a nation’s sense of safety.Trigger warning: contains descriptions of graphic injury, explosion, and traumatic aftermath. Listener vigilance is required.Find show notes and support options in the episode description. If you have a memory or personal story we should explore, submit it to storiesphpodcast@gmail.com.=======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 appThank you so much for your generosity! 🙏Connect with Us 📱Visit us on FacebookShare Your Stories 🎤Record and submit your narrated stories hereEpisode SponsorsNoota: The best transcription and AI Meeting Zoom alternative!Sign Up hereMoxie 🌟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-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

What sound haunts the quietest corners of a home? What tragedy gives birth not to an angel, but to a demon?This week on Stories Philippines: Jocelyn Roldan is twenty-two, hiding a secret in a tiny Santa Mesa apartment just days before Valentine’s Day. Sleep is shattered by a breathy, childlike whisper coming from the wall—a sound that calls, “Mama…” Is it a Tiyanak, the vengeful spirit of an unbaptized infant from Filipino folklore? Or is it something else: guilt made audible, an acoustic quirk, or a forgotten object dragging grief into the open?Join Paul as we trace the whispers from superstition to psychology and back again. We map the cultural pressures that birth legends, test a haunting with infrared cameras and EVP recorders, and reveal a heartbreaking, physical explanation hidden inside a wall: a brittle, moth-eaten baby doll. Was the terror born of a spirit, or of silence and shame given form? This episode follows grief, faith, and folklore into the space where compassion turns into danger—and asks whether the loudest monsters are the ones we make for ourselves.=======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 appThank you so much for your generosity! 🙏Connect with Us 📱Visit us on FacebookShare Your Stories 🎤Record and submit your narrated stories hereEpisode SponsorsNoota: The best transcription and AI Meeting Zoom alternative!Sign Up hereMoxie 🌟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-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Have you ever vanished so completely into a game that the real world stopped existing? The fluorescent hum, the click-clack of ten thousand plastic keys, the sour tang of instant noodles—these are the cathedral lights of the i-Café. In 2005 Manila, where jungles of glass and steel met streets choked by jeepneys, gamers worshipped at those glowing altars. Bennie “Bennie” Dizon was one of them: a quiet legend at Station Seven, mid–forty-hour grind, when the screen blacked for a heartbeat—and something else leaned in.Was it sleep-deprived hallucination or a restless dead man trying to finish his last turn? After a chill breath on his neck and a weight on his chair, Bennie’s hands moved with impossible skill. They won. He quit gaming the next day. The i-Cafés had become new haunted sites—magnetic for grief, obsession, and stories that blur folklore and neuroscience: kapre smoke turned into stale air, manananggal hunger into stolen turns, and legends of Proxy Players who piggyback on the living to finish a game.In this episode I tell the story of Bennie and the Digital Dwellers, explore the folklore roots and theological warnings, and lay out the psychological science behind dissociation, micro-sleeps, and trance states. Is this a ghost tale updated for the internet age—or a modern parable about what we give up when we prioritize the virtual over the living? Decide for yourself.Submit your own café encounters at StoriesPhilippines.com and tell us if the game ever tried to play you."The game is never over. It just moves to a different board."=======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 appThank you so much for your generosity! 🙏Connect with Us 📱Visit us on FacebookShare Your Stories 🎤Record and submit your narrated stories hereEpisode SponsorsNoota: The best transcription and AI Meeting Zoom alternative!Sign Up hereMoxie 🌟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-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Scratches on the Mother’s Womb — Aswang Night.In the dead of night in Iloilo, the scent of crushed jasmine and wet earth clung to a bamboo-walled hut. Clarissa, wracked with labor, hears a slow, deliberate scraping on the thatch above her — a sound too soft for wind, too deliberate for a cat. The old heelot mutters prayers, a rusted bolo gleams under the bed, and something with a long, hungry tongue circles the roof, drawn to the life inside her. By dawn a healthy baby girl cries in Clarissa’s arms — but later, a faint, threadlike scratch on the infant’s belly becomes the mark of a terror that never truly leaves.In this episode we unpack the legend behind that scraping: the Aswang. From the Manananggal’s night flight and vampiric proboscis to the deceiving tik-tik and the corpse-stealing wak-wak, we trace how this monstrous, shape-shifting figure embodies maternal fears, colonial stigmas against powerful women, and folk explanations for tragedy. We also explore possible real-world roots — genetic conditions, infrasound, and social control — and how the Aswang persisted and adapted into modern Filipino media and belief.Listen for: a tense, intimate birthroom scene, folklore analysis, historical context, psychological perspective on maternal anxiety, and the eerie cultural echoes that keep the Aswang alive in the Philippine imagination.=======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 appThank you so much for your generosity! 🙏Connect with Us 📱Visit us on FacebookShare Your Stories 🎤Record and submit your narrated stories hereEpisode SponsorsNoota: The best transcription and AI Meeting Zoom alternative!Sign Up hereMoxie 🌟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-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Victory Central Mall—bright, cool, and spotless—was the perfect Sunday refuge. In the early 2000s, malls became the new town plaza: cinemas, arcades, and food courts under one air-conditioned roof. But what if that gleaming world was only skin-deep? What if the price of progress sat coiled beneath your feet?In this episode, I tell the legend that swallowed a city’s fear whole: the Mall Serpent—half-man, half-python—said to live in a hidden lair under the food court, fed by the disappearances of young female employees. We follow the rumor from tabloid front pages and hushed food-court whispers to late-night investigations, explore its roots in Bakunawa and Nāga myths, and unpack why a story like this lodged itself in Manila’s imagination. Is it monstrous folklore reborn, collective anxiety about capitalism, or a human tragedy that became myth?=======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 appThank you so much for your generosity! 🙏Connect with Us 📱Visit us on FacebookShare Your Stories 🎤Record and submit your narrated stories hereEpisode SponsorsNoota: The best transcription and AI Meeting Zoom alternative!Sign Up hereMoxie 🌟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-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Palace sits heavy with history — and maybe something more. Tonight on Stories Philippines, we pull up a chair to Malacañang: a house of colonial beginnings, opulent banquets, whispered late-night councils, and the endless cycle of power that left wounds no architecture could hide. From the Empty Chair in the Ceremonial Hall to a Weeping Lady on the river-facing balcony, from Tikbalang-like hoofbeats along the old walls to EMF spikes in the Presidential Study, this episode asks: when the weight of history becomes unbearable, do its ghosts stay behind the curtains of power?Join me, Paul, as we trace the Palace’s passages — its colonial origins, the scandals and sorrow of modern administrations, the staff who witnessed strange phenomena, and the folklore and theology that give those phenomena meaning. We’ll weigh scientific explanations like infrasound and suggestion against cultural beliefs about pamana, spiritual debt, and communal sin. Is the Empty Chair proof of unfinished business, a moral indictment, or simply the echo of a nation’s conscience?Send us your own eerie Philippine stories at StoriesPhilippines.com — your submission might become the next episode.=======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 appThank you so much for your generosity! 🙏Connect with Us 📱Visit us on FacebookShare Your Stories 🎤Record and submit your narrated stories hereEpisode SponsorsNoota: The best transcription and AI Meeting Zoom alternative!Sign Up hereMoxie 🌟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-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Night falls, the city hums, and the meters keep ticking. In our premiere episode we drive through Metro Manila’s nocturnal pulse to retell one of the capital’s most enduring urban legends: the White Lady of Balete Drive. Hear how the rise of late-night traffic and the growing culture of night-shift workers shaped cautionary tales told to taxi drivers and lone commuters. We’ll unpack the symbolism of the balete tree as a spirit dwelling in Filipino folklore, tie the sightings to social anxieties about the city at night, and walk the thin line between superstition and lived experience. Tune in for a short, eerie ride that blends folklore, cultural context, and the kind of stories that keep you looking in the rearview. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/storiesph/exclusive-content Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy