The Vizconde massacre case was one of the true crime stories that defined the 1990s in the Philippines, leading to the trial of the century and spawning 3 movies years later. Several perpetrators were already sent to prison, yet the case is still unsolved to this day. Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic and sensitive nature of these stories. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/CrXoVcvuZLm / References: storiesafterdark.home.blog / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Send me a message: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

In 1995, two female overseas Filipino workers, Flor Contemplacion and Sarah Balabagan, were sentenced to death abroad for the crime of murder. Sarah managed to escape capital punishment but Flor, unfortunately, didn't. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/CrXi6BBu8CU / References: storiesafterdark.home.blog / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

The "anting-anting" is a talisman, amulet or charm often heard of in Filipino folklore and mythology, in tales where the wearer is granted supernatural powers, like in "The Anting-Anting of Captain Von Tollig," a short story by Sargent Kayme. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/Cp50COwhQPC / References: storiesafterdark.home.blog / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

The "anting-anting" is a talisman, amulet or charm often heard of in Filipino folklore and mythology, in tales where the wearer is granted supernatural powers, like in "Told at the Club," a short story by Sargent Kayme. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/CpNYPKsvhGh / References: storiesafterdark.home.blog / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

In 1986, socialite, TV host and movie star Elvira Manahan was brutally murdered in her Forbes Park residence by a man rumored to be her lover. Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic and sensitive nature of these stories. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/Co6MPMVv2n4 / References: storiesafterdark.home.blog / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

Award-winning Filipino writer and journalist Nick Joaquin published in 1961 a short story titled "The House on Zapote Street" which was based on a tragic true crime. Jessica, host of the true crime and mystery podcast The Asian Madness Podcast, lends her voice in this episode for the second of two parts of that story. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/CnPh1hMPzpX / References: storiesafterdark.home.blog / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com / The Asian Madness Podcast on Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/7bedUTS1LGjWMFu0HySMCa?si=2bbcead96cd44ea3

Award-winning Filipino writer and journalist Nick Joaquin published in 1961 a short story titled "The House on Zapote Street" which was based on a tragic true crime. Jessica, host of the true crime and mystery podcast The Asian Madness Podcast, lends her voice in this episode for the first of two parts of that story. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/CnPh1hMPzpX / References: storiesafterdark.home.blog / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com / The Asian Madness Podcast on Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/7bedUTS1LGjWMFu0HySMCa?si=2bbcead96cd44ea3

In 1966, a Filipino exchange nurse was one of 9 women inside a townhouse in Chicago where Richard Speck committed mass murder. Fortunately, she was able to escape and she would later testify in court, pointing to him as the culprit. Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic and sensitive nature of these stories. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/CmjDF-2PYP8 / References: storiesafterdark.home.blog / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

From 2017 to 2021, there were three stories of civilians being killed that were among the most shocking the country had ever seen, as they were committed by members of the Philippine National Police and two of them were even captured on video. Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic and sensitive nature of these stories. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/ClUeFKBh9Iv / References: storiesafterdark.home.blog / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

In 1992, a promotional scheme was launched by Pepsi in the Philippines promising a chance to win 1 million pesos, but an error in the mechanics proved to be fatal. Listener discretion is advised due to the sensitive nature of this story. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/CkynDGIB_fW / References: storiesafterdark.home.blog / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

This is a story from the No Sleep subreddit, written by Levi who goes by the Twitter handle @nineaetharia. Jessica, host of the true crime and mystery podcast The Asian Madness Podcast, lends her voice in this episode. Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic and sensitive nature of this story. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/CjBUDuFvJt6 / References: storiesafterdark.home.blog / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com / The Asian Madness Podcast on Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/7bedUTS1LGjWMFu0HySMCa?si=2bbcead96cd44ea3

On September 9, 1995, the usually quiet neighborhood of Panorama Ville in Sta. Rosa, Laguna was disturbed by the discovery of the entire Payumo family murdered inside their own home. Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic and sensitive nature of this story. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/CiUoQNDutdr / References: storiesafterdark.home.blog / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

Sometimes, it takes experiencing something yourself that cannot be explained by logic or science to make you consider believing in the supernatural, like in the two stories in this episode written by Reddit user Glenn (Glennn777) and published on the No Sleep subreddit. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/ChUO0DTJoAy / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

British national Steven Alston Davis was on vacation in Angeles, Pampanga when he met a young Filipino dancer named Evelyn Bohol. He immediately fell in love with her and rescued her from poverty, marrying her two years later, not knowing that she would later conspire to have him murdered. Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic and sensitive nature of this story. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/CgXCIq7PmWs / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

For almost a century since it was established in 1912, the Reserve Officers Training Corps or ROTC was mostly mandatory for male college students. It was the unfortunate murder of University of Santo Tomas sophomore Mark Welson Chua that led to the program ceasing to be a college requirement, all because he exposed the corruption and abuse within his university's ROTC unit. Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic and sensitive nature of this story. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/CfWvE4FPy0w / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

In 2017, a teenage student named Kian Delos Santos was found dead with gunshot wounds to the head in a dark alley in Caloocan, Metro Manila. The suspects, three police officers who were in Kian's neighborhood for an anti-drug operation, claimed the boy was a drug runner who had fought back against them, but evidence would later surface that this wasn't the case at all. Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic and sensitive nature of this story. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/CerDBpvPHMl / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

On February 4, 2006, around 30,000 Filipinos waited in line outside the ULTRA (PhilSports) Stadium in Pasig City, waiting for the gates to open for the staging of the first anniversary celebration of ABS-CBN's noontime variety TV show 𝘞𝘰𝘸𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘦. They thought huge cash prizes awaited them, but tragedy was what met them instead. Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic and sensitive nature of this story. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/Cdvj7FPJBGL / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

In 2017, University of Santo Tomas law school freshman Horacio "Atio" Castillo III joined the Aegis Juris fraternity and shortly died at the hands of his frat brothers during his initiation rites. Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic and sensitive nature of this story. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/CdGvDzzPY51 / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

In 1973, with martial law in effect in the country, 23-year old Communication Arts student and writer Liliosa Hilao died at the hands of the Philippine Constabulary. But as tragic as this was, she became a martyr, inspiring many other Filipinos to fight back against dictator Ferdinand Marcos' regime, eventually restoring democracy to the nation. Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic and sensitive nature of this story. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/CbVResOvA1G / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

In 1997, news of sisters Marijoy and Jacqueline Chiong’s disappearance in Cebu City sent shockwaves across the Philippines, but public sentiment against the suspects, dubbed the Chiong 7, had since wavered due to the unfair trial they received as well as the many other controversies around the case. Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic nature of this story. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/CaXX-L4vs1J / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

In 2002, a Filipino man named Victorino Chua went to the United Kingdom to work as a nurse for the elderly. Almost a decade later, he would poison more than 20 patients with insulin at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport, Greater Manchester. Listener discretion is advised to the graphic nature of this story. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/CY418RnBLRo / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

𝘈𝘴𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘨 can present themselves in different ways, like in the three stories in this episode written by Reddit users neon31, PurpleNightshadeLady and tabbs123 published on the No Sleep, Creepypasta and Paranormal subreddits, respectively. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/CXnjjyjPmvv / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

Given Grace Cebanico was a Computer Science student at the University of the Philippines Los Baños. In 2011, when she was 19 and in her third year in college, she was taken by two men while she was on her way to her dormitory, and she was subsequently raped and murdered. Listener discretion is advised to the graphic nature of this story. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/CW88vkbhehx / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

There’s a particular tomb at the Tugatog Public Cemetery in Malabon, Metro Manila that's notorious for having a statue of Lucifer standing triumphantly over St. Michael, the exact reverse of how the archangel is usually portrayed in pictures and sculptures. And there’s a barangay in the capital city of the Philippines that bears the mark of the devil in its name. Gideon Mendoza, co-host of the Filipino true crime and horror-comedy podcast Creepsilog lends his voice in this episode. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/CWqkFnAPY2p / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com / Creepsilog on Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/1xLK7Wj1uNuEIdteanhpi7?si=YGQOcFpsTzCju9oSFGLv6w&utm_source=copy-link

On January 18, 1982, the first Manila International Film Festival opened at the Manila Film Center, a 25-million-USD building erected in Pasay City by former first lady Imelda Marcos in hopes that Manila could rival Cannes as the world capital of cinema. The film festival itself that year was mostly considered a success, but legend has it that its venue is haunted by the vengeful spirits of those who tragically lost their lives during the building's construction. Listener discretion is advised to the graphic nature of this story. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/CWbSpn1BIIn / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

Always remember to be careful when calling on supernatural entities, like in the two stories in this episode written by Reddit users Scared-Crow7774 and Jaicoholic published on the No Sleep subreddit. Ethan, host of the Filipino mythology podcast Tabi-Tabi Podcast, lends her voice in this episode. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/CVs0D6mhjuZ / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com / Tabi-Tabi Podcast on Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/64xYiqmuBwFS6q5pcuCQZJ?si=xyMupZ_NRvmXvcd9VhrxQA&utm_source=copy-link

In 1977, student-activist Archimedes Trajano boldly asked a question at a university open forum where presidential daughter Imee Marcos was speaking. Two days later he would be found mangled and lifeless on the street. Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic nature of this story. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/CVagMWXBv0e / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

Elsa Castillo was a 35-year old woman who worked and eventually had an affair with a 42-year old American named Stephen Mark Whisenhunt, at whose hands she would also unfortunately meet her end, making her the second documented "chop-chop lady" case in the Philippines after Lucila Lalu. Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic nature of this story. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/CU0WUXjBnBn / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

Repression is a defense mechanism involving the unconscious blocking of unpleasant emotions or memories, which can sometimes be related to supernatural experiences, like in this episode's story written by Reddit user pemralino and published on the No Sleep subreddit. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/CUQUCeyBDQx / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

In July 2001, Filipino immigrants Teddy and Mary Gonzales, along with their daughter Clodine, were massacred inside their home in New South Wales, Australia. Twenty-year old Sef Gonzales, the family's only survivor, initially played the part of the grieving son and publicly appealed for information about his family's killer, only for evidence to reveal later that he was the killer all along. Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic nature of this story. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/CT5CyRRBsO0 / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

Michelle Rivera was a young Filipino woman from Bukidnon who became pen pals in the late 1980s with a middle-aged professor named Dr. Jonathan Nyce from North Carolina, USA. More than a decade later, they were living the American dream with their three kids in a million-dollar home in New Jersey. But their marriage was not exactly as it seemed. Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic nature of this story. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/CTcRl6mh4EQ / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

There are many Filipino superstitions related to pregnancy, perhaps because it leads to a very special family milestone—the birth of another life into this world. And perhaps the most common superstition is that a pregnant woman should be very careful of "aswang" or any entity that could be after her child’s life, like in the two stories in this episode written by Reddit users zamakhtar (zamilakhtar.com) and Archana120, respectively, published on the No Sleep subreddit. Grace and Mimai, hosts of the Filipino horror comedy podcast Wag Kang Lilingon, lend their voices in this episode. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/CSmM1dqBZcx / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com / Wag Kang Lilingon on Spotify: spotify.com/wagkanglilingon

An Australian national running from fraud charges in his country, Peter Scully escaped to the Philippines in 2011 and ran a child sex ring and porn network called No Limits Fun. The most infamous film he ever produced was called 𝘋𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘺'𝘴 𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 and it featured three girls, one of them an infant, being tortured and sexually abused. Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic nature of this story. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/CSUYjzhhGJU / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

The Revilla family is notable in the Philippines due to the family patriarch Don Ramon having fathered around 81 children with at least 16 women and him and several in the family dabbling in show business and politics. In 2011, the family became the subject of newspaper headlines once again due to the murder of Ramgen Revilla, one of Don Ramon's many children, with two of the victim's siblings as the alleged masterminds of the crime. Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic nature of this story. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/CRpYsHJLUGF / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

In 1994, a 10-year old girl named Rodessa Echegaray was raped by her father Leo. His death sentence almost five years later was the subject of much debate as he was the first one executed in the Philippines in the more than 2 decades since the country's first abolition of the death penalty. Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic nature of this story. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/CRSTHf9KCIt / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

The Internet is filled with supernatural stories, and one place online that's so saturated with them is Reddit. Many of those stories almost seem unbelievable, but whether real or not, some are just too good not to be shared, like the two in this episode about "aswang" written by Reddit user 7signs and published on the No Sleep subreddit. Jessica, host of the true crime and mystery podcast The Asian Madness Podcast, lends her voice in this episode. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/CQxermKLrxc / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com / The Asian Madness Podcast on Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/7bedUTS1LGjWMFu0HySMCa?si=cG-jlYtSS-qedHtLpX72kQ&utm_source=copy-link&dl_branch=1

Fraternities aim to provide students a brotherhood that can greatly enrich their university experience, even extending beyond school, but 22-year old Ateneo Law School freshman Lenny Villa didn't know what he was in for when he joined the Aquila Legis in 1991. Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic nature of this story. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/CQdycibLYU4 / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

A few days before Christmas in 1987, more than 4,000 people boarded the MV Doña Paz in Tacloban, Leyte for a 24-hour voyage to Manila. Five hours before the ship was due to arrive in the Philippine capital, it collided with an oil tanker that burst into flames. Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic nature of this story. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/CQEuWSbL02w / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

Julie Vega was a teenage actress, singer and commercial model whose life was cut short at the age of 16 after a series of mysterious circumstances. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/CPvkut5rbi0 / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

Ruby Rose Barrameda disappeared in 2007 and the primary suspect was her estranged husband Manuel "Third" Jimenez III. She remained missing until two years later when a man named Manuel Montero came forward and revealed the location of a woman's body in a steel box at the bottom of Manila Bay. Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic nature of this story. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/CPcm5AULk2a / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

In 2017, the gambling operations of Resorts World Manila were temporarily suspended following a fire in its casino area that resulted in 70 injuries and 38 casualties. Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic nature of this story. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/CPJZpYALnyF / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

Mt. Apo in Davao is not just the Philippines' tallest mountain but also a frequent setting of supernatural stories like "The Spirit of Mt. Apo" by Sargent Kayme. Sapphire Sandalo, host of the paranormal podcast and web series Stories with Sapphire, lends her voice in this episode. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/CO3jicVrpoE / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com / Stories with Sapphire on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3mag99EygwfUS7UZPdVOuq?si=8wtqF6M1SyqPx4MXDWN7qg&utm_source=copy-link&dl_branch=1

In 1985, Norberto "Bucay" Manero, Jr. and his men murdered an Italian priest in Tulunan, Cotabato. They were all convicted and imprisoned, but because of Bucay's connections, he was able to escape prison several times until their sentences were eventually commuted and they were finally set free. Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic nature of this story. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/COlDEwGrOMo / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

In 1987, a girl named Rosario Baluyot died from a blood infection caused by something that was supposedly left lodged inside her by a foreign man who hired her for sex work seven months before. Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic nature of this story. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/CNu9VdLr4hd / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

In 1970, the Moro conflict in Mindanao gave birth to the Christian extremist militia called the Ilaga. Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic nature of this story. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/COTRqGcL_hp / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

Lilian Velez was a rising star in the 1940s whose pairing with Narding Anzures, her leading man in two films, became a hit with moviegoers. He didn't take it well when he wasn't cast in that role again in her next movie. Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic nature of this story. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/CMt5srdrPgL / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

The Momo Challenge caused a worldwide panic in 2018, spreading through WhatsApp and YouTube, making parents fear for the lives of their children. It was eventually dismissed as a hoax, with YouTube initially saying they saw no evidence of videos promoting it on the social media site. But the existence of the videos and the dangers they presented particularly to children were undeniable. This is a snippet of my conversation with researchers Antonia Markiewitz and Lara Kobilke who in one of their many studies looked into the effects of the Momo Challenge and other suicide-related content on YouTube. Listener discretion is advised due to discussions of suicide in this interview. • Listen to the full episode on Patreon where you can also support the show: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / WHO's guidelines on responsible suicide reporting: https://www.who.int/mental_health/prevention/suicide/resource_media.pdf / ReportingOnSuicide.org's best practices and recommendations: https://reportingonsuicide.org/wp-content/themes/ros2015/assets/images/Recommendations-eng.pdf / Episode photos: instagram.com/p/CMR8ssqrrGo / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

In this personal essay by listener DM Gasparillo Adil II, he shares childhood anecdotes about his late father's 𝘭𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨, a twin-spirit that's part of Maguindanaon folklore. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/CLVeqitrEe3 / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

In February 2019, 11-year-old CJ Bautista killed himself and when his mother checked his phone, she found messages from a classmate and recent online searches about a "suicide game" called the Momo Challenge. Listener discretion is advised due to discussions of suicide in these stories. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/CK8byAxLeSG / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

In 2018, 16-year old Christine Lee Silawan became the object of a man's obsessive desire through Facebook. She ended up brutally murdered the following year when they finally met in person. Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic nature of this story. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/CKZtsF5rKvc / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

In 2001, multi-awarded actress Nida Blanca was found murdered inside her car in San Juan, Metro Manila and suspicion fell on her American husband Rod Strunk based on the confession of mercenary Philip Medel. Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic nature of this story. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/CJQDBnrrZaR / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

Trans woman Jennifer Laude was killed by US serviceman Joseph Scott Pemberton in a motel in Olongapo, sparking outrage among the LGBTQ community and putting the spotlight back on the Visiting Forces Agreement which previously became controversial in the 2005 Subic rape case. Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic nature of this story. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/CDr2CieJpF_ / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

In May 1953, before newspapers around the world heavily featured the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, their attention was on an 18-year old girl named Clarita Villanueva who was locked up in the Old Bilibid Prison. For two weeks, she kept on screaming that she was being attacked by two demons until American pastor Lester Sumrall came to exorcise her. • This story was suggested by listener Sam Lichauco via email. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/CA0L9HTJHyo / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

25-year old advertising executive Kae Davantes went out with her friends one Friday night in 2013. She was found dead the next morning, an hour away from both her house in Las Piñas and Bonifacio Global City where she was last seen. • Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic nature of this story. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/B_9rYvkpoQ2 / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

The Philippines' notoriously slow justice system caused a former police captain to hijack a bus full of Hong Kong tourists in Rizal Park, ending in the death of 9 people. • Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic nature of this story. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/B_DJKqppvM6 / References: storiesafterdark.home.blog / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / For your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com • Special acknowledgments: (41:40) / Podcast trailer for The Asian Madness Podcast: (42:58)

Out of the more than 600 hundred mountains in the Philippines, Laguna's Mount Makiling, though technically a dormant volcano, is probably the most popular in terms of folklore, with a multitude of stories about the "diwata" or fairy who guards it. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/B-YBKPjnOHU / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

In 1996, hundreds of young people flocked to Ozone Disco along Timog Ave. in Quezon City, Metro Manila, not knowing that most of them would no longer come out of the nightclub alive. • Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic nature of this story. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/B-CiQKXHOAU / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

Everyone was shocked when news broke out in 2014 about a massacre committed in the barangay of Kayang-Hilltop in Baguio City. Five people were killed, four of them only minors, in what has been considered a city with one of the lowest crime rates in the Philippines and in Southeast Asia. • Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic nature of this story. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/B8_4IexHLQu / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

A Spanish soldier guarding the governor-general's palace walls in Manila suddenly feels exhausted and decides to rest against the wall with his eyes closed for a bit. When he next opens his eyes, he is outside a different palace thousands of miles away in Mexico City. • Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic nature of part of this story. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/B7yn-tun9Ei / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

Maguindanao isn't usually a place tourists would want to visit in the Philippines, and for good reason. It is home to bandits, rebel insurgency groups and warring political families, and in 2009, fifty seven people, including 31 journalists, were brutally killed by the Ampatuan clan as a result of one man's attempt to wrest power from them. • Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic nature of this story. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/B6xtN22n1__ / References: storiesafterdark.home.blog / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / For your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

In 1929, the Court of First Instance of Pampanga sentenced Avelina Teodoro to life imprisonment for stabbing Constancia Pineda to death. That the murder was so cold-blooded or that it was committed by a female wasn’t even the most shocking thing about the case. It was the fact that both the criminal and her victim were only 16 years old. • Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic nature of this story. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/B5x92VPHF_8 / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

15-year old Cosette Tanjuaquio was in her bedroom one Monday night when four men came in her aunt's house in Quezon City where she was staying and abducted her. She wouldn't be found until 83 days later, purely by accident. • Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic nature of this story. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/B45Zu3QHfXu / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

Loakan Road in Baguio and Balete Drive in New Manila are two of the most popular haunted roads in the Philippines, and they both involve a tree and a "kaperosa" or white lady. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/B4SzXidnJY1 / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

This is the controversial story of Delia Smith, more popularly known as Pepsi Paloma, a 14-year old "bold star" or "bomba" (soft-porn) actress who in 1982 was allegedly raped by Vic Sotto, Joey De Leon and Ricardo Reyes (a.k.a. Richie D'Horsie), hosts of the popular noontime variety TV show Eat Bulaga. Three years later, she was found dead in her apartment by an apparent suicide. But did she really take her own life or was there foul play? • Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic nature of this story. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/B37DkGKnWJp / References: storiesafterdark.home.blog / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / For your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com • Podcast trailer for The True Crime Files: (39:59)

More than 2,000 years ago, the Igorots of Sagada began their burial tradition of hanging coffins, which survived despite most of the Philippines being converted to Christianity by the Spanish. Today, the hanging coffins, "lamay," "pasiyam," "babang luksa," and "pamahiin" (superstitions) such as"sukob" and "pagpag" are some of the many funeral customs that Filipinos are known for. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/B3DGO_JnL7a / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

Maggie de la Riva is a beautiful and talented Filipina actress who at just the age of 23 had already starred in more than 30 films. She was abducted and raped by four young men in 1967 but instead of staying silent, she decided she wasn't letting them get away with it. • Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic nature of this story. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/B2fTv2YnMOS / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

No one could have known that on January 4, 2013, just several days after 7-year old Stephanie Nicole Ella died from a stray bullet in Caloocan and 26 people were killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in the United States, another incident of indiscriminate gun firing would happen, much less in the quiet neighborhood of Tabon I, Kawit, Cavite. Seven people died and thirteen others were injured when they were shot by drug-addled Ronald Bae, a 41-year old former barangay councilor with a dark and mysterious past. • Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic nature of this story. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/B2AP5EDHz0Q / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

Mary Eileen Sarmenta was a 21-year old U.P. Los Baños student who was brutally raped and, with her schoolmate and friend Allan Gomez, murdered by ex-mayor Antonio Sanchez and his men in 1993. For this crime, Sanchez was sentenced to seven counts of reclusion perpetua or a maximum of 40 years in prison, but a 2019 Supreme Court ruling that R.A. 10592 be applied retroactively threatens to allow his early release due to good behavior. • Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic nature of this story. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/B1onShlnRZ9 / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

Going to Baguio in Benguet often means visiting the usual touristy spots of Burnham Park, Botanical Garden and Mines View Park. But for thrill seekers, an abandoned building on a hill offers not just a breathtaking panoramic view of the city but also possible sightings of Dominican friars and nuns beheaded during the World War II. This is the story of the century-old Dominican Hill Retreat House, formerly known as the Diplomat Hotel, one of the most notoriously haunted places in the Philippines. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/B1UGNghnKj2 / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

This is the first documented case of a "chop-chop lady" in the Philippines, that of 28-year old Lucila Lalu whose body parts were scattered all over Manila in 1967. There are four suspects, all alleged to be the victim's lovers, plus one more that only recently emerged, possibly linking the crime to the infamous Black Dahlia case. • Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic nature of this story. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/B02nzsxg_X7 / References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/storiesafterdark / Share your feedback, case suggestions and personal stories: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com

Stories After Dark is an independently produced podcast on Philippine true crime and mystery stories, from chop-chop ladies and massacres to haunted hotels and aswang. • References: storiesafterdark.ph / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / Instagram: instagram.com/storiesafterdark / For feedback or story suggestions: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com