{"podcast":{"title":"Stories Philippines Podcast - Pinoy Horror Stories","slug":"stories-philippines-podcast-pinoy-horror-stories-466906","podcast_index_feed_id":466906,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/6886028/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-philippines-podcast-pinoy-horror-stories--6886028","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/90fee3bc126898a08e0c3605737c6dc5.jpg","author":"HustleStudios Podcast Network","episode_count":77,"summary":"Stories Philippines Podcast is the original, the first, and the longest-running Filipino horror podcast—an enduring journey into the darkest corners of the Philippine archipelago. Since 2005, the podcast has explored the stories that linger in old houses, remote provinces, forgotten roads, crowded cities, and places where history refuses to stay buried. From terrifying encounters with ghosts, aswang, engkanto, kapre, manananggal, and other creatures of Filipino folklore to chilling listener experiences, urban legends, unexplained disappearances, haunted locations, and disturbing mysteries, every episode invites you to step closer to the unknown. These are not simply stories about monsters hiding in the dark. They are stories about belief, memory, grief, fear, and the ancient traditions that continue to shape how Filipinos understand the supernatural. Some tales have been passed down through generations. Others come from ordinary people who experienced something they still cannot explain. Stories Philippines Podcast brings together Filipino folklore, true paranormal encounters, regional legends, historical mysteries, and original horror storytelling in one immersive experience. Eac…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-17T10:20:36.909024+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/stories-philippines-podcast-pinoy-horror-stories-466906"},"episode":{"title":"EPISODE 3122: Schools, Wards, And Institutions","slug":"episode-3122-schools-wards-and-institutions","published_at":"2026-04-21T17:05:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/stories-philippines-podcast-pinoy-horror-stories-466906/episode-3122-schools-wards-and-institutions","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/stories-philippines-podcast-pinoy-horror-stories-466906","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-3122-schools-wards-and-institutions--71187867","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/71187867/s89_e09_final.mp3","summary":"Schools, Wards, And Institutions Stories Philippines Season 89, Episode 9 Something waits differently in places built to care for us. Not in the old forests where the dark still belongs to the dark. Not in abandoned roads where fear can be blamed on distance, on weather, on imagination. The places that stay with us longest are often lit by fluorescent bulbs. They smell of bleach and old paper. They are measured by bells, by visiting hours, by curfews, by class schedules, by chart notes, by names written on beds and doors and plastic tags. This is what Season 89 of Stories Philippines is about. In this episode, Mr. Nightmare steps outside the home and into the buildings that keep watch — institutions, auditoriums, clinic wards, and dormitory corridors where memory accumulates in layers no architectural plan can fully capture. Drawing from real stories submitted by listeners across the Philippines and the Filipino diaspora, this episode traces the arc of haunting from private homes to public structures — from a hospital ward where eight beds held two people and something moved between them in the dark, to a girls' dormitory where whispers broke through earphones and a man in a hat stood at the foot of a bunk, to a school building with old laboratories and hidden rooms where children are still heard running after dismissal. We examine why institutions gather haunting so readily. Hospitals hold the suffering in sequence — one patient leaves, another arrives, the room is washed and reset, yet memory is not so easily disinfected. Schools repeat emotions so strong they become architecture themselves — the anxious child, the humiliated student, the teacher who died and was replaced but left the classroom somehow fuller. Dormitories compress vulnerability into stacked beds and…","meta_description":"Schools, Wards, And Institutions Stories Philippines Season 89, Episode 9 Something waits differently in places built to care for us. Not in the old fores…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3484,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/stories-philippines-podcast-pinoy-horror-stories-466906/episodes/episode-3122-schools-wards-and-institutions/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/stories-philippines-podcast-pinoy-horror-stories-466906/episode-3122-schools-wards-and-institutions.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}