Hello believers, non-believers, and everyone in between. You're listening to

stories with Sapphire. I am Sapphire Sndalo. Now get cozy and open your mind

because it's so hot.

Welcome to Stories with Sapphire, just for chills. We're on select weeks in

between regular episodes. I read spooky, spine tingling, fictional stories. Just

for the chill of it. If you'd like to submit one, you can send it to Stories with

Sapphire at gmail.com. Today I'll be sharing the story of a young teen haunted by a

sleep paralysis demon. Then I tell the tale of two friends pitted against each

other to the death.

Chapter one, not my mother, by Ivy. About three years ago, I was going through a

really rough mental health patch. I don't want to get into detail about it, but

there was some stuff happening in my life that was filling me with this

incessant stress and anxiety. It drained the life out of me. As a result, I was

suffering from some of the worst insomnia I have ever experienced. My sleep, or

lack thereof, was plagued by these horrible nightmares. The nightmares had

been ongoing for about two months before I started experiencing sleep

paralysis. For anyone who has never experienced it, I hope you never do. It is

truly one of the most horrifying things the body does to itself. Your body allows

your eyes to flutter open as if you're waking up, but that's it. Nothing else

moves. During an episode, you experience a complete loss of muscle control.

You're immobile, and that's just the beginning of the horror. A few minutes into the

episode, you start to hallucinate. Your mind conjures up frightening, ghastly

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