La Mano Peluda ("The Hairy Hand") was a popular Mexican horror story radio program. It started in 1995, and ran until shutdown this year. The format sounds a bit like old Art Bell, with call in speakers telling weird stories.
As The Economist describes it,
AS MIDNIGHT neared, five nights a week Mexicans with a taste for the macabre would switch on their radios to hear the latest spooky story, called in by their fellow listeners. There was the tale of the bloodied boots, which kept reappearing in a family’s basement, driving the wife to seek psychiatric treatment. Once, the station that carried the show, XEDF-FM, mysteriously went off the air during a devil-worshipper’s phone-in. Most famous of all was the story told by Josué Velázquez, who said he had suffocated his grandmother to keep his end of a bargain with the devil (doctors said she had died of natural causes).
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