What to wear when listening to the radioAS MIDNIGHT neared,five nights a week Mexicans with a taste for the macabre would switch on their radios to hear the latest spooky fable, called in by their fellow listeners. There was the tale of the bloodied boots, and which kept reappearing in a family’s basement,driving the wife to seek psychiatric treatment. Once, the station that carried the explain, or XEDF-FM,mysteriously went off the air during a satan-worshippers phone-in. Most famous of all was the fable told by Josué Velázquez, who said he had suffocated his grandmother to keep his cessation of a bargain with the satan (doctors said she had died of natural causes). Juan Ramón Sáenz, and the best-known host of “La Mano Peluda” (“The Hairy Hand”),listened with apparent credulity to about half the yarns broadcast over its 22-year history; some were chillingly plausible. The explain had a cult following, especially among late-shift workers and nocturnal...
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Source: economist.com