A man describes seeing his deceased brother's ghost smoking a cigar just hours before learning he had died.
1. La Mano Peluda, a Grupo Fórmula radio show hosted by Gina Aviles and Nacho Muñoz, dedicates this January 27, 2026 episode to listener experiences with La Llorona.
2. Hosts Gina Aviles (Gina) and Ignacio Muñoz (Nacho) co-anchor the call-in program, which has been broadcasting for at least 30 years according to multiple callers.
3. The episode's thesis is whether listeners have personally heard unexplained nighttime crying — and whether it might have been La Llorona.
4. The first caller, from Durango (originally from Jolalpa, Estado de México), recounts borrowing his deceased brother's taxi on the night of a dance in 2006 and agreeing to pick up the brother at 2:30am.
5. He last saw his brother standing at a dance venue at around 3:10am; the brother asked to be left there.
6. When the caller arrived home and parked, he saw a figure in his brother's exact clothing — red shirt, white pants, and hat — smoking outside the garage, but the figure vanished after three seconds.
7. The caller went to sleep; at 6am the next morning he learned his brother had died at around 4:30 to 5am.
8. Caller Román from Durango, originally from Jolalpa, Estado de México, describes two separate incidents across different decades and locations.
9. In the first, as a teenager (~15 years old), Román and a friend rode a horse home from a dance near Tepe Justo, Estado de México at approximately 4am, and the horse refused to advance at a particular stretch of country road between the two villages.
10. Despite being whipped, the horse danced in place and kept pulling back; moments later Román and his companion heard what sounded like six or seven children crying from open farmland about 400 meters away.
11. Román's friend tried to attribute the sounds to cats, but Román insisted they were children's voices; they turned the horse around and left.
12. In a second account, Román describes visiting his father's ranch at the Cerro de las Promesas near Durango with his wife, and hearing an enormous wail from a nearby reservoir that he felt resonate beneath his feet.
13. Both Román and his wife heard the sound simultaneously; she turned pale and appeared close to fainting.
14. Román describes the sound as 'como si fuera un toro' (like a bull) but clearly feminine in timbre and lament-like in character.
15. A caller from Chetumal, Quintana Roo, who describes himself as a local historian and restaurant owner, relays a bus driver's account of a figure with goat legs crossing a highway at night, visible to multiple passengers.
16. The same Chetumal caller describes a separate accident-prone curve on the Chetumal highway where drivers reported seeing a woman in a long white dress who, when approached, had a horse's head.
17. Caller Marbella Crespo, 59, calling from California but originally from Mexicali, recounts that at age 15 she was alone in a dark outdoor bathroom at Colonia El Pacífico when she looked up and saw a floating woman in a long white dress with her back turned, approximately three steps away.
18. Marbella's body began shaking uncontrollably — jaw chattering, limbs trembling — until she fell before running back to the house; her brother later independently reported a similar encounter at the same location.
19. The episode maintains a call-in interview format with hosts asking follow-up questions; Nacho Muñoz plays a reassuring, excited role while Gina Aviles takes the lead in eliciting story details.
20. The episode appeals to Spanish-speaking listeners interested in Mexican folklore and paranormal personal testimony; those seeking analytical or skeptical discussion of supernatural claims may not find it satisfying.
