Rubén García Castillo, famous La Mano Peluda host, dies

• Sad news in Mexico’s entertainment world.
• The death of the host Rubén García Castillo was reported.
• He was the first host of the horror show La Mano Peluda.

In the early hours of today, the passing of the famous host Rubén García Castillo, who was the first host of the horror show La Mano Peluda, was announced, so condolences quickly started to pour in.

It was through Rodrigo Jiménez’s social media, who is the director of Mexiquense TV, that the sad news was released: «It is with great sadness that we report the loss of our colleague and friend Rubén García. Talented host that with emotion and human quality made us vibrate for so many years with his Stories from beyond. Fraternal embrace to his relatives and loved ones. Rest in peace».

They remember Rubén García Castillo

According to information from El Universal, with that affection the host remembered the program in January 2018, when it ended after 22 years on the air. Rubén García Castillo was almost 60 years old and was about to turn 38 as a driver: he had dedicated his lifetime to the radio.

The famous announcer of La Mano Peluda had started on the radio at the age of 22 and it was in 1995 that he founded, together with fellow announcer Mario Córdova, what would become a classic program on Mexican radio and which remains in the popular unconscious.

«It is a death, an internal death»: Rubén García Castillo

Dedicated to horror stories, the announcer would remain in the ears of the public for 22 years and five months until the directors of Formula gave him the news that it had come to an end. At that time, Rubén García Castillo shared his sadness to know that he no longer had «much to do in this world in terms of communication.»

At that time, the host of La Mano Peluda went into a duel just like his audience is today: «It is a death, an internal death, someone died, and what died? Your personality, your program», Castillo said in January 2018.

«Turn off the light and listen»

That radio program was the one that brought him closer to the paranormal world and since then he has continued along that line. In ’99, he was the announcer of the Televisa Radio program of the same cut, Apague la luz y listena, and returned to La Mano Peluda in 2011, after Juan Ramón Sáenz, who had joined the production, died.

After the end of this program, on February 5, 2018, Rubén García Castillo joined Radio Mexiquense as the announcer of Histories from Beyond, continuing with the paranormal stories that had trapped him since his youth.

The death of Juan Ramón Sáenz, host of La Mano Peluda

The daughter of a truck driver foresaw the death of Juan Ramón Sáenz (he died on May 29, 2011), the first announcer of La Mano Peluda, who died at 40 years of age. After his death, the program dedicated the broadcast to Sáenz, and a listener said:

“On Saturday morning, I was with my daughter in the truck. I had taught him the Juan Ramón program many times, but that day he told me, around 10 in the morning: ‘Dad, put La Mano Peluda on him. I explained to him that the program comes out at night, but I was left with a strange impression ”. In his narration, this man assures that his daughter “foresaw” the death of Juan Ramón and that is why he asked her to turn on the radio to listen to the program.

The story that impacted the most

Despite the fact that Juan Ramón Sáenz heard multiple ghost stories daily, the case of Josué marked him and many of his followers, since it was a story in which a man who lived in the United States sold his soul to the devil (killing his grandmother) in exchange for power and money.

During the phone call, Josué narrates the supernatural apparitions that he has experienced after his encounter with the evil being, even while talking on the air, a woman without feet appears in front of him. Listeners were shocked.

A «hairy» success

In its beginnings, the radio program competed with the nightly newscast on channel 2, and many times it surpassed it in terms of audience levels: “I tell my friends from the newscasts that it is unfair competition, because I took out 10 ghosts and they took 20 beheaded, ”Juan Ramón Sáenz commented with a certain black humor.

Juan Ramón Sáenz not only created products for electronic media, but also in the editorial area he left testimony of all the stories that came to him through the program La Mano Peluda. Among the titles he wrote are Here you breathe fear.

The Hairy Hand, right or wrong?

In the book La Mano Peluda, Juan Ramón Sáenz tells part of the more than 53 thousand testimonies that have been heard by around 15 million people in Mexico and the United States. Thabata, a true witch and demonic possessions; 2012, the prophecies of the end of the world was his last book.

The success of La Mano Peluda, which had its first broadcast in 1995, was based on the stories that people told about supernatural events, it did not matter if they were true or not, listeners tuned in to the program, which in the United States was listened to by Internet, eager to hear stories that surely more than one took away their sleep (With information from Agencia El Universal).

Admirers of Rubén García Castillo react to his death

After the death of Rubén García Castillo, famous announcer of La Mano Peluda, was reported and the causes of his death are unknown so far, fans expressed their feelings on social networks: “I cannot believe that my beloved Rubén García Castillo, founder of the iconic radio program and announcer of La Mano Peluda and Historias del overseas, whom I had the pleasure to treat.

For its part, another user decided to share the following message: “Today, May 31, a friendly voice was turned off, a voice that welcomed you to the soccer broadcasts on Canl Once. Smiling, joking, talented, maybe you met him from his show La Mano Peluda. A hug and goodbye».

A strange coincidence

As reported by the magazine TvyNovelas, the death of Rubén García Castillo occurred exactly 10 years after the death of Juan Ramón Sáenz. Currently, his program was broadcast from Monday to Friday at eleven o’clock at night with Carmen Peña.

The journalist Paola Barquet expressed herself as follows: “FThe first announcer of ‘La Mano Peluda’ was brought up. Ruben Garcia Castle transmitted for four years said radio program created in 1995, to later give way to Juan Ramón Sáenz. He also hosted the ‘Stories from Beyond’ program.

«Beautiful people last a lifetime»

For her part, the journalist Maxine Woodside used her social networks to express her condolences: “Today we are mourning the death of the great announcer Rubén García Castillo, host of the program La Mano Peluda. Rest in peace».

«‘And remember: beautiful people last a lifetime.’ With that phrase, Rubén García Castillo closed each broadcast of his program La Mano Peluda, which was broadcast on the Radio Fórmula signal. Today, the dial is silent, «said one user.

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