Dónde están sus hijos? Yes! Spooky season is around the corner starting with some spooky stories. La Llorona wails from the banks of Rio Grande. She cries from the shores of the Purgatoire River. Throughout the Southwest, she can be heard crying for her children. She is known as the crying woman. The legend is told throughout the Southwest region of the county and in Mexico. She’s become more than a legend, in fact, she’s taking shape as a figure in Chicano culture.

“I know that some parents tell their kids that she will come when they are misbehaving, the legend has been haunting Mexico for the longest time,” said Brenda Gonzalez, sophomore.

There are many stories about her. As a cultural story, she was a woman married to a rich man with whom she had two children. After she found her husband with another woman, she drowned their children and killed herself but was left to haunt the world as a ghost in search of her children’s replacements. While some stories might be different, the details of La Llorona’s appearance always see her in a white dress, crying, and by water. Many claim to see her.

“From what I know, La Llorona was a young woman who was married and had kids, she felt that her husband didn’t love her so as revenge she drowned her children in a river because they were the most important thing to him and would hurt him the most,” said Giselle Valdes, senior.

There have always been videos going through social media during the Halloween season of people catching her. They either hear her crying echo at night or actually see her shadow figure pass quickly through the corner of their eyes. There are even people that catch her during winter, summer, etc. There is no special day or week when people see her.

“In my experience, I have not heard la Llorona or experienced anything with her but I have heard some stories of children missing in other states of Mexico.” Jose Navarro, junior.