La llorona

Gonzalez

Gonzalez

Sonny, I Watched the Vault Bein' Built!
"La llorona" is a myth of popular culture in Argentina, the spirit of a crying woman who wanders in isolated country roads in the middle of the night scaring the living shit of unsuspecting travelers with her loud cry. On 2015 Dakkar a video appeared where suppossed Dakkar participants had an encounter with the legend. And even if I don't consider this to be a proof of the paranormal as it could easily be some random woman in white with a cane maing sounds, I personally appreciate the dedication put into this by whoever did it :grin:



I know that around the world the "ghost in the road" thing is a recurring subject in local folklore. In Spain, there is a tall completely black being that stands in the middl of the road and tries to grab cars as they pass by him. Are there any such stories or urban legends where you live that you are aware of?
 
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Well I can't name any for Germany, but apparantly in the US there is the legend or myth of the Mothman.

I personaly always liked the story about the Banshee, kinda eerie and yet fascinating.
 
Wasn't there a road where lots of accidents happened in germany until a ritual was performed? link
 
Latin american countryside folk tales are al weird, they are grounded on absolutely nothing and sound more like the hallucination of drunkards or maybe some accidental fungi intoxication with bread. For example:

A living ball of flames that tries to kill you at night, and if you pray it gets bigger and bigger, only way to repel it is to swear at it.

Another is the one legged, one eyed, one boobed La Patasola (The singlepaw would be a translation) that either protects nature and women or kills men, sometimes both things.

Or the weird goblins that have dicks that drag on the ground and spend the nights humping and riding horses and braiding their manes, they also have backward feet.
 
"Lloronas" probably exist everywhere. Where I grew up as a kid, there was supposedly a ghost-woman eternally walking her dog, at night, around an open area commonly used as a skating-ground during winter.

As for established mythological creatures, we still have people who are convinced about "little folk" (or gnomes or whatever you want to call them). VERY FEW!!! But some! :D
 
We have the story of "Crybaby Bridge" here in Oklahoma and other parts of the US. The story usually involves a baby and mother dying near a bridge, and the legend goes that at night you can hear the baby crying, while the ghost of the mother is eternally searching for her child.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crybaby_Bridge

Some Native American tribes in the area have legends of the Stikini which some of my Native American (they just call themselves indians as do most of us around here) friends still talk about, or even fear in some respects. The stories I'm told involve an owl hooting outside your window, sometimes it will be the Stikini and it will try to kill you. Some are afraid to say their name at night. I have seen something resembling this creature once, during a ritual of sorts, but I was under the influence of drugs, so that doesn't lend any credibility.

From Wikipedia:

"The Stikini are sinister monsters from Seminole folklore. Originally they were evil witches, who transformed themselves into owl-beings. By day they still resemble Seminole people, but by night, they vomit up their souls (along with all their internal organs) and become undead owl-monsters that feed on human hearts. In some Seminole communities speaking their name is thought to put you at risk for turning into one, so Stikini stories are only told by certain medicine people. In other communities, they have been spoken of more casually as bogeymen to frighten children."
 
The whistler will walk around the streets at night, whistling a particular tune, if you whistle tune he'll appear in your room and take you away.
 
The common "llorona" in America is Bloody Mary. The legend of what happened to Bloody Mary always differs from one group of kids to the next, but the gist of it is that something tragic happened to this woman, and she killed herself, basically becoming a demon. The story goes that if you turn off the lights in a room and look into a mirror and speak her name 3 times, she will appear behind you in the mirror and kill you. Supposedly, Bloody Mary is distinguished by her pure white dress which is horrifyingly stained with blood, presumably hers when she died. The result of the legend is that it becomes a "I dare you to do it" culture among kids. Many get scared shitless when the person reaches 2 Bloody Mary's and run screaming out of the (usually bathroom) room. If you ever saw the episode of South Park, "Hell on Earth 2006", the gag of the characters looking into a mirror and speaking the name Biggie Smalls 3 times and summoning him is based off of Bloody Mary.
 
Great story, Gonzalez. Thanks for sharing, never heard of it before!
We are literally raised on such legends here in Slovakia, so dear ladies and gentlemen, I present you White Lady of Levoca - one of our most famous ghosts. Due to lack of proper vocabulary, let me copy-paste few lines here:

http://spectator.sme.sk/articles/view/13361/9/
Legend has it that the lady fell in love with a captain of the enemy army. To prove her love to him, she let his soldiers into the town of Levoča through a secret corridor. In doing this she betrayed her husband and her people. She was sentenced to death and executed in 1714. Since then her ghost has been wandering the halls of Levoča Town Hall.
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Walpknut said:
A living ball of flames that tries to kill you at night, and if you pray it gets bigger and bigger, only way to repel it is to swear at it.

Another is the one legged, one eyed, one boobed La Patasola (The singlepaw would be a translation) that either protects nature and women or kills men, sometimes both things.

Or the weird goblins that have dicks that drag on the ground and spend the nights humping and riding horses and braiding their manes, they also have backward feet.
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Never herd of those. Quite pintoresque. Closer to the city there is a legend that in one of the city parks there is the ghost of a decapitated woman that wonders around, the ghost has no head and holds a clothes iron in her hand.

Another one is a ghost appearing inside a bus and scaring bus drivers as the were sure no more passengers remained. Sometimes this strange passenger rings the bell for the bus to stop in the stop that's next to the cemetery entrance. Apparently this happens so often some even recorded what heppened as proof for people who didn't believe them.



The closest to a "paranormal" experience I ever had was when I was in the army, I was on guard duty at the firing range building, the building was closed, no lights inside, no lights outside, pure darkness. At a given moment I was able to swear someone was stalking at me from the darkness, like that feeling you have that someone is looking at you, that there is someone else there with you. Everywhere I looked it was only darkness. I didn't believed it was a ghost, I thought maybe it was one of the officers making sure I wasn't asleep or something, tho stalking me like that would have been something dumb since I had a rifle with live ammunition now I think about it. However, I can only pin this on my paranoid mind and nothing else, because except of "feeling" someone was watching me, there was no phenomenom whatsoever that I couldn't explain otherwise.
 
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He used sarcasm
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Here in Brazil we have a lot of these things, to llorona to the goblins with backwards feet ( although here they are more like little humans with red hair)

We have ''Homem do Saco" a homeless that takes kids when they don't obey their parents or are outside late the night, I have heard other stories that he takes adults too and in every city there is something like llorona, there even stories that is a man instead of a women.

What really shines here in Brazil are the stories about our jungle and forests, black werewolfs ( white if the person is black), all sort of witches to the old hag to crocodiles, large worms that with one bite eats houses, fish ( IIRC it's a mammal) that transform into men and get woman pregnant, dried corpses that hides into trees, all sorts of demons and little folk. There is my favorite, a huge fire snake that patrols the forests and eat humans, the snake can also transform into an one-eyed bull or a fire stump and can basically teleport to any forest/jungle in our country, it's the almighty Boitata!
 
I wish those all would be true. Maybe we would stop raping the rainforrest so much. I mean who would work in such places where it is likely that you will die a very horrorible death to unkillable fire breating snakes or dried corpses?
 
There is also the Mohan here, which seems to be a Latin American Poseidon and his appeareance varies from story to story, always related to hummidity or rivers, and he usually kidnaps girls, specially the ones with light hair and eye color. (which contrary to american media perception, we do have a sizeable population of non trigeño people here).

There is also a Lizard with a guys head, or was it a Guy with Lizard body? He like usual preys on women.
 
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