READ The Creepiest Urban Legends and Stories from Mexico
Mexico is one of the largest countries in the world and a popular vacation spot to party it up. But you might have second thoughts before booking those spring or summer break plane and hotel tickets if you grew up hearing the multiple spine-chilling urban legend from Mexico that revolve around mothers, children, and ghosts.
These ten urban legends and creepy stories from Mexico - including the famous La Llorona and Chupacabra, the not-so-famous La Lechuza and El Cucuy, and everything in between - are hard to forget, and for the murderers and ghosts taking center stage in the legend, the stories will never be forgotten.
La Llorona Cries for Her Children
"La Llorona," otherwise known as "The Crying Woman," fell head over heels for a man who gave her the ultimatum: him or her children.
The Crying Woman chose the latter, drowning her own children, in hopes to be with the man she loved. But after rejecting her, she took her own life as well. Whereabouts of the man, and if he was the children's biological father, still remain unknown.
The Crying Woman goes around the streets of Mexico, grieving the loss of her children. Children must never wander the streets alone or misbehave, or La Llorona will come out and get them.
El Cucuy
"Behave or El Cucuy will come and find you."
A warning from the parents, "El Cucuy" (otherwise known as the boogeyman) is a creature who preys on children who have misbehaved their parents. He can show up at any given moment in the night.
In your closet.
Under your bed.
At the foot of your mattress.
Always listen to your parents, or the boogeyman will find you...
A Nurse Prowls Through the Night
In the 1930s at Hospital Juarez, "La Planchada" (aka "The Ironed Lady") fell for a doctor, but he left her for another woman. Slipping into a deep depression, La Planchada contracted an illness that, ultimately, killed her.
Rumor has it that she had looked down upon other nurses, as well as murdered a patient in hopes of overcoming her heartbreak from a man she was no longer able to trust.
She is said to roam the halls of hospitals and tend to the needs of patients, as well as return to the room where she died and heal whoever is staying there.
The Vanishing Hitcher
Traced as far back as the 1870's, the vanishing hitcher is exactly what it sounds like. He hails down drivers, only, to suddenly vanish, sometimes even when the car is still moving, with no explanation. Some say that the hitcher often appears in the form of a young girl, leaving an address for her house.
Drivers are often greeted by two grieving parents, who are said to announce that today would have been their little girl's birthday.