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The Charro Negro is a ghost of Mexican folklore that, according to popular traditions, is described as a tall man, with an elegant appearance, in an impeccable black suit consisting of a short jacket, a shirt, tight pants and a wide-brimmed hat who wanders in the depth of the night in the streets of Mexico on the back of a huge jet-colored ...
XEW-AM radio station in Coyoacán, Mexico City: allegedly haunted by several ghosts including the spirits of Agustín Lara, Pedro Infante, Jorge Negrete and Alfonso Ortiz Tirado; the paranormal phenomenona reported here are voices, objects moving by themselves and even the music of Agustin Lara's piano or his singing, also Negrete, Infante or ...
Statue of La Llorona on an island of Xochimilco, Mexico, 2015. La Llorona (Latin American Spanish: [la ʝoˈɾona]; ' the Crying Woman, the Weeping Woman, the Wailer ') is a vengeful ghost in Mexican folklore who is said to roam near bodies of water mourning her children whom she drowned in a jealous rage after discovering her husband was unfaithful to her.
In northern New Mexico and southern Colorado, where there is a large Hispanic population, it is referred to by its anglicized name, "the Coco Man". [14] In Brazilian folklore, the monster is referred to as Cuca and pictured as a female humanoid alligator , derived from the Portuguese coca , [ 15 ] a dragon .
Oct. 26—Ranging from a haunted cemetery, a hotel with a chilling past, or ghost tours around the state, there are some very spooky places across New Mexico. To discover the scariest, we have ...
In Mexico City, according to the Mexica, the Macihuatli was a moon deity called Metztli, who suffers the betrayal of their husband Tláloc. Other versions indicate that she was a woman of lousy behavior, which is why she was cursed by her husband or her father-in-law to wander as a ghost hunting men.
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, photographed at last year's L.A. Times Festival of Books, upends the classic ghost story in her new novel, "Silver Nitrate." (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)
TIL in 2000 a Mexican woman performed an hour-long C-section on herself with a kitchen knife after 12 hours of constant pain. After 3 attempts to cut open her abdomen, she made a 17cm vertical ...