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La Llorona (Latin American Spanish: [la ʝoˈɾona]; ' the Crying 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. Whoever hears her crying either suffers misfortune or death and ...
Kuchisake-onna. Kuchisake-onna (口裂け女, 'Slit-Mouthed Woman')[1] is a malevolent figure in Japanese urban legends and folklore. Described as the malicious spirit, or onryō, of a woman, she partially covers her face with a mask or other item and carries a pair of scissors, a knife, or some other sharp object. She is most often described ...
Synopsis of the Legend. Supposedly, an octoroon woman named Julie occupied the Royal Street house in the 1850s. Julie met and fell in love with a very handsome and rich Frenchman. To the Frenchman, Julie was just his secret lover. But to Julie, the Frenchman was much more. Julie desperately wanted to marry the Frenchman, but the Frenchman ...
At Worstead Church in Norfolk, there are stories of ghostly woman in white. Her story is diverse, from being a good ghost to a ghost who brings death to people. She is known locally as "White Lady" and her stories are said to have been around since the 1830s. Said that she often appears during Christmas Eve. The most famous case occurred in ...
Ghosts of the American Civil War. Tales of ghosts from the American Civil War have been popularly shared since its end. Among the locales that have become known for Civil War ghost stories are the Sharpsburg battlefield near Sharpsburg, Maryland; the Chickamauga battlefield in Georgia; Harper's Ferry, West Virginia; Buras, Louisiana; and Warren ...
A 22-year-old French woman whose blood-drained body was found in an abandoned church in northern Italy’s Aosta Valley over the weekend had been looking for a haunted house believed to contain ...
November 29, 1915 - Illustrated London News - The Ghostly Bowmen of Mons fight the Germans The Angels of Mons is one of many stories of the reputed appearance of a variety of supernatural entities which protected the British Army from defeat by the invading forces of the German Empire at the beginning of World War I during the Battle of Mons in Belgium on 23 August 1914.
Teke Teke. Teke Teke (テケテケ), [1] also spelled Teke-Teke, [2] Teketeke, [3] or Teke teke, [1] is a Japanese urban legend about the ghost of a schoolgirl, where her body was cut in half by a train after she had gotten stuck. She is an onryō, or a vengeful spirit, who lurks in urban areas and around train stations at night.