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Once while visiting my in-laws in Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico I heard something, but didn't see it.
I was walking down by Lake Chapala after a night of heavy eating and quite a bit of tequila when my wife and I swore we heard a woman crying. My wife turned pale and insisted we get the hell out of there. I wanted to know where the sound was coming from.
That's when the wife told me the story of La Llorona. It's a ghost story I've since become rather obsessed with. In a nutshell...
A young mother is wronged by the father of her baby. In a fit of sorrowful rage, she drowns the baby and herself in the local lake/pond/river. Her ghost then roams the waters, crying (La Llorona means The Weeping Woman) for her lost child. She is said to take inquisitive children down into the deep with her.
It's a cautionary tale told all over Mexico to keep children from wandering around at night. Funny thing is, everyone I talked to in Ajijic absolutely believed La Llorona was real (although I heard a dozen different stories about her origin.) I got spooked and I can't wait to visit again and search the lake at night.
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