El Silbón - Venezuela “The Whistler” is a terrifying man that haunts the Venezuelan and Colombian Llanos region. According to the legend, the ghost is a black-hearted young man who killed his father in to eat his organs. Tis apparently rather tall character is forever doomed to walk the region as a lost soul, carrying a bag filled with his father's bones. The Whistler gets his name from the harmonic bone-chilling whistling sound he emits: When the whistling sounds far away, El Silbón is actually near by and vice versa. Some people barely notice the seemingly long-distant music...and when they do, it’s usually too late.
La Ciguapa – Dominican Republic La Ciguapa is a mythological creature who is described as a strange, wild women living in the high mountains, with magical powers. This beautiful women boasts a long mane of hair that wraps their naked bodies. Spookily, the feet of La Ciguapa face backwards, making it hard to see which way they are moving by looking at their footprints. Legend says that if you look them in the eye, you’ll be enchanted by their power and fall completely at their mercy...
El Duende - Guatemala This Guatemalan folktale tells the story of spooky hobbit-like who goes out walking after dusk. No one is quite sure if it’s a ghost, a demon, a man, or a goblin. All agree that he’s very small, dressed in all-black, and dons a big shiny belt, a pair of heavy boots and a large hat that hides his face. El Sombrerón seduces young women, wooing them with his sweet voice and beautiful melodies. Once they become bewitched, he stalks them and braids their hair. Under his spell, they become unable to eat or sleep...until, eventually, they die.
El Chupacabras - Puerto Rico and Mexico The most media friendly and contemporary of all latin american monsters and ghosts, due to very recent and documented "sightings". A blood sucker creature who has been seen from Mexico. Although it has never attacked people, his appearance is enough to scare the hell out of anyone. It has become a global celebrity being featured in the X Files, Scooby-Doo, Marvel Comics and a few independent films
El Coco - From all over! The Latino version of the bogeyman, El Cucuy has terrified children for generations. Used by daddies across the world to dissuade their children from misbehaving, El Coco, or Cucuy as it is also known is a shapeshifting figure that hides in closets or under beds and torments -- and eats -- niños who don’t listen to their parents.
La Llorona - From All over too! Also known as La Sayona the most famous Latin American legend of all time, La Llorona is a beautiful woman who brutally killed her kids to be with the man she loved. When he rejected her, she killed herself. Now, the muderouus mum is doomed to wander, crying constantly, and vainly searching for her children for all eternity. According to legend, she’ll kidnap wandering kids
La Patasola - Colombia This one legged creature is one of Colombia's scariest tales. It first appears as a beautiful and seductive women, often looking like someone loved by the unfortunate soul that happens to see her, that would ultimately lure them away from their companions deep into the jungles to reveal their true appearance as one-legged freaks with ferocious vampire-like lust for human flesh and blood, attacking and eating the flesh or sucking the blood of their victims. They protect nature and wild animals and attack humans who seem to be harming the wild.
La Luz Mala - Argentina. These mythic lights are among the most famous legends in Argentine folklore. Some people claim that the unexplained flashes of light remained still on the horizon, not doing much, Others have a more horrific tale to tell, and say that the lights chased them at high speeds. The unexplained phenomenon is widely known, but many believe the lights are the spirits of the dead who didn’t get a proper Christian burial when they died.
La Casa Matusita - Peru. A boring looking yellowish building in the centre of the Peruvian capital, La Casa Matusita is actually a hub of ghosts activity. everyone has a version on the origins of the house: some people say a former resident killed his family t then kill himself . Other less conventional tales talk about a party where guest, after taking a rather generous doss of hallucinogens turned crazy and started killing each other. Another version put the rent-a-witch lady who sold her services to the higher bidder in that hues. Apparently she caused a lot of misfortunes across the city. Regardless of what happened before, people say that of what happened before Anyone who enters is said to completely lose their sanity…so they say.
La Planchada - Mexico The ironed lady , got her name from being dressed in a very pristine and well ironed nurse uniform. Legend says she was a nurse who was rejected by a doctor and in revenge she killed one of the doctor's patients. After that she has been regretting in so she cures people in Mexico DF hospitals, appearing at night healing badly injured people who then claim to have been visited by the nurse who just came and cured them! Which legend haunted you as a child? Post your comment...
