The inhabitants of a city in Colombia claim to have represented "La Llorona"

The inhabitants of the hamlet of La Esmeralda, municipality of Arauquita, in the Arauca department, remain in fear and surprise at the presence of a strange woman who walks at night crying in the streets of the city. For more than a week, residents have recorded in photographs what they consider to be "llorona".

The legend of "La Llorona", a woman who, amidst a crisis of madness, drowned her children in a river and since then, her mind wanders in their search, seems to be in danger. to be animated at Arauca. Nine nights ago, the people of La Esmeralda heard a scream and howls after midnight. Nobody dared to check the sound content, until a group of men met face to face.

Pedro Villareal told in Channel One the night he went home with seven friends after drinking in a shop, when they heard a scream and saw from afar an old woman, slender figure, with long black hair on her face and with a kind of white tunic, walking slowly to the village cemetery, crying unconsciously.

Despite the fear, the group of men decided to follow him to see who he was and register him. The woman's path led them to the village cemetery and stopped in front of the grave of a small child. There, said Villareal, the woman noticed her presence and when she turned to them, she uttered a shrill cry that made them run away.

"Her hair was like when they had not washed for several days, and when she went back to look, she was already dressed in black and we could not see her feet because she was flying to this altitude, "explained Villareal. Channel One.

"We were very scared, but we looked at her and when she saw us near her, she called us in. At the cemetery we were about 100 meters because we could not follow and encourage a child and cry a cry, "continues the story of the resident of La Esmeralda.

The witnesses of the strange presence badure that, when dawn arose, the woman disappeared, that she realized it without realizing it. The peasants of the region say that they have never seen her during the day, that she appears at night and especially at the full moon and that her cry is heard throughout the city.