Surprise and fear in a city of Colombia: locals 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 Cbad Uno that one evening he was going home with seven friends after drinking in a shop, when they heard a scream and saw an elderly, thin woman with long black hair on her face and with a kind of white dress, walking slowly towards the village cemetery, crying inconsolably.

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 it for several days, when she turned to look, she was already dressed in black and we did not see her feet because she was flying at this altitude," Villareal explained. at Cbad Uno.

"We were very scared, but we looked at her and when she saw us nearby, she called us in. At the cemetery we were about 100 meters away because we could not follow and encourage a child. We cried and, when he returned to look shouted, "continues the story of La Esmeralda 's resident.

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.

Source: Infobae

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