La Llarona Sighting

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Story type: Ghost
Location: Middle of Nowhere
Source: Form Submission

This story goes back a few years, but one of the best things about it, is I have a friend that saw it with me. Every time I tell the story, I still get goosebumps. We were making a long, latenight drive from Tucson to the Mexican border, leaving at midnight, to pick up a stranded friend.

I was trying to get some sleep, and my friend was driving. The passenger seat reclined all the way back. My friend driving grew up in Sweden, and had never heard the story of La Llarona. In case you haven't either, there are hundreds of sightings of her. The story goes that she drowned in a river, trying to save her drowning children one night. To this day, people see a wailing whispy woman at night near rivers, searching for her children.

Anyway, it was about 3 AM, and I couldn't sleep, so I sat up, and put the chair up. And ahead of the car I saw this white whispy woman walking, or hovering rather, with her back to us along the side of the road.

My friend was freaking out, and before I could say anything, bumb ... bump ... we drove over a bridge. A river. I never believed in ghosts before that moment. So, I said to my friend, "Turn around ... we have to see if she's crying!" and my friend was like, "No way man! What the hell was that!?" and I said, you are not going to believe this ... and I told him the old Mexican folklore, and he was convinced instantly, that was what we saw. He did not for one second say, "No way ... you are pulling my leg." Today he is a teacher in Phoenix, and he tells his kids that story every year.