La Llorona is one of our most beloved, deeply-rooted, and terrifying legends among Latinos in the US and beyond. Who, as a child, hasn’t asked for a bedtime story because we weren’t able to sleep?

La Llorona seeps into memories and households across countries, emerging from rough terrains, desolate roads and hollow creeks. Geographically diverse, the oral tradition and literary material of the ...

Stories about La Llorona have not only terrified Latino children for decades around campfires and during sleepovers with cousins, the vengeful ghost in Mexican folklore is quite scary in horror movies ...

When I was about eight years old, my little sister and I developed a habit of sneaking out of our bedroom in the middle of the night to go watch TV in the living room. We weren’t the most stealthy ...