After she died (either by drowning herself in the same river or wasting away), her ghost continued the ritual, with one ugly twist. Both versions say that Maria became consumed with guilt and sorrow after the boys' deaths, and began walking alongside the river crying out for them. One night, by themselves once again, they wandered down to the river and drowned. Enraged and jealous, Maria threw the boys into the river and they drowned.Īnother version of the story says Maria was the wild one, going out at night to entertain men and often leaving her young boys home alone. When he did come home, he only wanted to visit his sons. But then Maria's husband began staying away from home for extended periods, drinking excessively and seeing other woman. She found and snagged him, and they had two wonderful sons. She was a beautiful girl who would only deign to marry the most handsome man. According to this popular Hispanic tale, a woman named Maria is La Llorona, which means "the weeping woman" in Spanish. Oh, La Llorona! This tragic figure dressed in white wails along riverbanks, mainly in the Southwest U.S., mourning her two young sons – who she killed. Jaime Lopez/Jam Media/LatinContent/Getty Images Point Pleasant, meanwhile, embraced its moment in the spotlight, erecting a Mothman statue and creating the Mothman Museum and Mothman Festival. While no photos of him exist, reports consistently place him at around 7 feet tall with piercing red eyes (sometimes on his head, other times on his chest) and either bat-like or feathered wings. However, Mothman sightings subsequently cropped up around the globe. The sightings abruptly stopped, leading locals to think that Mothman had been trying to warn them – or was responsible for the tragedy. 15, 1967, a major bridge in the area collapsed during rush hour, killing 46. (Interestingly, a 1966 Associated Press article quotes a West Virginia professor as saying that what the people actually saw was a rare species of crane which had wandered out of its normal migration route.) Once the news got out, more than 100 people in the Point Pleasant, West Virginia region reported seeing "Mothman" over the next year. As they raced home in their car, the beast flew after them. The two red lights they'd noticed were its eyes. Stopping to investigate, they claim to have discovered a 6- or 7-foot (1.8 or 2 meters)-tall creature that resembled a man with large wings. 15, 1966, four young adults noticed two red lights in the shadows of the West Virginia Ordnance Works, a former TNT factory from the World War II era. As soon as the news broke, hundreds of people suddenly claimed they, too, had spotted the Jersey Devil. Weeden reported being awakened in the night by flapping wings outside his bedroom window in the morning he found cloven prints stamped into the snow. One notable sighting came in 1909, when Trenton councilman E.P. Instead, it makes its presence known via eerie wailing, awful cries and rampaging sounds throughout the forests of the Pine Barrens area. No matter the exact scenario, the Jersey Devilis depicted as having a horse head, bat-like wings and claws – although it's rarely seen. There are several variations to the story, including one where the woman cursed her unborn child by invoking Satan (she wasn't too happy to be pregnant again). How can you not love a story about the spawn of Satan? This myth says that in the 1700s, a woman in New Jersey's Pine Barrens area had 13 children, the last of whom was a devil who flew out the chimney and disappeared shortly after birth.
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