The Hunt For La Llorona - The Weeping Woman

[Music] welcome to a special episode of buzzfeed unsolved supernatural in honor of the new movie the curse of vladiorona we're doing something slightly different we'll be looking for the titular antagonist lady arona to see if there's any truth to the storied legend i tried to roll those r's curly i know i heard you like give up it's fine i guess this is a good point to bring up yeah i'm half mexican yeah and i'm salvadoran so my family's from el salvador you speak fluent spanish i i do not i'm a shame in my family i speak it enough you say la yorona leorona but i wouldn't say like oh you could [Applause] can you put too much mustard on it like because then it's you're just being obnoxious yeah well that was certainly good stuff we should get into uh finding lariona now the curse of la llorona is the story of a single mother fighting to save her family from the evil elijona or weeping woman who wants to steal her children and make them her own because la llorona is an important cultural figure in storytelling traditions not just in mexico and the us but throughout the latinx world we've invited our friend currently from buzzfeed's pedal like to come with us on this journey just jumping into this yeah let's get it out of the way yeah shania or bugara you know this i'm a bugatta like i'm definitely a bugatta but i love him but i'm thankful for you because every time i'm freaking out with you i'm like oh don't step up you'll say something and i'm like over the aisle curly and i are thick as thieves ryan you can't take that away from us let's just let's just let's just let's just get into it mythology dates back to pre-colonization and until more recently she had been largely a figure of oral storytelling because of this the story of la llorona can vary widely between families i'm trying to figure out where this falls because it sounds urban legend is it somewhere in the middle of everything which i think is why it's so universal which is why like no latin country no matter who you talk to everybody wants to claim it as their own story everyone is like this is my story this is us and it's like this is kind of universal at this point according to one popular legend la llorona was abandoned by the man she loved and left to raise their children alone overcome with grief over lost love or perhaps filled with the desire to exact revenge on her betraying lover she murdered her children and threw their bodies in a river she died of her despair and as punishment for her murders she was condemned to wander the world in search of the bodies of her dead children you know i think that's a fair sentence to be honest you murder your children maybe you have to search for them forever in the afterlife ever yeah some misplaced anger there you know her husband you think do you think that's misplaced yeah i think you think she went too far where do you think she went too far when she killed her kids i'm sorry i came down to you i don't know i was like i'm sorry while many layers encounters and stories encourage audiences to fear a spirit actively looking to do harm other tellings are meant more as a parable where listeners merely learn from the woes of the weeping woman i think it's important to scare children like this yeah i think that's good i think it's great too legit like before leorona i was a happy little kid i lived a great life do you know what i mean and then we were like sleeping on like a maca what are they called a hammock oh yeah yeah and then atheia came up one day and just changed my life she was cleaning and she could hear somebody crying outside of the window and so she looked out and she saw this woman with like all black eyes like no white in the eyeballs and super super like yellow skin and like fur so it's like awesome yeah they add a little bit i think that's where they add a little bit i have no knowledge of this whatsoever were there any polish legends shane that were threatening you with death all we had was good old santa claus and the the worst the worst you'd get was no presence wow wow you know and that was very devastating for me it's been a way it was a way to make me behave as a child my my mom used it as a disciplinary technique that's what they do so she told me that pretty much if i didn't make my bed la derona would come drown me in my sleep yeah if you wonder why i am the way i am it's because i've been threatened with death since i was able to comprehend my job one scholar has related that her family's la llorona story which was passed down matrilineally was a tale of a woman who was jealous her husband showed more love for their children than her she told him her concerns and when he didn't change she drowned their children in the river her husband left her and she died of loneliness when she got to heaven god told her she could not get in until she found the souls of the children and she now wanders the earth in search of them in this version la llorona's not necessarily a threat to anyone outside her own family she would reportedly find her way onto the scholar's family farm and cry in the fields creating a moaning noise on windy nights you gotta know that if we do hear a woman who is sobbing moaning a ghastly shriek i am going to bolt in the direction i will too with a camera yeah and unfortunately for this very real woman i'm going to be like i see that you're crying can you can you let me pinch you to prove that my hand does not go through your body just imagine the plight of this woman too she's she's having a very emotional probably the worst day of her life emotional public moment and now three grown men are charging at her full force with cameras ma'am we got you get the net in other tellings la llerona's lover was a man from a higher class who betrayed her to pursue a woman more befitting his social standing while lagrona's myth predates her this version parallels to the story of la malinche also known as donia marina dona marina was a slave offered to the spanish conquistador hernan cortes by a mayan lord she served as his translator cultural mediator as well as concubine cortez had a child with donya marina then abandoned her when his upper class spanish wife arrived figuratively her murdered children could be seen as the millions of natives who fell under spanish rule yeah i mean la malinch is kind of like an iconic figure as well i've never heard la malencia been put in with leorona like ever this is sort of a cinematic universe where people are starting to do crossovers yeah exactly well i think it's also like it's trying to assign historical value to a tall team this feels like fan fiction but this feels like a shoe horn to be quite honest i think the story still holds value as a legend passed down from generations but i think that could be said for like a lot of spirits that they're kind of just like legends that people pass on and i feel like they do sometimes gain power because so many humans are giving it energy she gets around well now that we've learned the history or i guess the lore why don't we go try and find this woman and maybe she could tell us for herself what's the actual tale let's do it wouldn't that be something while there have been unnerving sightings of la llorona all across north america from mexico city to chicago to texas we're going to be looking for her in two of the most active areas of reported sightings southern california and new mexico our first stop in our search for lagrona is the aquamansa pioneer cemetery in colton california aquamansa served as the cemetery for the first non-native settlement in the san bernardino valley the settlers first arrived in the area in the 1830s and the cemetery is the last remaining piece of the original settlements all right so here we are at aguamansa memorial yeah or cemetery yes okay very serene and creepy it's nice to have some enthusiasm here i'm excited i suppose curly would you like to maybe call out to her yes senora yorona they had he said my name for sure [Laughter] crucial to our search aguamansa is also located next to a canal and close to the santa ana river la llerona is said to haunt riverbanks and lake shores reports on her powers vary but some include the ability to hover above water or even transform into a flock of birds that's good that's a superpower she's like an anamorph that would be horrifying if we're like we got your corner then i mean you're thinking doves i was thinking i love a crow that's pretty vague like what if it's like pelicans like huge like a flock of pelicans or little little golden finches or hummingbirds is known to wear white and rumored to seduce men who hear her crying and then kill them said to reveal cultural anxieties surrounding sex la garona is often posed as a femme fatale or sexual predator in rodolfo anaya's 1972 novel bless me ultima la gerona is described as a demon that wanders river banks and quote seeks the blood of boys and men to drink end quote la llorona also has a bit of a femme fatale side of her where she does go after men bad boys and what do you know three ripe young men show her your biceps ryan i'm not gonna hey why don't you show her your legs oh i'll show her my legs give her something like a good couch you hear that i'm giving you two free tickets to the shane midday leg show some spicy calves coming your way ladies i hope you got a glass of water because here oh oh oh oh oh oh oh damn no no no no it's too sexy this is for you look at that cab action why don't you guys keep exploring i'll stand here in the dark for 30 minutes and see if anything happens to me here we are guys here we are here we are well this is the uh chapel on site in the cemetery and that that's pretty spooky i will say some people think she's a demon which obviously you know my track record record with demons not my favorite so they actually have a little la llorona shrine right here creepy also my girl guadalupe is here that's my girl i'm happy she's here if she's here no one can mess with us we're reaching out to whoever lives inside this chapel hopefully that is la llorona now laguerrona we came here all the way from los angeles we came here to find out why you drowned your children look i'm not here to judge you i just want to know why maybe he's here to judge me of course i'm here to judge you she drowned her children i don't think it's cool that you drowned your kids lady we're going to turn on a device here that may help you speak to us spirits of this chapel you know that new sound you were looking for listen to this you like that i love it that's good right [Music] chatterbox is here tonight ask who's inside here i couldn't even understand that i was so fast but it sounded like spanish that sounded like hello yeah we're gonna need to hear more than one or two words in a row do you hear that what the [ __ ] whoa that was [ __ ] crazy who was that thank you so much who was that that was pretty crazy that was a direct response to the thing you said yeah you sound surprised i mean i loved it what do you know about la llorona twist your arm in the gonna twist your arm in a box twist your arm in a box sort of makes the other one a little less special next in our search we will travel to la yorona park in las cruces new mexico where many locals claim to have seen her along the banks of the rio grande we're lucky enough to be joined by one of these locals willing to share her story okay so here we are in las cruces new mexico with articelli to tell us about her experience with la llorona so i was about 12 years old and i see like this silhouette it's like a figure and i can't see a face i can't see no like features so i'm making this figure out and i notice that i can't see their feet like their feet aren't touching the ground and right then i start getting like okay what the heck and then like right then i hear la whales of the yurona and i book it and i'm like knocking on the door and by the time like i figured out what i was looking at my cousin was already gone so i think she had seen her before i did so i'm pounding on the front door like please somebody let me in and i was crying but i didn't want to like make any noise because you don't know what's right there they didn't want her to get me and finally somebody opens the door and i just like run in and i like jump under the covers and i'm just like crying had you known what she was when you saw her or were you like that yeah well like i was like what is that but then as soon as i heard like the whales what does it sound like oh god like give me the creeps because we're here they were just like like crying like so i don't know how to describe it it's like despair like she you know what i mean yeah see this is what i mean i was telling them earlier like people see her and they're like we know yeah like you just know well fellas we've arrived yes while you're to roanoke park we made it we're here the crying woman a popular spanish tale about a woman who cries for her lost children along the river a little bit of revisionist history there sounds quite sweet when you put it that way it does we should probably go look over there by the swing set right oh yeah let's do it let's go where is it it's right under that horrifying bridge what's also funny when you kind of see these places and you know oh this is where i'm going to lose it later your virginity yeah my virginity which reminds me i have something to tell you guys i was hoping i had some very special plans for you this evening ayadona's myth has largely been seen as a moralistic and cautionary tale that is meant to keep men women and children all on their best behavior for example children are cautioned not to play too close to waterways and to get back home before dark for fear that lagerona would get them okay so here's the playground this is where she would prey on children well i got a playground who would think that this was a good idea though are you saying curly that you think it's a bad idea to build a playground i mean if you know the story why would you be like you know it'd be great actually this is like the part that you bring your kid when you hate them like hopefully she'll get them i'm scanning the park right now for heat signatures i'm not sure if la llorona would show up is she a spirit is she a demon i'm not really sure but is that noise yeah do you hear that it said that children should be very cautious when they're in this park obviously we're all grown men so maybe we could act like children or we have brought some things that may bring out the inner child than us there you go shane i have here a photo of you as a child that's me and there i am look it kind of looks similar yes best buds cheese right now we're calling out to the entity that calls itself la la rona la yorona the wailing woman look at this boy with these pinchable cheeks it's me now i'm him look at that that's when his head was the size of a melon and not the size of an exercise ball all right shane what if we pretended we were children okay this is actually i'm not trying to make a mockery of this i think if maybe we well i was thinking i could maybe push you in the swing wow i can't believe we're at the park here look at this big tall friend of mine yeah it's my favorite place to be i'm gonna push you on the swing now it would be really bad if something came out and did something to me like dragged me into the water until i couldn't breathe anymore and cease to exist push your friend curly too oh i could push curly too yeah wait why why is currently a 40 year old man well we're going to look in other parts of this park maybe you'll find us there maybe you won't but remember we used to be these boys and we're still tasty at least one source says the legend of the weeping woman is very strong in las cruces where locals are reportedly very superstitious and claim to spot la jarona crying and walking along the river with that being said we'll end our investigation in the same fashion that many locals have encountered her by each of us walking alone along the riverbank hoping for a face-to-face encounter with the famous and deadly la yarona so curly's out there doing his solo walkthrough he is doing his first solo walkthrough he seemed pretty excited yeah maybe because he's never done one before alrighty y'all so i am walking now by myself within my lonesomeness so i am not really scared i'm kind of just like come on like let's see what you got girl where are you at and i'm not trying to provoke nobody i'm not trying to make you angry or nothing i mean look yodona how dope would it be if we showed the world that you were here you know what i'm saying we should call you my little yoro nachiona if what you did is true it's pretty [ __ ] up are you genuinely concerned about this walkthrough this investigation i don't i don't know i haven't i haven't seen any signs yet but you know you never know oh hell no oh hell i keep like thinking that i see something but like i think they end up being like trash bins i think curly's on his way back here how do you think he fared probably fine i can see maybe the silence getting to him you know he is very perceptive when it comes to energies and stuff so that is true he may have felt something out there i feel like we we haven't heard him though are you here hello i feel like now's a good moment to spook me i kind of have gotten a little gassy walking up and down this river oh here he is it's cold out there guys yeah yeah i know it's super cold you seem awfully chipper yeah i mean it was a lovely walk seeing is how that's the first thing you said you mentioned the cold i can't imagine that actually anything happened right i kept thinking that i would see things and then i would look and be like oh it's a trash can the shadow is playing tricks in your mind or i'm like i see walking and then i i'm like oh that's my shadow you know what i mean i'm gonna go uh jump out there and do my own thing now what's oops i'm setting an alarm on all right i'm not going to find my old pal the wailing woman hope she's out here i'm approaching the spooky bridge that we walked under earlier god i'd love it if this lady showed up and just drowned my ass can you imagine i'm going to walk out to the river here this is where the lady is said to be do you think shane is out there screaming right now he's probably doing some stupid bit where he's pretending he's a kid oh hey there miss oh it's just me uh a little boy i'm out here all alone at night oh i sure hope some lady doesn't show up and kill me check this out oh sure would love a a little lemon soda maybe some peppermint sticks oh one thing i don't want is to be murdered tonight and then he'll move on from that he'll start wailing and then when that eventually fails he's going to move to his his old standby of asking la giardona to murder him in various ways oh sure would be bummed if a lady showed up and drowned my ass right now fill my lungs up with water why not i'm sure you'd like to shut me up sure you're sure you've heard plenty from me tonight i know you had sweet curly out here before me and you're going to have the timid man come out here after me but uh i'm really probably the biggest get out of the bunch hey i'm back yes let me guess i'm not going to like it out there i really liked it yeah it was good work it's a good walk what'd you do uh i tried to appeal to that lady's interest yeah she wasn't having it well ryan i think you're gonna have a good time yeah i think so too that'd be fun so what i'm gonna do i'm gonna tap into my childhood self oh my okay i'm pretty far out now mommy can somebody help me find my mom mom mama oh god it is pitch black out here there is nothing but me um what do you think he's doing being nervous and talking to the air and he's probably super scared huh yeah oh yeah doing that kid bit pretending i was a kid again actually made me even more scared it reminded me of how i used to feel when my mom would tell me about you i think i'm gonna break out the spirit box seeing that now i'm in the middle of nowhere hello my name is ryan who's out here with me i'm reaching out to the spirit of la llorona what what was that what who's out here with me it's all me just being by myself now's your chance i'm talking to you la eurona if you're real tell me why you did it why did you do that to your children to your ninos i just want to know maybe i can help you lots of twists lots of twists i'm turning it off you know this was kind of liberating i feel like i just stood up to a childhood bully all right let's get back into the warmth i actually forgot i was cold hey what up how'd it go it was good i'm good did you see anything i got a female voice that said it was a twist all i know is that my her i gave her the perfect opportunity to get a two for one bregara special that's true and she blew it i i guess the ghoul boys prevail again this time oh this this what does that mean i don't know scary the legend of la llorona has loomed large in latinx cultures for lifetimes to this day she remains a huge part of the culture her story will continue to haunt children and adults alike but with so many different interpretations and legends surrounding the weeping woman whether she still wanders the world in search of her lost children remains unsolved the curse [Music] you

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Length: 23min 46sec (1426 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 04 2019

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[u/Justcause95]

Hey demons, it's ya boi

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I'm such a fan of this series and live in Riverside so I was stoked when I saw they went to Colton!

[u/mohahernan909]

Ghost hunting (if you’re not familiar w the series it has a comedic angle) for La Llorona, they visit Agua Mansa cemetery in Colton. If you just want to skip to the part @ Agua Mansa it starts at 7:35.