The Night I Heard La Llorona - Espooky Stories 1

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It seems like we all have a
cousin THEODA friend that has heard Laurona.

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The following is a story of a
kid who stayed up a bit too late

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and heard something that maybe he didn't
want to hear. I'm Christina and this

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is spooky Stories, where every story
is based on real events. Listen,

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Escucia at your own risk. It
was a night like any other. Everyone

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was asleep except for me. I
have trouble sleeping, always have. I

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could hear my parents snaring in the
room. My little brother wasn't there that

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night, and he was staying with
our cousins a sleepover. I was eleven

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at that time, and I didn't
want to go. I thought I was

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too cool for that. Instead,
I was in the living room watching Jay

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Leno. Late night TV kept me
away on those long nights. We only

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had the one TV and it was
in the living room, so I always

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left my bed and sat on the
couch when I couldn't sleep. My parents

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never noticed, or they didn't care. Maybe they were too tired to notice.

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I don't know. They never said
anything to me about it. I

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must have dozed off at some point, because last I checked, it was

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eleven PM. But my watch said
four am. Although lights were off,

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it was quiet, too quiet.
Even the TV was off, but I

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didn't remember turning it off. I
thought maybe the storm took the electricity out

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for a second. Four am.
I never liked that hour, probably because

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of everything I had heard as a
kid. My family always said that was

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the witching hour. They had all
sorts of stories about ghosts and witches and

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well everything. They especially said nothing
good happened after midnight, but three am

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that was the devil's hour, and
well four am was just too close to

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three am. The worst stories always
took place in Mexico, So at that

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time that this happened, I thought
I was safe, and my eleven year

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old brain, I was pretty far
from Mexico therefore safe. Really, I

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was pretty close the house that we
lived in back then. It was in

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the RGV, the Rio Grande Valley
in Texas. But in my eleven year

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old brain, those scary stories my
family always told they didn't happen here,

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They only happened in Mexico, so
I was safe. I had taken another

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look at my watch four or five
am. I rubbed my eyes and thought

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maybe I'd fall asleep again. If
I went to bed, so I stood

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up to head to bed, and
that's when I heard a sound. I

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couldn't place the sound, not until
I heard it again. It was screaming.

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No, not screaming, crying.
If scream crying was a word that

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would have described what I heard that
night, A woman crying and maybe screaming

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a little bit. I was a
little scared, but I started freaking out

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a bit more when I remembered a
story that a cousin had told me a

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few months before that night, the
story of Laurona the weep being women.

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My cousin said that this happened a
very long time ago, and that she

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was named Maria. Maria was young
but beautiful, and she had met a

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man, a man who was rich. Maria was not rich, but they

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got married anyway. She was happy. They had two kids, a boy

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and a girl. But her husband
changed and one day he didn't love her

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anymore. He told Maria he was
leaving her. She was furious, but

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nothing made her more mad than when
she saw her husband with a younger woman.

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When she saw that, she ran
back home and took her kids to

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the her None of them were seen
again. The townspeople figure that she had

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drowned them because she was jealous.
After that happened, once it got dark,

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many in town began hearing cries,
and some sets to have seen a

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woman in a white dress appeared near
the river. They said that she would

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take kids, boys and girls.
It didn't matter. She was looking for

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her kids. At least that's how
I remember the story. I figured my

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cousin was exaggerating to try and scare
me. But I heard it again,

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crying. Was it closer? I
couldn't figure it out. I couldn't remember

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at the time. What was it
that I heard. If the screams were

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far La Rona was closed, or
had it been the other way around,

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I didn't know. I wanted to
think that I had imagined the cries,

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but there was again crying. There
was a ditch right by our house,

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and it sort of sounding like the
screams were coming from there. Still,

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I wanted to convince myself that this
was my imagination, but I heard the

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dogs barking. This meant that they
could hear it too. This was real.

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At this point, I was panicking, terrified, frozen on the couch,

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I turned to look at the door. I'm still not sure why I

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turned the door was to my left. I turned my head left, and

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that's when I heard it, A
whisper right in my ear. Messious,

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messious, my children. I ran. I was eleven when this happened.

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Of course I ran. I ran
straight to my parents room. I woke

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them up and I told them what
I heard. They told me it was

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my imagination. Then it was the
wind. They couldn't agree on what I

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heard or what I saw, or
whether it was They couldn't agree on which

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one, but they could agree that
it wasn't real. They could agree that

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they didn't believe me. I knew
what I heard. I knew it was

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real. I didn't know what to
do. I went back to the living

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room, turned the lights on,
turned the TV back on, sat back

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down. Was it gonna fall back
asleep? I didn't hear it again,

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at least not that night. Spooky
Stories is written, edited and produced by

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me Christina. Tune in on Fridays
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