La Llorona, the Weeping Woman

A woman in white who walks beside water weeping for children she drowned herself. The story is known throughout Latin America, but in Mexico City it is fixed to the canals of Xochimilco — the last remains of the lake system Tenochtitlan stood on. The earliest written versions date from the colonial period and braid two layers together: a Spanish tale of an abandoned woman, and pre-Hispanic accounts of a weeping female voice heard before the conquerors came.

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El hotel Stanley

Un hotel en las Rocosas de Colorado donde Stephen King pasó una noche en la habitación 217 y concibió El resplandor. Empleados y huéspedes llevan décadas contando notas de piano y pasos de niños en pasillos vacíos.