We show you the most popular and overwhelming Mexican Myths. Get to know the legends that make the bravest shudder.
Mexican Myths
Mexico is one of the largest countries in the world and a popular vacation spot. But you may have doubts before booking airline and hotel tickets for vacation, if you have heard about Mexican myths and urban legends of this country revolving around mothers, children and ghosts, keep reading this article to find out more.
Among the 10 most famous Mexican myths and spooky stories we have: La Llorona and Chupacabra, La Lechuza and El Cucuy, among other never-to-be-forgotten stories.
1. La Llorona
La Llorona cries for her son… is on the list is ranked as one of the creepiest Mexican myths of Mexican legends and stories. This lady “La Llorona“, also known as “The Weeping Woman”, fell in love with a man who gave her the ultimatum: to him and his children.
The weeping woman chose the latter, drowning her own children, hoping to be with the man she loved. But after rejecting her, she too took her own life. The man’s whereabouts, and whether he was the biological father of the children, remain unknown.
The weeping woman walks the streets of Mexico, mourning the loss of her children. The children must never wander the streets alone or misbehave, or the weeping woman will come looking for them.
2. The cuckoo or the coconut
“Behave yourself or El Cucuy will come looking for you”. This phrase is well known by the natives of this country to children who misbehave, within Mexican myths this expression is a warning from parents, “El Cucuy” (also known as the boogeyman or coco in other countries) is a creature that takes advantage of children who have misbehaved with their parents.
He can appear at any given moment in the night. In your closet, under your bed, at the foot of your mattress, always listen for your parents, or the boogeyman will find you.
3. La Planchada
This is one of the Mexican myths that is based on a story in the 1930s at the Juarez Hospital, “La Planchada” (“Woman who irons”) fell in love with a doctor, but he left her for another woman. Falling into a deep depression, La Planchada contracted an illness that ultimately killed her.
Rumor has it that she had belittled other nurses and murdered a patient in hopes of overcoming her distress of a man she could no longer trust. She is said to wander the halls of hospitals and tend to the needs of patients, as well as return to the room where she died and heal whoever is there.
4. The missing hitcher
Tracing back to the 1870s, the missing hitcher is exactly what it sounds like. He just calls drivers to suddenly disappear, sometimes even while the car is still moving, with no explanation.
Some say the hitcher often appears in the form of a girl, leaving an address for home. Drivers are often greeted by two grieving parents, who are said to announce that today would be their little girl’s birthday, vanishing the victim forever.
5. The Owl
“La Lechuza” is a woman who turns into an owl within Mexican myths is also attributed to witches, waiting outside the homes of their victims, often crying until their victims come out. Also known as “El búho de la bruja”, it is rumored that she sold her soul to the devil to become more powerful.
Sometimes appears as a human-sized owl, often with the head of an owl and the body of an old woman.
6. The chupacabra
First caught in the act in March 1995,“Chupacabra” (or the goat sucker) is a tall creature that lurks on over a hundred farms, sucking the blood of animals. Others have also identified “el chupacabra” as a werewolf creature with vampire fangs, basically, a vampire werewolf.
In Mexican myths it is called chupasangre or Chupacabras, this creature is one of the most widespread cryptozoological entities in the world, having appeared in Puerto Rico and throughout North America, but is native to Mexico.
7. White Death
Mexican stories or myths that speak of the “white death” tell of a spiritual apparition who never felt loved or wanted, and was forced to take her own life. Now, guilty or not, her spirit haunts anyone who knows she exists like the yokai of Japanese mythology.
No one is really safe, especially once you are forced to tell someone about her existence. If you hear her knocking on your door at night, don’t talk about her to anyone. If you tell anyone about her, this soul in pain will only go after your loved ones.
8. Witch Transport
This is one of the very characteristic Mexican myths that if you are driving on the streets of Mexico City and Cuernavaca, the “Transporte de Brujas” (a red car containing a group of beautiful women) often chases lonely men through the night, making promises to satisfy their needs, only to accept their offers.
Hours later, the men getting into the red car are on the side of the road, marked with ritual symbols. Never drive alone. You must stay in groups. Otherwise you will be marked for life and then murdered, staying indoors at night is your best option.
9. Alley of the hands
do you dare to walk through the “Callejón de las manos”, where ten skeleton fingers capture their victims? This is one of the Mexican myths that dates back to the year 1780 where a priest established his life in Alfalfa, hoping to spread the word of Christ.
In his brief period of stay, the priest received help from two boys from the local town, he sent them away never to see them again the next day. This father was murdered in his sleep, and consequently whoever killed the priest became the talk of the town, the murderers because of the murmuring of the people and the evidence found the young men were put on trial and then sentenced to hang.
The hands of the children were nailed to the wall of an alley and every time someone tried to remove them, they were only visited by the spirits of the children, as well as to glimpse the priest.
10. The girl in the house of tubes
This is one of the Mexican myths that talks about the tube house; it is an abandoned mansion in Monterrey, Mexico. It was built in the 1970s by a family of three who wanted to make a safe and comfortable home for their disabled daughter, who used a wheelchair to get around.
The day the family took her to see the new house for the first time, the little girl fell off one of the ramps and through one of the windows, falling to her death. Legends say that the little girl will throw any living child out the window if they trespass on her property. Some have even seen her waving to them from the very window she fell from.
