During Spain's colonization of Mexico, a Spanish nobleman fell in love with an Aztec princess. As she was neither Spanish nor Catholic, he never married her, but they maintained a household and had two children together. One evening, he did not come home and she became worried. She sought him out at his parent's house, and found him...in the middle of his wedding reception, with his blushing Spanish bride at his side. In anger and pain, she ran home and grabbed their two children. She took them down to the river, and drowned them. Soon after, she realized what she had done and took her own life. Now, wherever you find water flowing free, you can hear her weeping and crying for her children.

In some areas this legend has merged with the Vanishing Hitchhiker. In Dallas, she is known as the Donkey Lady of White Rock Lake who was hideously deformed and now haunts amorous couples in their cars. If you have any other versions of La Llorana, please e-mail us the story and where you heard it.

The Ghost Tracks
I've often wondered how many people have rolled their cars over those San Antonio tracks...

The legend is that somewhere between 1930 and 1960, a bus stalled on the tracks carrying a busload of kids. When the train came, all of the children were killed. As a memorial, the streets in the neighborhood were named after the deceased children. Now you can pull up to the tracks, powder your car and the ghosts will push you over and leave fingerprints on your car.

Now there is a steady stream of cars waiting to try the tracks. The sheer number of people has attracted every kind of negative personality to the area and the drugs, thefts and sometimes violent crimes that are happening as a result are putting a strain on the SAPD. Not to mention being a royal pain for the people who live there.

Let's dissect the legend:

• If a busload of kids were killed at that location, there WOULD be a newspaper story, obituaries or at least a police/railway safety report. There is none.
• The streets are named after the developer's kids, one of whom has contacted us about these tracks.
• There is a fairly common optical illusion that will make you think you are rolling uphill when you are actually rolling downhill. We have a street like that near my house and it's far from haunted. Putting your car in neutral allows gravity to take over and if you doubt that gravity could cause something as heavy as a car to roll, try driving a stick shift...
• You can't just wipe your bumper down. You need to wash it to get rid of all oils left by you, your kids, your neighbor's kids, the cat... Otherwise, those prints that show up a few minutes later are yours.

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