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A Woman in White is a very specific sort of haunting. They are usually the unquiet spirits of women who have lost their children, usually at their own hand. The legends started in Mexico and the American Southwest, but they have been heard of in other places. They tend to be especially prevalent along waterways – near rivers and bridges. Usually the story goes that the woman drowned her own children, or due to some violent encounter, dropped her child into the river. She continues to haunt the place where her child drowned, searching for her lost babe.
La Llarona may manifest as a spectral woman near a riverbank, or as the sound of weeping, or even a child crying. One example is Thearosa’s Bridge in Northeastern Kansas, where, it is said, at night you can hear a woman crying for her lost child. In some cases the story goes further, and the spirit may be more violent than sad, attempting to repeat her crime by drowning other children who venture too near the spot, or kidnapping children to replace the one she lost.