The older generations tell the story like this: There is a creature so horrible that the devil is afraid to cross it’s path. It’s made up of every creature that strikes fear in the heart of people. The place where it’s most seen is the cornfields at night.
The Lopez lures its victims form their safe warm beds at night by howling, its cry sounds like that of a new born baby. Even though the creature doesn’t physically touch you it tries to scare you to death by following your every move and staying one step behind you breathing down your neck.- Now, being 22 I believed it, but never really took it to heart until I heard it.
The first night that I heard the Lopez was with my 19 year old cousin. It was around 10 o’ clock in the night and we were sitting on the front porch of our older cousin’s house waiting for her to come back from the kitchen with our snacks (for some reason we like to hang out on the front porch and talk). Well, everything got real quiet then this abnormal howl broke the silence.
We ran into the house and told my cousin what we heard for the rest of the night we stayed indoors. The next night my older cousin and her boyfriend (both in their early twenties) were sitting on the porch swing talking. Then out of this darkness came this scream it was somewhere between that of a woman and a dying animal. Believe it or not the boyfriend was more scared then us, he knew the stories and he knew that we should get into the house as soon as possible. From then on my cousin and I stay inside with the doors and windows lock we’re afraid to take any chances with the Lopez.
