The Fear of Rain

• 🌧️ A childhood fear of rain developed after a traumatic experience at age seven where the narrator was abandoned by a friend and forced to walk home alone.
• 👧 Lost and scared in the woods as darkness fell, the narrator encountered a freezing cold woman with long black hair and dirt-caked fingernails who squeezed their face.
• 👨‍👧‍👦 The narrator was saved by their father's voice, causing the entity to vanish, but the parents dismissed the story, attributing the cuts to thorns.

A Rainy Playdate and a Ghostly Encounter

• 🚶‍♂️ An eleven-year-old narrator, left to care for their younger brother, secretly went to a flood-prone park during a rainstorm.
• 🌊 While playing in the rising river, the narrator imagined a pirate battle, but was startled by a blue-lipped boy with darkened veins emerging from under a slide.
• 👻 The narrator fled home, and their mother revealed that a boy had drowned in that same park during a flood years ago.

La Llorona's Cry

• 🇲🇽 In Mexico, during the rainy season, a cousin recounted hearing La Llorona the previous night.
• 🐕 🐈 🐔 Animals reacted to her impending arrival: dogs barked, cats fought, and livestock became agitated, followed by an eerie silence.
• 👂 The sound of La Llorona's wail grew closer, and a grandmother warned that when her cries sound distant, she is actually very close, advising them not to look out the window for fear of being taken.

Wendigo and a Mysterious Protector

• 🌲 Living deep in the woods, the narrator and their dog, Zero, often felt watched and protected by the forest.
• 🦌 A terrifying encounter occurred when the narrator saw a deer-headed creature with falling flesh, skeletal snout, deformed antlers, and sharp claws, which mimicked their father's voice.
• 💔 Zero bravely lunged at the creature, but was fatally wounded, and the narrator was saved by a powerful, howl-like sound that scared the creature away, suggesting a protective entity from Native American culture.