Monstruos: The Monsters of Latin America Original Haunted House Coming To Halloween Horror Nights 2024

Universal Orlando announced original house number 5 today, for those keeping track, and it is called Monstruos: The Monsters of Latin America.

Here is the description:

With La Muerte as your guide, you’ll be begging for piedad from these three terrifying legends: Tlahuelpuchi, La Lechuza and El Silbón.

Here is a breakdown of these creatures:

• Tlahuelpuchi – The tlahuelpuchi is a type of vampire or witch that lives with its human family. It is able to shape shift and sucks the blood of infants at night. It has a kind of glowing aura when shape shifted. Tlahuelpuchi are born with their curse and cannot avoid it.
• La Lechuza – The Witch Owl, is said to be a witch that can shape-shift into an owl and is well-known throughout Mexico and Texas. According to legend, La Lechuza was once a curandera (someone who practices white magic) who, after being exposed as a witch (or bruja), was killed by the angry and frightened townspeople. Legends say that she returned from beyond the grave as a ghost to seek revenge upon those who murdered her in the form of a human-sized bird with a woman’s face. Sometimes, she is the ghost of a woman who was widowed by a man who remarried, or was the devoted wife of an unfaithful husband.
• El Silbón – El Silbón (The Whistler) is a legendary figure in Colombia[citation needed] and Venezuela, associated especially with Los Llanos region, usually described as a lost soul. The legend arose in the middle of the 19th century. It has a characteristic whistle that resembles the musical notes C, D, E, F, G, A, and B in that order. Rising in tone to F, then lowering to B. It is said that when the whistling sounds close, there’s no danger, and the whistler is far away, but when the whistling sounds distant, it means it is nearby. It is also said that hearing the whistling foretells one’s own death, and one may hear it anywhere at any time. Some versions say it appears as a giant of about six meters that moves about the treetops, creaking, and emitting its chilling whistle. Inside its old and tattered sack lie the bones of its father, or according to some renditions, its multiple victims. Other versions say he appears as the shadow of a tall thin man, with a hat, and goes after drunkards most of all.

Halloween Horror Nights 33 will run from August 30 through November 3, 2024. Select tickets are now on sale.

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