The Folklore of the countries in The Americas is full of legends and horrendous monsters, ghosts and creatures, and today i'm gonna tell the story of El Silbón (The Whistler in English) a traditional horror legend of Venezuela and Colombia.

There is various versions of this legend, but i'm gonna tell you one of the most popular version:

Several years ago, there was a young man who lived with his family in the Venezuelan Plains, since his childhood, this guy was a very spoiled kid, his parents always fulfilled his every whim.

So one night, he was very angry with his mom, because he didn't wanted what she prepares for dinner, because he wanted to eat Venison Roast, so he and his father went outside and went to the forest to hunt a deer, but his dad couldn't find any deer, so his son got very, very angry, that in his rage assasinaited his dad with his hunting knife, and took out his guts for having something to eat. The guy went to the house and asked to his mom to cook that strange meat, she was confused for a moment, and got horrorized when she realized that the meat was human guts, her husband's guts, when everybody realized about that, his grandfather decided to punish hin severly, he tied his grandson to a tree, and start hitting him with a whip, the guy started screaming in pain and bleeding, and the grandfather added lemon and pepper on the wounds, making his grandson screaming harder from the intense pain, the young man got banished and cursed, and condemned to walk around the plains of Venezuela and Colombia, while he was chased by the Perro del Diablo (Devil's Dog). So the Silbón is the restless soul of this spoiled kid who walks and hunts people.

He is like 6 meters tall, and he goes holding a sack of bones, he goes whistling in ascending notes, but the perception of distance is reversed, if you hear him like he is near, it means he is actually far away, but if you hear him like he was far away, prepare for your garanteed dead, because he kills you, and add your bones to his collection on his sack. If you want to prevent him, you can do it, because the dog barking, the peppers and whips scares him.

He also punish severly to the drunk and womanizer men, to the drunk men, he drinks their schnapps from their belly buttons, and with the womanizer men, he dismember them and breaks his bones.

So this was the legend of The Silbón, a very popular horror legend from my Homeland Venezuela, I hope you enjoyed it!

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