La Llorona's Drag: The San Antonio River's Unsettling Embrace San Antonio, Texas, a city renowned for its vibrant River Walk and deep historical roots, holds a terrifying secret in the shadows beneath its charming bridges. In the summer of 1998, the disappearance and subsequent discovery of eight-year-old Mateo Rodriguez sent a ripple of dread through the community, turning a familiar urban legend into chilling reality. Mateo's small body was found drowned beneath an old bridge, bearing grotesque evidence of his final moments: clear drag marks across his back and, most horrifyingly, both of his shoulders dislocated—injuries consistent with immense, unnatural force. As if to seal the nightmare, the underside of the very bridge where he was found was plastered with hundreds of eerie handprints, all seemingly reaching and pointing in the same, ominous  ...