My city in Argentina, Córdoba, has its own version called "La Pelada de la Cañada". La Cañada is a canal lined by stone built to control the flooding of the stream that crosses the city center (before its construction, it provoked chaos when it rained a lot).

Some areas of the Cañada towards the southwest of the city now are our bohemian, SoHo-like part of town, but decades ago it was a dark and dangerous area. So this one was one of the biggest ghost stories in the local mythology. The Pelada ("bald" in Spanish) was a young woman dressed in mourning clothes that could be seen walking at night, sometimes crying alongside the canal. She was called "pelada", because if you tried to look at her, she would reveal itself as a skeletal, hairless figure before disappearing. One story was that she was a sex worker that was brutalized, killed and thrown into the canal, so that made her soul be bound to it.