This has kind of popped up on the internet every so often, and while I loved the story at first, I've become skeptical. How come nobody else has studied/recorded/referenced these myths? We have one singular article, but nothing else.
I hate to suck the magic out of the room, but something tells me that the author took the imagination of children and wrote about it in a way to make it more of a social phenomenon than a set of individual ones.
At one point Disney acquired the movie rights to "Myths of Miami" for Clive Barker who was going to make a "Bloody Mary" movie out it similar to his "Candyman" movies, so presumably it is a work of fiction. But like how "Candyman" highlighted the real horrors of housing projects in addition to the supernatural elements, the movie presumably would have highlighted the real problem of homeless children.
I hate to suck the magic out of the room, but something tells me that the author took the imagination of children and wrote about it in a way to make it more of a social phenomenon than a set of individual ones.