This has already been posted in the hoax forum, but it's too good to ignore. Reuters has reported on a Mexican urban legend concerning a mannequin in the window of a bridal gown store in the city of Chihuahua. Local rumor has it that the mannequin is really the embalmed body of the former store owner's daughter. The former store owner was called Pascuala Esparza. La Pascualita means 'Little Pascuala' (i.e. her daughter). According to the legend her daughter died from the bite of a Black Widow spider on her wedding day, so Pascuala embalmed her and stood her up in the window of the store. It definitely is an urban legend because it would be impossible to embalm someone and have their flesh be preserved that perfectly. For some reason, people tend to think that it's easier to preserve a body than it actually is. For instance, there's also the urban legend about a dead wife used as a coffee table, in which a guy seals his dead wife inside an airtight glass coffin which he uses as a coffee table. In real life, it's not that easy to preserve a corpse.
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I can see how such a rumor might get started, especially if the store has only one high-quality mannequin.
The proportions look off, but it's hard to tell from the small photo. Anyone have a link to a larger one? Also the hairline is too even to be real, it's a wig.
This article says so: http://www.pascualita.com/leyenda.htm
Apparently the store owner had to come out about it relatively soon after the dummy was installed, because people were coming in and pressing their fingernails into it's face to see what it was made out of.
There are several photos there of "La Pascualita," and also one of the real Pascualita, who doesn't look all that much like the dummy.
That's not really the point, though. The point is the legend is a wonderful tale.
http://fets3.freetranslation.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pascualita.com%2Fleyenda.htm&sequence=core&language=Spanish%2FEnglish
DMAN DUDE, GIEV ME A BRAEK ALDREAY!
"It was so much the admiration that caused among the public, that the positive fibers and the magic of a powerful guru that arrived from distant lands, who passed for the cupboard and fell in love with immediate of Chonita , they gave life al model."
Yikes. 🐛 So did the magical guru from a distant land fall into the cupboard? Become a cupboard? Look like a cupboard? Pass by the cupboard? Get it on with Conchita in the cupboard??
There is rumors that she changes her wedding dress avery once in a while, by herself.
Y EN OTRAS PALABRAS: QUE VIVA CHIHUAHUA Y TODA LA GENTE TAN BONITA Y TIERNA QUE TANTO EXTRANO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YA DEJEN DE ESTAR DE METICHES, ESTO DE LA PASCUALITA NO LES DEVE DE INTERESAR SI NO CREEN EN ELLA. 💋
For me these stories are quite interesting & sometimes fascinating.In this case of the corpse bride,I think the legend is a good one.I've heard some of the worst ones.Keep these stories coming in.Love to read them
I went to this store and i seen for myself. I remember just staring at her and thinking oh my gosh she must have been so beautiful and how sad that she died on her wedding day. I was looking at her for the longest time and it seemed that she was staring at me. I was talking with my family members and looked away for a minute and when I turned to look at her again her head was tilted a different direction. We were so freaked out that we all decided to return at 3:00 am because that is when she gets down and changes her wedding gown. Well we decided not to because we were all afraid.
yeah do your research
Remember Rosalia Lombardo?. She was an italian girl born in 1918 in Palermo, Italy. Well she died on Dec 6 1920 of pneumonia and her body was embalm and preserved in the Capuchin Catacombs, Palermo Italy.
Still to this day it is report her body and internal organs are is perfectly intact from the day she was embalm. She's been buried for 90 years.
The story itself about La Pascualita is abit far fetched.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalia_Lombardo
It can't be proven that human flesh and bone blood and guts and all the rest can be turned into hard plastic.
RE: jessica in EL centro CA. Um there are people called artists/painters is it very very likely the owner of the store had someone paint the lines on the Manni's plastic hands.
I don't doubt La Pascualita was a real person - i would even go as far as saying she was probably a town hag or not liked by many in the township at the time of her death - which is possibly where this stupid story originated from.
I can look at all the videos on youtube related to this hoaxes but that doesn't mean their real accounts. Stand in actors are a great way of making something unreal look real. Computer effects, imagery and so on.
I've been told she was beheaded, raped and murdered, fell from a bridge, got bitten by a spider, got bitten by a rattle snake, got ran over by a car, fell from the bridge and hit her head on a rock.
Yeah right and i suppose someone is going to claim Pandora from Avatar is a real planet.
Oh and also Abel in Ontaro,Canada if you really do have the picture you claim your aunt took why not post it here to share with everyone i'm sure if you did it would put everyone's minds to rest she is not real.
You think with all the walking she does behind peoples backs she'd walked out side and catch some rays.