La Pascualita, the haunted mannequin
If you haven't heard of La Pascualita, it's a big mannequin down in Chihuahua, Mexico. She stands in the window of a bridal shop.
The woman she was patterned after was the daughter of the bridal shop owner. The woman died on her wedding day. Some say spider bite, scorpion sting, and even suicide.
The woman's mother went into mourning for a while and closed the shop. When the shop finally reopened, the dead bride was standing in the shop as the new mannequin.
Rumors went floating around that the mannequin was actually the woman's corpse because her eyes would follow people as they passed down the street. Even the people who dressed her said she was real.
Hearing from a real mortician, if there was a corpse under there, she would have rotted and stunk like all get out. Her limbs would have been falling off. Her head is obviously plastic. That is a real mannequin, and a very artful one at that.
People freak about how real the hands look. You get people like Leonardo da Vinci or Donatello and people say, "Oh wow! True art! Craftsmanship beyond human ken!" You get the same exquisite art in Mexico. "Oh, it's haunted."
People say the eyes follow them when they walk by. If somebody would put some eyelids on that thing, it wouldn't be so creepy.
It's my opinion that since the bridal shop was closed for so long, the owners probably needed a ploy to get their customers back. They were in a district where competition was high.
Yup, that's it. Nothing haunted today.
Here's a site to go to so you can see La Pascualita: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/la-pascualita
A YouTube video to make you superstitious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebo4e-WegGc
And the mortician video to dash away all your hopes of the existence of a haunted mannequin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRVVX5pJ62I
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