I was wondering if any ever heard about the Mannequin Bride in Mexico that is believed to be an actual person. It appears that this "mannequin" which has been part of the bridal store in some part of Mexico for many years. They clame they never undress her but she always shows up at the window with a new dress. I know it sounds weird but I am curious if anyone ever heard about this. She is believed to have been a bride who died. Her features are also said to be life like.

I was just bored and looking at the oooold topics in the ghosts forum.
Does someone ever heard about this one??? Seems scaryy

Nope, never caught-wind of this story before, sounds strictly local. A mannequin always showing-up in a display window always wearing a new dress? Something tells me that if the store owners REALLY WANTED to get to the bottom of this curious phenomenon it would be easy enough to do so.....either that or they would have the most astounding paranormal footage ever caught on camera to display in their window instead.

This seems like the oldest trick in the book, an advertisement gimmick. Create the false story of a haunted mannequin, who mysteriously changes her own clothes, and you will create interest. You create interest, you create business, you create business, you create money. Seems like a reasonable idea to me, dontcha think?

Bu-but it sounds freakyyy

True if it was possibly even remotely true that would be freaky , but trust me there Daniella, it isn't even close to being true!!

Not sure if this is the same one but I found this:

Riddle of Mexico's 'corpse bride' draws crowds Tuesday, 20 December , 2005, 21:26
Chihuahua, Mexico: Peering through the glass at a mannequin's veined hands, sparkling eyes and eerie smile, the small crowd gathered outside a store in northern Mexico tries to settle a macabre riddle beguiling many.
Is the tall, slender bridal figure in the window a richly detailed shop's dummy or, as a local legend says, the decades-old embalmed corpse of the former store owner's daughter?.
The haunting figure known as 'La Pascualita,' or 'Little Pascuala' first appeared 75 years ago in the window of the bridal gown store in the city of Chihuahua.
Since then, the striking realism of the dummy has spawned supernatural tales and reports of a miracle, and even inspired a foot-stomping accordion ballad played on local radio.
The figure has drawn a stream of people from across the desert state of Chihuahua over the past eight decades, and is now attracting curious visitors from South America, the United States and Europe, the owners of the La Popular store say.
As cars and trucks rumble by the shop on a busy city street, the entranced visitors smudge their noses up against the store window and try to decide for themselves if it's a corpse.
"She looks good for all the years that she's been here," Yolanda Robles, who trekked to the shop out of curiosity from Phoenix, Arizona, said as she studied the rosary-clutching figurine.
"There are just so many details, like her hair and the nails on her hand, that it just has to be true," she added.
CORPSE BRIDE
Through the years the story has bloomed into a tale with all the rich characteristics of magic realist fiction. It all began on March 25, 1930, when the dummy was first placed in the store front window.
Dressed in a spring-season bridal gown, the figure immediately gripped the attention of passers by with its disquieting, wide-set glass eyes, real hair and blushing skin tones. Pascualita is unique among other shop mannequins in the sleepy backwater state capital.

Rapt locals soon began to notice a striking resemblance to the shop's then owner, Pascuala Esparza. A rumor quickly spread that the figure was not a dummy, but her daughter who, it was said, died from the bite of a Black Widow spider on her wedding day.
"She started to receive abusive phone calls from angry citizens who accused her of embalming her daughter," the store's present owner Mario Gonzalez said in his office above the wood-paneled shop floor.
"She decided to issue a formal denial through a public notary in the city, but by then it was too late. Nobody believed her and the name 'Pascualita' stuck," he added.
The name of the daughter, if Esparza ever had one, became lost in time.
Down the years, the tale has been embellished with claims of supernatural happenings, including visits by a love-sick French magician who is said to bring the dummy magically to life at night, and take her out on the town.
Others say that her gaze follows them around the store, or that she shifts positions at night in the darkened shop window to the surprise of passers by.
Spooked by the tales, several jittery shop workers say they dread being the last to leave the store in the evening, and some of them refuse to change the dummy's outfits.
Indeed, twice a week her outfits are changed, always using the more classic bridal styles that Gonzalez and his staff consider more appropriate and dignified. The changing is done - perhaps a bit theatrically -- behind curtains put up in the shop window to preserve the dummy's modesty.
"Every time I go near Pascualita my hands break out in a sweat," shopworker Sonia Burciaga said.
"Her hands are very realistic and she even has varicose veins on her legs. I believe she's a real person."
MIRACLES AND SUGAR SKULLS
While Pascualita is more of a curio than a religious draw in devoutly Catholic Mexico, a few people have left votive candles outside the shop and even attribute a miracle to her.
"One woman was having a violent argument with her boyfriend close to the store. As she turned to walk away from her lover, he pulled out a pistol and shot her," Gonzalez said.
"As she fell she looked up and saw the figure in the shop window and said, 'Save me Pascualita, save me!' And you know what? She survived," he adds.
Other tributes to the mannequin have included an altar of sugar skulls, flowers and candles left by local school children each year on November 2 - Mexico's Day of the Dead - and a ballad by popular Tex-Mex combo 'Los Archies.'
Among those to visit the bride have been popular television figures such as Mario Kreutzberger, better known as 'Don Francisco', whose syndicated show has stirred up interest in the figure throughout Latin America.
As more visitors come to the shop each year, Gonzalez says he is thinking of getting a visitors' book and even opening a small museum to Pascualita.
But asked to settle once and for all whether she is a dummy or a corpse, he just smiles and shakes his head. "Is it true? A lot of people believe it is, but I really couldn't say."

I thought Francisco was Don Francisco's real name!

Niice! Thanks Dakotabre! I wonder if there's a pic of her somewhere

Exactly. Why not just set up a video? I agree.



Yep sounds like a gimmick to me too.

Ah I just found some pics!!

http://www.kruela.ciberanika.com/pascualita6.jpg

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/Steph1/uploa...ta_3-722575.jpg
(ewww! her hands DO look real!)

http://www.banderasnews.com/0512/images/corpsebride.jpg

Oh YUK That hand does look real......

yea, the hands do look real, but the face looks totally fake ( did they have plastic back then???)

It is kinda creepy looking, I find mannequins freaky enough as it is! Hands are quite lifelike..

[attachmentid=26235]Those hands do look real. and in the second photo of the face it looks like a person with a plastic mask.

It's just one of those old fashioned mannequins. I wouldn't have it in my living room though.

I think I recall seeing the mannequin in question hosting a fashion show on Telemundo not to long ago.......she gets around.

Advertising

Yes....plain and simple.

Here is the link to the store's website, it's in spanish though.

mannequin

Exactly. It's just a very clever advertising technique.

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/...n_corpse_bride/


i could only find this

Excellent! Thanks!

the nails are too thick to be real. The yellow of it looks more bronzish, people's nails, not even dead people, have nails that get that particular shade. The hair on the head is sown on, look at the hair line. It's real hair, but it's sewn in, people don't have hair lines that perfect. I think that it's a wax mannequin or something of the like. It looks realistic enough to belong in a wax museum if you ask me.

Check out that link above, it was proven a hoax.

The hand looks like that of a corpse, but the face, it looks like they may have put in glass eyes and such like to keep it more preserved.

I remember a long while back somewhere in the States; I can't exactly remember the exact place. What I do remember it was a little five and dime store and in the store was what I first thought to be a mannequin of an indian. Upon closer inspection, I could see it was a dried corpse. Let me tell you, I didn't stick around that place for long. Sometime later, the shopowner appeared on telly with the indian and he had kept him as nobody had claimed his remains and came to regard him as a friend. This was back in the 80's and in the midwest. So it is quite possible that this mannequin is in fact a corpse and they felt the face needed a bit of a facelift; hence it looking fake.

like the ronald macdonald clown in mexico?? have you heard that story??

Just in case any of you are interested, heres the translated version of the spanish page that was posted earlier. Its not a perfect translation, but it gives you some background on the story.