La Popular -
For the past 75 years, a tiny bridal shop in Mexico has been the subject of some pretty crazy rumors. But
the creepiest rumor centers around a bridal mannequin sitting in the
window; a highly detailed dummy that many say is a perfectly preserved
corpse.
The tale begins on March 25th in 1930, when
the odd-looking mannequin was first placed in the windows of La
Popular, one of the most well-known bridal shops in Chihauhau, Mexico.
Almost immediately, the locals knew that something just wasn't quite
right with the figure. Before long, tales of the stunning mannequin
began to spread far and wide, and visitors trekked from all over just to
see the intricate details in the doll. From the individual wrinkles in
the hands, to the real human hair, to the mesermizing gaze of her glass
eyes, it was almost as if the figure was a real person frozen in time.
Eventually,
people began to notice the similarities between the mannequin, nicknamed
La Pascualita, and the daughter of La Popular's proprietor, Pascuala
Esparza. According to legend, Esparza's daughter had tragically passed
away on her wedding day, victim of a Black Widow spider bite. Locals
whispered that the beautiful figure in the window was, in fact, the
embalmed body of Esparza's daughter. More and more, the details began to
make sense, and the townspeople became outraged. Of course, Pascuala
Esparza formally denied the allegations, but by that point, it was too
late - the legend was set in stone.
Today, La Pascualita still
sits in the window of La Popula, and the rumors have only become more
pervasive. Of all the employees who work at the popular bridal shop,
only two are allowed to change her clothing, and only behind closed
doors. It's a practice that makes some of the employees pretty
uncomfortable. “Every time I go near Pascualita my hands break out in a sweat," said one shop worker. "Her hands are very realistic and she even has varicose veins on her legs. I believe she’s a real person.” Other
workers say they've come to the shop in the morning only to find
Pascualita has changed positions on her own, or complained that she
would "watch" them with an unsettling gaze as they tended to the store.
AAAH I see why so many people WANT to believe this, but I just can't wrap my head around HOW it could be real!! The face is so, clearly, not a human face. And while the hands look realistic, they could easily be realistic wax that's gotten dirty over the years.
ReplyDeleteI suppose it wouldn't kill me to stop being cynical and let people believe, since it seems to make people happy...
I would suggest looking at the faces of embalmed people like Evita Peron and Vladimir Lenin. They were definitely real people who were embalmed, and their faces look like they could be fake. Just saying that it is a possibility!
DeleteI would suggest looking at photos of the embalmed bodies of Evita Peron and Vladimir Lenin. Their faces after being embalmed look very fake, yet they are real human bodies. Embalming can leave this fake looking effect.
DeleteResident of Uncanny Valley.
ReplyDeletei have NEVER seen mannequin hands like that, in my LIFE. this is SUPER CREEPY. they look as if they want desperately to decay and return to the earth.
ReplyDeleteHer head doesn't look real at all, especially her hair. But when you look to the hands and the details in her palms and nails, it becomes creepy. I would simply result it that somebody wanted to make a realistic mannequin.
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