La Pascualita or Little Pascuala is a bridal mannequin that has “lived” in a store window in Chihuahua, Mexico for the past 75 years. That is quite a long time for a bridal gown shop to retain a mannequin, but then the dummy has a rather strange history behind it. According to an urban legend, La Pascualita isn’t a dummy at all, but the perfectly preserved corpse of the previous owner’s daughter.
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.
La Pascualita – The Mexican Corpse Bride
What
do you get when you cross a series of abandoned, rusting, futuristic
UFO-shaped buildings with a series of mysterious deaths covered up by
the government? How about the ghost town-slash-tourist resort of San
Zhi, located just outside Taipei and inside your worst nightmares.
The exclusive San Zhi resort in Taiwan was supposed to be the destination for bored, rich folk
who always wondered what it would be like to live inside an over-sized
hockey puck. Construction of Pod City started around the 80s but was
quickly shut down after a series of mysterious on-site fatal accidents... or it could have been due to Godzilla
attacks for all we know. There is actually very little official
information on San Zhi. We can't even confirm how many people died there
or if they screamed something about eyeless children eating their
souls. The whole thing is shrouded in secrecy.
Currently, most of the information on the complex comes from the locals
who--what a surprise--refuse to go near the damn thing. And thus the
abandoned 90 pods just stand there, waiting for anyone foolish enough to
wander in.
Off the northern coast of the country, on the outskirts of Taipei,
Taiwan is an abandoned housing project consisting of podular housing …
The area is called San Zhi. There are no named architects since the
whole site was commissioned by the government and several local firms.
They were trying to create a posh luxurious vacation spot for the
affluent and rich streaming out of Taipei. Now this is where things get
weird.
The local papers say there were numerous accidents during its
construction, and as news spread to the urbanites of the island state,
nobody wanted to vacation there, much less visit. Locals say the area is
now haunted by those who died in vain and because they are not
remembered, they linger there unable to pass on. These are only rumors
as far as i can tell… This explains one possibility why the area was
abandoned. If the site is haunted, no amount of redevelopment is going
to bring the masses to that spot. Even demolishing it is out of the
question because destroying the homes of spirits and lost souls is a
HUGE no-no in Asian culture.
Creepy Places - San Zhi Resort
