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Every girl wants to wear a wedding dress someday and go in it down the aisle with your loved one. Unfortunately, not everyone young women it turns out. Special in the old days, when a father could easily ban his daughter to marry one or another young man, many bright relations were extremely overshadowed or even destroyed by such prohibitions.
We will tell you about the American Anna Woods Baker, who also suffered such an unenviable fate, and about her damned wedding an outfit that, according to urban legend, still lives his life, even many decades after his death mistresses.
The Story of Anna Baker
Anna was born in 1836 in the city of Altoona, Pennsylvania. Her his father was a wealthy metallurgist Elias Baker, who made himself good condition on the purchase and operation of blast furnaces. In 1849 year, he turned to the famous Baltimore architect Robert Carey Long, Jr., who built for his customer a huge Greek Renaissance mansion. Cost of building a house amounted to 15 thousand dollars, which at that time was fabulous amount. The facility was called the Bakers Mansion.
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Elias was a proud and domineering man who held his family in hedgehogs. Relatives behaved exclusively as required the head of the family, and could not argue with him in anything. Therefore, when the second daughter of the industrialist wished to marry a handsome steelworker who worked for her father, Elias said that this would not happen if Anna wants to continue to be called his daughter. The man considered that a simple laborer is not worthy of his hand daughters that this marriage will be a shame for the family.
The girl was also wayward and argued with her father for many months, trying to convince a parent that without a lover, she has no reason live. Angry Elias eventually told his daughter that she free to do as she pleases, however, in the case of Anna will not receive a penny from such a marriage and will certainly deleted from the list of heirs. At the same time, the chosen one Daughter businessman promised to fire right on the wedding day. “Live with this mob in poverty, if you so want, “concluded the strict father. Even the wife of Elias Hetty failed to convince her husband to give her daughter blessing on marriage and not deprive her of shelter and inheritance.
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As a result, the bride girl is accustomed to live in luxury with diapers and the comfort of why at home was never able to give up her fortune in favor of love. Stalevar soon married his daughter the farmer. Anna became embittered by her father and fell into a deep depression. The unfortunate American remained an old maid for life. She died in 1914 at the age of 78 and was buried in one grave with his brother Sylvester.
Cursed Wedding Dress
The magnificent wedding dress that Anna looked after in the local store for his failed marriage, was never she bought. It was later acquired by Elizabeth Bell – another a girl from high society, in honor of whose father was even named nearby town. Elizabeth taunted Anna, knowing full well about misfortune of fellow countrywoman.
From these mockery, our heroine plunged into even greater anguish and that wedding dress cursed hearts, wishing that everyone who touches him; she, like Anna, did not have happiness in her personal life. AND indeed: Elizabeth’s marriage lasted only a couple of years, after which Bell’s angry tongue could no longer connect with someone by marriage. Wedding outfit went to daughter Elizabeth Margaret, who herself did not want to become someone else’s spouse and all her life she had only numerous lovers who did not bring her least happiness.
The Baker family degenerated and their luxurious family mansion turned into a museum in 1941. Since then the ill-fated dress put on display in Anna’s former bedroom. Over time outfit brought a lot of grief to various women, overgrown with mystical rumors. Many museum visitors claim that sometimes marital the robe spontaneously moves and even slightly hits the sleeves on the glass of the wardrobe in which it is stored. Most often it is happens on a full moon night.
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Eyewitnesses, including some employees of the institution, are convinced that the restless spirit of the old maid periodically dwells in an outfit, to to whom he has a strong emotional attachment, trying leave the closet to go in search of your lover, life with which Anna traded for family wealth. Believed that if you bring a mirror to the cabinet on the full moon, then in it not only the dress itself will be reflected, but also the pale vested in it female silhouette.
Skeptics are sure that the dress is moving because from under the old floorboards blow drafts from below. Museum staff tested this theory experimentally and concluded that similar drafts here no and cannot be.
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By the way, touch an unkind robe in order to precautions are forbidden, and to visitors of both sexes: no one knows how the curse will affect men …
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