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Haunted Wedding Dress
Where a white dress is always haunted
In 1849, a girl from a wealthy family named Anna Baker fell in love with a low-class ironworker. However, Anna’s father, Ellis Baker, refused to let her marry her beloved, banishing the young man from their hometown of Altoona, Pennsylvania, and dooming his daughter to a life of spinsterhood. Anna was so angry with her father that she never fell in love or married and remained bitter and angry until she died in 1914.
Before her father sent her true love away, Anna had chosen a beautiful wedding dress that she intended to wear at their wedding. However, when the marriage did not occur, another wealthy woman from a local family, Elizabeth Dysart, wore the dress, gloating the entire time. Years later, the wedding dress was given to a historical society, and eventually, the Baker mansion was turned into a museum. The wedding dress was placed in a glass case in what was formerly Anna Baker’s bedroom. After her death, visitors claim to see the dress move independently, especially during full moons. As if a bride admires herself in front of a mirror, the dress sways from side to side.
Investigators who have searched for drafts and other naturally occurring circumstances have come up empty-handed. No one can be sure why the dress sometimes moves by itself, though many speculate that the spurned bride, Anna Baker, has reclaimed her dress at last.
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