By Tim Binnall
A woman in Washington recently listed a rather strange item for sale on Facebook: a wedding dress which she claims is haunted. An ad reportedly penned by the unnamed social media user provides a fantastic backstory to the bizarre listing. It all began, the woman wrote, when she and her fiance were hiking and stumbled upon "an old gold rush town that was completely abandoned." Understandably curious about the location, they proceeded to explore the various homes and businesses in the shuttered community.
It was inside one spot in particular, "the rundown remnants of a small cottage" that the woman noticed a wedding dress which had been inexplicably left behind. Like something out of a horror film, she conceded that the sight of the gown gave her something of a fright, but "something about its ethereal beauty just begged me to bring it home with me." As such, the woman decided to take the dress and, as one might have surmised by now, this turned out to be a very bad decision.
Within of a week of the wedding dress entering her home, the woman says, weird and unsettling activity began to occur such as objects moving on their own and her cat seemingly becoming terrified of an unseen presence in the residence. Things only got more unnerving, she lamented, as they were tormented by the smell of rotten eggs which filled their bedroom on a nightly basis and an attempt at cleansing the gown using holy water wound up causing the events to intensify.
In anticipation of her upcoming wedding, the woman gave the dress to her fiance's mother for altering and that is when she realized that the odd activity in the home appeared to be connected to the mysterious gown as all of the strange events ceased once the item was removed from the residence. Her future mother-in-law, however, sensed something amiss about the dress and begged her not to wear it at her wedding, which is how it ultimately wound up for sale on Facebook for $600.
The entire tale, of course, may be a clever ruse in order to garner interest in the gown by portraying it as possessing a sinister spirit. That said, regardless of its veracity, it would appear that the story backfired on the woman as many people criticized her for taking the dress in the first place and then trying to sell the haunted object when it really didn't belong to her. To that end, rather than several potential buyers lining up to purchase the dress, the ad was largely met with a litany of advice on how she should rid herself of the cursed gown.