La Pascualita

A lifelike mannequin that has stood in the window of La Popular, a bridal shop in Mexico, since 1930. A story told by Ripley's Believe It or Not! says she is the embalmed body of the 1930 owner's daughter.

La Pascualita is a mannequin in the window of La Popular, a bridal shop in Mexico. Atlas Obscura says she first went on display on 25 March 1930, reportedly in a gown from that season's spring and summer collection, and has stood in the window for more than 90 years.

Atlas Obscura says locals were struck at once by how lifelike she looked and by how closely she resembled the owner, whom it names as Pascuala Esparz; Ripley's Believe It or Not! spells the name Esparza. Atlas Obscura ties the rumours of a grim origin to the recent death of the owner's daughter. As Ripley's tells the story, people decided the mannequin was the embalmed body of that daughter, who they said had died on her wedding day from a black widow spider bite.

Atlas Obscura also records a rumour that she shifts position when nobody is watching. In 2017, Wikipedia says, the mannequin left the shop for the first time, for a showing in Mexico City on the Hotel de Leyendas Victoria tour.