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Ghosts in wedding dresses

a real-life story

By ABDOPublished 11 months ago 5 min read
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Ghosts in wedding dresses
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In 1855 in a small town in Ohio lived a young girl named Esther Hill who lived in a small cottage near the Hambleton mill, Esther fell in love with a man from her town and got engaged to him and her wedding was held one summer afternoon of 1855, the wedding day Ellie waited for her future husband at the altar for a long time but he did not come after hours of waiting.

The audience left realizing that the groom had run away, leaving his bride alone and sad at the altar, Esther was very sad and locked herself in her room for several days wearing a wedding dress and refrained from eating and drinking, even when someone was trying to help her, she was brutally and viciously attacked, they even thought that the devil had dressed her.

Days later, some people saw Esther entering the mill, they went right after her, but they found her dead body, and the strange thing is that later it turned out that she died days ago, and although many years have passed since her death, some claim that her ghost inhabits the mill until now and appears on the bridge near her on the anniversary of her wedding day, as there is a scary legend that says that Esther's ghost comes out on the anniversary of her wedding day to look for a young girl who will marry on the same day, and he touches her then he will take her youth to turn the girl into an old man and leave her groom.

A young man moved to an apartment on the eleventh floor and everything was going well in it until he began to get annoyed by the loud sounds coming from the apartment that cursed his apartment, he called the owner of the architecture and asked him to ask the residents of the apartment on the twelfth floor to stop bothering him with their music and dancing all night, but the owner of the architecture told him that the apartment is empty because its resident died a while ago and interpreted the sounds that the rats are messing with the things left by the resident.

The young man did not believe it, so the owner took him to take a look to make sure for himself, and there he already found the apartment abandoned, and the dust covers everything, and this is evidence that the apartment has not been entered for a while, and on the wall he saw a large and old picture of a bride wearing a dress dating back to the Twenties of the last century, and the owner of the architecture told him that it was the image of the lady who lived in the apartment, her husband died a few days after their marriage, but she never married after him, and most likely she went crazy because she was wearing her wedding dress every night and the years she lived here , The young man left after making sure for himself that no one was in the apartment, and at night, while he was sleeping, he felt fingers passing between his locks of hair and a voice whispered in his ear, "Don't be afraid, the mice are messing with your hair," the young man opened his eyes to find in front of him the bride who was in the

A girl from a rich family in New York refused to marry all the rich young people who proposed to her and preferred to marry her family's poor old servant, her family refused this marriage, but the girl insisted on her position until the family relented and her father gave her a large amount of money and stipulated that she leave New York and never return, the girl already left with her poor old husband, who discovered that he coveted her wealth, after a few days he took her money and spent it here and there, and there was nothing left for them to buy a house, so they lived in a despicable Inn in one of the cities.

One day the couple quarreled and the husband left the room and left her behind and never returned, days later the hotel worker went up to check on her because she had not been out for days the worker was shocked when she saw the room and she was turned upside down and it was, a hurricane hit her and the lady was not there but before the worker left the room she noticed a strange smell emanating from the bathroom rushed there to find the ugliest scene her eyes fell on the bride was lying on the bathroom floor decapitated and blood covered the walls but no trace of her head in the place.

Everyone came to the screams of the worker, the police also came and the fingers were pointing at the husband who was not found, as her family preferred to keep quiet about the crime to avoid scandal, days after the discovery of the crime, guests complained of an unpleasant smell in the hotel's casino, then the cleaners searched the place to find the head of a blonde-haired woman with wide eyes and the head had already begun to rot and it turned out to be the head of the victim who was killed days ago.

The bride was buried in a poor grave because of the inattention of her family and days later strange events began, the night shift employee was sitting reading a book when he heard a noise coming from the stairs and he went to find out, then he saw a glowing lady in a wedding dress who started going up the stairs and she was holding something in her hand. the guard thought it was a head with blond hair. he watched her floating in the air from the stairs to the corridor until she reached the room where the crime occurred days ago and then disappeared. since that night the ghost of the scary bride has been seen by a large number of people.

Short StoryHorrorHistoricalFantasyfamily
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