THE WEDDING DRESS THAT KILLS! FRANKENSTEINS BRIDE

Added: 2026-05-08

[00:00:00]Hello, long time no see. [music] I am back today with a brand new video talking about Frankenstein's monster.

[00:00:08]There's a very big popularity of Guillermo del Toro's version and there's a new movie called The Bride and I thought I would tell some spooky stories of love stories beyond the grave while turning into my version of the Bride of Frankenstein and making this beautiful cute Bursted Heart shirt while telling these spooky tales of love beyond the grave.

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[00:00:56]I have found this spooky tale called The Burning Bride of Alexandria. This generational tale that is full of rumors and gossip. This story has some slight variations throughout the years as it's been told and written about Laura who died in June of 1868 on her actual wedding [music] night. While Laura was trying on her wedding dress, she actually spilled a kerosene lamp on herself and the dress went up in flames.

[00:01:25]Laura understandably panicked, but the door of her room was stuck. She tried to jam it open, but she just could not escape with her strength. She went on to die from her injuries and her funeral was held in the parlor on her actual wedding day. There is a kernel of truth to the legends that have been passed down for generations about Laura.

[00:01:46]Laura Schafer was the youngest child of Christian and Susan Schafer, a prominent couple who owned a confectionery shop in Alexandria.

[00:01:56]On a fateful night on June 27th, 1868, [music] after this family closed their shop for the night, they retired to their upstairs apartment. They had a quaint little apartment above their confection shop and Laura had upcoming nuptials to a man named Charles Tenson.

[00:02:15]Even in the newspapers, their engagement was the talk of the town and announced [music] that Charles was regarded as a great man for being kind-hearted and have impeccable manners. Laura never had another bow and wanted no one else but Charles. They would be marrying each other soon, looking forward to a lifetime together.

[00:02:36]But while getting ready for bed, Laura took a kerosene lamp to her father's bedroom to bid him goodnight for the evening. Suddenly, the lamp's glass cracked and burning oil splashed onto her clothes and her body. Victorian clothes are very flammable. They consist of a giant hoop skirt of various materials, a corset, and very thick layers of fabric that fed this raging fire. It almost acted as its own campfire and prevented her from stripping out of the flaming materials.

[00:03:13]She dropped the lamp in her father's bedroom where this fire started and she fled from there throughout the house.

[00:03:21]She was screaming in pain as the fire caught her skin and her hair. And running like this throughout the home, she dropped the kerosene lamp in her father's bedroom where it started in the apartment and she fled throughout their home screaming in pain because it not only caught onto her dress, but her skin and hair. Running throughout their apartment only fanned the flames and made the fire rage more. The fire that started in her father's bedroom was extinguished, but it had reached the ceiling. And Laura eventually was covered in second and third-degree burns. Parts of her skin were described as the consistency of a crisp, like a potato chip. How horrifying. By their summoned physician, Dr. Lewis. There was even speculation that she may have had to suffer from over 15 hours until she passed away from her injuries on 11:00 a.m. the next day on June 29th, [music] 1868.

[00:04:22]And she was only 26 years old.

[00:04:26]And her beloved Charles was by her side when she passed. When Charles found out the death of his beloved, he decided to drown his grief in so much alcohol, drinking away his sorrows with the company of his friend Henry Green.

[00:04:41]Charles would go to a wholesale liquor store where his friend was a member of who let them inside and Henry pulled two ales and drank in stunned silence. Laura was widely regarded as the pillar of her community and she was described in the Gazette paper as a pretty ornament with a large circle of friends and a family that was devastated by her tragic passing. Charles was known to be so cheerful with his attitude and he previously was quickly became dreary and depressed. [music] When Charles finished his drink, Henry grabbed the mugs to clean them and behind him, he suddenly heard a gunfire tear through the echoed sounds of the warehouse. He turned just in time to see Charles's body hit the ground with a bullet wound to his temple from his revolver. Henry summoned a doctor, but Charles's injury was too severe. The bullet had not exited smoothly, but rather bounced around in his skull.

[00:05:40]Instead of a painless instant death, he was now slowly passing away. It took over 20 minutes until he breathed his last breath and this was only 4 hours that his beloved Laura had passed. And the reason why this tale is considered to be star-crossed lovers that is sadly true is that their story has come together even past the veil, even beyond death over time because both male and female spirits have been felt within the property of all of this happening. It's believed that Laura's female spirit has manifested herself over the years because many children claim to see her wearing a wedding dress crying in the corner of the home where she used to reside. Many adults have seen a lit kerosene lamp move from room to room after hours. There smells of burning hair. Sometimes a cold wind will whip past people down the stairs believed to be Laura's spirit sprinting down for her life during the last moments when she was on fire. During a paranormal investigation, they recorded a woman's voice saying, "Hello."

[00:06:51]At one moment after, the building was a real estate office >> [music] >> and a woman claimed that the doors swelled shut on her and she couldn't leave just like Laura couldn't leave in her last moments. Suddenly though, the door flew open and a gush of cold air flew past her and she claimed to hear the panting breaths of a female person at the bottom of the stairs, but there was no one there. People on the property have sensed a male presence who is considered angry or inspires people to feel dread. There's a sense of doom and claustrophobia when in this [music] home. A male voice in paranormal recordings has been told to say the words, "Enough. Leave."

[00:07:37]The candy store below had displays knocked over and items have been known to move around at night. Tragedy sometimes leaves a scar on a place and it may be that Laura's death was so sad and awful, it left an imprint on the very building itself. Ritual hauntings can be understood as the recording of a certain event that plays in a loop.

[00:08:01]Some witnesses have suggested that maybe Laura's spirit had literally left an impression that will play over and over and over. This story is one for the ages and it doesn't seem to be going away anytime soon cuz Laura and Charles's spirits want to reach out to people whenever [music] they are on this land.

[00:08:23]I loved how this Bride of Frankenstein came out and we're going to create our own little DIY project of a Bursted Heart shirt that I saw online and had to recreate and tell you more spooky stories. Famous stories about ghost brides in the United States. There's one specifically [music] in Yellowstone National Park at the Old Faithful Inn. The Inn itself is very haunted and a woman staying in room two reported a woman dressed in 1890s clothes was floating [music] at the end of her bed.

[00:08:55]People also reported seeing a fire extinguisher that was set for safety in the room moving on its own and doors in the room opening and closing by themselves. The most interesting ghost though is the headless bride that's been seen at the [music] Inn that drifts across the Crow's Nest holding her head under her arm. And according to the legend, the bride was a young woman from 1915 New York that despite her wealthy father's wishes, married a much older male servant to the family. Her father provided them a one-time dowry of a sustainable amount of money with an agreement that they would never ask for money from him ever again and they would leave New York forever.

[00:09:44]They married and headed to Yellowstone National Park for their honeymoon where they stayed in the Old Faithful Inn in room 127.

[00:09:53]But on their way to Yellowstone, the groom spent most of their money on gambling and alcohol. And a month into their honeymoon, their dowry was completely drained and gone.

[00:10:05]This led to intense arguments between the couple, which was so loud it was heard by all the hotel staff.

[00:10:12]One day the husband stormed out and never returned.

[00:10:15]The hotel staff thought they might give this heartbroken wife her space, and after a few days they decided check in on her. And the maid found the young bride bloodied in the bathtub, but her head was never found.

[00:10:30]A couple of days later, they smelled a foul odor and headed towards the Crow's Nest >> [music] >> at the end. And the staff found her head. The City Tavern in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has another spooky bride. A bride and her bridesmaid were preparing for [music] a wedding when one of the bridesmaids accidentally knocked over a candle and set the curtains on fire. The fire spread through the tavern, taking the lives of the bride and all her bridesmaids with her. But it is known that the ghost [music] bride is active till this day. Specially during wedding events at this tavern, >> [music] >> there's a lot of events and weddings that happen here. And some wedding photographers have even reported seeing the apparition appearing next to the living bride of the dead bride when they were looking through their camera's viewfinder. No one has actually caught her successfully on film.

[00:11:28]At the Emily Morgan Hotel in San Antonio, Texas, there resides a building erected from the 1920s. The hotel itself was established in 1980. The building first used as a medical arts building is lined with gargoyles portraying a different medical ailment. [music] Such an astonishing building comes with some astonishing ghost stories. The seventh floor of the 13th floor building is haunted by a ghost bride. Her backstory is very unknown, but visitors to this hotel have called down to the front desk hearing loud shrieks. And the hotel staff simply says, "We're sorry, but we do think that it might be a ghost responsible for that noise." As people have been known to see apparitions of a bride roaming the hotel.

[00:12:18]Another fire of a ghostly bride was in the Hotel Conneaut of Erie, Pennsylvania. Of a woman named Elizabeth and her husband stayed in room 321 on their honeymoon. Their blissful vacation was very much interrupted by a raging fire in their hotel room. And the husband was able to get out alive, but Elizabeth was trapped somewhere in the room and passed away. And it's known that the apparition of the heartbroken bride still haunts and roams the third floor looking for her husband and sobbing uncontrollably wearing a wedding dress, and she leaves [music] behind the smell of jasmine.

[00:12:57]At the Alpha Gamma Delta house at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, the AGD sorority house at the University of Georgia once housed the wealthy families of Athens. This mansion was built by William Winstead Thomas in 1896 as an engagement gift to his daughter, Isabelle. She had a fiance named Richard Johnson, and the house was often called the wedding cake house [music] because Isabelle ended her life in this house after Richard left her at the altar. The house went through a couple of hands before becoming a sorority house, but according to several reports and many more, the scorned bride is still active in this house. There's been paranormal activity including faucets of water turning on, the lights turning on and off by themselves, doors that open by themselves, and faces that appear in the window.

[00:13:52]One sorority sister lived in the engagement room and described her experiences as the door of her bedroom and her roommate's [music] closet door randomly swinging open on their own. And she swears that the ghost who lives here is doing it, and it really freaked her out. And one of the most small town haunting ghost bride stories [music] is from a small town in North Dakota. And it was actually retold written in a book called Haunted America by Michael Norman and Beth Scott. This took place in the 1930s where sister Lorraine May and Carol were complete opposites. Lorraine May was the youngest sister. She was strong, cheerful, and a very hardworking person. The older sister Carol was reportedly way more attractive, but she was grumpy and lazy. They both fell in love with the same man who was a widower with three children. And his name was Ben. But Ben chose Lorraine May to be his wife and imagined both of them working side by side on the farm. But Carol was very angry with this idea.

[00:14:55]Shouldn't he be with the prettier one?

[00:14:57]But shortly before their wedding, Lorraine May suffered abdominal pains.

[00:15:02]Carol was nearby and was sent to get a doctor.

[00:15:05]She returned saying she could not find a doctor in town. It's believed she lied and even lazily walked to town. Lorraine May was eventually rushed to town, but died from a ruptured appendix shortly after arriving. Then Carol set out to marry Ben herself. She even demanded the undertaker to remove the wedding dress from Lorraine May's dead body before the burial of her sister.

[00:15:31]And a month after the funeral, Carol was able to convince Ben to marry her instead. Their wedding was in mid-July in a 100° heat. Carol looked beautiful in Lorraine May's high-necked wedding dress, old-fashioned with tulle lace.

[00:15:45]But during the festivities though, Carol began to sway and grab at her throat.

[00:15:51]And she passed away died in Ben's arms.

[00:15:53]And Carol's autopsy revealed that it could not be a heatstroke. The wedding dress actually absorbed some of the embalming fluid while it was on her sister Lorraine May. And the hot weather caused Carol to sweat, which opened up her pores and allowed the fluid to enter her body. And this story has gone around for a long time and has been a childhood legend amongst many new brides that is convincing them to buy their own wedding dress and maybe not get one that's been used before. But again, it's lore, folk tale. This is all alleged and spooky. I hope you enjoyed me turning into my version of the Bride of Frankenstein and creating this beautiful shirt. I'm not that good at sewing, but I really wanted to remake something with my own little DIY project. You guys know I love crafting. I love makeup and art and spooky stories. And I hope to see you again soon. I'll be back to making more videos. Bye.