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The story of the haunted mansion has always confused me as to the many stories I've heard, but they all do surround a young bride.
The originally story involved a young sea captain, if you look at some of the decor you'll notice some nautical themes. The young captain fell in love with a bar maid in the tavern he often visited. After months of courting the young captain decided she was the one for him and proposed to her. On this very same night the young captain had a small shipment that he had to run down the coast. Since it was such a short trip he and his crew quickly packed up, he told his new fiancee he should be back within the week and to prepare for the wedding upon his arrival. that night there was a terrible storm, and the young captain was not heard from. A few weeks pass and the young barmaid gets a letter telling her they found the wreckage of the ship, no bodies were ever found. The young bar maid hears of this and goes into a deep depression. Another week passes and still no sign of the young captain, she goes into the attic and put on her wedding dress. If she can't marry him in life, then she will be with him in death! She then kills herself in the attic, by which means no one will ever know. Some say poison, but others say she stabbed herself in the heart. However she did it you can tell her pain as her ghost is still in the wedding dress, and her heart beats with the pain only lost love knows.
As the weeks pass the young captain somehow makes it home. His determination and love for the young barmaid kept him alive while at lost at sea, none of the other crew survived. As he enters his home he searches for his fiance, but never finds her. He goes to the tavern and asks, but the locals know not where she is. She has left him, he thinks, she couldn't wait and fell in love with another. As months pass the young captain becomes a recluse, not caring for the outside world and thinking always of his young barmaid. He goes into the attic to gather some belongings to leave for another job, to which he finds his young bride. Her body decomposed wearing her wedding dress.
The young captain knows not what to do, here lies his deceased fiance, she had not left him, but thought he left her. Knowing he cannot be with her and knowing he cannot stay he finds a wandering gypsy, Madam Leota. He begs her to find others to keep his finace company so she will never be lonley again. Leota complies and conjures up spirits so the young barmaid will never have to suffer the emptiness which lead her to her demise. With that done, the young captain gathers up what little he needs and locks the mansion up. He sails off not knowing where he is going, he knows he just needs to go away. To this day he has never come back to the town, nor the mansion and has never been heard from again.
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