BP-2026.007.1
Anna Baker's wedding dress
- Claim
- 1 of 5
Possessions, or a person’s state of mind, affected in a way that passes. - Evidence
- 1 of 5
Statements by those involved, and nothing further. - Provenance
- 0 of 3
The object on display is not the one the story names.
These three figures are kept separate and are never combined into a single score. How grave the claim is, what it rests on, and whether the object can be traced are different questions. How the register reads them.
Asserted
Accounts attributed to a source. The register does not adopt them.
That being near it makes people uneasy. The dress is said to move inside its glass case without being touched, most strongly at full moon. The house in which it is displayed is said to be haunted by a daughter of the family who was forbidden to marry and who never wore a wedding dress of her own.
- P15
apparition
- P19
visible movement
- C6
unease
- E2
a named individual attributed to it
index v0.8: Named individual attributed
- X1
bound to a location
reported by: four people
Recorded
Established by the register, or received with the object.
File
- Register number
- BP-2026.007.1
- Entry type
- Object entry
- Opened
- 2026-09-16
- Coded against
- Claim Index v0.8
Object
- Type
- dress
- Materials
- silk, lace, cotton
- Date
- nineteenth century
- Origin
- Pennsylvania, United States
- Whereabouts
- held by an institution, Altoona
Custody
No custody record has been entered.
On what grounds
Staff accounts quoted in the press. Reported by four people. Evidence is capped at 1: *the object on display is not the one the story names.* The dress belonged to the daughter of a different ironmaster's family.
Counter-indications
What weighs against the claim. These are never subtracted from a figure; the lowest applicable ceiling is applied instead.
- CI14
the object is not the one the story names
- CI5
the attribution has shifted across sources
- CI7
an ordinary explanation has been offered
- CI21
reporters cannot be traced
Register findings
- MT26
exhibited publicly
- MT24
the holder publicly declines the claim
The historical society that runs the house makes no statement about hauntings and removed such material from its own website around 2011.