From 150 Things to See, Do & Love: Joshua Tree National Park…
THE BRIDE IN WHITE
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The graduate student immediately saw that the hitchhiker was a woman who appeared distressed, stumbling around in a white dress. He asked her if she needed help. The woman turned to him, and the scientist saw by the light of the full moon that her white dress was actually a floor-length lace Victorian bridal gown, and that her hair was perfectly styled in a classical coif.
Again, the scientist asked the woman in white if she needed help, and the woman, tears streaming down her face, shook her head no. Instead, she handed him a white rose. Overcome by an impulse he couldn’t explain, he tilted his head down to smell the fragrant, melancholy rose. When he looked back up, the woman was gone. Only by a single moonbeam did he see for just a blink the fluttering of a white lace veil across the playa.
The next day at the basecamp when the graduate student spoke to his fellow researchers about the strange thing he encountered, his fellowship remained silent… for they were looking at their cohort, absolutely stunned—the man’s thick black hair (including his eyebrows) had inexplicably turned totally white!
The Bride in White has appeared a handful of times since then along Park Boulevard, and always under a full moon. Some say she’s the ghost of a bride that was jilted at the altar, and others claim she fled her duplicitous bridegroom, but no one can say for sure. What is for certain is that the Bride in White never says a word and always offers a sorrowful white rose.
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