9/1/2023 0 Comments Mystery house![]() ![]() In 1886, Sarah purchased an eight-room farmhouse in San Jose, California, and began building. Sarah Winchester's bedroom / Library of Congress, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons THE HOUSE WAS UNDER CONSTANT CONSTRUCTION FOR 38 YEARS. "If you continue building, you will live,” the medium warned Sarah. There was just one catch: construction on the house could never stop. Sarah was advised to leave their home in New Haven, Connecticut, behind, and move west, where she was to build a grand home for the spirits. ![]() In order to protect herself, William said that Sarah must "build a home for and for the spirits who have fallen from this terrible weapon." He warned that vengeful ghosts would seek her out. Through the medium, William told his widow that their tragedies (the couple had only one child, a daughter named Annie, who died at six weeks old) were a result of the blood money the family had made off of the Winchester rifles. While she was presumably looking for solace or closure, she was instead given a chilling warning. Overcome with grief in the wake of her husband's death from tuberculosis in 1881, folklore states that Sarah sought out a spiritualist who could commune with the dead. MANY BELIEVE SARAH BUILT WINCHESTER HOUSE OUT OF FEAR. Construction on the 24,000-square-foot home, which is located at 525 South Winchester Boulevard in San Jose, California, began in 1886. Sarah Lockwood Winchester-the wife of gun magnate William Wirt Winchester, whose family created the Winchester rifle that was heralded as "the gun that won the west”-designed and oversaw the construction of the sprawling Queen Anne-style Victorian mansion that bears her name. THE WINCHESTER HOUSE IS NAMED FOR ITS MISTRESS. But before you go to the movie theater, wander through the curious past of one of America's most infamous homes. Naturally, it has inspired a chilling horror movie, Winchester, which opens in theaters today. Her desperation to escape the ghosts who haunted her supposedly played the vital role toward why the Winchester Mystery House evolved into a labyrinth of a home, and why odd features such as doors into open shafts, dead end stairs, and doors and windows into walls were incorporated.Despite the Winchester Mystery House's cheerful appearance, this massive California mansion's history is edged with tragedy, mystery. Legend says that Coons told Sarah that if she ever stopped building, the spirits would claim her as one of their victims as well. Immediately, she began construction on expanding the house. ![]() When Sarah Winchester arrived in 1884 in what is now San Jose-supposedly spurred by a Boston medium named Adam Coons who told her that the premature deaths of her husband and infant daughter were due to a curse placed by all those killed by Winchester rifles over the years-she purchased an eight-room farmhouse on a 161-acre plot of land. The Winchester Mystery House began as an expansion project. Although visitors are not normally allowed to take photos inside the house itself, the fine folks at Winchester were gracious enough to allow us to photographically document our visit, which we now bring to you. This past Memorial Day weekend, Westcoaster took a trip to visit this rather enchanting abode. And just a couple weeks ago, the house unveiled its first new tour in over two decades-the Explore More Tour-to go along with its ever-popular Mansion Tour. Famous for its doors and stairs to nowhere, unfinished interiors, and even a few ghost stories, the Winchester Mystery House is a captivating building unlike any other. ![]() Today, the house remains a popular site for tourists. ![]()
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