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.
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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.
Despite the Winchester Mystery House's cheerful appearance, this massive California mansion's history is edged with tragedy, mystery.
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