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Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, United States is a mansion that was once the private residence of Sarah Winchester, wife of American firearm magnate William Wirt Winchester. Now, this Manson is considered to be the most haunted place in entire America.
A Brief History of the Winchester Mystery House
The construction of the Winchester mansion was started in 1886 by Sarah Winchester. But there is a long story regarding the construction of this Mansion. William Wirt Winchester was the treasurer of Winchester Repeating Arms Company founded by his father Oliver Winchester.
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| William Wirt Winchester |
In the 1860s Winchester Company found a new repeating rifle that reloads in 3 seconds which was faster compared to other repeaters of that time. This rifle was known as "Winchester Rifle" and after the company developed this rifle, the Winchester family's fortune changed and they became very rich. Because of the capability of the Winchester rifle to fire every 3 seconds, this rifle was widely used in the American Civil War. In 1862 William got married to Sarah and 4 years later on 15th July 1866 they had a daughter, and they named her Annie Pardee Winchester. After the birth of Annie, the Winchester family was very happy. But their happiness didn't last long because their infant daughter died of marasmus a month later. After this Sarah got depressed and she became mentally unstable and it took her a decade to overcome her shock. After 10 years she became normal but after a couple of years, her husband also died due to pulmonary tuberculosis in 1881. Sarah falls into depression after her husband's death and she was living a recluse life. At that time her friend suggested her to seek a spiritualist and know the reason behind her daughter and husband's death through spirituality and following the advice given by her friend she visited a spiritualist in Boston and communicated with William's spirit and her husband's spirit then told her that the death of he and his daughter was the revenge of the spirits of people who were killed using Winchester rifle.
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| Sarah Winchester |
Williams's spirit also warned Sarah that the spirits are now hunting her and in order to escape from those spirits she should travel to the west and to start constructing a big mansion to appease spirits and the construction should never stop. He also warned Sarah that if the construction stops she will die. Following this Sarah sold her home in New Haven, Connecticut and she traveled to the west in 1884 and she bought an unfinished farm in Santa Clara Valley, and thus, the construction of Winchester Mystery House was begun. As there was no ending for this construction no architect was hired and there was no plan for this mansion. The construction of this mansion didn't stop until the death of Sarah on 5th September 1922 due to heart failure at the age of 82 in her sleep. The aim of building this mansion was to confuse the spirits
Legends Surrounding Winchester Mystery House
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Winchester Mystery House is considered to be the most haunted place in America. As I mentioned earlier this house was built for the purpose of confusing the spirits. This mansion is said to be haunted by the ghosts of the people who killed by the Winchester rifle. Many people visited here claimed that they had strange experience here and some people had reported seeing shadowy figures in the premises of the mansion and many people also claimed to hear strange sounds from the mansion. It is said that the spirits of William and Sarah Winchester also haunt this mansion.
A movie named "Winchester" was released in 2018 based on the story regarding Winchester Mystery House.
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| "Winchester Mystery House" by HarshLight is licensed under CC BY 2.0 |
Today Winchester house is a place where you can see stairs that lead to nowhere, doors that open to another wall, windows that open to another room, etc... This 24,000 Square feet mansion has estimated to have approximately 161 rooms, 10,000 windows, 2000 doors, 40 stairways, six kitchens, and three elevators.
Winchester Mystery house is protected as a historic place and was added National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
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