Post by Spooky on May 20, 2007 22:34:38 GMT -5
The Winchester House was built by Sarah Winchester, the wife of the heir to the Winchester Rifle fortune in the late 1880's.
Soon after Sarah lost her husband and only child she became a recluse and was obsessed with spiritualism in hopes that she could contact her husband and child. One medium delivered a message from her husband warning Sarah that she would be haunted forever by the ghost of Winchester rifle victims unless she made amends to them.
These ghosts told her to buy an 8 room house on 44 acres of land. For 36 years Sarah renovated the house to the ghosts liking. She hired contraction to work day and night, seven days a week until eventually the house itself spread over 6 acres of land. The house has 160 rooms, 47 fireplaces, over 2,000 doors and dozens of secret rooms and corridors. Sarah became obsessed with the number 13. Rooms had to 13 windows, 13 chandeliers, and 13 lights. Stairways had 13 steps.
Two special rooms were built for the ghosts including a seance room and a secret room called "The Blue Room". It is said that every night at midnight, Sarah wore special robes and entertained her ghostly guests in that room. She also threw them dinner parties with 13 place settings.
Sarah dies in 1922. She left the house to a niece with instructions that the ghosts continue to feel welcome and cared for.
Now the house is a tourist attraction, most of the rooms are sealed.
Soon after Sarah lost her husband and only child she became a recluse and was obsessed with spiritualism in hopes that she could contact her husband and child. One medium delivered a message from her husband warning Sarah that she would be haunted forever by the ghost of Winchester rifle victims unless she made amends to them.
These ghosts told her to buy an 8 room house on 44 acres of land. For 36 years Sarah renovated the house to the ghosts liking. She hired contraction to work day and night, seven days a week until eventually the house itself spread over 6 acres of land. The house has 160 rooms, 47 fireplaces, over 2,000 doors and dozens of secret rooms and corridors. Sarah became obsessed with the number 13. Rooms had to 13 windows, 13 chandeliers, and 13 lights. Stairways had 13 steps.
Two special rooms were built for the ghosts including a seance room and a secret room called "The Blue Room". It is said that every night at midnight, Sarah wore special robes and entertained her ghostly guests in that room. She also threw them dinner parties with 13 place settings.
Sarah dies in 1922. She left the house to a niece with instructions that the ghosts continue to feel welcome and cared for.
Now the house is a tourist attraction, most of the rooms are sealed.
