In 2018, a horror film was made about the infamous house and the spirits that live within.Inside the Winchester Home Where Ghosts May Roam Some Members of TikTok’s ‘Hype House’ Face Lawsuit Claiming Damages in Rental Home Spice Rack Named the Most Contaminated Place in a Kitchen: Study Parents Heartbroken as 5-Year-Old Kyle Doan Still Missing in California Flood Connecticut Police Officer Fired After Screaming at Driver During Traffic Stop Prince William and Kate Middleton Ignore Questions About Prince Harry’s Book Man Patiently Helps Koala Cross a Busy Australia Highway Miss USA R'Bonney Gabriel Becomes 1st Filipino American to Win Miss Universe Search for Missing 4-Year-Old Athena Brownfield Now a ‘Recovery Operation’: Cops Netflix’s ‘The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker’ Shows New Video of Kai Lawrence Delta Airlines Offers to Fly Singing California Kid and His Entire Family to New York ‘Hiking Queen’ Dies After Falling 700 Feet Off California's Mount Baldy Wisconsin Man Faces Retrial for His Wife’s Antifreeze Death 15 Years Later Romanian Judge Grants extension to detain Andrew Tate Additional 30 Days in Prison Pamela Anderson Says Tim Allen Flashed Her on ‘Home Improvement’ Set Scientists Dig Up Remains of Potentially Feathered Dinosaur in Chile Massachusetts Tech Company Shows Off Its Robot’s Advanced Skills Indiana Man Accidentally Receives Bag of $5,000 With His McDonald’s Order Pennsylvania State Trooper Jay Splain Has Used Deadly Force 4 Times Georgia Substitute School Bus Driver Slapped in Face by Angry Parent Wife and Terminally Ill Husband She Killed in Hospital Planned Shooting: Cops The month-long, round-the-clock investigation included interviewing over 300 people regarding their experiences on the property, and analyzed every aspect of the environment for any unusual phenomena. In response to the ongoing claims of ghostly encounters and other paranormal phenomena on the property, in the early 1990s the Winchester management had a parapsychologist and paranormal investigator named Christopher Chacon conduct a full-scale scientific assessment of the property. Though it’s open now, signs of damage from the earthquake are still clearly visible. Some say Sarah Winchester took this as a sign from the spirits that she was too close to completion and ordered the unfinished front half of the house to be boarded up. As the theory goes, to avoid them she would sleep in a different bedroom every night and take labyrinthine paths through her own home.Ī massive earthquake struck the Bay Area in 1906 and toppled the top three stories of the house, damaging the other four stories along with it. Some theories say she believed that as soon as construction was complete, she would die, while other theories suggest she built the house like a maze in order to keep her paranormal tormentors at bay and lost in the many intricacies of the building. After her husband passed away, a psychic told her that to evade the spirits, she would have to move out west, buy a home, and build nonstop. Winchester was being haunted by the spirits of those killed by the Winchester rifle, which her late husband’s company had invented. Winchester demanded constant changes to her very large house. A particularly odd delight is a cabinet that, when opened, extends through 30 rooms of the house. Staircases lead straight to ceilings, expensive Tiffany stained-glass windows were installed in places where they would get no light, and there are more secret passages than Narnia. Not all the 2,000 doors can be walked through-one leads to an 8-foot drop to a kitchen sink, another to a 15-foot drop into bushes in the garden below. Of course, that’s not all that’s unique about the house. It had over 160 rooms and 40 bedrooms, 10,000 windows, and even 2 basements. She purchased a small eight-room farmhouse and started a small renovation project that would take 36 years and $5.5 million (in the money of the time), only stopping when she passed away in 1922.īy the time she was done, the Winchester Mansion was a modern marvel with indoor plumbing, multiple elevators, a hot shower, and central heating. In 1886 an eccentric woman named Sarah Winchester traveled from New Haven, Connecticut, to San Jose, California, to start a new life.
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