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December 20, 2007
Why Have I Never Heard of This??!
Sarah Winchester (1839–1922), heiress to the Winchester rifle fortune, grief-stricken at the death of her husband and infant daughter, was told by a medium that she must move to California and never stop building on a giant house, to appease the ghosts of all those who had died by her family’s evil rifles. Which she did. The Winchester Mystery House, now a tourist attraction in San Jose, California, built over 38 years, has 160 rooms, 40 staircases, 950 doors, and 10,000 windows.
- Vanity Fair article on Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake
Posted by Bree at December 20, 2007 07:00 PM