After traversing an interminable labyrinth of rooms and hallways, suddenly she would push a button, a panel would fly back and she would step quickly from one apartment into another, and unless the pursuing ghost was watchful and quick, he would lose her. Winchester set out for her Séance Room, it might well have discouraged the ghost of the Indian or even of a bloodhound, to follow her. Winchester, especially on her nightly routine to the Séance Room. All oddities of the house’s architecture was to confuse the ghosts from following Mrs. The entire interior of the house is a labyrinth full of twisted hallways, stairways to nowhere, and even a doorway that leads to a drop eight feet below - into the kitchen. It is also rumored that there are at least 3 resident ghosts. Her enormous 160- Victorian home, started in the early 1800s, has over 2,000 stairs, 950 doors, 10,000 window, and 47 fireplaces. She was the heiress to the Winchester fortune and all of the murdered spirits that fell by her family’s legacy would haunt her for the remainder of her life… Supposedly those same spirits were the ones responsible for taking her husband’s and daughter’s lives. It is said that she was told by a psychic that she needed to build the home to quell the spirits that were killed by Winchester rifles. If the recluse and widowed Sarah Winchester had not have died, the construction may have continued well beyond 34 years. The Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California, USA has always fascinated me since I was a child.
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