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This is an interesting house, I saw this house on Dead famous and it is one of the strangest place I have ever seen. I had forgot what it was called as was going to put it on here before. There are doors that lead no where or doors that lead to big drops. Here is some more information I found about it taken from a website.
"Every Friday 13th and around Halloween, the public is invited to torchlight tours of the Winchester Mystery House. It stands on South Winchester Boulevard in San Jose, set in immaculate, palm-scattered gardens, and today has a total of 160 rooms, though it once had more. Its turrets, inlaid floors, numerous fireplaces, lifts, gas lights, central heating and unique architectural features are clearly the result of years of painstaking, costly work. It is estimated that the enormous building, which incorporates all the most expensive modern conveniences available at the time, took 38 years to complete, at a cost of around five and a half million dollars. However, the source of inspiration for the mansion was not simply self-indulgence on the part of its wealthy creator.
Sarah Winchester, who planned the building of the house,
married the son of Oliver Winchester. Oliver, his son and Sarah's baby son
all died within fifteen years of each other and Sarah became convinced
that the family was cursed. Records seem to suggest that she consulted a
spiritualist medium for help in lifting the curse and the medium confirmed
her suspicions: that the Winchester family had made its money from the
Winchester firearms company, and the souls of all those whose lives had
ended with a bullet fired from a Winchester rifle were now intent on
revenge. It is said that the medium went on to instruct the Winchester
widow to use her inherited fortune to build a house for herself and the
wandering spirits, and the Winchester Mystery House is the result.
Though the house is clearly a masterpiece of
craftsmanship of its time, it is not this which sets it apart from other
stately homes of the era, but rather the incorporation of Sarah's
spiritualist beliefs into its structure. Her lucky spider web motif is
repeated throughout the house, most notably in a patterned Tiffany window
which is encrusted with thirteen precious stones - a number which she
surrounded herself with in hundreds of decorative items. There was never a
clear plan for the layout of the house and it seems that Sarah continued
to add to it in a desperate, haphazard fashion, which rather seems to
corroborate the story that her consultant medium told her never to stop
building, for fear of death. Stairs lead to the ceiling or run
upside-down, doors open up to nowhere and rooms lie within rooms.
The surreal sense of chaos certainly adds to the ghostly
air of the place. Poltergeist activity is regularly reported, and the
ghost of Sarah Winchester is said to linger along with those she worked to
accommodate when alive."
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