its in california and it was built like by a widow whos husband owned like a big gun company. and when she died she went to a psychic and the psychic told her to build a house with all these things in it or she would die too, since her husbands gun company killed a bunch of people. and so she built the house and it has like a bunch of secret passageways in it becuase she didn't want spirits to find her and stuff. HELP ITS BUGGING ME REALLY BADLY. WHAT IS IT CALLED?
2007-09-02 07:58:17 · 4 answers · asked by :) 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
oh and i remember it has like a flight of stairs and when you open the door at the end it leads to the outside of the house like three stories up with nothing below it.
2007-09-02 07:59:55 · update #1
Winchester House
2007-09-02 08:05:52 · answer #1 · answered by jon_mac_usa_007 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Winchester Mystery House
In 1881, Sarah Winchester, the widow of famous gun maker Oliver Winchester, became convinced that she needed protection from the evil spirits of all the people killed by Winchester rifles. A psychic advised her to continually add rooms to her San Jose, California, mansion to confuse any ghosts that may try to find her. (It's not clear why ghosts, which can supposedly move through walls, would be confused by the rooms, but it apparently made sense to Winchester.) She did so for nearly forty years, adding more than 100 rooms and staircases, until her death in 1922. After Sarah's death, her own ghost was said to haunt the halls of her mazelike mansion. Today the building remains a popular tourist attraction, a bizarre monument to superstition and paranoia.
2007-09-02 08:13:14 · answer #2 · answered by Mark 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, that was I think the grand-daughter of the founder of the Winchester gun company. The psychic told her that the spirits of the people killed by her family's guns would haunt her if she didn't build the house to confuse them. There are passages and staircases all over the house that go nowhere, all to confuse the spirits.
2007-09-02 08:13:45 · answer #3 · answered by Stefan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Winchester mystery house. Built by the widow of the man that invented the Winchester rifle.
2007-09-02 08:34:47 · answer #4 · answered by John C 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋