The Winchester House is a striking mansion located in the American city of San Jose, California. Since 1922, after the death of its owner, it serves as an extravagant museum-attraction for tourists and is considered one of the most interesting California attractions.
In 1884, this home was acquired by Sarah Winchester, who was the widow of William Winchester, the son of the entrepreneur Oliver Winchester, who invented the famous rifle. It was then an ordinary wooden Victorian mansion, which could not boast of anything impressive.
William Winchester died at a relatively early age, and his only child with Sarah died immediately after birth. Left without a husband and daughter, Sarah felt that a curse lay on her family. The woman visited a psychic in Boston, and he, having talked with the late William, confirmed her guess. The medium said that Oliver Winchester's invention brought people a lot of grief, and the spirits of people killed from his rifle take revenge on all the businessman's relatives, including his descendants and their families.
The clairvoyant told Sarah that she could protect herself from uninvited guests from the other world, but for this she would need to build a special house in which evil spirits would not be able to harm her.
Mysterious house - a talisman from evil spirits
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Following the advice of the sensitive, the widow bought a mansion on the west coast of the United States and began its radical reconstruction. The house has a lot of doors opening into the walls and outward, abutting against the ceilings of stairs, dead-end corridors, interior windows and other elements that have no functional significance for humans.
Over time, Winchester spent all her multimillion-dollar wealth on this, and the mansion turned into a real labyrinth, in which only the owner of the house could freely move. The woman believed that in this way the spirits entering her home would get confused and would not be able to find her.
The mysterious house has six kitchens, thirteen bathrooms, forty stairs, ten thousand windows, four hundred and fifty doorways and two thousand doors, most of which lead nowhere.
As for the rooms, until now it was believed that there are exactly one hundred and sixty of them in the mansion. However, the other day in the attic of the Winchester House was discovered a secret one hundred and sixty-first room. One of the museum staff felt that the visible part of the attic space looked too small, and determined that another room must be hidden somewhere here. After a long search, he managed to find a tightly sealed door for some reason.
Inside the secret room there were a sewing machine, a harmonium, several paintings and other objects without the slightest touch of mysticism.
It is noteworthy that there was a legend about the one hundred and sixty-first room in the Winchester House. According to this legend, once during an earthquake, the widow hid here and suddenly felt a strange presence next to her. Sarah thought that one of the angry spirits still got to her. The frightened woman ran out of the room and quickly slammed the door behind her, after which she asked her workers to securely seal the room, which they did. So the legend was unexpectedly confirmed …
