.jpg)
By Arleth Garcia
The Winchester House is a modest eight-room farmhouse in California's Santa Clara Valley that was built in the mid-1800s. It has become one of America's most recognizable mysterious mansions and haunted house attractions. The Winchester House is known as the Winchester Mystery House today. The Winchester House is a four-story, 160-room, 24,000-square-foot mansion. It was made mostly of redwood on less than five remaining acres of land and is one of the city's most heavily trafficked West Valley neighborhoods. Sarah started to build the house and to make sense of the perceived horror in what was a rural community, rumors began to swirl about her motivations. The house follows multiple deaths of family members, which includes her infant daughter in 1865, her father in 1869, her mother in 1880, and both her husband and her father-in-law in 1881. Sarah moved from New Haven, Connecticut which was her hometown, to somewhere outside of San Jose, California for a fresh start. In a few months, she had already added more than a dozen rooms to the new house. But is it hunted? People have asked if it was haunted since she started to build the house. Sarah built a home with odd features since a medium told her that the ghosts that were killed by the Winchester Rifle would hunt her till she died unless she went out west to build a house with a room for all of them. But another story says that she was driven out west because she was being haunted by the family mansion in New Haven, but the ghost followed her so she built a house with a tangle of hallways.
Works Cited: Winchester House
コメント