Winchester Mystery House
Sarah Winchester, the widow of William Wirt Winchester and the heir to the ‘Winchester Rifle fortune’ had built the house in the 1800s. It is heard that after the death of Sarah’s daughter and husband, she came into contact with the ghosts of the people who were killed by the Winchester family’s rifles. They were angry, they wanted a house to be built for them; one that cannot be completed for the moment the work would stop Sarah would die.
So for the next 38 years, spending some $6 million she constructed a house with 160 rooms and 13 bathrooms on 138 acres of land. The construction only stopped with her death in 1922. In order to confuse the ghosts living with her, Sarah never slept in the same bedroom and she had herself built several stairs that lead to nowhere and doors that opened into walls throughout the house.
