Winchester Mystery House
Winchesters House is a mystical attraction in the United States. This is the № 525 house on Winchester Boulevard in California, a tourist attraction. The house cannot be called a "builder's terrible dream.
And the background to the construction of the house is... In 1855, Oliver Winchester bought Smith-Wesson, which was on the verge of bankruptcy, and began producing hunting weapons. Soon there was a civil war in the United States, and Winchester became rich in arms supplies for the government. In 1865, the war ended, and demand for weapons fell, but it was necessary to scout the wild west, where the Indians held the defense. And the enthusiasts went west with the guns of Winchester at the ready. The path was not easy, they were met by Indians defending their territory, but the forces were unequal. To the guns, the Indians could only oppose the bows and tomahawks, and accordingly almost all the Indians fell in unequal battles.
In 1862, William married Sarah Pardi at the height of the civil war. Soon they had a daughter, but the joy quickly changed in grief - their daughter Annie died in a couple of months. Sarah became depressed and began to avoid society. In 1880, Oliver Winchester died, and his entire huge fortune passed to his son William. William himself survived his father for a short while and died of tuberculosis the following year. But Sarah was not happy with the version of death from a commonplace disease for that time, and she resorted to the services of mediums. The medium from Boston immediately dared everything and began to communicate in the spirit of William Winchester. "The "Spirit of the Husband" informed the medium that the evil spirits of those who were killed from the Winchesters rifle were hunting for the Winchesters family, and advised Sarah to build a special house in which the spirits could not cause her harm.
Fully guided by the advice of the medium, Sarah acquired an unfinished house in California in the town of San Jose. Since her husband left her about $ 20 million, which by that standards was just a huge fortune, Sarah set about rebuilding the house. After all, there was no protection against ghosts in the old house! Having pre-arranged a room for communication with spirits, Sarah, distraught by that time, began restructuring the building.
In 1884, the construction of the Winchesters house began, and for this, Sarah resorted to the services of lay-off workers working 24 hours a day. The house was built so that the spirits chasing it got lost among the rooms, so the rooms in the house are about 160, or maybe 200, because of the very complex design of the house it is difficult to calculate the number of rooms. Well, if you need to quickly evacuate from the house, then many doors on the upper floors open out. But Sarah was not enough! She ordered the construction of windows on the floor, and secret windows in the walls. Well, if the spirits want to climb the upper floors, then climbing most of the stairs will stick into the ceiling. To notice the approaching spirits without stopping from bathing in the bathroom, the doors were made glass. Some rooms were rebuilt several times and so that the spirits could quickly mix in the rooms, very narrow corridors were built along which little Sarah easily moved. Following the advice of spirits, the workers built 6 floors, their inexperience affected in 1906, when during the earthquake 3 floors of this huge maze collapsed and were no longer built. This was to be expected, given that the house was built in a earthquake-prone region by inexperienced workers, but for some reason good spirits forgot to mention it.
The construction was carried out until the death of Sarah in 1922 at the age of 82. After death, in her safe, in addition to the hair of her daughter and husband, they found nothing. Well, a little general information about the Winchesters house. The number is everywhere in the house13: the stairs consist of 13 steps, in rooms of 13 windows, in windows of 13 windows, 13 bathrooms. The house has approximately 160 rooms with 6 kitchens, 40 stairs are scattered throughout the house, some of which rest against the ceiling, 2 dancers, 950 doorways, approximately 10,000 windows, 47 fireplaces, some exhaust pipes do not go outside.
