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The Winchester House is a striking mansion, located in the US city of San Jose, California. Since 1922 years, after the death of his mistress, he performs the role of extravagant attraction museum for tourists and is considered one of the most interesting California attractions.
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In 1884, Sarah Winchester, who was widow of William Winchester – the son of an entrepreneur Oliver Winchester, who invented the famous rifle. Then it was ordinary Victorian-style wooden mansion that’s nothing could not boast impressive.
William Winchester died at a relatively young age, and his Sarah, the only child died immediately after birth. Left without a husband and daughter, Sarah considered that her family lay damn it. A woman visited a psychic in Boston, and one talking to the late William, confirmed her hunch. Medium reported that Oliver Winchester’s invention brought people very a lot of grief, and the spirits of people killed from his rifle take revenge on everyone the businessman’s relatives, including his descendants and their relatives.
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Clairvoyant told Sarah that she could protect herself from uninvited guests from the other world, however, for this she will need build a special house in which evil spirits will not be able to her to hurt.
Mysterious house – a ward from evil spirits
Following the advice of the Sensitive, the widow bought a mansion in the western US coast and began its fundamental restructuring. In home there were many doors opening into the walls and the outside, resting on the ceilings of stairs, blind corridors, interior windows and other elements that do not have any functional values for a person.
Over time, Winchester spent on it all its multi-million wealth, and the mansion turned into a real maze, freely only the hostess of the house could navigate. Female believed that in this way the spirits falling into her dwelling would be confused and will not be able to find her.
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The mysterious house has six kitchens, thirteen bathrooms, forty stairs, ten thousand windows, four hundred and fifty door openings and two thousand doors, most of which are nowhere lead.
As for the rooms, until now it was believed that their exactly one hundred and sixty in the mansion. However, the other day in the attic Winchester houses discovered a secret one hundred sixty-first room. One of the museum staff felt that the visible part the attic space looks too small and determined that somewhere here another room should be hidden. After long searches he managed to find somehow tightly sealed Door.
Inside the secret room were a sewing machine, harmonium, several paintings and other objects that do not have the slightest touch mystics.
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It is noteworthy that there was a legend about one hundred and sixty-first room in the Winchester House. According to this legend, once during earthquake the widow hid here and suddenly felt next to someone else’s presence. Sarah thought that one of embittered spirits still got to her. Scared woman I ran out of the room and quickly slammed the door behind me, after which she asked her workers to securely seal the room, which they done. So the legend was unexpectedly confirmed …
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