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The Most Mysterious House Ever Built



The Winchester House began with a curse, was built under the guidance of "spirits" and has the creepiest architecture of any American home.
William Wirt Winchester was the son of famed gun manufacturer Oliver Winchester and heir to his substantial fortune. The Winchester rifle - the famed Henry Rifle - was a revolution in gun design and was dubbed "the rifle that won the West." At the outset of the Civil War, the Winchester Repeating Arms Company began to amass an incredible fortune from government contracts. And such was the beginning, some say, of a family curse that has resulted in a bizarre architectural legacy that stands to this day.

In September of 1862, at the height of the war between the states, the Winchester family of New Haven, Connecticut, hosted an elaborate wedding for William who took as his bride Sarah Pardee. Small in stature but full of charm and charisma, Sarah was the belle of New Haven and the light of the city's social scene.

It was Sarah Pardee Winchester who built the now-famous - some would say infamous - Winchester House. But it was not for her prestigious family that the house was constructed. Sarah had entirely different and superstitious reasons for building the great house, and it was these reasons that has given the Winchester House its extraordinary design and its paranormal reputation.

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Traumatized by her child's death, Sarah slipped dangerously close to madness, shunning society and withdrawing into herself.
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The Curse

In July 1866, Sarah gave birth to the couple's first child, a daughter they named Annie. The blessing would soon be darkened by tragedy, however, when Annie contracted a children's disease and died. This, for Sarah, would be the beginning of what she would later think of as a curse on her family. Traumatized by her child's death, Sarah slipped dangerously close to madness, shunning society and withdrawing into sorrow. The Winchesters never had another child.
Eventually Sarah returned to her home and husband and tried to resume a normal life, but then tragedy struck again. William was stricken with tuberculosis and died in March of 1881. As William's widow, Sarah inherited the then-incredible sun of $20 million and nearly half ownership of the still successful gun manufacturing company. But the money did little to sooth the anguish Sarah felt over the deaths of the two people she loved most in the world. She was so distraught and nearly inconsolable that a friend recommended she seek the counsel of a medium. Spiritualism was extremely popular during this period of American history, and so for a person of Sarah's position and resources, this was not an unusual recourse.
Sarah's visit to this medium would, however, reinforce in her mind the idea that the Winchester family was cursed, and would change her life forever
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well i like to keep an open mind on these things, but it sounds like sarah fell into a deep depression and the medium took advantage.

[sukisue]

Originally Posted by kit

well i like to keep an open mind on these things, but it sounds like sarah fell into a deep depression and the medium took advantage.

did not read the story too long for me but im into supernatural and anything spooky and witchcraft i think i was a witch in my other life but a good witch not a bad one

[betty b]

Originally Posted by sukisue

did not read the story too long for me but im into supernatural and anything spooky and witchcraft i think i was a witch in my other life but a good witch not a bad one

Used to be a witch...ohh sue babes u still are, ur all ways casting spells on those young men. lol

get well soon babes. xxx

I believe in the supernatural. I love the show called supernatural! Back to the post. I have a ghostwho stays with me now. His name is Gus and he used to be a plumber. He flushes the toilet during the nite to get my attention. Almost every time he does, I need to get up. The cat had her kittens:the dog outside the fence:daughter running a high fever:things like that. There is one at my work also. His name is Dean. He likes to reset the alarm clocks on the radios on peoples' desks. They don't believe me that it is him. He can't leave the area. He will go with me as far as he can. He hasn't revealed why yet. Maybe some day he will. Couldn't tell you how many other entities I have encountered. Good ones and bad ones. I love the movie The Sixth Sense. To date it is the most accurate for me. The other thing I like is watching "ghost" movies with Gus. He will let me know if ghosts can or can't do as depicted in the movie. Sometimes he wished he could do some of them. He's a hoot!

[sexygirl222]

i dont know if ghosts are true never seen one but. strange things have happend that cant be explained so it could be

[donnauk00]

i have not seen one yet but i have an open mind.....but i have a belief in a local myth so who knows

[Druid]

It is a scientific fact that energy cannot be destroyed. It can only be transferred from one field to another. Human life consists of a mixture of physical, mental, psychological, Chemical, Neurological and a host of other energies and so when we die it is perfectly logical that the energy that was once apparent in life has to go on in another field in death which I belive to be spiritual energy.

[lynx59]

too true druid, i firmly believe, that your spirit just inhabits the earthly body nature has chosen for you this time round and that when it dies your spirit moves on, i have had way too many experiences of strange happenings and sensing other people who have passed on not to believe in it