Winchester Mistery House: A haunted house?

Have you ever heard about the Winchester House? This is a story apparently never explained.

Sarah Winchester was born in 1840, and in 1862 she married William Winchester, the owner of the famous weapons company: Winchester. Around 1881, all important people in Sarah´s life died: her father, her husband and her baby daughter. At this point, Sarah is said to have gone crazy.

Sarah´s portrait. Source: SFGate, 2018.

In 1884 Sarah bought a house with 8 rooms, in California. Day by day, over a lot of years, the house was supposedly built and increased in a 24/7 system. There´s speculation that Sarah usually paid an amount 300% more than usual just to have the work in a constant regime.

By all accounts, until 1922 the house had between 500 and 600 bedrooms distributed along 7 floors, with around 2.000 doors and 10.000 windows, 47 fireplaces, 6 kitchens and 17 chimneys. Several locals have claimed that Sarah worked as an architect, drawing the rooms and stairs. But the lack of experience led to several rooms of the house  with no function, very strange, or with stairs that go nowhere and doors that open directly to walls.

Source: Couple Goals.

Can you imagine how big it can be inside?  Source: Escalon Times, 2019.

There´s speculation about the mysteries around the house. People have claimed that Sarah was in mourning for her father, husband and baby, so she apparently realized that the house was haunted by the souls of people killed by Winchester guns. So, the house was constantly expanded to accommodate all poltergeists. Sarah has claimed that this could be the only way to pay the debt.

Some rooms of the house are said to have made strange noises all the time. Sarah  supposedly built a lot of bedrooms because each night she might sleep in a different one. At the same time, she apparently made a lot of rituals ringing bells along the house. This logistic seemingly stopped a lot of scares of ghosts, who were said to be angry with the constant presence of the woman in the same place.

Well… what is the truth about the Winchester house? We will probably never know. Sarah had claimed a lot of times that the work on the house must be continuous: after all, if the hammer stopped beating, her heart would stop too. In 1906 there was an earthquake that had destroyed three of the seven floors of the house. After Sarah´s death, in 1922, the house was opened to visitation. Nowadays it still works as a museum, and you can pay to visit all the rooms and to hear a lot of scary stories. People claim to have seen a ghost in the basement: an old man with a broom and a tool box.

Source: SFGate, 2018. (If I saw this during the visit, I would have a heart attack)

If you are still curious, there is a horror movie from 2018, named “The haunting of Winchester House”, with Helen Mirren in the main role, as Sarah. 

You can see more information in these two videos of Brazilian girls about this theories:

Click HERE to see the video of Jaqueline Guerreiro.

Cliche HERE to see the video of Joici Rodrigues.