The Winchester Mansion, also known as the Winchester Mansion House, is a place located in San Jose, California. It was once lived in by Sarah Winchester, the widow of William Wirt Winchester, who was a very wealthy man and the son of Oliver Winchester, who founded the Winchester Repeating Arms Company. Now the house is privately owned and is used as a tourist attraction.
However, since the construction of the house in 1884, some claim that the property and the house have been haunted with ghosts of those who were killed with Winchester rifles. That is one of the many mysteries of the Winchester house.
Another of them is that Sarah Winchester built the house out of fear. Overcome with grief of her husband's death from tuberculosis in 1881, people state that Sarah found a spiritualist who could speak with the dead. While she was presumably looking for closure to the situation, she was instead given a chilling warning. Through the medium, William told his widow that their tragedies (the couple had only one child, a daughter named Annie, who died at six weeks old) were a result of the blood money (Money paid to the family of a murdered person) the family had made off of the Winchester rifles. He warned that vengeful ghosts would seek her out. In order to protect herself, William said that Sarah must "build a home for herself and for the spirits who have fallen from this terrible weapon.” Sarah then left their old home in New Haven, Connecticut and moved west to build the Winchester Mansion.
Another mystery is that the house was under constant construction for years. Some people say it was never actually completed.
So what do you think? Did these ghostly mysteries truly happen, or is it just a made up myth? I’ll leave it to you to decide.