The house that GHOSTS built

Based on real events. A terrible phrase that should make you more believe what is happening on the screen and do a little pants, especially when it comes to a horror movie. This weekend I watched a fresh movie called Winchester. The house that the ghosts built. And this is an appallingly funny comedy. And she meets us with these words:

*"Based on real events."*

Hello everyone, I have already made it clear to you many times that such loud phrases cannot be trusted. I'm sure you are not stupid and understand everything, but still this is a show. And here we find out why this cannot be trusted. This story is shrouded in mystery, but today we will try to figure it all out, if we certainly have the courage. But first, let’s remember what this house is famous for. Oliver Winchester was an American entrepreneur who founded a company that produces guns, which eventually came to be called Winchesters. Why am I showing you pictures? Here is this same Winchester 1873 release. You can see it in absolutely every western movie. In general, this thing is very, very famous and it is she who plays the main role in this story. Oliver Winchester had a son, William, who inherited the company. This son married Sarah Lockwood, who, after the death of her husband, received a lot of money and began to build an incredibly strange house. This is where the story of Sarah Winchester’s mansion begins.

*"Sarah Winchester, a lonely woman who once turned to a medium who told her that she was haunted by the spirits of people who died from the Winchester rifle. There was only one way out of this situation. For 38 years, without interruption, a 7-storey building was built in California. It looked like a maze. Windows and stairs leading nowhere, doors that open into the wall. All this was done in order to confuse these very spirits. After all, Sarah believed that if they finished building the house, they would find it. Also, the house is famous for the fact that there often appears the number 13. Someone calls her crazy, and someone does not doubt the veracity of her story."*

Easy, now I’ll put it in my pants. This guy is very scary, he probably studied at REN TV. But is all this true? In fact, such a house really exists. Sarah Winchester is a real person, and the people who were in this house say that there are ghosts. Yes, and no matter what they say there. These are just people. They tend to make mistakes or lie. You can even get there now. All you need to buy a ticket for several tens of dollars. Listen to the story of ghosts and take a walk around the house, where every creak will tickle your nerves, and for special extreme people there is a special night tour with flashlights, where only one rule is to survive until dawn. But when you get out of it, on the ground floor and in the courtyard you will be waiting for music, dancing, fun, drinking, and why, Yes, because there are not only terrible adventures, but also holidays and weddings. Weddings in a ghost house.

*"And until death do you part. Congratulations. I asked not to do so. You would be pleased if I entered you without demand. So here you let in all sorts of strangers."*

Well, all right, it still proves nothing to anyone. Maybe ghosts like to hang out at weddings. We were not ghosts and we condemn. But even to this day, this house causes fear in people. Videos on this subject continue to appear on YouTube, films are made and so on. Well, I think it's time to figure it all out. Let's get started. That's what they write on all sites where this house is mentioned. A woman named Sarah Winchester lost her daughter immediately after her birth. A little later, she immediately lost her beloved husband. This is a very sad story, but it was a bit wrong. Yes, she really lost her daughter, but she lost her husband not later, but 15 years later. But in any case, this is a very strong blow. We read further, after the death of her husband, Sarah turned for help to a medium in Boston, who, with the help of a spiritualistic session, was able to establish a connection with the spirit of the deceased lover. The spirit of the deceased reported that all the tragic events of Sarah are connected with the revenge of the fallen from the rifle created by her father. Well, this can probably be done. Some medium informed her of the ghosts. She was gullible and lonely, succumbed, was deceived by a charlatan, as I thought when I read this story, but what I learned further does not fit into my presentation of the disclosures. This medium was called Adam Koons. This information appeared in 1967 in the book "Outstanding American Ghosts." This book was written by Susie Smith. She generally wrote a lot of nonsense, which does not hold water. But even if we discard this fact, there is no evidence that such a person even existed, that Sarah Winchester at least once was with a medium. In 1857, a magazine called Banner of light was founded in Boston. This is a mystical magazine that was very mystical. All names of mediums existing at that time were published there. Yes, unfortunately there was such a thing, but even there was not the name Adam Koons. Jonah. Well, we’ll read this story to the end. To avoid further problems, the widow must build a special house in which the spirits can not harm her. The termination of repairs threatened her with death. Yes, it's some kind of game, you say. Who invented this at all? But in order to understand this, we need to go to the Internet, where few have been. In paid internet. So I signed up for newspaper archives, where I rummaged through all the newspapers that mentioned the name Winchester. Searches led me to the 1895 newspaper with which it all began. It says that Sarah Winchester believes that when the house is fully completed, she will die. Perhaps she discovered the secret of eternal youth and will live while the house is being built. It's cool, but where did they get this from? Sarah Winchester never talked with her neighbors, never gave an interview, so people had to invent stories themselves.

*"Yes, of course it was a lot of fun. Have you seen anything?"*

*"Of course I did."*

*"Then I saw it too."*

Just like we are in childhood. Come near the old house and tell a friend that a sorceress lives in this house and in general she eats children, and in general she has tentacles. By the way, she is a zombie and you need to bypass this house, but you perfectly understood that you are a small liar. But you are not ashamed. But still, for 38 years, the house was continuously built. Is it true? After all, this is a very cool legend. Finish construction and die immediately. But no, it was built for 20 years, until in 1906 an earthquake struck that destroyed the top 3 floors of the house. Previously, it was a 7-story building looked like this. After that, it was simply corrected and nothing was completed. And it became known that, nevertheless, based on the letters of Sarah Winchester, she at least once let go of all her workers for the whole winter. Mismatch. And all this was possible to learn thanks to one person, Mary Joe Ignofo, a historian from DeAnza College. Spent 5 years of her life to write the only complete biography of Sarah Winchester. Collected bit by bit information about her. A lot of historians and librarians took part in writing the book. But the main facts were found in the archives of the San Jose Museum. On the Internet there is not a single photograph from this book, nor even this book itself. It is very well protected from copying, but for the sake of a full investigation, of course I bought it. Her reading was very interesting. In her book, she points out that she was collecting old newspaper clippings, talking to people who talked to people who once worked in that house. In short, this is a very complicated scheme and they say that Sarah Winchester built such a large house not to confuse the spirits, but to ensure that the workers in this city had work, and she paid very well. It sounds strange, but it's just someone else's words. Well, now we find the biography of Sarah Winchester and see that she was a philanthropist. She bought houses for her family, was engaged in charity work. She built a hospital and established the William Winchester Foundation and invested a lot of money in the fight against tuberculosis, but now the historian’s words do not look so groundless. Is not it? Especially when you consider that Sarah's father was at first a laborer and very often could not find work. And why did ghosts and her pursue? At the end of the 19th century, Americans suddenly began to feel guilty for exterminating the Indians in this way. And suddenly it became bad and who is to blame? Of course, a weapons manufacturer. The most stupid logic. Well, actually it happened. The press began to blame Sarah for all these killings. And then a rumor appeared that everyone who was killed from this rifle would wander after it until the end of time.

*"Damn you. You killed me."*

*"Sorry."*

*"OK."*

I’m wondering if Winchester would produce sausages, not guns. Would he be chased by those people who once choked on them? Well, my favorite. The house of Sarah Winchester has windows and doors that do not lead anywhere. Doors leading from the second floor directly to the street. Stairs leading to the ceilings. Labyrinth stairs and the like. I like this stairs, doors. One staircase that leads to the ceiling, one door that leads to the streets. One staircase in the form of a maze. Wow, straight mysterious. Sarah Winchester actually had rheumatoid arthritis, so there are stairs scattered around the house, where the steps rise only a couple of centimeters. This is not to confuse spirits, this is to move around the house at all. And all this nonsense with stairs and doors to nowhere was also invented by the press. They did not think in 1906, when there was this very earthquake, when the upper three floors fell, some doors and stairs were simply blocked, because many of the rooms were never restored. They did not think that the windows inside the house were once the windows that lead to the street. It’s just that the house was constantly being completed, that the windows in the floor used to be on the roof, that the chimney that leads to the ceiling also used to lead to the roof. But why do we need this boredom? Let’s better tell you that she was trying to confuse spirits with such strange stairs and doors. I'm serious now. Many people think that she built this strange house to confuse ghosts. Confuse the ghosts.

*"Sorry, do not tell me where is the way out?"*

*"Go to hell."*

*"Newbie. You found someone to ask. They are 100 years old and they do not know where the solution is. Now we are quick."*

*"The phantom route is built."*

*"There. I will call you Casper."*

*"Why?"*

*"Simply."*

After this, of course, a rumor appeared that Sarah Winchester communicates with spirits and even built a special room for this. And now you just look at it. If you want to go to America and visit this house, then the guides will tell you that it was in this room that she called the spirits, but nothing surprising. Spiritualism, that is, communication with spirits at the end of the 19th century, was right at the peak of its popularity. The kids ran home after school to chat with the ghosts faster, and their parents told them: “Do not play long with ghosts, you will put your eyesight on.” There was a golden time. But despite the fact that almost everyone had a spiritualistic board, Sarah Winchester had nothing to do with it at all. If you dig deep into foreign sites, you can find that a certain Henrietta Severs, personal assistant to Sarah Winchester, refutes the fact that there were at least once spiritualistic sessions in the house. Believe without evidence? No matter how. A book with a biography of Sarah Winchester can be considered an entire museum. And we find that there really was such a person. Only her name was not Severs, but Henrietta Severa and she really denied the allegations that there were spiritualistic sessions in the house. One less bike. I am satisfied. Let us now imagine for a second that all historians are lying. The conspiracies and Sarah Winchester really haunted the ghosts. Nevertheless, this did not prevent her from traveling to her other houses, of which there were many. She had a houseboat in Berlingim, a house in Atherton, another house on Country Road, here in Los Altos, which still stands. There, of course, ghosts will not find her. Many say that she was a recluse, did not go anywhere, did not communicate with anyone. And how would you behave in her place? Incredibly small growth, arthritis, which hardly allowed her to move, her teeth were almost gone, so she often wore a black veil. This is very sad, but nevertheless she did not sit at home. Here are the pages of the diary of her servant, which says that she skates somewhere and drives into her large ghostly house once a week. Party girl. Sarah Winchester was a very fragile, lonely and kind person. She wanted to help everyone, to build her house according to her own ideas, and the press made her a crazy old woman. Freaks. But are there classic villains in this story? Of course, John Brown, a man who really wanted a house, but he did not have enough money to buy it, so he rented it with the possibility of buying in the future. He rented it six months after the death of Sarah Winchester. And two months later the house was accessible, as an attraction with ghosts. Just imagine how reptile he is. He just just heard some stories related to this house and of course knew that this was not true, because he had already lived there for some time, but for everyone else, for tourists it was certainly the worst house in the world. And why?

*"Grandmas."*

Of course grandmas. The business was cool. After some time, he could already afford to buy the whole house. He invited reporters who, of course, wrote that there were ghosts and that they wanted to spend Halloween there. The tide of new tourists is guaranteed. Oh yes, I almost forgot. 13 hooks for clothes, 13 windows, 13 candles. This is in any case strange. If you believe the biography of Sarah Winchester, then carpenter James Perkins said that all these references were added after the death of Sarah Winchester. By whom? The new owner of the house, of course. And in support of these words, it is the fact that until 1929, no articles appeared in the press that mentioned that the house even had the number 13. But after it was added there 7 years after the death of Sarah Winchester, completely To each article it also appeared. But not only fakes expose biographies, people who are interested in how paronormalism works are also doing this. The famous critic Joe Nickel in his book “The Science of Ghosts” leads his investigation, in general, you will not find anything new there. No evidence that the house is somehow connected with mysticism. What can I say. The CEO of this house for 30 years, Shozo Kagashima, you know what he says? That he had never seen ghosts here and had not heard anything, but he did not mind that his subordinates were spreading rumors about them. So it happens, people who spent most of their lives in this house refute this nonsense. But people don’t need truth, because as one wise man said: “The truth is not for sale.” A rich woman who didn’t communicate with anyone. The press thought up this nonsense about her and hammered people so hard that if you want to know the truth , you’ll spend 5 years of your life searching for at least some facts in museums and personal archives, and even in this situation, you don’t have to trust me or anyone else at all. In any case, always look at the links in the description and be sure to look for information yourself, but back to the westerns. “When the legend becomes a fact, print the legend” is a famous phrase from the 1962 film “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.” And if you think about it, you and I have long known that Amityville’s house is not a house with ghosts that the Bigfoot was invented by people, that the Loch Ness monster is just prank, and horror movies based on real events are simply not true, but this does not prevent the media from continuing to print fake information for the sake of viewing. . I would like to be interested in the truth, because sometimes it is even more interesting than fiction. I would like to believe, but hard to believe. So when you go to this house, you will hear a lot of stories about ghosts and scary sounds, although the guides know that they themselves invent these stories. Bye everyone.