Sarah Winchester reportedly believed that if she ever stopped construction on the house, the ghosts would get her. There are countless windows on interior walls with no clear function, including a window in the floor in the middle of a room. The peculiar residence has 40 staircases and 2,000 doors, including one that allows you to leave one room with no floor beneath it. The mysterious mansion has no floor plan or blueprint. One door in the sprawling room opens to a fire safe door that opens to a safe that opens to a smaller safe. The grand ballroom is one of the most ornate rooms in the behemoth home. It’s not clear why the heiress was compelled to build such a labyrinth of a home, but legend says she believed a medium who warned her that the family was cursed by the victims of rifles made by Winchester Repeating Arms Co., and the ghosts of those victims would only be satisfied if Winchester built them a home, spawning the large-scale and constant construction. What started off as a meek two-story farmhouse ended as a four-story 24,000 square-foot enigma of a residence, leaving Winchester to sink most of her inherited fortune into the construction of the house. The Winchesters had only one child who died during infancy, leaving the matriarch to inherit her husband’s fortune - valued at $20 million.Ĭonstruction began on the mansion in 1886, but according to historians, never ended until her death in 1922. Sarah Winchester, who is portrayed by Mirren in the film, moved to California with her sister and niece after her husband, William Wirt Winchester, died in 1881. Inside Edition went inside the 160-room Queen Anne-style Victorian mansion in San Jose, Calif., which is filled with elaborate hallways, staircases that lead to nowhere and more doors than one can imagine. Helen Mirren’s new horror movie, Winchester, tells the frightening story of what is widely regarded as the most haunted house in America, and what awaits inside may be more terrifying than the film.
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