Posted on 05/05/2017 9:32:47 PM PDT by nickcarraway
I did the tour in `86 on my honeymoon with the missus.
Felt a definite cold spot walking though a hallway, but other than that thought it was just an old woman with too much money—so she was eccentric, not crazy.
Sarah was into popular-at-the-time seances and mysticism, and thought that the spirits of people killed by her husband’s firearms would haunt her unless she scared them away with the sound of hammers and construction.
The stairways to nowhere were to confuse the spirits. The number 13 is repeated throughout the house. Lots of cool stuff but crazy too: doors that opened to long drops, cupboards an inch deep and another was endless. Stairs that rose only a few inches: she was a little woman. It was obvious the workmen did what they were told, as long as they got paid.
Lefty writer Stephen King pretty much lifted his novel/movie `Rose Red’/The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer’ from the Winchester house story, I think, like so much of his stuff (clearing throat) borrowed from the Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock and other stuff he saw as a kid.
The guns were the best part. I had some Winchesters, a recoil action model 50 and 1897 `trench sweeper’ 12 gauges, `62 model 70 feather light ... until ghosts tossed them off my boat, dam spooooks.
after all these years here,, I have not visited that place yet . .
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