![]() ![]() As revenge, Ben went to a Winchester showroom with one of their rifles and shot fifteen people, before eventually being gunned down by police. He's the ghost of Corporal Ben Block (Eamon Farron), a Confederate soldier whose two brothers were both killed by Winchester rifles. The film elaborates on this story, adding the detail that every room in the house is a reconstruction of a room in which one of the Winchester rifles' victims died, and that once the rooms are build their associated spirit is tied to them until they find a way to pass on. The house - known as the Winchester Mystery House - is a real building located in San Jose, California, and the plot of the movie is largely based on the superstitions of the real Sarah Lockwood Winchester. According to popular legend, the Winchester widow was told by a medium that her family was cursed by the spirits of those whose lives had been taken by Winchester rifles, and that she should move west and build a house for the spirits - with construction to be never-ending. However, Eric is given cause to doubt Sarah Winchester's madness when he comes face-to-face with the house's ghosts himself. Eric Price, a drug-addicted psychiatrist who is hired by the Winchester board of directors to assess Sarah's mental health - with the implicit instruction that he should declare her to unfit to maintain her controlling share of the company. The home is beautiful yet creepy, and it is a really fun thing to do.” - Jessica, June 201 9.Inspired by true events, Michael and Peter Spierig's new horror movie Winchester stars Halen Mirren as Sarah Winchester, the widowed heir to Winchester Repeating Arms fortune, who builds an elaborate and nonsensical house that she believes is haunted by the spirits of people killed by Winchester guns. The tours are well thought out and it is a beautiful place to stroll in the gardens. It showcases the uniqueness of the stunning Victorian architecture, beautiful gardens and the many odd and mysterious features that give the world-famous house its name.” “The Winchester Mystery House explores San Francisco Bay Area history and takes guests back to the late 1800s and into the mind of the tragedy-plagued Sarah Pardee Winchester. Come with an open mind and, if you’re lucky, you just might meet Clyde, the basement ghost. The Winchester mansion, dubbed “the house that ghosts built” is an enthralling architectural monstrosity that inspired the 2018 film Winchester, starring Dame Helen Mirren. It’s beautiful, it’s kooky, it’s a little bit terrifying. Sarah would convene with spirits each night in her seance room, where she would receive elaborate building instructions. It started in 1884 when Sarah, grieving heiress of the Winchester rifle fortune, began building a house to appease the vengeful ghosts of those killed by her late husband’s guns. Think secret passageways, stairs to the ceiling, doors to nowhere, windows in the floor and a four-storey chimney. ![]() ![]() Alongside Tiffany stained-glass windows, parquetry floors, gold-plated chandeliers and a grand ballroom are nonsensical spaces that boggle the mind. It was constructed in a four-decade building frenzy by the reclusive and tormented (some say mad) Sarah Winchester.įinanced by a $20 million fortune, Sarah turned a modest farmhouse into a seven-storey, 160-room Victorian mansion that’s as peculiar as it is grand. ![]() Haunted, cursed, possessed – the sprawling mansion is quite possibly all of these things. Ever seen a ghost? At San Jose’s Winchester Mystery House in California you just might. ![]()
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