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The Winchester Mystery House: A Mansion Built for Ghosts
TLDR The Winchester Mystery House is a massive mansion built by Sarah Winchester to house the ghosts of those killed by her husband's rifle company. Sarah received instructions from her husband and a spirit caretaker during seances, resulting in a house with strange architectural features and numerous rooms.
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The Winchester Mystery House is an enormous Victorian mansion with about 160 rooms located in the suburbs of San Jose.
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The Winchester Mystery House is an enormous mansion with an unknown number of rooms, and it was built by Sarah Winchester, the widow of William Winchester, who invented the Winchester Repeating Rifle.
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Sarah Winchester, after losing her daughter and husband, consulted a medium who told her that she would be haunted by ghosts unless she built a house for them, leading her to purchase land in California and begin construction on the Winchester Mystery House.
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Sarah Winchester, after losing her daughter and husband, moved west and began building a huge house to house the ghosts of those who died at the hands of her husband's rifle company, receiving instructions on what to build next through seances.
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Sarah Winchester received instructions from her husband and a spirit caretaker during seances in the blue room of the house, and she would then relay those instructions to the construction workers every morning.
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Sarah Winchester's construction decisions for the house were very strange, including stairs with lots of steps but only two inches high, switchback stairs that went nowhere, hidden doorways, and cabinets that were only two inches deep.
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After the 1906 earthquake, Sarah Winchester's construction decisions became even more frenetic and she would tear down or build around any architectural problems, resulting in a house with 47 fireplaces, 17 chimneys, two basements, six kitchens, 10,000 window panes, 467 doorways, and only two mirrors.
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Sarah Winchester's house had several innovative features for its time, including wool insulation, carbide gas lights, electric push buttons for lights, inside cranks for window shutters, drip pans for watering plants, and an annunciator servant call system.
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The idea is proposed to classify sexual orientation on a coordinate plane, with homosexuality and heterosexuality on the left and right, and the intensity of sexuality going up and down.
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