Sarah Winchester was truly an eccentric woman. In 1881, she inherited her husband’s vast estate in part from his firearms company, making her a very wealthy woman. Convinced by a psychic that her family was cursed by all the people killed with Winchester firearms, she moved out west from Connecticut and used her fortune building the Winchester House (in San Jose, California). Sarah held the belief that if she kept building (and building…and building) she would keep the bad spirits at bay. Construction never stopped on the Winchester House. It’s a famous attraction today – a huge home with hallways and staircases leading nowhere. Old Sarah lived to be 83, so maybe she was onto something!
