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Essay
If you believed the house you were living in was haunted would you flee town or would you try to accommodate your house for your ghostly guest? Me myself I would run and never come back, however one woman by the name of Sarah Winchester decided that she would provide accommodation for her ghostly visitors in her whole seven story mansion. Back when I was in middle school me and my grandma was watching the discovery channel and a piece came on in which they were talking about this bizarre mystery house, we were living in the bay area at the time and my grandma became very interested they were now doing tours of the house in San Jose California and she wanted to take me and my mom. The house was rumored to be haunted so I didn’t really want any parts of that trip, I ended up getting fooled into taking the trip anyway. This was by far the most bizarre place I have ever been too. Before I talk about my trip however I should give you a little history lesson on who Sarah Winchester was. The Winchester mystery house is a mansion in San Jose California; it was once the personal residence Of Sarah Winchester the widow of the gun making tycoon William Wirt Winchester. Winchester rifles were known as the “guns that won the west”. Sarah and William Winchester had first lived in Boston in the late 1800’s, their only child died as an infant and not long after Sarah Winchesters husband William had died of a sickness. As you can imagine Sarah Winchester went into a deep depression. She kept to herself and she became very interested in the spirit world, In fact she believed that ghost had killed both her husband and her daughter. Now to start with the creepy stuff, legend says during a séance she communicated with her husband on the “other side” when I say other side I mean she was talking to her dead husband William Winchester. During their “talk” he gave her some advice on how to protect herself from the evil spirits of American Indians, Civil War soldiers and
If you believed the house you were living in was haunted would you flee town or would you try to accommodate your house for your ghostly guest? Me myself I would run and never come back, however one woman by the name of Sarah Winchester decided that she would provide accommodation for her ghostly visitors in her whole seven story mansion. Back when I was in middle school me and my grandma was watching the discovery channel and a piece came on in which they were talking about this bizarre mystery house, we were living in the bay area at the time and my grandma became very interested they were now doing tours of the house in San Jose California and she wanted to take me and my mom. The house was rumored to be haunted so I didn’t really want any parts of that trip, I ended up getting fooled into taking the trip anyway. This was by far the most bizarre place I have ever been too. Before I talk about my trip however I should give you a little history lesson on who Sarah Winchester was. The Winchester mystery house is a mansion in San Jose California; it was once the personal residence Of Sarah Winchester the widow of the gun making tycoon William Wirt Winchester. Winchester rifles were known as the “guns that won the west”. Sarah and William Winchester had first lived in Boston in the late 1800’s, their only child died as an infant and not long after Sarah Winchesters husband William had died of a sickness. As you can imagine Sarah Winchester went into a deep depression. She kept to herself and she became very interested in the spirit world, In fact she believed that ghost had killed both her husband and her daughter. Now to start with the creepy stuff, legend says during a séance she communicated with her husband on the “other side” when I say other side I mean she was talking to her dead husband William Winchester. During their “talk” he gave her some advice on how to protect herself from the evil spirits of American Indians, Civil War soldiers and