Legend has it that Sarah Winchester was so haunted by the ghosts of those killed by Winchester's weapons that she built her massive house to confuse them and escape death. But it turns out that's not quite the truth…so what is it? Who really was Sarah Winchester? And why did she build the Winchester Mystery House? Come learn with me!
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Sources:
Captive of the Labyrinth: Sarah L. Winchester, Heiress to the Gun Fortune by Mary Jo Ignoffo
Sarah Winchester: Beyond the Mystery by Bennett Jacobstein
Ghostland: An American Story in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey
The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture By Pamela Haag
The Winchester: the weapon that built an American dynasty By Laura Trevelyan
Free Spirits: Spiritualism, Republicanism, and Radicalism in the Civil War Era by MARK A. LAUSE
What a Crazy Mess Looks Like: The Sarah Winchester House by Joni Tevis
Bad Language: A Maze of Myths: The Winchester Mystery House by Karen Stollznow
The Time of Desire: The Winchester House by Lene M. Johannessen
Haunting the Public Memory of Women: Ethos, Space and Gender in the Winchester Mystery House by Amy J. Lueck
Morbid curiosity, popular media and thanatourism by Emily D Edwards
Images and video courtesy of the San Jose Historical Society, Winchester Mystery House, Prelinger Archives and The Travel Channel.
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