
	Where results make sense

Topic: Sarah Winchester

Related Topics

Winchester Mystery House

Oliver Winchester

Winchester rifle

San Jose, California

1923 in architecture

New Haven, Connecticut

Campbell, California

1922 in architecture

Death (band)

September 5

Connecticut

1922

Staircase

1837

List of words of disputed pronunciation

In the News (Thu 16 Feb 12)

EXECUTIVE POWER

Iran

ANALYSIS

Pakistan

Family compact

	Sarah Winchester - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sarah Winchester (1837 - September 5, 1922), born Sarah Lockwood Pardee, was an heiress and the builder of the Winchester Mystery House.
		A medium told Sarah that the Winchester family was cursed by the spirits of all the people who had been killed by the Winchester rifle, and that she should move west and build a house for herself and the spirits.
		In 1884 Sarah moved to California and purchased a six room farm house under construction, which belonged to a Dr. Caldwell, on 162 acres (0.7 km²) of land in what is now San Jose.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sarah_Winchester (345 words)

	Winchester Mystery House - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sarah Winchester believed it to be haunted, and many continue this belief today.
		Sarah had lost her husband and also her only child, a daughter, who died in infancy 15 years earlier.
		Winchester's property was 161.919 acres (650,000 m²) at one time but now the estate is just 6.5 acres (24,000 m²) - the minimum to contain the house and nearby outbuildings.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Winchester_Mystery_House (1065 words)

	Wikipedia: Sarah Winchester
		Sarah fell into a deep depression following the death of her daughter, and the couple did not have any more children.
		Sarah felt that her family was cursed, and sought out spirtualists to determine what she should do.
		In 1884 Sarah moved to California and purchased a six room farm house under construction, which belonged to a Dr. Caldwell, on 162 acres of land in what is now San Jose.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/s/sa/sarah_winchester.html (313 words)

	Sarah Winchester: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sarah Winchester (1837 - September 5, 1922), born Sarah Lockwood Pardee, was an heiress and the builder of the Winchester Mystery House (additional info and facts about Winchester Mystery House).
		A medium told Sarah that the Winchester family was cursed by the spirits of all the people who had been killed by the Winchester rifle (additional info and facts about Winchester rifle), and that she should move west and build a house for herself and the spirits.
		Among her eccentricities were her fascination with the number 13 (The cardinal number that is the sum of twelve and one) and sleeping in a different room every night.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sa/sarah_winchester.htm (278 words)

	EXPLORING THE HOUSE THAT FEAR BUILT
		To 19th century pioneers, the Winchester repeating rifle was "the gun that won the West," but to Sarah, heiress to the Winchester Repeating Arms fortune, the weapon was an instrument of doom and ultimate destruction for herself.
		There are several organs in the house, for Sarah was once a fine musician, but as the years passed arthritis severely crippled her hands, It was said that the affliction was so intense that she could scarcely hold the pencil with which to make the building plans she was constantly creating and changing.
		Sarah took this as a warning against alcohol and had the cellar walled up so carefully that, to this day the liquid treasure has yet to be found.
	www.travellady.com /ARTICLES/article-exploringhouse.html (1102 words)

	The Winchester Mystery House and Other Ghost Stories of Industry in Silicon Valley
		Sarah Winchester was the wife of William Wirt Winchester; William was the son of Oliver Winchester, the first president of the fabulously wealthy Winchester Repeating Arms Company.
		Sarah also designed a number of her home's fixtures and rooms to repeat the number 13--hence we find rooms with thirteen windows, thirteen fireplaces in one suite, thirteen gas lights on her chandelier, thirteen holes in her kitchen drain, and so forth.
		Moreover, it seems fairly certain that Sarah's work on the house went beyond a loopy interest in the occult, for her ghosts were associated with a specific source: the rifles that her family was mass producing, and a company that continued to pump out rifle after rifle, presumably mass producing ghosts in the process.
	www.techsploitation.com /socrates/Winchester_Silicon.html (2716 words)

	BootHillCemetery.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sarah L. Pardee grew up in New Haven and married William Wirt Winchester, son of the founder of the Winchester Repeating Arms CO. William died at age 43 in March 1881' a victim of Tuberculosis.
		According to the myth that has grown up around Sarah, she was convinced by a Boston medium that building would appease or confuse the evil spirits of those killed by the "Gun that Won the West".
		Sarah is buried far from the mystery house in Hew Haven's Evergreen Cemetery...next to her husband and daughter.
	www.boothillcemetery.com /classic/hauntedhouses/winchester1.asp (425 words)

	TENbyTEN Mystery House
		The tragic pang of survivor's guilt has provided the impetus for many a venture, humanitarian and otherwise, and simultaneously, this country is rife with examples of individuals who found themselves with a lot of time on their hands, extra cash, and the motivating thrust of eccentricity.
		Subsequent to her husband's death from pulmonary tuberculosis in 1881, Sarah Winchester found herself sole proprietress to the Winchester Rifle fortune.
		Winchester's grief over the loss of her husband and child was compounded by the harbinger of a spiritualist medium who informed her that she would be haunted by the spirits of those struck down by the Winchester Repeating Rifle unless she immediately bought a house and began to build upon it—continuously and until she died.
	www.tenbyten.net /winchester.html (924 words)

	The Winchester House
		The Winchester House was built by Sarah Winchester, the wife of the heir to the Winchester Repeating Rifle fortune.
		Sarah felt that the spirits were displeased with the rooms she had added to the front of the house, so she ordered the rooms boarded up and never repaired.
		This room was Sarah Winchester's bedroom, and is the room in which she died.
	www.ghostinmysuitcase.com /places/winchester (1369 words)

	Encyclopedia: Sarah Winchester
		The Winchester Repeating Arms Company was a prominent American maker of repeating weapons during the late 19th Century and the early 20th Century.
		Winchester Rifle refers to an early family of repeating rifles manufactured by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company that was used widely in the United States during the latter half of the 19th century.
		Winchester's property was 161.919 acres (650,000 mÂ²) at its largest point but now the estate is just 6.5 acres (24,000 mÂ²) - the minimum to contain the house and nearby outbuildings.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Sarah-Winchester (791 words)

	Feed Yr Brain
		Sarah was totally upset and really didn't know what to do, so she went to see a spiritualist (the kind of person who can tell your future or do a seance or something).
		In addition to that, Sarah wanted the house filled with tricky stairwells, doors that led nowhere, secret passageways, spiderweb shaped windows, doors and cabinets that opened into walls, skylights that were built into the floor...so that she could trick the bad spirits.
		Sarah died in her sleep in 1922, and no one really knows if it was because of ghosts or not.
	www.zeeks.com /414.html (794 words)

	Bloggity-Blog-Blog-Blog
		Sarah Winchester was very fond of the number "13", and it appears all over the place in various patterns.
		During the 1906 earthquake, Sarah was trapped in her room because the walls shifted enough to jam the doors.
		The deer is apparently original and was around in Sarah's time, but the bush behind it is an in-joke by the modern gardeners for the benefit of the folks who have been on the tour.
	realtegan.blogspot.com /2004/07/winchester-mystery-house.html (1901 words)

	Internal Medicine Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine: Winchester Chest Clinic History
		Sarah L. Pardee grew up in New Haven and married William Wirt Winchester, son of the founder of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company.
		Winchester was deeply upset by the deaths of her husband and daughter and seems to have consulted a spiritualistic medium.
		Winchester worked on her mansion, local people would pass by the estate and would wonder at the goings on.
	info.med.yale.edu /intmed/pulmonary/clinical/winchester_history.html (909 words)

	Obiwan's UFO-Free Paranormal Page > Haunted Places > Winchester Mystery House
		The Winchester Mystery House was built by Sarah Winchester, the widow of William Winchester, who was the son of the man who founded the Winchester rifle empire.
		In 1906 Sarah was trapped in a bedroom by an earthquake.
		When Sarah died in 1922, the word spread throughout the house, and there are still spots visible where the workers stopped hammering the nails halfway in.
	www.ghosts.org /haunted/winchester/winchester.html (822 words)

	Rich Burridge's Blog : Weblog
		Sarah Winchester was married to the second president of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company who died in 1881.
		Sarah was then told that she must sell her property in New Haven and head towards the setting sun.
		This is the bedroom that Mrs Winchester died in 1922 (dying in her sleep at the age of 83).
	blogs.sun.com /roller/page/richb?entry=winchester_mystery_house (1187 words)

	W E I R D U S D O T C O M
		Winchester was the shrewd businessman from whom Winchester Rifles had gained their name.
		Sarah was unable to handle the loss of her family.
		In short, the entire Winchester family was being punished by beings in the afterlife, and Sarah was bearing the brunt.
	www.weirdus.com /stories/CA03.asp (1220 words)

	Winchester House -- Santa Clara County, California -- National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
		Winchester that the victims killed by the Winchester rifles her family manufactured were seeking revenge by taking the lives of her family.
		Winchester that the spirits had placed a curse on her, and that if she wished to live, she must appease them by moving out west and constantly, without ceasing, build a house for them night and day.
		Winchester's death in 1922 the house was sold and then opened to the public as the Winchester Mystery House.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/santaclara/win.htm (407 words)

	Happy Halloween - Winchester Mystery House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		On September 30, 1862, at the height of the Civil War, William Wirt Winchester [of Winchester rifle wealth and fame] and Sarah Pardee were married in an elaborate ceremony in New Haven.
		Sarah was so shattered by this event that she withdrew into herself and teetered on the edge of madness for some time.
		Sarah believed that time was very important to the ringing of this bell, which she used to contact the spirits.
	www.halloweenalliance.com /magazine/vol3iss3_wmh.htm (2032 words)

	Happy Halloween - The Winchester Mystery House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		When it was over, Borgen stated that Sarah Winchester had graced them with her presence and that the discomfort that she had felt was due to the fact that there were so many people in the room...
		"That's the room where Sarah Winchester was trapped during the 1906 earthquake." The guide really couldn't pinpoint any particular thing about the room which disconcerted her, but did say that sometimes the room would get very cold, but only in certain places.
		Sarah Winchester's desire to build forever is emphasized by the vast amounts of supplies found in storerooms after her death.
	www.halloweenalliance.com /magazine/vol4iss1_winchester.htm (1704 words)

	Skeptical Inquirer: Winchester Mystery House: fact vs. fancy - Investigative Files (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Winchester had thirteen ceremonial robes; that fiction was probably inferred from the total of thirteen hooks in the room's two closets, some of them, however, placed implausibly low for robes.
		President Theodore Roosevelt, a fan of Winchester rifles, knocked at the front door but was unrecognized by a servant and turned away (or insulted by being sent around to the back of the house) (Winchester 1997; Rambo 1967).
		Winchester was reclusive, the single existing photograph taken of her during the thirty-eight years of mansion construction shows her seated in her carriage, apparently gazing at the camera, but without veil (Winchester 1997, 6).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2843/is_5_26/ai_91236222 (1421 words)

	+Lost Destinations::Winchester Mystery House+
		Born Sarah Pardee, she married the only heir of the Winchester Repeating Arms Co., and was by all accounts living a very happy and comfortable life.
		Sarah never slept in the same bedroom two nights in a row, presumably to confuse the tormenting wraiths she sought to avoid.
		Sarah incorporated the number 13 (or it's multiples 26, 39, 52) into every aspect of her ever-growing mystery house; she even divided her will into 13 sections with 13 signatures.
	www.lostdestinations.com /wnchhous.htm (745 words)

	Sarah and the Mystery House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sarah Lockwood Pardee was born in the mid to late 1830’s.
		When Sarah was in her mid-twenties, she met William Wirt Winchester, son of Oliver Winchester, of Winchester Rifle fame.
		She confirmed Sarah’s theory that there was indeed a “curse” on the family; the spirits of all those who’d been killed by the Winchester rifles had taken her daughter and husband.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/historys_wild_women/114010 (452 words)

	Blakes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sarah Winchester’s lengthy project began after the deaths of her month-old daughter and husband William (he of Winchester Rifle fame and fortune).
		For one thing, Sarah had a “thing” for the number 13, applying it to at least 27 of the house’s features (13 windows in the 13th bathroom, 13 stones in a spider’s-web window, 13 glass cupolas in the greenhouse).
		One of the rooms—the one in which Sarah Winchester died—is finished with decoratively embossed Lincrusta wallpaper, imported from England, and carefully painted florets in the doorframes and moldings.
	www.explorepublishing.com /pages/WMH.htm (532 words)

	Winchester Mystery House
		Sarah Winchester was the wife of the heir to the Winchester Rifle fortune, William Winchester.
		The medium, rather than giving a message of a comforting nature, told Sarah that her family was cursed by the spirits of all those killed by Winchester rifles.
		Sarah was responsible for the architectural design of the additions, which includes doors that open to 8 foot drops, staircases that rise to nowhere but the ceiling, switchback staircases with two inch steps, and a room that has a window in the floor.
	www.fortunecity.com /roswell/shelly/43/winchester.html (674 words)

	Interesting Thing of the Day: Winchester Mystery House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Winchester had visited a psychic in Boston who convinced her that she was indeed under a curse of sorts.
		Winchester, in daily séances, received plans for the next day’s work directly from the dead, and simply did as she was told.
		Sarah Winchester died in her sleep in 1922 at the age of 82.
	itotd.com /index.alt?ArticleID=279 (1651 words)

	THE WINCHESTER HOUSE!
		The family prospered and on September 30, 1862, at the height of the Civil War, William Wirt Winchester and Sarah Pardee were married in an elaborate ceremony in New Haven.
		The house was rapidly growing and expanding and while Sarah claimed to have no master plan for the structure, she met each morning with her foreman and they would go over the her hand-sketched plans for the day’s work.
		Sarah continued her occupancy, and expansion, of the house, living in melancholy solitude with no one other than her servants, the workmen and, of course, the spirits.
	www.prairieghosts.com /winchester.html (2409 words)

	[No title]
		In the early 1860s, she met a man by the name of William Wirt Winchester, who was the son of Oliver Winchester, the famed gun manufacturer, and heir to his considerable fortune valued in the millions of dollars.
		Sarah took her friends advice, but the experience did not help her, but only reinforced the curse she believed was on the Winchester family.
		Sarah died in her sleep on September 5, 1922, at the age of 85, and was buried alongside her husband and daughter.
	www.aboutfamouspeople.com /article1231.html (1571 words)

	Forward Retreat: April 2005 Archives
		Winchester visited a medium who confirmed the karmic fate of the Winchester family, assuring her that the only way to avoid the vengeance of those killed by Winchester rifles was to build, ceaselessly, a home that would comfort favorable spirits and ward off evil ones.
		Winchester paid well, and in cash nonetheless, they built twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, for thirty-eight years until her death in 1922.
		Winchester certainly was one, her estate has devolved into a veritable amusement park, struggling to create an air of mystery while turning a buck or two.
	forwardretreat.com /archives/2005/04 (3082 words)

	Sarah's Spirits
		In 1884, after the deaths of her daughter and husband, Sarah Winchester was told of her family curse.
		The spirits of people killed by Winchester rifles were extracting revenge on the family that produced the weapon.
		Even with Sarah being dead for 83 years, there are some that believe a curse still courses through the halls of “Llanda Villa”, Sarah’s mansion.
	www.madstage.com /shows03/sarahspirits.html (308 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)