Winchester: The House That Ghosts Built uses this true story as a foundation, and builds upon it by showing us what “really” happened during the house’s construction all the way up to the earthquake in 1906. In 1884, she purchased an unfinished farmhouse and began building a home that was not just built for her, but for the ghosts of those killed by Winchester rifles. It’s what they did.” The medium channeled William and told her to leave New Haven, Connecticut, travel West and build a new home. “She was haunted by the spirits who died at the end of a rifle. While visiting a medium might seem like an odd way to tackle grief, one of the film’s directors, Peter Spierig insists it was normal for the time she lived in. She lived in Boston, MA at the time, and after her infant daughter also died, she went to a medium. After his death from tuberculosis in 1881, she inherited over $20 million dollars and over half the company. As you’ve probably guessed, Sarah Winchester was married to a member of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company family, William Wirt Winchester. It’s a sprawling mansion with no building plan and countless oddities that seem to make no sense – unless you know the real reason she built it that way. At its peak, it stood seven stories tall, but the famous 1906 earthquake brought it down to the five it stands at today. The Winchester Mystery House is a mansion in San Jose, California built around the clock by Sarah Winchester from the year 1884 until 1922 when Sarah died. Winchester: The House That Ghosts Built may seem like it came out of nowhere, but the house, and woman, it’s based on have been a staple of American folklore for over one-hundred years.
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