the staircase
that leads to
nowhere
Do you believe it?
Is it awesome or weird?
Would you visit it?
is she crazy or sane?
Tomorrow
the door
to nowhere
on the side of the house
- Lit Quiz on "And Then There Were None" (Pages 1-45)
- History Quiz on the Hotel Del and Winchester Mystery House
Is the house haunted?
- Strange presences
- Breathing
- Footsteps
- Screws in frame of house
- Laughing
- Unexpected slamming of doors
- Glimpses of workers/caretakers
- Presences in the room she died in
is she crazy?
Generous
Weird
Workers - $3 a day
Kids - ice cream and piano
Face covered
Bell Tolls - midnight and 2 a.m.
Sleep? never in the same room twice
Facts
- 7 story mansion (1906 Earthquake) now 4
- 24,000 sq. ft.
- 10,000 windows
- 2,000 doors
- 161 rooms
- 52 skylights
- 47 stairways and fireplaces
- 17 chimneys
- 13 bathrooms
- 6 kitchens
- 3 elevators
- 5 million dollars in 1923 - 71 million today
The Winchester Mansion
- Unfinished Farmhouse in San Jose, CA
- Workers - 24 hours a day for 365 days a year
the Boston medium
Told her she was being haunted by evil spirits.
if you build it they will come....
- Inherited $20.5 million (520 million today)
- 50% of Winchester Company
- $1,000 a day ($25,000 today)
Unfortunate Events
1866: Annie Winchester
1881: William Winchester
Journal
- If you could design a haunted house, what would you name it?
- What types of rooms would you have?
a mystery house?
- Describe, in detail, 3 of the best rooms in your haunted house.
Sarah Winchester
Born: 1840, in New Haven, Connecticut.
"Belle of New Haven"
1862:
Married William Wirt Winchester
-Winchester Repeating Rifle
Located: San Jose, CA
Construction: Started in 1886
Ended in 1922
the Winchester
mystery house
Sarah Winchester