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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

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