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Posted May 4, 2001
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Winchester Mystery House
Band Lobby
Johnny Rockets
San Jose State University
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WMH - History
Posted Feb 28, 2000
In 1884, a crazy (and short) old lady by the name of Sarah Lockewood Pardee Winchester moved out to California from New Haven, Conneticut on the advise of a Boston Psychic. This psychic told her that the reason she lost her husband and daughter to fatal diseases early in their life was due to the fact that her husband manufactured firearms (The famous Winchester rifles) and the spirits of those killed by these famous guns were exacting their revenge by killing the makers and their relatives, and Sarah was next on the list. So the Psychic told her to most out west, buy an unfinished house, and build on it forever and never finish it. By doing so she would not die, but in fact live forever. So she moved out to california and did just that. She bought an eight room unfinished farmhouse three miles west of what was then San Jose, CAlifornia, and began to build. She hired 13 (she was preoccupied with this number) carpenters to work and build on the house 24 hours a day, seven days a week. These well-paid builders did this for 38 consecutive years, only stopping briefly for the great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. Sarah Winchester died in 1922, the house having 160 rooms, remaining unfinished to this day.
to be continued
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Winchester Rough Draft
Posted Jan 17, 2000
If by chance you are traveling through California, and you've already been to Disneyland, Marine World, Magic Mountain, and dozens of other tourist money-magnets along that great coastal state, then you just might have visited the Winchester Mystery House. If you do decide to go there, heed these following words before you plan your vacation in that most westerly of directions.
I am a former tour guide at the Winchester Mystery House. I worked there for six months, and there are many things to be known and discovered about this tourist trap.
*the history
*the scenery
*high prices
*terrible food
*monotonic underpaid tour guides
*the ghost stories
*the complete load of bull
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Winchester Mystery House
Posted Nov 22, 1999
Since i was a tour guide at the WMH, I plan to write an extensive entry on the whole thing including the ghost stories they WONT tell you on tour and the other additional information they don't tell you
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Random thoughts 11/99
Posted Nov 20, 1999
Possible Guide entry submissions:
Stuff on Disneyland and other theme parks and attractions
Drinks, drinking, getting drunk, and recovering
Avoiding work, school, responsiblity and still managing to get money from my parents
The Black Hole @ SJSU
SJSU and the pig-headed administration
Where to find great used book stores
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