The Eastridge shopping mall is not as unique as it used to be and isn’t the only ice rink for a 100 miles in any direction as it was when I was a kid. Frontier village, my favorite of those, has been gone for many years. I grew up just over an hour south of San Jose and just outside my hometown Salinas there has been a billboard for the Winchester mystery House for many years. It was, as I recall, one of only three things worth going to San Jose for when I was a kid. The Winchester mystery House is in San Jose California conveniently located next to the I280 freeway at the Winchester exit. The mansion she left behind has come to be known as the Winchester Mystery House. She started work on an unfinished farm house 3 miles from San Jose (at the time) in 1884 and continued contraction for 38 years. Whether she believed she was protected from vengeful spirits, wouldn’t die, or just would never have to hold a housewarming party is a subject of speculation. Combine those riches that superstition the advice of a medium, who apparently had a brother-in-law who was a contractor, and Sarah Winchester was led to believe that she would be protected if there was a constant sound of hammers building on her house. She was a superstitious woman who is haunted by the fact that her husband’s invention, while it made her rich, killed a great many people.
Sarah Winchester was the widow of the inventor of the Winchester rifle.
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