Winchester Mystery House: Peculiar Places Of Residencies

Peculiar Places of Residency If one were to go to the address 525 S Winchester Blvd in San Jose, California, there would be a beautifully large house called the Winchester Mystery House. This house is toured and pondered upon by many, and this is because of its story. It was once owned by a woman named Sarah Winchester who many say was crazy because of her constant around-the-clock building of her large home and the way she built it. Because of how weird the house is, it has been all over the media. It is visited in the show Ghost Adventures more than once and has many movies based off of the house. The story is so odd that Stephen King even based his book Rose Red off of the house, and his book became a four hour and 14 minute miniseries
The word mystery is even in the name of the Winchester Mystery House. One of the main mysteries of the house is the paranormal activity that goes on. Many people that journey into the home often feel a presence of someone or something as they enter. There have been many captured pictures of mysterious orbs and body outlines by those who go into the house. Although many of the design plans are said to have come from the spirits that Sarah spoke to each night, some were actually done by her. This includes a spider web design found in many places in the house. Many of the spider webs are found in the design of the windows. Most of these windows are in the 13th bathroom. The same design is also found in various fireplace grates within the house (We Welcome). Another attraction of the house is what is called The Doorway to Nowhere. It is at the front of the house on the second floor in the “Daisy Bedroom,” the room where Sarah was said to have stayed during the earthquake. The door opens to the outside of the home to a two-story drop (Winchester Mystery). No one knows why the door is there. It is very easy to get lost in the home. Workers are not certain of the amount of rooms in the home, but as of 2016, thanks to the discovery of a boarded up room in the attic, there are 121 rooms in the house; there were various items found in the room such as a pump organ, Victorian couch, dress form, sewing machine, and paintings.
In the film, one of the first things you hear is the voice of Ellen Rimbauer reading from her diary. She says, “Houses are alive. This is something we know. News from our nerve endings. If we’re quiet, if we listen, we can hear houses breathe. Sometimes, in the depth of the night, you can even hear them groan. It’s as if they were having bad dreams. A good house cradles and comforts; a bad one fills us with instinctive unease. Bad houses hate our warmth and our human-ness. That blind hate of our humanity is what we mean when we use the word ‘haunted’.” I believe that those who reside in a home make the personality of the home clear. Both the Winchester Mystery House and Rose Red reflect on the widowed owners and their odd tactics of building a thriving home to live