Sarah winchester

The Winchester Rifle is "the gun that won the west"—and it made the Winchester family very wealthy. T&C; takes a tour of the family's summer compound and trace their complicated, fascinating history.

Sarah Winchester & The Enigma of the Winchester Mystery House

The insanity of Sarah Winchester is, in short, a lie.

This was a portrait taken of Sarah Winchester in the 1870s when she visited San Francisco with her husband William for a business trip. They stayed at the Palace Hotel, and checked on the Winchester Repeating Arms Company office that had recently been open near the waterfront.

"Los Kissinger en su casa de Nueva York" is an article torn from a magazine The Devoted Classicist found while going through an unlabeled file recently. Although the article is unmarked, there is no mistaking that it is from Hola! magazine. It probably dates from the 90s, when I first discovered the popular periodical from Spain and used it for Show & Tell readings to cheer up a very ill friend. The magazine's format is simple, but tried-and-true, with at-home interviews accompanied by as…

The Winchester Mystery House which is a California historical landmark and on the National Register of Historic Places was owned by Sarah Winchester.

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You know what’s a real bummer? When you embark on some loony ritual, suggested by a kooky medium to prolong your own life or perhaps instill immortality, and you faithfully execute that recommended “health” plan with vigor your entire life until you … die. That’s the sad story of one Sarah Winchester and the Winchester Mystery House. #winchester #hauntedhouses #mansions

Historians say the eccentric rifle heiress was simply misunderstood.

The Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California is the subject of a new Hollywood film starring Helen Mirren, but is based on a real house where an eccentric widow resided in the early 1900s.