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Book Synopsis Winchester Mystery House by : Michael Ferut
Download or read book Winchester Mystery House written by Michael Ferut and published by Bellwether Media. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secret passageways, stairways to the ceiling, and doors that open to walls. The Winchester Mystery House is full of tricks and traps. The heiress of the Winchester Rifle fortune built the house to confuse the ghosts that haunted her. Young readers will be amazed to discover how long she worked to escape her ghosts in this eerie title.
Book Synopsis The Winchester Mystery House by : Matt Doeden
Download or read book The Winchester Mystery House written by Matt Doeden and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the Winchester Mystery House as you've never seen it before„up close and personal! YOU CHOOSE the path you take through this haunted house's twisted stairways and hidden hallways. Follow the path of a modern-day visitor in this thrilling nonfiction title.
Download or read book The Winchester Mystery House written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Captive of the Labyrinth by : Mary Jo Ignoffo
Download or read book Captive of the Labyrinth written by Mary Jo Ignoffo and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2010-12-06 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length biography of Sarah Winchester, the subject of the movie Winchester starring Helen Mirren. Since her death in 1922, Sarah Winchester has been perceived as a mysterious, haunted figure. After inheriting a vast fortune upon the death of her husband in 1881, Sarah purchased a simple farmhouse in San José, California. She began building additions to the house and continued construction on it for the next twenty years. A hostile press cast Sarah as the conscience of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company—a widow shouldering responsibility for the many deaths caused by the rifle that brought her riches. She was accused of being a ghost-obsessed spiritualist, and to this day it is largely believed that the extensive construction she executed on her San José house was done to appease the ghouls around her. But was she really as guilt-ridden and superstitious as history remembers her? When Winchester’s home was purchased after her death, it was transformed into a tourist attraction. The bizarre, sprawling mansion and the enigmatic nature of Winchester’s life were exaggerated by the new owners to generate publicity for their business. But as the mansion has become more widely known, the person of Winchester has receded from reality, and she is only remembered for squandering her riches to ward off disturbed spirits. Captive of the Labyrinth: Sarah L. Winchester, Heiress to the Rifle Fortune demystifies the life of this unique American. In the first full-length biography of Winchester, author and historian Mary Jo Ignoffo unearths the truth about this notorious eccentric, revealing that she was not a maddened spiritualist driven by remorse but an intelligent, articulate woman who sought to protect her private life amidst the chaos of her public existence. The author takes readers through Winchester’s several homes, explores her private life, and, by excerpting from personal correspondence, gives the heiress a voice for the first time since her death. Ignoffo’s research reveals that Winchester’s true financial priority was not dissipating her fortune on the mansion in San José but investing it for a philanthropic legacy. For too long Sarah Winchester has existed as a ghost herself—a woman whose existence lies somewhere between the facts of her life and a set of sensationalized recollections of who she may have been. Captive of the Labyrinth finally puts to rest the myths about this remarkable woman, and, in the process, uncovers the legacy she intended to leave behind.
Book Synopsis The House Built By Ghosts by : Caitlind L. Alexander
Download or read book The House Built By Ghosts written by Caitlind L. Alexander and published by Learning Island. This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has over 160 rooms, 40 bedrooms, 13 bathrooms, but only one shower. It has stairs that lead to the ceiling, and doors that, when stepped through, will drop you a story or more. It has 10,000 windows, a number of which are placed on inside walls, including a stained glass window made by one of the most expensive companies in the world, Tiffany. This is the Winchester Mystery House, the house built by spirits; and here is the story of how it came to be. Find out about this strange place and how it was built in this fun 15-minute book. Ages 8 and up. Reading Level: 6.9 LearningIsland.com believes in the value of children practicing reading for 15 minutes every day. Our 15-Minute Books give children lots of fun, exciting choices to read, from classic stories, to mysteries, to books of knowledge. Many books are appropriate for hi-lo readers. Open the world of reading to a child by having them read for 15 minutes a day.
Book Synopsis The Dynamite Book of Ghosts and Haunted Houses by : Margaret Ronan
Download or read book The Dynamite Book of Ghosts and Haunted Houses written by Margaret Ronan and published by Scholastic. This book was released on 1980 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you believe in ghosts? "Dynamite," today's most popular kids' magazine has dug up these true stories about unexplained happenings. Includes a guide to haunted houses you can visit.
Download or read book Ghostland written by Colin Dickey and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intellectual feast for fans of offbeat history, Ghostland takes readers on a road trip through some of the country's most infamously haunted places--and deep into the dark side of our history.
Book Synopsis The Inscrutable Mrs. Winchester and Her Mysterious Mansion by : Lisa L. Selby
Download or read book The Inscrutable Mrs. Winchester and Her Mysterious Mansion written by Lisa L. Selby and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2006-01 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mrs. Sarah Winchester, heiress to the Winchester Repeating Arms fortune, lost her one-month-old daughter to a rare disease. Fourteen years later her husband passed away from tuberculosis. Seeking a psychic for answers, she was told a curse was put on her family by those killed with the Winchester rifle. The psychic told her to move west and build continuously on a house to appease the spirits. She would do as the psychic instructed, and over the 38 years she lived in San Jose, California, she built a 160-room Victorian mansion, with stairs that lead nowhere, a door that opens onto a 15-foot drop into the garden, and skylights in the floor. This biography starts with Oliver F. Winchester and his invention, then follows Sarah Winchester from her marriage to her death. It explores the myths surrounding her, as well as the facts that rarely come to light.--From publisher description.
Book Synopsis The Haunting of Winchester Mansion by : Alexandria Clarke
Download or read book The Haunting of Winchester Mansion written by Alexandria Clarke and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the small town of Black Bay, a vacant, forgotten house sits atop an overlooking bluff. When Bailey and Bodhi Taylor move in and begin renovations, the house seems perfect. But things move on their own, screams echo from the basement, and Bailey sees a shadowy figure out of the corner of her eye. Is the house haunted? And if it is, what does the ghost want with Bailey?
Book Synopsis The Possession of Sarah Winchester by : Jim Duggins
Download or read book The Possession of Sarah Winchester written by Jim Duggins and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-12-21 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On October 22, 1844, thousands of men, women and children, dressed in Ascension Robes, gather on a desolate, freezing hillside outside Boston to greet the end of the world. Among the crowd is terrified five-year-old, Sarah Pardee, for whom this is the beginning journey to extraordinary fame and notoriety. That night, Sarah is rescued by the cults founder, William Miller, and by Caty and Maggie Fox, who become her friends as they travel their own path to become Americas most distinguished spirit rappers interpreting rapping sounds in haunted houses. As for Sarah, she will go on to become Mrs. William Wirt Winchester, of Winchester rifle fame, one of the richest women in America. She will lose a daughter after only 42 days of life, an event that blights all her remaining days. Guided by an obsession with the spirit world, she will move to the San Jose, California and build one of Americas strangest and most famous structures. But first she will attendand completely disruptthe Charles Street School and then Mary Lyons Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (later Mount Holyoke College), she will meet Edwin Booth, Americas most famous Shakespearean actor, brother to John Wilkes Booth, who presides over a spiritualist meeting where Sarah first communicates with her deceased daughter. Thereafter she will be visited by a spirit guide who directs her building of the massive, controversial monument on the west coast. The Possession of Sarah Winchester tells this compelling story in her own words, revealing child/woman caught in the web of the rise of spiritualism in nineteenth century America. It portrays a brilliant womans mind inundated by repression, grief, and guilt over her familys creation of a weapon that destroyed Native American lives and culture.
Book Synopsis Sarah Winchester by : Bennett Jacobstein
Download or read book Sarah Winchester written by Bennett Jacobstein and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-12 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah Winchester was a brilliant, creative and generous woman. She lost her only child, Annie, at six weeks old. Her beloved husband William, heir to the Winchester Rifle fortune, died at a young age from tuberculosis. Sarah never recovered from her two heartbreaking losses. Yet through all her pain she was focused on helping those in need.Sarah spent major parts of her adult life on two building projects. Both of them live on today, 97 years after her death.In San Jose, California, Sarah built an architectural marvel, a mansion in the American Queen Anne revival style reflecting great beauty and great innovation. The mansion has operated since 1923 as a tourist attraction known as the Winchester Mystery House. The house is a California Historical Landmark and is on the National Register of Historic Places. Throughout the years rumors have been associated with Sarah and her house. The rumors suggest that the grief-stricken widow sought comfort from a medium in Boston who told her she was being cursed by the spirits of those killed by the Winchester rifle. She should move west, the medium said, and build a house and never stop building. As long as construction continued, she was told, she would not die. The rooms would shelter the good spirits and the sound of hammers would drive away the bad spirits. These rumors led to Sarah being portrayed as eccentric and crazy.In West Haven, Connecticut, Sarah funded the building and operation of a hospital for patients with tuberculosis. The hospital, honoring her husband, was named the William Wirt Winchester Annex for Tuberculosis. Sarah was especially concerned with helping those of limited economic means. Over the years thousands of lives have been saved through the work of this hospital. Although the hospital no longer exists, the fund Sarah created continues to support the Winchester Chest Clinic, now part of the Yale New Haven Hospital.Sarah's hospital remains virtually unknown, whereas Sarah's mansion is toured by a steady stream of visitors from around the world. The mansion was the setting for the 2018 film Winchester, a paranormal thriller starring Academy-Award-winning actress Helen Mirren. The movie was advertised as "inspired by true events." It is true that Sarah and the house both existed, but that is where the "true" events end. The rumors surrounding the house continue to be told. Historical research including newspaper and magazine articles, personal correspondence, and interviews with Sarah's contemporaries reveals an alternative explanation of Sarah Winchester and her mansion.
Book Synopsis The Gunning of America by : Pamela Haag
Download or read book The Gunning of America written by Pamela Haag and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An acclaimed historian explodes the myth about the 'special relationship' between Americans and their guns, revealing that savvy 19th century businessmen--not gun lovers--created American gun culture"--
Book Synopsis Are Haunted Houses Real? by : Patrick Perish
Download or read book Are Haunted Houses Real? written by Patrick Perish and published by Unexplained: What's the Eviden. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents famous haunted houses such as the Borley Rectory, the White House, and the Amityville horror, and briefly examines the claims, some of which have no scientific explanation and some of which were hoaxes.
Book Synopsis Haunted Houses of California by : Antoinette May
Download or read book Haunted Houses of California written by Antoinette May and published by Wide World Publishing. This book was released on 1990 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From San DiegoOCOs Whaley House to SonomaOCOs Valley of the Moon Saloon, California offers an amazing array of haunted sites. Enriched with historical background and generously illustrated, this fascinating, fun-to-read guide documents dozens of chill-inducing spots throughout the state, including hotels, bars, schools, historic buildings, and natural areas. Among the intriguing sites listed are the famous Winchester Mystery House, the infamous Red, White, and Blue Beach, and a host of lesser-known gems like the Easkoot House in Stinson Beach."
Download or read book Strange But True Stories written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sarah Winchester, My Neighbor by : Edith Daley
Download or read book Sarah Winchester, My Neighbor written by Edith Daley and published by . This book was released on 2024-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost everyone agrees: The Winchester Mystery House is haunted.In fact, it's among America's most famous - and most haunted - houses. Year after year, it attracts visitors from around the world.But what spirits (or demons?) drove Sarah Lockwood Winchester.to be sure the house was never completed?... Did Mrs. Winchester truly believe she would DIE if she ever stopped building? History - and the house itself - suggest that's true... but what was the REST of the story?This short book is a memoir about Sarah Winchester, written by one of her real-life neighbors.In this book, you'll learn more about: - The personal life - and quirks - of Sarah Winchester. - The secret room where she went each night, and - Her odd and charitable works.Read this book to learn more about the enigma that was Sarah Winchester.
Book Synopsis The Haunting of Saxton Mansion by : Roger Hayden
Download or read book The Haunting of Saxton Mansion written by Roger Hayden and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complicated history of the Saxton house has been long forgotten. Few in the town of Cypress Creek even remember the house and what had occurred inside its walls decades before. In the present time, author Rob Hooper and his wife, Janet, are looking for a quiet place to live. The grandiose, isolated Victorian-style relic is everything they could want. A mysterious, widowed owner offers them a deal that can't be passed up. But they quickly discover that some things are too good to be true.
