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The Winchester Mystery House By: Angel Cissell The Winchester mystery house is located in California. It was built by the Winchester family. Yes this is a familiar name. He was the same was the man who created the Winchester gun company. The house was under construction for 38 years and it cost 5.5 million. It is now a tourist attraction. Sara Winchester, born in 1839 and fluent in many languages, was also a musician who married the heir to the Winchester Gun company. The construction on the house started in 1884 and stopped with her death on September 5, 1922. The house was 7 stories high, but after the 1906 earthquake, there are only 4. When her husband died, she was left 20 million dollars, and also received one thousand dollars a day from the gun company. The reason for suck a large and mazelike house is because Sara thought she was being haunted by the ghosts that were killed by Winchester guns. She sought advice from a medium who advised her to build a house for the spirits that had fallen from Winchester rifles. The psychic told Winchester that "thousands of people have died because of it and their spirits are now seeking deep vengeance." The house is a maze; there are stairs that lead to nowhere, and doors that you can open fall to your death, because they lead to the outside when you are not on the first floor. There are also dead ends, with twists and turns. It is believed that they were built so the ghosts would get lost. There are a total of 160 rooms, 40 of these rooms are bedrooms. There are two ballrooms, 47 fireplaces, 17 chimneys, and 10,000 windows. There are also two basements and three elevators. The number 13 and spider web motifs are everywhere throughout the house. house. One day I would love to visit this The stairs to nowhere http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/winchestermystery-house-2.jpg The Ballroom http://www.ghostinmysuitcase.com/places/winchester/ind ex.htm Sara’s Bedroom http://www.ghostinmysuitcase.com/places/wincheste r/index.htm Resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Mystery_House http://www.ghostinmysuitcase.com/places/winchester/ind ex.htm http://www.prairieghosts.com/winchester.html
Ghost Stories By: Angel Cissell There are so many stories throughout the world about ghosts. They range from the ones who haunt houses to the ones who kill people. Then there are the touching stories about ghosts who are looking for things and people. There are also the ones who had there lives tragically taken and they have unfinished business. No one can truly come back, but they make really interesting stories. There are many different versions of the story I am about to tell. I heard it the first time by my friend up in Indiana. There are three friends in a car on a disserted road. While they are driving, they come across a female hitchhiker. They stop to pick her up to be kind. She gets into the car and they ask her where she is going. She says that she is going wherever they are going. They continue to drive and they go around a corner. The silent girl then says, “This is where I died.” They all glance at her and ask her what she said. She repeats herself and then starts to scream. The car crashes, and when everyone comes to, she is gone with no trace of ever being there. Then there are the legends that everyone hears, like the legend of Bloody Mary. The story is usually told at sleepovers, and it is a dare. What you do is go into a dark room, it doesn’t matter what kind of room. People usually do this in a bathroom in the stories I hear. All of the lights are off and you stand there and say Bloody Mary three times. She is then supposed to appear and murder you. I have never tried this, so I couldn’t say if it’s true or not. Another ghost story is called the bunny man. Yes I know it doesn’t sound very intimidating. It is about a man who escaped from an insane asylum, and he was never caught. He would live off of raw bunnies, and that is how he got his name. He would leave trails of half eaten dead bunnies. There was a bridge in the woods and he went there. Every Halloween, whoever is on that bridge gets killed. There is never any evidence about who killed them. Eventually people got smart and didn’t go to that bridge on Halloween. Another story is about the goat man. There is an abandoned bridge that has train tracks on it. People would get lured onto the bridge about half way by the goat man. When they got to the middle, a train would be coming and they were too far to out to make it back without being hit by the train. They also couldn’t jump because there were rocks underneath the bridge. So anyone who has participated in this never made it out alive. I do believe in ghosts. I know there are people who don’t, but that is their opinion. There are so many unexplained things in this world and I believe that ghost stories are one way of having an explanation of these things. These are just a few stories that I can remember from over the years. Some are really popular and others aren’t. There are thousands more for people to hear. They are entertaining teach us about things that can happen to a person. Here is a great site to find thousands of other ghost stories: http://www.americanfolklore.net/spooky-stories.html
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