Suddenly, the wild ghost stories of my childhood didn’t seem so ludicrous after all. It might have been the spooky date, but I definitely felt something. I don’t know if it was the artistry of these twins’ filmmaking, or Helen Mirren’s wonderful portrayal of the widow Winchester, but I became a believer.įANDOM had the opportunity to take a flashlight tour of the Winchester mansion with honest-to-goodness ghost hunters on Friday the 13th. I was surprised to learn that nearly all the special effects in Winchester were achieved with makeup and clever camera angles rather than CGI. The film is full of jump scares, seances, frightening ghouls, and everything else you’d expect in a haunted house flick. The horror film, directed by the Spierig brothers ( Daybreakers, Jigsaw), claimed to be about the most haunted house in the world. This year, Lionsgate released Winchester, starring Helen Mirren as the titular widow. Sounds ludicrous, right? Bringing the House on Film It was nicknamed the house that ghosts built. There were 47 fireplaces, 40 staircases (some of which led nowhere), and doors that opened to three-story drops. The mansion boasted 160 rooms, of which she frequently destroyed and rebuilt, spanning over 24,000 square feet. Tormented by the spirits killed by her husband’s invention, the Winchester repeating rifle, Sarah used her $20 million fortune (over $500 million with today’s inflation) to build a massive Victorian-style mansion with hundreds of unique rooms to appease them. In 1884, Sarah Winchester purchased a tiny farmhouse on an old orchard smack-dab in the middle of San Jose with a fortune she inherited after her husband, firearm magnate William Wirt Winchester, died. But then again, I tend to be what some might call a non-believer. I thought the story of Sarah Winchester was as real as the flesh-eating Albinos without mailboxes on Hicks Road. Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that this house was haunted. He spoke to Debbie and Ernie, who called themselves the "night watch couple." They recalled their eerie experience working in the mystery house where at the time, and still to this present day, many psychics insist is inhabited by spirits.Growing up in San Jose, California, the Winchester Mystery House was a place to bring visiting relatives, a tourist attraction, a field trip destination, a reminder of a time past in the Valley of Heart’s Delight. Late ABC7 News reporter Steve Davis visited the haunted institution. RELATED: LIST: Top 10 mind-bending facts about the Winchester Mystery House 31, 1983, re-discovering a couple who used to work overnight nearly four decades ago. We dug through the ABC7 News archives and found this story that originally aired on Oct. She built for 36 years until her death in September 1922, nearly 100 years ago. It has 160 interconnecting rooms sprinkled with doorways that exit into thin air, stairways that lead to dead end ceilings and other oddities designed by Winchester who believed in ghosts. (KGO) - Sarah Winchester began remodeling a home in 1886 with guidance from spirits, and later became known as the Winchester Mystery House. #TBT: "'I just felt like a hand move across my head." Just in time for Halloween 2020, we dug through our ABC7 News archives and found out a couple used to work the overnight shift at this haunted institution back in 1983.
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