PART TWO...........The Most Mysterious House Ever Built The Winchester House began with a curse, was built under the guidance of spirits and has the creepiest architecture of any American home. The Curse In July 1866, Sarah gave birth to the couples first child, a daughter they named Annie. The blessing would soon be darkened by tragedy, however, when Annie contracted a childrens disease and died. This, for Sarah, would be the beginning of what she would later think of as a curse on her family. Traumatized by her childs death, Sarah slipped dangerously close to madness, shunning society and withdrawing into sorrow. The Winchesters never had another child. Eventually Sarah returned to her home and husband and tried to resume a normal life, but then tragedy struck again. William was stricken with tuberculosis and died in March of 1881. As Williams widow, Sarah inherited the then-incredible sun of $20 million and nearly half ownership of the still successful gun manufacturing company. But the money did little to sooth the anguish Sarah felt over the deaths of the two people she loved most in the world. She was so distraught and nearly inconsolable that a friend recommended she seek the counsel of a medium. Spiritualism was extremely popular during this period of American history, and so for a person of Sarahs position and resources, this was not an unusual recourse. Sarahs visit to this medium would, however, reinforce in her mind the idea that the Winchester family was cursed, and would change her life forever.
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