Oliver Winchester

Slide 1: By Nataly Pacheco

Slide 2: Oliver Winchester The Winchester rifle was invented by a man named Oliver Winchester, It was said the ghost of anyone who was killed by a Winchester rifle would haunt the Winchester family

Slide 3: Sarah Winchester After the death of both Oliver and his only son Wirt the curse was passed on to Writ's wife Sarah Winchester ,She followed her psychic’s advice to by an eight room 162 acre farm house in San Jose

Slide 5: The House Sarah Winchester spent about $1,000 of her daily income on a 24,000 square foot house that has10,000 windows, 2,000 doors, Six kitchens, 40 bedrooms, 13 bathrooms and 47 fireplaces

Slide 6: Time and Money The house was under construction for 24 hours a day and 365 days a year for 38 years to build the 5.5 million dollar home witch is now worth 70 million dollars

Slide 9: The Stairs In order to confuse the spirits Sarah had the carpenters build 40 staircases, with 367 steps some of which lead to nowhere

Slide 11: The Doors, Windows and Cabinets She also had Doorway that open blank walls, hidden windows and cabinets, she also had skylights in the floor

Slide 14: 40 Rooms Sarah had 40 fully furnished rooms and slept in a different one every night, so that the spirits wouldn’t find her

Slide 18: The Ghost People come to visit the house for the architecture and the ghost

Slide 19: Location The house is located in 525 South Winchester Blvd in San Jose and its now one of San Jose’s biggest tourist attraction

Slide 20: so http://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_mytery_house http://www.winchestermyteryhouse.com/story.html http://www.ired.com/news/winchesterhouse/mysteryhouse.htm