Architects: Sarah Winchester

Womanica

Acast Creative Studios

History, Society & Culture, Education

4.3 • 920 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Sarah Winchester (1839-1922) was a wealthy widow who spent decades of her life building a never ending house, full of countless rooms, corridors, and stairwells. The Winchester Mystery House is now a historic landmark, and can be visited in San Jose, where it is located.

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0:00.0	In Mississippi, Yazoo Clay keeps secrets.
0:04.8	Seven thousand bodies out there or more.
0:08.5	A forgotten asylum cemetery.
0:10.6	It was my family's mystery.
0:13.0	Shame, guilt, propriety, something keeps it all buried deep until it's not.
0:20.2	I'm Larison Campbell, and this is under Yazoo Clay.
0:24.2	Listen on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.
0:30.2	Prohibition is synonymous with speak-esies, jazz, flappers, and of course, failure. I'm Ed Helms,
0:36.6	and on season three of my podcast, Snafu,
0:39.2	there's a story I couldn't wait to tell you. It's about an unlikely duo in the 1920s who tried
0:44.2	to warn the public that Prohibition was going to backfire so badly. It just might leave thousands
0:50.3	dead from poison. Listen and subscribe to Snafu on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:03.2	Hello, I'm Maddie, a producer at Wonder Media Network, and I'm so excited to be guest hosting this episode of Wamanica.
1:12.8	This month, we're talking about architects.
1:16.0	These women held fast to their visions for better futures, found potential in negative space,
1:21.5	and built their creations from the ground up.
1:28.2	Rooms upon rooms upon rooms.
1:32.4	Staircases that lead to nowhere, doors that open to walls.
1:37.8	Rooms with no exit and labyrinthian halls.
1:42.8	These are some of the features of a house that today's Wamanican
1:47.0	spent over 30 years building and expanding. To this day, no one knows exactly why she did it.
1:57.0	Please welcome Sarah Winchester.
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