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Criminal

The Widow and the Winchester

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.738.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

When Sarah Winchester's husband died, she inherited millions from the family business: the manufacture of the famous Winchester Rifle. A medium reportedly told Sarah that she would be haunted by the victims of that rifle unless she used her fortune to build a house, and never stop building. That's exactly what she did. Pamela Haag’s book is The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture. For a transcript of this episode, send an email to [email protected] with the episode name and number. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Criminal is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Please review us on Apple Podcasts! It’s an important way to help new listeners discover the show: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. At Barclays, we're here for the land of football.

0:35.0

We're here for the Premier League.

0:38.0

And the Barclays Women's Super League.

0:41.0

We're here for the football chance for giving more girls a chance. We're

0:48.1

here for the grassroots and all the muddy booths. From schools to stadiums, we're here for it all.

0:55.0

Barclay's here for the land of football.

1:00.0

It's said that Sarah purposely designed this house with its stairs to the ceiling and doors to nowhere

1:07.0

so as to confuse the spirits that meant to do her harm.

1:11.0

For 38 years, the sounds of hammering never stopped as Sarah and workers

1:16.2

built room after room after room after room. Now it's your turn to experience the unique features of this house.

1:27.0

On Winchester Boulevard in San Jose, California, there's a giant Victorian mansion.

1:36.2

The National Park Service describes it as a bizarre multi-gabled house.

1:42.4

It has 160 rooms quilted together over time. It's been called

1:47.8

the most haunted house in the world and it's said to be the inspiration for the haunted mansion at Disneyland.

1:55.0

It was built by a woman named Sarah Winchester.

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