INGLÊS PESQUISA LENDA URBANA SOBRE A CASA WINCHESTER

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E.E.PROF° STÉLIO MACHADO LOUREIRO

LÍVIA LEME                                  N°: 18                                              3°A

Winchester Mystery House

In the nineteenth century, the Winchesters Rifles were the most famous weapons in the West, but their creation ended thousands of lives; the weapons were created by the Winchester Company founded by Oliver Winchester, but unfortunately in 1862 he died and his son William Winchester became the heir of the Company.

William was married to Sarah, the two had a daughter, but she died. A year after the tragedy, William Winchester also passed away and his wife Sarah became the legitimate heir to the rifles. Due to so many deaths, she feels cursed and decides to look for a medium and finds that there really is a curse on her family, because of the countless deaths that the guns have caused which spawned vengeful spirits to torment her. The medium also warns that she must move to a larger house, as all souls killed by rifles wanted a home to live in. So she moves into a two-room house, but continues to be chased by the spirits and through this Sarah begins to build more rooms, but even then they are not satisfied, so they start threatening her, saying that the building must be eternal and that if interrupted, she dies.

The simple house soon became a large mansion, inside a labyrinth was thrown in, the rooms were made according to what the spirits wanted, the builders worked 24 hours and this went on for 38 years without interruption and was spent $ 5 million. With the building. The Winchester mansion totaled 7 floors and 600 rooms, housing souls in every corner of the house. Sarah Winchester did not have peace with her death at age 85 in 1922.

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