The Winchester House, Built Without Pause for 38 Years to Confuse the Dead, and the Safe They Opened in 1922
From 1886 until her death in 1922, Sarah Winchester kept carpenters building a California mansion that grew to more than 160 rooms — staircases into ceilings, doors onto brick walls, the number 13 everywhere. When her safe was finally opened, it held no jewels. It held two locks of hair.
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