@ Calisto:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Winchesterhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Mystery_HouseHab grad keine Lust das zusammenzufassen.
Das könnte eine der Inspirationen für den Nachnamen sein. da es eines der bekanntesten Spukhäuser Amerikas ist.
Das Geisterhaus hat auch eine Homepage
http://www.winchestermysteryhouse.com/index.cfmSarah never prepared blue-prints or anything like that. She drew the rooms that were to be added on table cloths, bits of paper, anything in fact that was convenient. She had no sense of designing and it probably wasn't her intention to create anything terribly aesthetic either - the main thing was to keep on building and so she did, adding rooms haphazardly where ever she felt like it. The house eventually became such a maze that both she and her servants needed maps to navigate around it!
It is said that she built over 600 rooms on seven floors and two basement levels[/b]. The San Francisco Earthquake of April 1906 reduced the floors to four and many of the rooms either collapsed during the earthquake or were pulled down for various reasons. At present there are 160 rooms - amongst these, 40 bedrooms, 6 kitchens, 2 ball-rooms, and 13 bathrooms. Some of the rooms are rooms within rooms. There are around 47 fire-places, some with no smoke outlets. There are 40 flights of stairs – quite a few of these leading to nowhere - and
over 450 doorways. There are about 2000 doors and about 10,000 windows, many with beautiful glass doors. Some of the windows are placed in the floor or on blank walls, and some of the doors are actually dangerous - opening without warning into a sharp fall either into the garden or into the kitchen sink.
No doubt these traps were for the spirits, but one wonders what would have happened if Sarah had lost her map and stepped out herself.
