CHAPTER SIX American Spooks

CHAPTER SIX American Spooks

Ghosts, spooks, poltergeists and phantoms are part of America's past and present.Halloween is the festivity of ghosts and the supernatural,and as you know, it is celebrated on October 31st.

The Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California,is the spookiest American monument to ghosts.It is a famous tourist attraction and people say that mysterious spooks live there.

Sara Winchester was part of the rich Winchester family.The family made Winchester rifles in the 1800s.During the nineteenth century these rifles killed many people.

When Sara Winchester's husband and baby daughter died, she was very unhappy.Strange things were happening to her. She went to a psychic expert and asked for help.

The expert told her, "The spirits of the peoplekilled by a Winchester rifle are angry with you. They want revenge!"

"What can I do?" Mrs. Winchester asked.

The expert answered, "The spirits want you to build a big home for them.You must follow all their instructions.And you cannot rest - you must work seven days a week."

Mrs. Winchester bought a house in the country.For thirty-eight years she built a home for ghosts!She and the workmen worked seven days a week.She lived in the haunted house and every evening she wore a long blue dressand had dinner and secret meetings with the ghosts.They gave her instructions for building the strange house.Every night she slept in a different bedroom.

Today the Winchester Mystery House has 160 rooms and is similar to a maze.There are stairs that go nowhere, doors that open onto walls and a window in the floor!Thirteen was a favourite number of the ghostsbecause there are thirteen bathrooms and all the stairs have thirteen steps.

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