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Guns can haunt their makers too - the troubled story of Sarah Winchester

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Winchester HouseI'm going to tell you a ghost story now One that has the unusual quality of being trueIt started in 1886 in California when a troubled young woman named Sarah Winchester, the only heiress to the vast Winchester rifle fortune, purchased an eight-roomed farmhouse in San Jose, CaliforniaSarah’s husband William had died of tuberculosis six years earlier in 1880, leaving her with an approximately 50 percent ownership of the famous Winchester Repeating Arms Company, giving her an income of $1,000 a day (roughly the equivalent to $22,000 a day in today’s money) Read more

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