Sarah Winchester
publication date: Sunday, September 6, 2015 (part of Fall 2015)
category: 
Legends
clue: If you have to share a house with the ghosts of your husband's shooting victims, you may as well make it a weird one.
explanation: Winchester, widow of the rifle manufacturer William Wirt Winchester, used her inheritance to build a sprawling, nonsensical mansion. According to legend, she did it to confuse the angry spirits of people killed by Winchester rifles. more…
intended difficulty: hard
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, LaVonne Lemler, Samir Mehta, Chris Lemler, Justin Woods, Matthew Preston, Joanna Woods, Mike Rothstein, and Mike Eberhart
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