Sarah was in a deep grieving process, not only for her husband but also her lost child and the new wealth could not ease the pain of the tragedy. A friend suggested she see a medium about her losses so she did. The medium told her that her that her husband came through telling of a curse on the family which took he and her daughters lives and would soon take her too. The curse was because of the weapon built with the family name which killed thousands of people who's spirits wanted revenge. She was told to sell the property and head toward the setting sun with her husband as her guide and when she found her new home she would recognize it. She was told to build onto the house for her and all the spirits of those thier rifle had killed and to never stop building, if she did she would die. After the seance she packed up and moved to California, believing she was guidied by her late husband. She reached her destination in 1884, and bought a six bedroom 162 acred home from a Dr. Caldwell which was under construction. She began construction building whatever she wanted to, and had workers working 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Sarah had no master bluprints for the house, but she met with workers everyday to go over her hand drawn scetches for the days building. As the weeks and months past the house grew to be seven stories high. The House had many oddities like stairs leading into roof, balconys with no entrances, doors leading into walls, doors that dropped off to the ground, windows leading to other rooms and lots more unusual stuff. Sarah also had a facination for the number 13 many structures are associated with the nuber 13. Some rooms have 13 windows, all staircases have 13 stairs except one, and even a 12 fixtured light socket was adjusted to be 13 fixtures and more. The house was built maze like to confuse and discourage the vengeful spirits. The house reached to full seven stories in 1906. Sarah continued to live here never having visitors living with only her servants and the company of spirits, It was said she communicated with the spirits to get the designs for the house. The Great Sanfrancisco Earthquake destroyed a major part of the Winchester estate knocking down the top three stories into the garden, never to be rebuilt.
