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I first read this in an Alan Moore Swamp Thing (where the rifle concerned was called Chesterfield, I think) but my brother claimed it was based on the Winchester Rifle.
The story is that after Mr Winchester died, his widow kept seeing visions or ghosts of everyone who had been killed by a Winchester Rifle, and they demanded that the widow build a mansion to house their spirits. Which she did.
Apparently the ghosts had a bizarre taste in architecture, and the house has many quirks like stairs leading nowhere, doors opening onto brick walls, corridors that get thinner and thinner until they were impossible to get past. My brother said the house is still there in California.
So is my brother telling the truth, or was he just messing with the mind of an impressionable teenager?
The story is that after Mr Winchester died, his widow kept seeing visions or ghosts of everyone who had been killed by a Winchester Rifle, and they demanded that the widow build a mansion to house their spirits. Which she did.
Apparently the ghosts had a bizarre taste in architecture, and the house has many quirks like stairs leading nowhere, doors opening onto brick walls, corridors that get thinner and thinner until they were impossible to get past. My brother said the house is still there in California.
So is my brother telling the truth, or was he just messing with the mind of an impressionable teenager?