MIRREN: She felt the weight of the effect of the Winchester rifle, what it had done, what it had achieved. Helen Mirren says in the movie, Winchester did so to placate the spirits of those who died at the hands of the weapon whose fortune she inherited. She had workers build and rebuild her home nonstop day and night for nearly 40 years. MIRREN: (As Sarah Winchester) I can feel it in the air, in the walls.ĭEL BARCO: Winchester remained in mourning for her baby daughter and late husband. Legend has it Winchester conducted seances to communicate with the dead. HELEN MIRREN: (As Sarah Winchester) Do you believe in ghosts, Doctor?ĭEL BARCO: In the movie, Sarah Winchester's sanity is questioned by a psychologist hired by the company to push her out. TIM O'DAY: He appears as an apparition in his white overalls and his mustache, and he'll just kind of blankly look at you. And you're looking around like, who's messing with me? And there's nobody there.ĭEL BARCO: House marketing director Tim O'Day says some people report seeing a handyman named Clyde stoking the fireplace or carrying coal. JANAN BOEHME: Because you will actually hear footsteps coming down the hallway, and you think someone whispered your name. The house historian, Janan Boehme, says tour guides refuse to go up to the third floor after dark. You check the area, and no one's there.ĭEL BARCO: The Queen Anne revival-style mansion has staircases that lead to nowhere, doors that open to a two-story drop, a witch's cap with strange acoustics. NICOLE CALANDE: The house just creaks on its own. MANDALIT DEL BARCO, BYLINE: At the famous Winchester Mystery House, tour guide Nicole Calande (ph) leads us up the wooden stairs. NPR's Mandalit del Barco visited the house that's now a popular tourist attraction in San Jose, Calif. Helen Mirren stars as the eccentric woman who built and rebuilt her vast and ever-changing mansion from 1884 until her death in 1922. The story is based on the life of Sarah Winchester, heiress to the company that created the Winchester rifle series. If you hop across the room to the side over a gap in the floor, you can find a piano with a recipe for Sanitol on it, and a bedroom with more loot.The new movie "Winchester" is a paranormal horror film about one of the largest haunted houses in America. Further up is a door leading down to the cellar, a small room under the stairs (and a shoutout to a certain magical kid), and across from it - a bedroom with a corpse in the closet.ĭown the hall leads to a large open room with stairs going up to the main ceremony chamber on the second floor where all the chanting is coming from. The library should also have a few skill Books, just see you aren't caught. There's a hall with a library to the left, and two doors ahead, one locked, and one closet with more linen. Getting caught will cause you to lose any items you obtain.Īfter a kitchen, you'll come into a large dining hall with the second floor broken above. This is the key objective of the Johnny Bolton Quest, so if that's all your after, you may want to leave to turn the quest in. In order to circumvent this, either avoid or knock out Wastrels from behind, and you may even want to bring some sneakers to maximize your stealth.Īs you move deeper into the house, you'll come across piles of Ephemeral Linen. If you do, you'll automatically black out and appear back in your Safe Room on the following day. You need to sneak through the mansion without alerting anyone. This next part can be really tricky, and annoying at times. Find the source of the strangeness without being seen
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