CHARACTER PROFILE
Sarah Winchester
- Primary work
- The Lives of Eccentrics
Sarah Winchester (サラ・ウィンチェスター, Sara Winchesutā), born Sarah Pardee (サラ・パーディー, Sara Pādī), is the protagonist of The Mysterious Manor the Widow Kept Expanding: Winchester Mystery House, the fifth episode of The Lives of Eccentrics.
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Original image ↗ · Archived image ↗01Basic information
02Appearance
Sarah Winchester is a beautiful petite woman with long black hair, which she typically keeps tied up with a fringe at the front. While mourning the loss of her husband and family, Sarah is always seen in a predominantly black Victorian-style dress, accompanied by a dark hat, long white gloves, and various floral accessories. She also wears a black netted veil to hide her face from others.↗
Sarah's age changes significantly throughout the story, but her physical appearance remains the same. No photos of Sarah were allowed during the construction of the house, which could explain this discrepancy. When the earthquake hit the house in 1906, Sarah was 67.↗
03Personality
Sarah Winchester is a well-educated and happily married young woman who was loved by all those around her. However, after suffering numerous tragedies including the loss of her beloved husband, her one-month-old daughter, parents, and other family members, Sarah becomes stricken with grief and heartache. Despite her immense and growing wealth, Sarah was left all alone and with no tears left to cry.↗
Following the medium's instructions, she used her vast fortune to build an intricate mansion filled with hundreds of rooms, secret passageways, staircases that led to nowhere, and other architectural oddities that she designed herself. She believed that the confusing layout would confuse the spirits and make it harder for them to find her. Sarah also became obsessed with the number thirteen, which she believed was unlucky.↗
Sarah built several grandiose dance halls in the mansion, but none of them were ever used. It's thought that she built them so that she could one day use them to dance with her family in the afterlife.↗
04Story
SPOILERS
Background
Sarah Pardee was born in 1839 to one of the wealthiest families in Connecticut. She fell in love with and married William Wirt Winchester, whose father, Oliver Fisher Winchester, owned the famous Winchester Repeating Arms Company. In 1866, Sarah gave birth to Annie Pardee Winchester. However, her daughter would pass away only a month after she was born. Sarah yearned for another child, only for her husband to pass away in 1881 due to tuberculosis.↗
The Mysterious Manor the Widow Kept Expanding: Winchester Mystery House
On the precipice of despair, Sarah was approached by a spirit medium in Boston, who warned her that vengeful spirits killed by her company's firearms were conspiring against her to keep her from meeting her loved ones in the afterlife. The medium advised Sarah to continuously build a large maze-like house on the West Coast if she wanted to keep the spirits that haunt her at bay.↗
On April 18, 1906, a major earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 strikes the city of San Francisco. The earthquake causes her butler, James, to be trapped with a vengeful spirit while disguised as her. Just as the ghostly hand catches up to him, Sarah comes out of a secret passage beneath the floor and pulls James to safety. The butler confesses his love for Sarah, but she rebukes him, unwilling to lose someone she loves again.↗
The earthquake ultimately reduced the towering seven-story manor to four floors. After the San Francisco earthquake, Sarah donated $1,200,000 to a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients. Sarah never allowed photos of the mansion to be taken during construction, and only one was ever taken during her lifetime. In 1922, after 39 years of continuously building her mansion and suffering from arthritis, Sarah Winchester died at the age of 82. With her passing, the mansion was finally complete.↗
05Plot details
SPOILERS
Appearance
Sarah was 22 years old when she married her husband, 27 years old when her daughter died, and 44 years old by the time construction had begun on the house. Sarah would visibly age over time, as shown by the only known photograph of her, which was taken near her death at 88 years old.↗
Personality
As she neared ending her own life, Sarah met a spirit medium who convinced her that the spirits of those killed by Winchester rifles were cursing her and causing the deaths of her family.↗
Profile details
Age: Spoiler 82 at death↗
Status Status based on their final appearance in the part(s) they are featured in: Deceased↗
Date of Death: 1922↗
Cause of Death: Arthritis↗
She is a widow who amassed great wealth after the death of her husband, William Wirt Winchester. Believing that the ghosts of the soldiers killed by the rifles manufactured by her family's company seek revenge on her, she uses her wealth to construct the Winchester Mystery House, a maze-like mansion that undergoes continuous renovation for 39 years.↗
06Relationships
| Character | Relationship | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| William Wirt Winchester | Husband | ↗ |
| Oliver Fisher Winchester | Father-in-law | ↗ |
| Annie Pardee Winchester | Daughter | ↗ |
| James | Lover | ↗ |
07Sources & attribution
- Sarah Winchester
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