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The Winchester Mystery House is a haunted mansion in San Jose, California.

It was built by Sarah Winchester in 1884 on orders from her late husband, William Wirt Winchester. It was believed that the spirit of her late husband instructed her to build the haunted mansion where ghosts would stay.

The mansion is still one of the most haunted places in California. Even today, when you visit the mansion, you will get an eerie feeling.

It has been believed that ghosts reside in the mansion, and tour guides still hear voices from the interior walls. Even during its construction, contractors could hear Sarah Winchester speak to the deceased. She feared her own life and always changed rooms to evade them.

After the mansion was opened to the public, more storage rooms were discovered, containing huge amounts of treasures worth more than $25,000. In 2018, a movie called 'Winchester' was released, which featured Helen Mirren as Sarah Winchester herself.

This led to more recognition of the spirits' haunting and the mansion gained huge popularity. The movie was filmed in the original Winchester Mystery House.

It continues to gain public curiosity as Sarah Winchester never gave any interviews, keeping a journal record. Even so, no family member is willing to speak about it.

Regarded as the quintessential example of the suspension bridge model, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge is located across Puget Sound's narrows and connects mainland Washington state with the Olympic Peninsula.

The bridge is remembered as a landmark failure in the history of bridge engineering in the world because of its defective structural integrity. The drive to create a narrow, slender, and eye-catching structure was chosen as the identity of the bridge.

However, the components used in the structure were anything but safe. Building the bridge was seen as a massive expense, and funds were taken from various sources by the Tacoma Chamber of Commerce.

In the end, these financial problems became the main issue, as cost-cutting was the leading cause of the collapse of the bridge in 1940, just four months after it opened.

Today, the remains of the original bridge are exactly where they fell, and the wreckage has resulted in the formation of an artificial reef that is protected by the National Register of Historic Places.