Bill wrote:The Winchester Mystery House
In 1881, Sarah Winchester, the widow of famous gun maker Oliver Winchester, became convinced that she needed protection from the evil spirits of all the people killed by Winchester rifles. A psychic advised her to continually add rooms to her San Jose, California, mansion to confuse any ghosts that may try to find her. (It's not clear why ghosts, which can supposedly move through walls, would be confused by the rooms, but it apparently made sense to Winchester.) She did so for nearly forty years, adding more than 100 rooms and staircases, until her death in 1922. After Sarah's death, her own ghost was said to haunt the halls of her mazelike mansion. Today the building remains a popular tourist attraction, a bizarre monument to superstition and paranoia.
My Story
Back in the early 70's my family took a vacation trip to northern Cal and visited the Winchester House. We all took the tour and it was interesting. After the tour was over I started investigating the house, walking around to different areas. I was on the 2nd fl and really needed to go to the bathroom badly. I walked into a room that appeared to be a very old fashioned office. Quite nice with a homey feel to it. I looked around and then noticed an older woman, dressed in turn of the century clothing. I asked her if she knew where there was a bathroom I could use and she pointed to a door in the office. I opened the door and saw a nice bathroom and asked if she was sure I could use it. She appeared amused and nodded her head in the afirmative. After I came out of the bathroom the woman was no longer there.
I went downstairs to meet back up with my family and I told them the story. Two employees of the House heard me, asked me to repeat the story and then said that they knew of no such employee, an older woman dressed in an old style. They looked at each other with a look of 'Wow' !
So, I think I met with Sarah Winchester.
About getting ghosts/spirits/demons confused in their path, isn't those Chinese zig zag bridges/walking paths built so to confuse and make it difficult for such entities to follow them through. And as some Chinese courtyard entances have a smaller wall built just inside that one have to go around to really enter the courtyard, but the unwanted entities can't enter About seeing or meeting a 'person' that in the next momen are gone as vanished in thin air. I was fifteen years, me and four friend where out roller skating in a quite desolate area, one of the guys had this music machine(cassette player) with him(remember playing Thin Lizzy) Then just suddenly i see a very tall man 2meters or some more coming toward and up to us, He smile and say hello to us, I look to my friends as in who will first tell the man to mind his own business and go away, but to my surprise my friends even the one hot headed seem not to notice the man. I look back to the man as he comes up right beside us, he show me this big round necklace in the diameter of a coffee cup, it depicted an intricate pattern and he asked if i liked it and that when i'm older he will explain more about it, then he turned and began walking away, i looked at my friends who still did not seem to have noticed him and look back toward the man but he was gone, as just vanished.............Another incident that happened many years later, i must hav been about 32. I was waiting for the bus, i always have the habit to be the last one to get on, in this instance one man seem to feel a little irritated that i wanted to be the last one just behind him but anyway it went to be that way. I had noticed/senced he had some eye contact with two other guys much further away on the pavement maby 5/6 meters away. Then when the guy begin to step on the bus he in a hidingly way put his hand in a bag held by an elderly woman just infront of him. I grabed his arm and stupidly say 'what are you doing?' he begins to yell at me about how bad i am calling him a thief. In the corners of my eyes i see the two other guys on the pavement begin run toward me, and d i am calling him a thief. In the corners of my eyes i see the two other guys on the pavement begin run toward me, and i realise the three of them are together in this. Then suddenly from behind i hear a forcefull voice say, 'don't do that' I look back to the voice and see a must be over two meters tall man, and then quickly look back just to see those two men on the pavement had bagan to run away and the third one tore away and also fled. I turned around to the tall man to thank him but he wasn't there,as just vanished, suddenly appear and suddenly disappear. I went on the bus but it seem that no one else except the older woman that had been just infront of the pickpocket just had noticed how those three people ran away.