Documentary about the life and legend of Sarah L Winchester heiress to the Winchester Repeating Arms Company who after the death of her husband and only child moved to San Jose California and constructed nonstop what came to be known as the Winchester Mystery House during the last 38 years of her life The film traces Mrs Winchesters life from her marriage into the wealthy Winchester family whose family business supplied many of the repeating rifles sold to the United States Army during and after the Civil War and follows her eccentric life in California where according to legend she was advised by a mystic to provide shelter for spirits of the victims of her husbands rifles or follow him to an early grave It provides pointofview shots of the interior and exterior of the rambling Victorian mansion