Laura Trevelyan

Laura Trevelyan is the great-great niece of Sarah Winchester and the author of The Winchester, The Gun That Built An American Dynasty, published by Yale University Press. She is an anchor and correspondent for BBC World News.

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Helen Mirren Turned My Ancestor’s Life Into a Ghost Story

Sarah Winchester did spend decades erecting a mansion but not out of fear that spooks would haunt her for the deaths caused by the rifles her family made. She did it out of grief.

Laura Trevelyan