To avoid ghosts, Sarah Winchester is said to have followed her mediums advice and kept carpenters working on her San Jose, California, home 24 hours a day for 38 years. She left behind one of the most confounding mansions in America, a house on 161 acres that remains a museum of mazes, blocked doorways and stairways to nowhere.
Dozens of species of fish in the United States have faced a situation that for decades has been every bit as daunting. No mediums were involved

