Mysterious flaws in the design of Donald Trump’s glitzy new White House ballroom have sparked comparisons with perhaps one of the most famous “haunted” houses in U.S. history.

The Daily Beast published a report on Sunday on how plans for the president’s new 90,000 square foot addition to the East Wing appeared to have been marred by key structural flaws—including two windows opening out onto one another, and a staircase leading up from the South Lawn directly into a brick wall.

The stair to nowhere architectural quirk bears a marked similarity to stairwells at the Winchester Mystery House, a sprawling Victorian-era Gothic mansion in southern California.

Built continuously from 1886 to 1922 by Sarah Winchester, the widow of the heir to the Winchester Rifle fortune, the house contains hun

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