Was this crumbling Victorian—now marooned in the middle of a mobile home park—once home to spiritual healers, experimental medicine… and a woman who flew with the Wright Brothers? Absolutely. And it gets darker. 📍Welcome to the Coffee Rice house in Oceano, CA. Built in the 1880s by ambitious land speculator Coffee Adam Rice, the mansion was meant to herald a booming new town. Instead, it became a monument to tragedy: a son lost, a wife broken by grief and later killed by an automobile, and Rice himself dead of sudden pneumonia at just 45. Their daughter, Sadie Rice—later known as Lady Jack—escaped it all. She became the first American woman to fly in a powered airplane, traveled across Africa, and published her own book. Her childhood home, meanwhile, took a far stranger turn. In the early 1900s, the house was transformed into a sanatorium run by the Temple of the People and their home base in Halcyon, CA. Tuberculosis patients slept in tents, electric shock therapy was used ins...