“The Winchester Mystery House explores San Francisco Bay Area history and takes guests back to the late 1800s and into the mind of the tragedy-plagued Sarah Pardee Winchester. Come with an open mind and, if you’re lucky, you just might meet Clyde, the basement ghost. The Winchester mansion, dubbed “the house that ghosts built” is an enthralling architectural monstrosity that inspired the 2018 film Winchester, starring Dame Helen Mirren. It’s beautiful, it’s kooky, it’s a little bit terrifying. Sarah would convene with spirits each night in her seance room, where she would receive elaborate building instructions.
It started in 1884 when Sarah, grieving heiress of the Winchester rifle fortune, began building a house to appease the vengeful ghosts of those killed by her late husband’s guns.
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Think secret passageways, stairs to the ceiling, doors to nowhere, windows in the floor and a four-storey chimney.
Alongside Tiffany stained-glass windows, parquetry floors, gold-plated chandeliers and a grand ballroom are nonsensical spaces that boggle the mind. It was constructed in a four-decade building frenzy by the reclusive and tormented (some say mad) Sarah Winchester.įinanced by a $20 million fortune, Sarah turned a modest farmhouse into a seven-storey, 160-room Victorian mansion that’s as peculiar as it is grand. Haunted, cursed, possessed – the sprawling mansion is quite possibly all of these things. Ever seen a ghost? At San Jose’s Winchester Mystery House in California you just might.
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