Overall I thought it was a great experience! Especially since we live so closely, I felt we had to go and see what it was all about and I’m glad we did! She also had a séance room that she used every night at midnight. Winchester was obsessed with the number 13 and that she altered things like chandeliers, paintings, and stained glass windows to exhibit that number. Mostly, the Winchester Mystery House is a giant beautiful Victorian mansion with beautiful conservatory garden rooms between bedrooms, lots of balconies, and lovely stained glass windows. But when we went, it was prom season and a bunch of local high schoolers were getting their photos done in front of the house. They do haunted mansion events during the Halloween season that are probably terrifying. However, I could see it being a little creepy at night.
#WINCHESTER MYSTERY HOUSE STORY OF HUSBAND FULL#
In full daylight, when we visited, the house wasn’t very spooky, more like a grandmother’s mansion but with lots of stairs and tiny hallways.
There was always the noise of construction happening in her home: the result– a bunch of staircases that lead to nowhere, doorways on the second floor that open out into the air, random rooms and chambers between other rooms. She took this literally and seriously, and therefore her home was never completely finished being built. The spirits told her to avoid being haunted by those who were killed by her husband’s weapons, she needed to have noise constantly in her home to scare them away. Winchester, whose husband invented the Winchester rifle, was very interested in séances and the spirit world. I grew up driving to the Bay Area to visit family and I would always see billboards for the Winchester Mystery House: “Beautiful yet Bizarre.”
A few months ago, we played tourist in our own town, San Jose, California.
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