160 rooms; at one point, 1,000 rooms.
Posted on 04/14/2015 1:04:24 PM PDT by pabianice
In 1862, Sarah married William Wirt Winchester, son of Oliver Fisher Winchester, Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut and manufacturer of the famous Winchester repeating rifle. The couple’s life together was happy, and they moved in the best New England society. However, in 1866, disaster struck when their infant daughter, Annie, died of then mysterious childhood disease marasmus. Mrs. Winchester fell into a deep depression from which she never fully recovered. Fifteen years later, in March 1881, her husband’s premature death from tuberculosis added to Mrs. Winchester’s distress. It is said, she ultimately sought help from a spiritualist...
...However, the medium also claimed that there was an alternative, Mrs. Winchester was instructed to move west and appease the spirits by building a great house for them. As long as construction of the house never ceased, Mrs. Winchester could rest assured that her life was not in danger. Building such a house was even supposed to bring her eternal life.
160 rooms; at one point, 1,000 rooms.
Have you been there?
This is a straight up promo piece. Is this a new Freep funding model?
Building such a house was even supposed to bring her eternal life.
It didn’t.
My family visited the Winchester Mystery House a couple of times. Very interesting place.
Been there, took 2 different tours, and saw not ghost 1!
How do you know? Aren’t ghosts invisible?
But at the rate it was decaying it'd be completely collapsed by now if the owners hadn't incorporated and sought investors.
So how did that work out for her?
I think I can say with almost complete certainty that the primary reason she "devoted the second half of her life to building what is now known as the Winchester Mystery House" is that she was as crazy as a rat in a tin outhouse during a hail storm.
Enjoyed the heck out of it the 1 time I got to visit!
Spiritual world can manifest sometimes, but ghosts don’t exist. There are angels and demons.
It is an interesting place but once in a lifetime was enough for me. ;o)
worth the time. Great gun collection there too.
eeeewwwwww ! that’s too close to Santana Row for me . .
lol
When I was about ten years old living on the East Coast the Winchester House was featured in “Disney Magazine”, a short lived magazine they used to sell at Gulf gas stations. The advertisement was really creepy.
Fast forward to when I was 26, living in Los Angeles. We were driving back from a trip to San Francisco when I stopped in San Jose for gas about 2:00 in the afternoon. We were supposed to be in San Simeon that evening to see Hearst Castle the next day. I saw a little sign saying “Winchester House” with an arrow. It was right next door. I told my girlfriend “We have to go”. So we did. It was worth the trip, but since I’ve lived in the Bay Area for a couple of decades now I’ve never gone back.
do sam and dean live there?
Been there - weird house, stairs going nowhere ...etc.
No one knows- she went into room #741, theb was last sighted in room #678; since then all anyone hears of her is her footsteps and her periodic muttering “Where the hell am I?”
That sums it up;)
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