160 rooms; at one point, 1,000 rooms.
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.
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!
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?
If you’ve got some time to kill and are in the area, it’s quite fascinating.
I’ve been there many times. Several as a kis in the 1960’s and again as an adult a couple of times.
Over the 30 years I’ve been the tour hasn’t changed. Not even the script.
“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...”
Methinks that the medium had a relative who was a contractor out west.
This turned out to be true! As soon as she deceased, construction on the house ceased.
Funny this should be here. I have been in the last 3 days planning on a trip there.
However, I would advise anyone, though I’ve never been, NOT to go on or around Halloween.
It looks to be a madhouse.
For myself, I prefer to go when it is a little less crowded. I think it would be more enjoyable then.
My one question to anyone who has been: Is there a bathroom on the site?
rich kid starves to death in the US in 1866? what’s with that? autopsy?
Pretty cool looking place. Next time i am out that way, i will have to check it out!
I have seen this place on one of the TV channels. Where did her money come from, I have forgotten?