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Spooky photo. A woman ghost on the right in a white dress with blue squares, and a man on the left with light blue diamond pattern on his tie.
“I DO believe in spooks - I do, I do, I do!”
We visited the place a few years ago. I believe Mrs. Winchester was off her rocker.
Do they still use celluloid film?
So, do the heirs of Smith and Wesson, Remington, Colt and other early repeating arms manufacturers get visited by ghost too?
Or were they somehow less evil than Winchester?
The woman was nucking futs.
Saw that on the news earlier...
Kewel
I toured the house once. Didn’t see any ghosts, but saw some incredible, hand-crafted 19th century woodwork. The home is bizarre, but the details are exquisite.
I was in the old gun museum alone looking through the collection. It was an old wooden building which may have been for servants or something similar. The place was arranged with glass counters on either side and as you entered the walk would turn to the right where there was a room with an old wooden stairway leading to a 2nd floor. Then you would walk past that, and the walk would go straight and turn left through more glass counters with guns to the exit.
As I walked past the staircase it was roped off and apparently the 2nd floor was not in use. The stairs went up about 8-feet and then turn back going up in the opposite direction so I could not see upstairs, just the first half of the entire stairs. Being midway through the collection at that point I thought it was nice to have the entire building to myself.
I walked past the roped off staircase and started admiring the gun collection again when I heard a loud, pronounced step or creaking stomp coming down the staircase.
Of course I could not see up the staircase and I was already past it, but the worst thing was a sudden rush of chill that went right through my body. My entire body was goosebumps when I heard the 2nd and 3rd slow creaking stomp audibly coming down the staircase.
Now normally this should not have spooked me but being where I was, having determined that I was alone in the building and then the sudden change in atmosphere and the uncontrolled reaction of my body to the sudden chill, I lost nerve and walked right out the exit.
I do not know what came down the stairs and waited outside where it was very quiet with few people in sight until my skin returned to normal.
I didn't go back into the building.
I went back decade later. The gun museum had been totally re-arranged. The room now ended in the first section and the small room with the staircase had been closed off as if it was never part of the museum. You had to walk out the same door you entered where before you would have walked past the staircase and through to the exit.
Very different experience that day. I wasn't disappointed by the lack of another "experience".
I had never heard of this house, but my guess is the underlying message of the movie will be that guns are evil and the gunmakers deserve a guilty comeuppance.
Because Hollywood.
I went there in the ‘80’s. It was cool! Stairs to nowhere, doors in the floor, spy tubes, listening holes, keyhole shaped outbuildings. And an amazing gun collection.
Yes, the poor woman was nuts. Went there in the 70’s and had no strange experiences. It was kind of interesting, all the construction inside that had no purpose. As a young woman back then, I thought it was really expensive for what you got.
after all these years here,, I have not visited that place yet . .