Want more? Sign up here to stay in the know. Tuesday, JanuA Winchester Mystery House mystery.solved Im always on the lookout for any mention of Houdinis visit to the famous Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, CA. The candlelight (flashlight) tour lasts just over an hour and should be booked in advance. And yep, the new mystery room is already open for public tours. Evening tours are led by flashlight, and it's rumored that the home is haunted by a variety of ghosts. The Mystery House has 160 rooms, 10,000 windows, 2,000 doors, 47 fireplaces, 40 staircases, 13 bathrooms, three elevators and nine kitchens, many of which are open to public tours. Many believe Sarah Winchester built the home to confuse and trap evil spirits that haunted her. It has 160 bedrooms, 40 staircases, 13 bathrooms, and 47 fireplaces. Winchester Mystery Home The Winchester mansion in San Jose is a labyrinth, filled with staircases that lead to nowhere. October is a spooktacular time for a visit to the Winchester Mystery House. Updated The Winchester mansion is filled with mysteries.
Inside the attic room, the mansion's preservation team discovered a pump organ, Victorian couch, dress form, sewing machine and various paintings. Frightened that spirits were the ones responsible for the quake, Winchester had the room boarded up. During the Great Earthquake of 1906, Winchester found herself trapped in the attic room. The new space has a pretty spooky backstory. According to Winchester, she received these home design directives from nightly seances in her elaborate Seance Room, and they were meant to confuse and ward off spirits (some say, the victims of death by Winchester rifles).Ī discovery of a new room in Winchester's sprawling mansion is exciting indeed. Winchester, often paranoid and in communication with the spirit world, had her construction team create staircases that lead to nowhere or doors that opened onto walls. The Winchester Mystery House was designed and used by questionably sane firearm heiress Sarah Winchester. The sprawling 24,000 square foot mansion was owned by Sarah Winchester, the eccentric heir to the Winchester Rifle fortune and features 160 rooms, 10,000 windows, 40 staircases and 9 kitchens. San Jose just got even weirder: A new room has been discovered at a notorious South Bay Victorian mansion famous for its bizarre and senseless architecture.
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