Hello from the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California!
During the pandemic, it was closed down, only open in a virtual option on their website that you can buy. Now they’re back open for business every day. The Winchester Mystery House has 160 rooms altogether, 40 of them are bedrooms. Visitors will discover some 2,000 doors and 40 staircases throughout the house, three elevators, and ONE shower. The Winchester mystery house holds the Guinness world record for the longest continual construction.
What is interesting about this house is that Sarah Winchester held seances where she saw where people were killed by Winchester rifles, when she would do these seances she shoudl see where the people were killed and build rooms where they died so they could be at peace. Sarah spent 38 years building and tearing down rooms over and over again to make new rooms. Each room was nailed shut with 13 nails because she wanted to to keep the spirits sealed in and to protect her family.
Over the years they added staircases that went to nowhere and a window that never sees sunlight. This place is a fun trip because they have a really good backstory about how Sarah Winchester built her house and what is still there today, even though she has been dead for almost 100 years.
After Sarah Winchester died they put her house up for auction in February 1923, five months after her death. The house was sold for $123,000 to a wealthy investor on June 30, 1923.
The house was opened to the public as a tourist attraction when there was the first tour with Mayme Brown, who is the leaser of the house and the family’s estate. As of 2019, the Winchester Mystery House is one of the four most haunted houses in America, according to USAToday.
What other tourists say about the Winchester Mystery House is that it is a great experience for all of the family and that the self-guided tour is incredible. According to Travelwaits.com, it is incredible because of all the rooms that are in the house, 160 rooms altogether.
Some say that due to covid there weren't a lot of places that you can see but it was still a great experience because you could see a lot of the house including the staircase that leads to nowhere.
In addition to the house, the property includes a cemetery and a garden. The reason why Sarah started building the house more was that she lost her daughter from marasmus and her husband to tuberculosis.
Through the years of building Sarah Winchester got arthritis so bad to the point she couldn't walk up stairs anymore. From then she made a staircase that she could walk up the stairs where the stairs were smaller inclines so she could get up the stairs without hurting herself
After 38 years of the constant building of her house, she stopped building, and within 24 hours she passed away from heart failure.
If you like haunted houses and creepy things, then this is the place for you because there are all of those in this one house.
At a Glance
Address: 525 S Winchester Blvd., San Jose, CA 95128
Business hours: Monday through Friday 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Phone number: (408)-247-2000
Website: www.winchestermysteryhouse.com
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