![]() ![]() (a quote from the movie “A Fistful of Dollars”)īroken by pain due to her dear ones’ loss, strongly influenced by her interest in spirits and the mediums she were usually neighbored, Sarah got convinced to build a sort of giant house-labyrinth where to trap the angry spirits and finally find peace. “When you want to kill a man, you must shoot for the heart and the Winchester is the best weapon.” The mysterious mansion was once the home of Sarah Winchester, the widow of gun mogul William Winchester. If you’re into ghosts, you’ve heard of the Winchester Mystery House. Sarah thought that her husband and her only daughter untimely death (they died due to pneumonia and child marasmus, respectively) were due to anger accumulated by the spirits of the millions of people whose death was caused by the deadly Winchester guns – you think about the thousands of victims of the wearing Civil War. The Winchester House, or Winchester Mystery House as it is better known, is a 160-room Victorian Mansion built by Sarah L. (between I-280 and Stevens Creek Blvd.) This Victorian mansions labyrinthine layout was designed to baffle the spirits that allegedly haunted. SAN JOSE SPOOKY PLACES: WINCHESTER MYSTERY HOUSE 525 S Winchester Blvd, San Jose, CA. Parking Winchester Mystery House offers complimentary parking to guests. Construction began in 1884, and didnt stop for 38 years. Hours Open daily: 10:00a to 4:00p weekdays / 10:00a to 4:00p weekends Closed on Thanksgiving & Christmas Day Closing times vary, please check our Buy Tickets page for current tour times. The boundless, labyrinthine and creepy Victorian dwelling Sarah Winchester – the only heiress of the millionaire estate coming from the guns’ sales of the Winchester brand with the same name – made build in the second half of the 1800s and made modify uninterruptedly for even 38 years until her death. The Winchester Mystery House is the beautiful but bizarre mansion of Sarah Winchester, heiress of the Winchester Repeating Arms fortune.
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