Special events, from wine walks to October “Fright Nights” are often offered (check the website for details and schedules. 525 South Winchester Boulevard San Jose, CA. The Winchester Mystery House is open daily and offers an array of guided tours, ranging from 25 minutes to two hours (from $5 per person). Attractions and activities with kids near Winchester Mystery House reviewed by parents. Known for its unusual layout and many bizarre features, the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose is said to be haunted. And visitors are treated to the oddities as well as the spooks (there are reports of frequent ghost sightings). The house is painstakingly maintained and constantly restored, with lavish furnishings like those Mrs. Today, the legend and the legacy live on in Sarah’s bizarre Victorian beauty. When Sarah passed away in 1922, the still-incomplete (after 38 years of construction) house sprawled out over six acres and held 160 rooms, 2,000 doors, 47 stairways, six kitchens… (you get the picture). The Winchester Mystery House is getting a jump on that. The result is a maze of twisting hallways, secret passageways, stairways going nowhere, and even doors in the floor. Sarah Winchester is seen here in an undated photo in front of her San Jose estate, which would open as a tourist attraction on June 30, 1923. Built to confuse the malicious spirits pursuing the widow, the house has no overarching rhyme or reason in its plans-except to make it impossible to navigate without knowing where you’re going. Winchester purchased an unfinished farmhouse in the Santa Clara Valley and began her life’s work on a “house of spirits,” constructed with the assistance of friendly ghosts she contacted through her seance room. Rumored to be the most haunted mansion in the Bay Area, San Jose’s infamous Winchester Mystery House is both home to ghouls galore and an architectural road map to the psyche of its disturbed and eccentric creator, Sarah Winchester. After the 1881 death of her gun-magnate husband (whose family manufactured the famous Winchester repeating rifle), the distressed New England society wife was advised by a medium that she must move west to flee the ghosts of those who had fallen victim to rifle’s fire.
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