Winchester Mystery House

California · United States · Manor

The widow Sarah Winchester built for 36 years a house with stairs that end at the ceiling — by legend, to confuse the ghosts of the rifle’s victims.

Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California, was rebuilt without pause for 36 years by the widow Sarah Winchester. By popular legend she held séances and built labyrinthine corridors, stairs that end at the ceiling and doors that open onto nothing, to confuse the spirits of all killed by the family’s Winchester rifles. Historians hold the oddities owe more to earthquake damage and constant remodelling — yet the house remains one of America’s most famous haunted buildings.

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Where is Winchester Mystery House located?

Winchester Mystery House is in California, United States.

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Accounts are drawn from local folklore and visitor reports.

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