
The Winchester Mystery Mansion of San Jose, CA
Sarah Lockwood Pardee married William Wirt Winchester, the only son to the owner of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company in September of 1862. After four years the couple welcomed a baby girl into the world... weeks later, the only child they ever had passed on.
Fifteen years after, Sarah became a widow when William Winchester died of tuberculosis. Believing the family to be cursed, Sarah consulted a psychic who told her that the Winchester family was cursed by all the people that had been killed by the Winchester rifle. The psychic then advised Sarah to move west and build a house for herself and the spirits with the added caveat that if/when Sarah stopped building the house, she would die.
So Sarah, having inherited a fortune moved west to California, bought a house and started renovating it. The house soon became a mansion. When the mansion was done and there were no more rooms to build, she built staircases leading to ceilings, doorways leading to nowhere, windows looking into walls or other rooms and hairpin stairwells.
Sarah also had a fascination with the number 13, this fascination can be seen in many of the design details of the house.
It's said that instead of continuing to build the mansion outwardly, she built inwardly to confuse the spirits that haunted her and keep them from finding her. Sarah also allegedly had a seance room which she would take different routes to every night so the spirits wouldn't be able to find it.
I want to go to there. I want to go to this mansion in the morning time. And I want to get lost with someone by my side and a container of Morton Salt in my pocket. I want to leave the house one hour before sun down.
**Editor's note: One time I was really close to there. I was staying in Palo Alto with some family friends, and was flying out from the San Jose airport. I didn't have time to go to there at the time, but I fully intend to get to there.**

1 comment:
I'll go with you, but I am not that into ghosts! Nor am I into aliens...
Museums, cathedrals, castles, scenic vistas - YES! Caspar? Not so much!!
xoxoxoxo
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