The month-long, round-the-clock investigation included interviewing over 300 people regarding their experiences on the property, and analyzed every aspect of the environment for any unusual phenomena. Nestled in the redwoods just outside of Santa Cruz, this destination is only 150 feet in diameter but will leave you questioning the laws of physics and gravity. In response to the ongoing claims of ghostly encounters and other paranormal phenomena on the property, in the early 1990s the Winchester management had a parapsychologist and paranormal investigator named Christopher Chacon conduct a full-scale scientific assessment of the property. The Mystery Spot is one of California’s most popular roadside attractions. Though it’s open now, signs of damage from the earthquake are still clearly visible. Some say Sarah Winchester took this as a sign from the spirits that she was too close to completion and ordered the unfinished front half of the house to be boarded up. As the theory goes, to avoid them she would sleep in a different bedroom every night and take labyrinthine paths through her own home.Ī massive earthquake struck the Bay Area in 1906 and toppled the top three stories of the house, damaging the other four stories along with it. The Winchester Mystery House® is an architectural wonder and historic landmark in San Jose, CA that was once the personal residence of Sarah Lockwood Pardee Winchester, the widow of William Wirt Winchester and heiress to a large portion of.
Some theories say she believed that as soon as construction was complete, she would die, while other theories suggest she built the house like a maze in order to keep her paranormal tormentors at bay and lost in the many intricacies of the building. Doug Letterman (CC BY 2.0) In 1886 an eccentric woman named Sarah Winchester traveled from New Haven, Connecticut, to San Jose, California, to start a new life. After her husband passed away, a psychic told her that to evade the spirits, she would have to move out west, buy a home, and build nonstop. Winchester was being haunted by the spirits of those killed by the Winchester rifle, which her late husband’s company had invented. Winchester demanded constant changes to her very large house. A particularly odd delight is a cabinet that, when opened, extends through 30 rooms of the house.
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Staircases lead straight to ceilings, expensive Tiffany stained-glass windows were installed in places where they would get no light, and there are more secret passages than Narnia. Not all the 2,000 doors can be walked through-one leads to an 8-foot drop to a kitchen sink, another to a 15-foot drop into bushes in the garden below. Of course, that’s not all that’s unique about the house. It had over 160 rooms and 40 bedrooms, 10,000 windows, and even 2 basements. She purchased a small eight-room farmhouse and started a small renovation project that would take 36 years and $5.5 million (in the money of the time), only stopping when she passed away in 1922.īy the time she was done, the Winchester Mansion was a modern marvel with indoor plumbing, multiple elevators, a hot shower, and central heating. In 188l an eccentric woman named Sarah Winchester traveled from New Haven, Connecticut, to San Jose, California, to start a new life.
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