Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Winchester Mystery House. (Photo by: Education Images/Citizens of the Planet/Universal Images Group ..
. [+] via Getty Images) Universal Images Group via Getty Images Staircases to nowhere. Doors that open into nothing.
Rooms with no exit. Sarah Winchester’s home in San Jose, California certainly doesn’t fit with any modern or historical architectural conventions. And 101 years to the day since it became a public attraction—June 30 is the official Winchester Mystery House Day in San Jose—the mysteries still remain about America’s most unusual and inexplicable home.
Today, the Winchester Mystery House is a museum filled with period furniture and stories of Sarah Winchester and her family—and some say it’s also filled with ghosts . The house, which the museum says has drawn 12 million visitors since 1923, frequently appears on lists of haunted locations . Both tour guides and guests claim to have had brushes with the paranormal there.
The curious, four-story home has 160 rooms across its 24,000 square feet, with 10,000 windows (some facing inside), 2,000 doors (some leading to walls) and six kitchens (to feed the home’s lone resident and her staff). But it didn’t start that way. (Original Caption) This photo shows a blind stairway on inside of the Winchester Mystery House.
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[+] Maxine Upham is shown in photo. Bettmann Archive Grieving over the death of her husband William Winchester, son of the founde.
