Winchester Mystery House

Don’t go on a hot day. No air conditioning and lots of trapped heat. Ugh.

I had always wanted to visit the Winchester Mystery House, but I never knew where it was. I was scheduled to go on a business trip to San Jose, and out of the blue, I decided to look up some information about the WMH. I was pleasantly surprised to discover I would be heading right to it!

I recommend spending the extra few bucks and taking the behind-the-scenes tour.

If you are willing to spend the money, take both the Mansion and Behind-the-Scenes tours (it costs about $6 extra). You will see how amazing and bizarre the house is on the first tour and then see how Sarah Winchester’s employees tackled the craziness of working for her with all her eccentricities and restrictions on the second.

I have known about the Winchester Mystery House since I was eight years old and have wanted to go there ever since. I finally got there at age 34 and, while I didn’t see any ghosts, I was not disappointed by the house at all. It is a fascinating story and, despite its inherent oddness, a beautiful home.

If you have to be in San Jose, you should at least visit the Winchester Mystery House. There doesn’t seem to be much else in that town, anyhow.

Spring for the extra $5 or so and take the behind-the-scenes tour.

It was the wildest place! Windows in the floor, doors that open to a one story drop, rooms with no doors to get into them, I remember seeing a show, that Ripleys Believe It Or Not, with Jack Palance about it when I was a kid, I always wanted to see it and it was so cool.. If you are ever in San Jose you gotta check it out.

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i dont know… i saw it when i was like 10 and thought it was amazing… lol… may have changed my opinion since then

I want to go even if there are no ghosts at all…because I feel it’s a mysterious place. I’ve heard about it too much I want to see it with my own eyes!

Just FYI admission price is $17…totally not worth it. I was pressured in to paying it, because I was with a group…the admission price for this place should be more like $5. It’s actually pretty morally disgusting when you hear how much the woman that built this house spent…all to “save her” from the ghosts of victims that had been killed by Winchester rifles. Instead of dropping that kind of dough on ridiculous staircases that lead to nowhere, how about funding a charity for the widows and orphans of those who died because of Winchester Rifles?

I have been here two times. It’s an amazing place… it’s a pretty neat story and tour. There are stairways that go no where… doors that open to brick walls… some doors open to a three story drop… there is no rhyme or reason to the building.

The goal was to have the builders work day and night to keep away the ghost of the people killed by the Winchester guns.

~lg!