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  • Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California is one of the most haunted places in America.

  • Winchester Mystery House is a [an] incredibly unique Victorian mansion created by Sarah Winchester, heiress to the Winchester Repeating Arms fortune.

  • Sarah Winchester had a series of unfortunate things happen to her, including the death of her husband and daughter.

  • She was a spiritualist and visited a medium to try and understand why.

  • The medium said, well, the gun that won the West, there's a lot of karma there, so head west and build a house to appease these spirits.

  • She started construction in 1884, which didn't stop till the day she died.

  • The house is a 160-room Victorian mansion with no master plan.

  • There's a lot of strange attributes.

  • There's 40 staircases, 40 fireplaces, four elevators.

  • We have a number of staircases that lead right to the ceiling.

  • Doors that open up into nothing, or it's just a wall.

  • The house is known for its spirits, who many people believe are the ghosts of people who worked at the house or even Sarah herself.

  • A lot of our guests and employees have had very strange things happen to them in this house.

  • Sometimes it's just footsteps or hearing a voice, a light that flickers, or sometimes it's an actual full, physical manifestation.

  • If we haven't solved the mysteries in 93 years, then I don't know if we ever will.

Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California is one of the most haunted places in America.

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