![]() ![]() The Explore More Tour is currently open for a limited run and gives tourists access to sections of the home previously closed off to visitors. The Mansion Tour also includes admission to the Victorian Gardens, Historic Firearms Museum, and Specialty Gifts and Antique Products Museum. During the tour you’ll also learn a lot about Sarah Winchester as a person, while many believe her to have been eccentric or even crazy, she came up with a number of incredible innovations that helped with life in such a large home and also took great care of her staff. The guided tour explains much of the mansion’s history and explores some of the more iconic elements of the home such as the window built into the floor, stairs leading to nowhere, doors that open into nowhere and rooms like the “25,000 room,” Sarah’s bedroom, the Séance room, and the Grand Ballroom, which is said to have inspired The Haunted Mansion at Disneyland. The main mansion tour takes about an hour and five minutes to complete and explores 110 of the 160 rooms in the house. ![]() ![]() Earlier this year my wife and I head up the California coast to visit the mansion for the first time and took part in the Mansion Tour and the all-new Explore More Tour. The Winchester Mystery Households various tours of the estate daily, along with seasonal events around Halloween and Friday the 13th. It’s a modern marvel and as you tour the home it feels like you’re walking through a full-size funhouse or mystery shack. In the end, the home would span six acres and contain 160 rooms, 2,000 doors, 10,000 windows, 47 stairways, 47 fireplaces, 13 bathrooms, and six kitchens. ![]() Work on the home would continue around the clock until her passing on September 5, 1922. Winchester took the medium’s advice and left New Haven, Connecticut to start a new life in California in 1184. Believing she was cursed and being haunted by the spirits of those killed by the Winchester rifle Mrs. While the true motivation behind the bizarre home is uncertain, legend has it that the home was purchased by Sarah Winchester after she was instructed to do so by a medium whom she found solace after the passing of her husband and only child. Located in San Jose, California the Winchester Mystery House is the end result of a 38 year, $5.5 million renovation of a small eight-room farmhouse. If you’re unfamiliar with the mansion’s history, Miranda outlined a handful of facts about the house when the Winchester film was released, but to get you up to speed I’ll give you a quick rundown: Making new, more than ever, a great time to make the trip out to California and explore the mansion for yourself. And with newly sparked interest came new tours and new opportunities for guests to explore the mysterious mansion of the late Sarah Winchester, heir to the Winchester rifle. However, what it lacked in critical acclaim it made up for in generating a ton of new buzz around a California landmark. Scoring only a 14% on Rotten Tomatoes, a 28% on Metacritic and a 5.4/10 on IMDb it left even fans of the home and its lore with something to desire. The 2018 film Winchester may not have been met with critical acclaim. #TravelTuesday: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Winchester Mystery House Read on to learn more about the house Sarah Winchester never stopped building. This week Mike from All Hallows Geek is taking us on an insider’s tour of the Winchester Mystery House! He visited earlier this year and has a ton of fun insights from his trip. Welcome back to #TravelTuesday, a summer series on Spooky Little Halloween where we put a spooky twist on this popular hashtag and travel to haunted destinations across the globe. ![]()
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