RESIDENCE SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA
Winchester Mystery House Featured
San Jose, California
A sprawling Victorian mansion of endless stairs and doors to nowhere, built without pause for decades.
History
The widow of a firearms fortune reportedly kept builders at work continuously for years, producing a maze of staircases that lead nowhere and doors that open onto walls. Whatever the true motive, the result is one of America’s strangest houses. Guests report footsteps, cold spots and a presence in the unfinished rooms.
Reported phenomena
Footsteps in empty wings, organ music, and figures glimpsed in mirrors.