Winchester Mystery House Offers Free Virtual Tour

Cynthia McKanzie – MessageToEagle.com – If you are sitting isolated at home and want to get away from depressing news about the outbreak of the coronavirus why not check out the Winchester Mystery House?

The Winchester Mystery House is currently closed, but you can still visit it, at least online.

San Jose’s iconic Winchester Mystery House is now offering a virtual tour during its novel coronavirus closure.

Winchester Mystery House – Credit: Public Domain

The Winchester Mystery House is today privately owned and serves as a tourist attraction. This interesting house was once the personal residence of Sarah Winchester, the widow of firearm magnate William Wirt Winchester.

You can find almost anything strange when you visit the Winchester Mystery house. The house has secret passageways, stairways to the ceiling, and doors that open to walls. Since its construction in 1884, the property and mansion were claimed by many to be haunted by the ghosts of those killed with Winchester rifles.

“And everywhere throughout the house is the number 13. Many rooms have 13 windows or 13 panels in the ceiling. There are stairways with 13 steps, and the séance room has 13 hooks where there were hung 13 different colored robes. There is even a sink that arrived by special order with only 12 drain holes. Sarah had one more hole added.

There are also many more oddities around the house. Some people say that these were mistakes that Sarah made because she was an inexperienced architect. Many other people say that all of these items were dictated by the ghosts, or were to confuse evil spirits,” Caitlind Alexander writes in the book The House Built By Ghosts: The Strange Tale of the Winchester Mystery House.

“For nearly 100 years, passionate caretakers and skilled craftsmen have looked after Sarah’s mansion and offered informative tours in order to share her amazing story. We depend on our guests to help us continue her legacy and keep the history and intrigue of the house alive,” Winchester Mystery House General Manager Walter Magnuson said in a statement.

The tour, available free at http://www.winchestermysteryhouse.com/video-tour, will remain available until the house reopens.

Written by Cynthia McKanzie – MessageToEagle.com Staff Writer