The Dark Story of America’s Most Cursed Mansion: The Winchester House

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  @anonymousnope8320 · 10 months ago

  I have actually been to the Winchester Mansion. It didn't feel cursed or scary. The only place that gave me the creeps was the basement.  She had her own seance room which was cool to see. She also invented riser steps. She developed arthritis and invented a low rise step to make it easier to get upstairs. She really was an interesting amateur architect. I recommend the extended tour. They use  the money for  restoration and of course pay employees. They want to rebuild the story that fell during the Great Quake. I was amazed that we had walked around 2 miles! I highly recommend taking a tour.

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• WI

  @wishesinthewillowtree5278 · 7 months ago

  I wonder in her grief if the constant building was her way of keeping people around. She was good to her workers... maybe they were her "family."

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• RI

  @richwood186 · 10 months ago

  She sounds like a wonderful, kind woman. Imagine a San Jose billionaire treating staff and workers that way today.

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• MU

  @mustelina · 10 months ago

  Wish the photos coordinated w the narration

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• AS

  @ashleytorres8740 · 7 months ago (edited)

  I grew up near this, the history of this family is fascinating! We went all the time when we lived there, we never got any weird vibes. We went at night too. A friend of ours worked there. We did that for my birthday 4 years in a row lol. I never felt uncomfortable. It was actually peaceful.

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• MK

  @mkm6458 · 10 months ago

  Sarah invented the sloped drainboard next to the kitchen sink.

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• J.

  @j.goodwin9908 · 10 months ago

  Thanks for dispelling the many fabrications that were invented to make the Winchester House a successful tourist attraction.  For in-depth details the book, Captive Of The Labyrinth, is a good source.

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• SH

  @shirleysue228 · 9 months ago

  I am 74 years old.<br>I was raised in the neighborhood directly behind the Winchester Mystery house. Maplewood Ave.<br>In the 1950&apos;s the mansion was an overgrown, run down, huge mansion.<br>As a child, my friends and I would play in the large field directly behind the mansion.<br>WE would run up to it and throw rocks at the windows, there were many. Bratty kids lol<br>It had a reputation of being haunted with lights coming on inside at night even though it was run down and deserted.<br>We always believed, as kids, that Mrs. Winchester was buried somewhere on the property, but we never found her grave. Her building constantly and having to hear the work every moment was a well known fact to locals .Oh, memory lane lol<br>They restored it years later and turned into a park with tours that were pricy, as it is today.<br>I&apos;m glad though that they did that and didn&apos;t let it rot.

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• AD

  @adriennefoster8613 · 10 months ago

  I lived within walking distance of the Winchester House for 40 years and this video just regurgitates the yellow journalism from Sarah Winchester’s lifetime. For verified accurate history, please go to her biography, Captive of the Labyrinth, by Mary Jo Ignoffo.

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• ME

  @melissadawson4668 · 10 months ago (edited)

  Watched a documentary on this quite some time ago. They were saying that the reason there were stairs to nowhere and such, was because of the earthquakes hitting it. She would change her mind on what she was doing, or, as she got older, she had no use for so many rooms, therefore she&apos;d just put a door to nothing. The people who do the tours, do two separate ones. The daytime ones tell the truth about her, the nighttime ones, they neglect to say the stuff that explains everything. They don&apos;t lie, they just leave parts out. They said they like spooking people out, and people like to get spooked. The thing I watched is on YouTube somewhere.

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• BE

  @beverlywoade5348 · 10 months ago

  Sometimes grief over losing a child and husband becomes all-encompassing. &nbsp; After I lost my only child, my son (in 1978), I fell into blue funk depression then fourteen months later tried to commit suicide. &nbsp;Not long after that I lost my husband. &nbsp; At this point I felt absolutely overwhelmed by my losses and grief over this personal calamity. &nbsp;It took years before I felt like I even began to get over the struggles that were borne from my wrenching grief. &nbsp; Like Sarah, I never had any more children and never re-married. &nbsp; Each person manages her or his grief different. &nbsp; For some, grief can be life-long. &nbsp; Thank you.

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• LA

  @lauramarles8445 · 10 months ago

  Truly a wonderful person - kind and charitable. So sorry she was convinced of spiritual negativity, she showed nothing but kindness.

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