I visited this house with my sister a few years back. I had seen it on TV, also, and was very eger to check it out. I’ll admit it’s a very cool house. I loved the whole history, layout and antique look of it. I also loved the oddities that were evident all over the house; the staircase that leads to the ceiling, the glass door on the floor she used to look in on the kitchen staff with and the seiance room. You can’t deny the number 13 everywhere. Also, I have to mention the… what did they tour guide call them?… “Easy steps?” I forget, but the steps throughout the house are barely steps. They’re real low, barley off the ground. However, as much as I antisipated something supernatural, there was absoluetly nothing. Not a single chill, odd feeling or far off sound. I wasn’t disappointed though, just assured that God’s promise is true… once you’re gone, there is no coming back. Plus, being in a historical house was facinating. Oh, one more thing guys… If you go, wear comfy shoes. It’s not until your tour is over that they let you know you just walked the equivilent of a mile! My sister and I joke that they should have had one of those handicap signs with a red slash through it.. LOL! It’s a looong walk.

I have been to the house two times. I didn’t experience anything out of the ordinary either time, but that doesn’t mean anything. It’s a really bizare house, yet very very interesting. I enjoyed my visit, and I want to go back again =P.

I recently visited the Winchester Mansion on a trip to San Jose. I did have a few things happen that I can not explain while there. The digital camera that I had with me was fine up until we took the tour of the house. Every picture that I took was very ood, most not showing what I had just taken but instead blurred rooms with odd appiritions. In her bedroom where the fire place is there was something sitting on the chair. I felt 3 very cold spots in the house the coldest one in the office before the bedroom that she died in. Half way through the tour my camera battery drained from full to empty on the view finder right before my eyes and then turned into white noise…didn’t even know that was possible on a digital camera so I switched over to my camera phone only to find that it too took odd pictures that can not be viewd on a computer. The strangest one I took was outside by the 13 shrub. If you look closely at the photo it shows a face staring back at you from the top tower room.

Where did you get this story? They never say anything about the music or Sarah Winchester disappearing when you take the tour through the Winchester house. It doesn’t “feel” haunted, either, though it looks creepy enough.

Hey I actually been to that house its very strange if u ask me.

Ok this might sound silly but I am so serious. I visited the Winchester Mystery House in July of 2004. I was so excited and was snapping pictures all over the place. In the ballroom there is a beautiful mirror that I took 5 pictures of. While I was taking these pictures I felt faint and my vision blurred a little. Anyway I got home and developed my pictures. I looked at the mirror pictures several times before I noticed a face in the mirror in the first 4 pictures. It is toward the center of the mirror right above the clock. It is the face of a man in a round looking bowler type hat. He has a stern look and a small moustache. I blew up the 4 pictures and the face is further to the right in each picture. Also the face DOES show up on the negatives. I’m just wondering if anyone knows anything about this man.

Being a relative of the Winchesters and visiting the house, I can truthfully tell you it is not haunted. The place looks like a gingerbread house and cousin Sarah, besides being a bit nutty in the head, probably died of something like heart-failure. Don’t believe everything you hear people.

I do think that seeing all the stained glass windows and old items from the house is interesting and that if one is in the neighborhood to check it out as well as the gardens surrounding the house.

This is a beautiful and massive house that is well worth visiting, whether you believe in hauntings or not. Mrs. Winchester spared no expense on the craftsmanship, and the home has fantastic woodwork, Tiffany glass, first quality wallpapers. And it is fascinating how light wells were used to bring light to interior hallways and rooms. My biggest gripe is that the tour guides concentrate so much on the supposed creepiness that they totally neglect the wonderful architectural details.

this is dumb ive been there before and nuthin happen thier its all talk

Hi my name is Cami. I live in Virginia and I’m visiting here in San Jose, first place I visited was the Winchester Mystery House. I went there, went on a tour, and must say…nope didn’t see or hear anything.It was just a typical tour, kinda disappointed.

this house is the ****! i;ve seen it on t.v. people should really believe in ghosts.

I’ve been fasnated by the Winchester Mystery House for quite somne time,that and just about any other place that gives reliable evidence that its truly a haunting.I’ve wanted to go and do my own investagations liike at a local haunting or something.Does anyone know any haunted places in Ny state that are near Albany?Hit me back if so.

hi im only from nz but if sara contacted those spirits and they hanged around, mabey she didnt close the pathway from which they came from.i am also confused why she nor the “phycic” did not send them back nor helped them cross over as some can do.and to james,i doubt they are demons in the house,only people that are pissed because theyre lost and no-one has bothered to pay attention to them as it has happened to me too many times.ever heared of house cleansing? anyone?
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Hi my name is Chelsea and i found out a few years ago that i am an ancestor of Sarah Winchester.

But somehow i feel it relates to me because I think i can see ghosts.

Because once when i was little a man came in my room he was not human but a ghost and ever since i’ve found out im an ancestor i’ve been seeing more and more ghosts lately i’ve seen around 30 i cant keep track and i really want to visit this house too.

HI! MY NAME IS ELIZABETH AND IM FROM SAN JOSE AND I HAVE SOMETHING 2 SAY ABOUT THIS Mystery House IT HAPPEND WHEN I WAS IN THE 4TH GRADE WE WHERE HAVEING A FILLTRIP AT THIS MYSTERY HOUSE AS WE WHERE WALKING IN THE HOUSE ME AND MY FRIEND WHERE IN THE BACK OF THE LINE LISTENING 2 THE WOMEN WHO WAS TALKING ABOUT THE HOUSE AND THE REASON Y IT WAS MADE THIS WAY AS WE WHERE LISTEN ME AND MY FRIEND FELT SOMEONE TRYING 2 PUCH US DOWN THE STARS FROM THE BACK AND WHEN WE LOOKED BACK THERE WAS NO ONE THERE A FEW YEARS PASSED AND I WAS LOOKING IN A WEBSITE ABOUT THE Winchester MYSTERY HOUSE AND IT SAID THAT IN THE HOUSE MANY THINGS HAPPEN THERE LIKE HEARING VOICE AND BE PUCHED BY UNSEEN HANDS EVER SENCE I READ THIS I BEEN A LITTLE SCARED 2 GO BACK

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Omg,I can too!LOL

I can tell you that the number 13 was in no way significant to “evil.” Like the horror movie “Friday the 13th.” Back in those days the number “13″ was considered to be a lucky number, it meant good.

Hi, I know that people have said so much about the Winchester house. I just wanted to say a few things. First off I did visit the house back in 1989 when I moved to San Fransisco with my family. We actually visited on the anniversary of her death. Sep. 5th. So in her honor they rang the bell 13 times. 13 was here favorite number that is why everything is in 13. She had a candel chandelier in her bedroom that held 12 candels and she added an extra candel just so it would be 13. In the beginning of the tour they show you a door and then open it and it leads to nothing but a wall. I know that She bought the farm house after the medium told her that the spirits were angry with her. YET!! From what the tour said it wasn’t just spirits. It was the spirits of the indians who had died while the west was being settled. So she was to build on the land 7 days a week 24 hours a day. The house is so big that by the time you end the tour you have walked over 1.5 miles. Not to mention at the dead center of the house is a round room called the seance room. This is where she went to communicate with the spirits to see if they were pleased with how the building was going. Another thing about this room is that when you enter and the door shuts behind you. It will not open back up. It locks automaticly so the only way to leave is through the door on the other side of the room and you have to walk through the whole house if you want to get back to side of the house you started on when first entering the room.
That is all. Nothing scary happend in the house when we visited but it was just interesting and very real.