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Winchester Mystery House

The Winchester Mystery House is a mansion in San Jose, California, that was once the personal residence of Sarah Winchester, the widow of firearms magnate William Wirt Winchester. The house became a tourist attraction nine months after Winchester's death in 1922. The Victorian and Gothic-style mansion is renowned for its size and its architectural curiosities and for the numerous myths and legends surrounding the structure and its former owner.

This article is about the mansion in California. For the horror film, see Winchester (film).

Location

525 South Winchester Boulevard San Jose, CA 95128

37°19′6.10″N 121°57′2.74″W / 37.3183611°N 121.9507611°W / 37.3183611; -121.9507611

1884–1906

Victorian, Gothic

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August 7, 1974

1925

In 1960, the Winchester Mystery House was used as the Cyrus Zorba House in the film .[30][20]

13 Ghosts

In 1966, the house was featured on the cover for the single "" by the garage rock band Count Five.[20]

Psychotic Reaction

The tale of the Winchester Mystery House was inspiration for ride at Disney theme parks, the first of which opened in 1969 at Disneyland.[31][5]

The Haunted Mansion

The house is the primary setting for 's 1993 science fiction novel Vanishing Point in which it becomes the home of a squatter community following the disappearance of most of the human race.[32]

Michaela Roessner

The house is the setting of a subplot in the 1997 fantasy novel Earthquake Weather.[33]

Tim Powers

The plot of the 2001 miniseries (written by Stephen King) was inspired by the lore surrounding Sarah Winchester and the Winchester Mystery House.[34][35]

Rose Red

The Haunting of Winchester is a musical by composer Craig Bohmler and writer Mary Bracken Phillips that takes place in the house. It was commissioned by the San Jose Repertory Theatre for its 25th anniversary season and premiered in September–October 2005.[36][37]

ghost story

The British paranormal TV investigation show conducted a seven-hour live TV investigation of the house in an episode that aired live in the U.S. only on October 19, 2007.[38][39][40]

Most Haunted Live!

In 2011, featured the Winchester Mystery House in the fourth episode of season five.[41]

Ghost Adventures

In the episode "Smell of Fear", the build team visited the Winchester Mystery House to look around and later watch "one of the scariest movies of all time" on a television that they set up in the grand ballroom, with the purpose of determining if fear does smell different by gathering their sweat samples for testing at the end of the night. While the team watched the movie in the dark, the show's crew randomly made loud noises to increase the frightening experience.[42]

MythBusters

Sarah Winchester, Phantom Opera is a 24-minute film by French filmmaker Bertrand Bernello that had its North American premiere at the in October 2016.[43][44]

54th New York Film Festival

The house was featured in seasons 1 and 4 of Supernatural in episodes where Ryan Bergara and Shane Madej stayed there overnight.[45][46]

BuzzFeed Unsolved

In 2017, the house was featured on an episode of .[47]

Ghost Brothers

In 2017, Emily Schulz told the story of the house to Christine Schiefer on the first episode of our .

And That's Why We Drink

Features of the house are referenced in 's song "111 Winchester".[48]

I the Mighty

In 2017, filming took place on the property for the film , featuring Helen Mirren as Sarah Winchester.[49] The film was released on February 23, 2018.[50] In trailers and on posters, the film is noted to be based on a true story despite evidence that much of the stories in the movie are disputed in Mary Jo Ignoffo's book Captive of the Labyrinth.[51]

Winchester

In 2018, the house was described in "Locked Away", an episode of the podcast .[52]

Lore

In 2019, the podcast produced an episode about the house titled "The Widow and the Winchester".[53]

Criminal

House of Penance, a comic by Peter Tomasi, Ian Bertram and Dave Stewart, is "...perhaps the first biographical horror graphic novel"[54] that illustrates the house as haunted and Sarah as obsessed.[55]

Dark Horse

Mrs Winchester's Gun Club is a 2019 adult fiction novel by Douglas Bruton concerning Sarah Winchester that tells a group of stories voiced by the victims of Winchester guns.

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In January 2021, an episode of the award-winning podcast This Paranormal Life was released that discussed the Winchester Mystery House. The hosts deemed all claims of haunting to be false.[58]

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, a film by The Asylum loosely based on the myths surrounding the house

Haunting of Winchester House

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