Walk or hail a ride about two miles to the Winchester Mystery House. Caltrain will take you from San Francisco to the Santa Clara Transit Center, where you can board a bus to the Winchester and Olsen stop. Otherwise, public transportation can get you there. If you want to take in some of the other activities available in San Jose, you may wish to rent a car for the trip. The Winchester Mystery House can be found in San Jose, which is about an hour south of San Francisco.
Whatever you believe the reason is, the Mystery House is sure to stay in your mind long after your visit. Others say she created a labyrinth to confuse and evade the spirits that followed her. Why did Sarah Winchester continue to make changes until her death? Some say that she believed she would die as soon as the house was declared complete. Many visitors are fascinated by the vast collection of windows, more than 10,000, and the fact that some of the loveliest Tiffany stained glass is hidden away where no light can reach it. One cabinet door opens to a hive of 30 additional rooms. There is a vast network of secret passages twisting throughout the property. Instead of taking you to another floor, they lead right into the ceiling. Some of the staircases in this home are truly peculiar. If you step through another, you will land eight feet below in a kitchen sink. One opens to a sheer 15-foot drop into an outdoor garden. For example: though there are more than 2,000 doors, they don’t all lead where you would expect. However, that is the least remarkable thing about this attraction. The sheer size of the House is the first thing you will notice when you arrive. The Oddities of the Winchester Mystery House There, she bought a simple eight-room farmhouse that she would go on to transform into a marvelous, madcap, 160-room mansion that would come to be known as the Winchester Mystery House. In 1886, she left her home in New Haven, CT, for a new life in San Jose, CA. She was certain that relocating was the only way to evade the spirits that plagued her. She became convinced that she was cursed. Unfortunately for Sarah, the fortune came with a dark side. When Sarah Winchester’s husband, William Wirt Winchester, died in 1881, she became one of the wealthiest women in the world. The Spooky History of the Winchester Mystery House The film tells a fictionalized version of the story behind the mansion but many people believe that the truth is far stranger than fiction. It made its spectacular big-screen debut with the horror film "Winchester" in 2018. "Mythbusters," "Ghost Adventures," and "Ghost Brothers" have all produced programs about the House. The Winchester Mystery House has captured popular imagination. However, none are quite as strange as the story of the Winchester Mystery House, which is now offering safe and socially distanced ways for you to explore in person.