Come to think of it, how exactly did Silicon Valley wind up with one of America’s most famously spooky residences, inspiring Hollywood films and attracting a steady stream of tourists year-round? And how well do you know Sarah’s story really? Because the facts you think you know might just be part of a manufactured façade. It’s all a lot of fun, but locals with even a little love of history might wonder how a house from a bygone era inspired such a haunted legacy. She’d probably be disconcerted to discover a vengeful bride crawling about on her floorboards and a possessed girl clinging to her wallpaper like some kind of demented spider. The chillingly titled Unhinged, this year’s haunted house at Winchester, takes a historical San Jose establishment from the early 1900s, then utilizes it as the backdrop for a modern, immersive horror experience this October.Īfter our recent visit, we couldn’t help but imagine that the first (and famed) owner, Sarah Winchester, would be quite startled to find a host of actors in macabre makeup and monstrous masks capering about her residence’s hallways. Haunted? (image via WMH’s Facebook page)Īs All Hollows’ Eve approaches, a horde of skeletons and ghouls have infested the jumbled jungle of a mansion called the Winchester Mystery House. How urban mythology (and a savvy theme park worker) transformed a stodgy old shut-in’s lair into San Jose’s long-running tourist attraction.
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