
Open daily: 10:00a to 5:00p weekdays / 10:00a to 7:00p weekends. The Flashlight Tour is a self-guided evening tour that allows brave guests to explore the dark halls of the mansion while hearing unnerving stories of the homes haunted history. Flash photography is prohibited inside the house.

There are special Flashlight Tours on Halloween and Friday the 13th. This quirky attraction offers many levels of engagement, including daily estate tours, a garden tour, axe throwing at the stables, an escape room-type tour, and a virtual tour. (Yes, of course they host weddings here.)The Winchester Mystery House is featured on the Santa Clara Pride Scavenger Hunt. These are details you may want to consider before you book the Winchester Mystery House as your wedding venue. What motivated this former socialite to withdraw from the world and obsessively add on to her home? Some say she was following a psychic’s orders, while others say she was tormented by ghosts. After her death in 1922, the doors opened to the public. Book ahead for the special flashlight tours on Halloween and Friday the 13th, as these always sell out fast. Allot about one hour for the Mansion Tour and about two hours for the Explore More Tour. By 1922, the house was an intricate, 24,000-square-foot maze of oddities. The Winchester Mystery House is open year-round, except for Christmas.
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As one does, she began renovations-windows, skylights, elevators, central heating, indoor plumbing, six kitchens, staircases that led to ceilings, stained glass windows in dark areas, and several secret passageways. After her infant daughter and husband both died, she moved from Connecticut to California and bought an eight-room farmhouse in 1866. There are several different options available when it comes to touring the house, and what you get out of the experience will likely depend on your interests surrounding the massive and unusual home.This architectural marvel was owned by Sarah Lockwood Pardee Winchester, an eccentric widow and heiress to a gun company fortune. 5 through May 28, according to the attraction's official website. Halloween Flashlight Tour of Winchester Mystery House.

'In the house: 160 rooms, 13 bathrooms, 6 kitchens, 40 ladders, 2000.' Historic Site in San Jose, CA. The house exists solely as a tourist attraction/museum, and tours are offered daily between the hours of 9 a.m. See 971 photos and 92 tips from 10421 visitors to Winchester Mystery House. The sprawling estate is located in San Jose, California at 525 S Winchester Blvd., and it's most commonly known as the Winchester Mystery House.

Good news: You can definitely visit the real Winchester House, and many people do since it's a popular tourist attraction, to the tune of over 12 million visitors since construction on the home ended with Sarah's death in 1922 (this number does not include possible ghosts).

But can you visit the real Winchester House, and if so, will it be nearly as scary as in the movie? Flashlight Tours/Haunted House Hours (October) Tickets go on sale at 6:00 pm. And although Mirren is a big star, the movie's true star is the house itself, which is based upon a real mansion in California. A Mysterious Flashlight Tour Will Soon Shimmer in San Jose Explore the Winchester Mystery House when the moon is high at this special Friday the 13th event. The new horror film Winchester features Helen Mirren as Sarah Winchester, a seemingly unhinged widow and wealthy heiress to the Winchester Arms Company fortune, who builds a gigantic meandering mansion to appease the plethora of ghosts within its walls. Winchester Mystery House announced the return of their popular Flashlight Tours.
