And Sarah had a well-documented aversion to visitors in her house. Despite this, the longstanding suggestion of an otherworldly connection has still made the Winchester Mystery House famous worldwide ...

A colossal estate traces its origins to an empire forged through a history of brutality and bloodshed, with its vast corridors built by a grief-stricken mother. Tormented by her family's dark past, ...

Sisters Isabel Merriman and Sarah Winchester called the house on Edgewood Lane in what is now Los Altos “El Sueño.” Courtesy Los Altos History Museum. The Winchester Mystery House in San Jose is an ...

Among the Pardee sisters born in New Haven, Conn., much is known about Sarah—heiress to the Winchester Repeating Arms Company. Less is known about Winchester’s younger sister Isabel Merriman, an ...

Forget ghosts. Forget seances. Forget mazelike passageways constructed to confuse vengeful spirits. The real mystery of the Winchester Mystery House is how it’s such a fascinating study in ...

Winchester Mystery House historian Janan Boehmewill discuss parallels between Sarah Winchester’s famed San Jose estate and her sister Isabel Merriman’s Los Altos home at the Los Altos History Museum ...

A PARASOL, A BROOCH, A LACE COLLAR: There are many articles of clothing or items that a person might be wearing or holding when they visit the Winchester Mystery House, a San Jose attraction that has ...

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