#winchester mansion

[poppyisnotaflower]

Ryan and Shane walking into the Winchester mansion for the thousandth time "hmm Winchester mansion? What might that be?"

The ghosts in the mansion: oh God it's them again, take me back up, fuck this mansion, I'm out

[nighttimepatrons]

i want Nerdanel to keep adding to her house forever, like Sarah Winchester

[thinkingnot]

— Ryan Begara, 2023, 6:52 - The Chilling Labyrinth of the Winchester Haunted Mansion • Ghost Files

[nightshade86]

I'm looking for a specific Danny Phantom fic no crossover.

The Fentons plus aunt alicia take a trip to the winchester mansion to do a thorough study, while there Danny gets trapped by the house and everybody has to work together to get him back.

[sminecrafting]

Llego el 31 de Octubre, día de Halloween y hemos preparado un pequeño especial para este día.

La Mansión de Winchester, California y su leyenda en Minecraft. ¡No os lo perdáis!

Narradora: Nora Pulido Montealegre

[heraartaxis]

Ryan’s solo investigation is always so hilarious ngl I also nearly was shook that that mannequin lmao

Aw Shane

[onlytiktoks]

[theprofmoth]

Greetings from the seance room of Sarah Winchester 💜🖤

[mildgirlnextdoor]

favorite details of the mansion

[looniecartooni]

i fully believe sexism was part of it. sarah was viewed as a weird insane lady even during her life, and i’ve always wondered how she felt about it and if she maybe played into a little? a woman with that much money and freedom was not the norm in her time period, but being seen as a grieving widow with a few screws loose was likely easier than being viewed as a woman who wanted to be taken seriously. but so much of the house is genuinely genius, and there’s a logic to a lot of the weirdest parts.

for instance, i always noticed how every room has multiple ways out, and there’s different routes to get anywhere in the house. part of our training involved being prepared for an emergency, and my favourite part of that test was when my manager took me to different parts of the house and would be like, okay, you’re in the north conservatory, and the staircase directly outside is on fire. what do you do? there’s always a way out, and a backup, and a second backup, and in the worst case scenario you can jump out a window or a door or off a ledge. (i was actually told that climbing down the roof from the fourth floor is a genuine strategy in a worst case scenario.) the house is weird but it’s functional in ways people don’t appreciate, like the corner pieces in the stairs that make them easier to sweep even now, or windows that swing open so you can wash them, or the absolutely ingenious laundry room that had built in scrub boards.

and as for the ghosts—sarah was really only tangentially related to the rifle company. her husband was president for all of four months before he died. there’s absolutely no basis for sarah being haunted by spirits killed by the rifle. but she was by all accounts a wonderful employer who had employees that worked for her for decades. they were well paid, fed, housed, and she even paid for their children’s schooling. the energy in the house never felt malicious to me—even 100 years after sarah’s death it feels like a home. i’m thoroughly convinced the spirits are her former employees, still caring for the house after all these years, and i know when i die i fully intend to haunt winchester. it’s a beautiful, loving crafted home and it always makes me happy to see other people recognize it as more than just “weird scary house”.

it is funny though because people always ask me for ghost stories and all the ones i have are “i heard ghost dogs barking” and “ghosts said merry christmas to me”.

(also if there’s anything you’re curious about, i might have answers!)

Sarah was a genius! I mostly know about how she adapted the architecture of the house to her arthritis, but yeah- she was always experimenting and teaching herself all she could. And I heard from multiple sources as well that she was very kind to her employees and their kids. The kids would call her Auntie Sallie and the gardener even gave his daughter the middle name "Winchester". These kids and employees would try to defend Sarah multiple times after her death. She saw her staff as like family.

According to most f my research though (though some of it may have been bias with this fact), Sarah did NOT like being rumored as a crazy ghost lady and it may have had her shut herself off more. When John Brown purchased the estate after her death and turned it into a tourist trap, he apparently made some alterations to the house as well to play more into the "crazy ghost lady" narrative. He would like add candles and chandeliers to play into the idea that "she was obsessed with the number 13" and stuff like that.

Another reason according to Ralph Rambo, who was a historian and a relative of one of the employees, people liked to make up these rumors because this was a seriously loaded rich lady who was associated with a popular company, travelling across the state and working on a never-ending project. Sexism plays a huge role, but so does being rich and reclusive (which comes from losing several family members in a row in the same year on her husband's side and 1 or 2 on her side). It makes sense that her husband would have only been president of the company for about four months. His father was the one that made the change from the Winchester company from being a clothing company of sorts to a rifle arms company and if I'm not mistaken, he did die in the same year William Winchester did.

The Winchester looks like a very nice house with a beautiful garden and flower conservatory. I can understand why you'd want to haunt it after you die. Its crazy just how much so many people miss or misunderstand because they are so tied up on the idea that Sarah was a crazy ghost lady and it only got worse after her death. Now its difficult to find the truth, but we are living in an age where more people want to know the truth behind people who's legacies are tainted and shrouded in misinformation. Its really good for us to discuss these things and there's so much to discuss about the Manor functionality wise and decorative wise. I really hope Sarah becomes more and more recognized as the person she was rather than the person she was made out to be over a hundred years ago.

[murdereyesnicky]

God i would LOVEEEEE to go to the Winchester Mystery House. It looks so fuckin cool! And the ARCHITECTURE AND ORNATE DETAILS!!!!! My little furniture nerd ass brain would bein goin BALLISTIC

I dont care that it's supposedly haunted i would just be so thrilled to see alla the bitchin designs

[alignedfeminine]

san francisco + santa cruz footage. 📸

[hearts4pearlescentmoon]

for some reason I feel as though the Winchester mystery house and Luna Parc are on the same playing field

[zombiscribe]

[lorbanery]

A really great video on the real history of the Winchester Mystery House/Winchester Mansion.

Important for those of us who haven't visited it since apparently they go into it on the actual tours of the house, but when they have ghost hunter type shows come visit, they're required to only tell the legend.

Also this isn't meant as a buzzkill! Have fun with weird history, tell ghost stories! But finding out the truth can be just as interesting.