#winchester mystery house

[cherry-cola-ghost]

i miss my gf

“your girlfriend?”

no, ghost files

[ostensiblynone]

wearewatcher Best ghost hunters in the biz but this time in silly outfits posted Jun 30, 2023

[monapearlquo]

Visited the Winchester Mystery House today and took a couple of tours and it was awesome!!

Never was I not thinking about Ryan and Shane, the fucking legends-

Wish I had caught some evidence in my photos but alas, it was not my lucky day.

[marzipanandminutiae]

i just reblogged that post about saying nice things abt prev but i wanna send an ask too, so: thank you for being one of the only people to be correct about the winchester mystery house and sarah herself!! so many people spread the stories of her being weird/crazy/whatever when she was just. a woman who suffered some tragedies and liked architecture.

i went on a tour of graceland recently and was intrigued by how they barely talked about elvis as a person, whereas winchester tours are basically a trap where you think you're getting to explore a weird fucked up house but actually you're going to hear about how wonderful sarah winchester was for an hour and if you say anything mean about her design skills one of the tour guides will push you out the door to nowhere.

i go through your winchester tag sometimes when i'm nostalgic and missing the house (i got laid off during quarantine) and it's just nice to see that even people who didn't devote years of their lives to the house can genuinely understand and appreciate it.

I'm so glad it's gotten better! Someone once anonymously told me the guides had to sign a contract saying they would only stick to the story made up by that ridiculous carnie family that bought her house in the 1920s, and even though it was an anon and therefore unverifiable...I believe it, sadly. For Profits often are more about...well, profit. As opposed to history. But it's good to know the guides care about getting the truth out there.

In Sarah Winchester I see a woman whose character assassination for being different(tm) has carried on after death. It's not that she was perfect- far be it from me to lay perfection at the feet of a white 19th-century gun fortune heiress -but she seems like a genuinely caring person in many ways, about her workers and her community. She was an unattached woman of means with an unconventional hobby (architecture), though, and that seems to have made wagging tongues nervous. During her lifetime that meant claiming she thought she'd live forever if construction never ceased (it did, several times), and after- well. The tale of the mad widow fleeing from invisible ghosts has come to prevail.

It feels unfair to me that she should forever be remembered by what her detractors said about her, instead of her own triumphs and setbacks, merits and flaws. And that her beautiful house, where she poured so much love and attention, should be so misrepresented. I'm glad people are trying to fix the narrative.

[xyzmp3]

This is so silly!! This is so silly!!

[loveinstreams]

the haunted mansion movie? you mean that thing from the winchester ghost files episode? you know it’s not real right

[ivys-garden]

Too all fans and Buzzfeed Unsolved and Ghostfiles: while I love and appreciate the dedication of Shane and Ryan to tell the real history of locations and not solely telling stories of ghosts, I do implore you to do your own research as there are times in which Shane and Ryan make mistakes or the history of a place is too vast to cover elegantly in a short video.

The most notable example of this is the Winchester House in which they unknowingly perpetuate the rumors of Victorian socialites who were distrustful of a grieving woman who wanted to be left alone, Kaz Rowe made an excellent video going over the real history of the Winchester house, I'll attach it here for ease and I suggest everyone watch it (her other stuff too this gal is incredible)

[heartshapedcofffinss]

For some reason I have to be the cutest girl in the haunted Victorian mansion 👁️

[asoftershipwrecked]

happy birthday, sinéad!

[chestcavityyy]

[cherry-cola-ghost]

ryan had no right putting his whole bergussy into that dance 🕺🏻

[ostensiblynone]

wearewatcher A break to recover from the seance posted July 3, 2023

[bagel-gay]

(O Д O)

[marzipanandminutiae]

Wait are you telling me Sarah Winchester built a massive maze of a house because she was in a silly goofy mood? Amazing.

Yes, basically

Girls' Night etc.

(as far as I've seen from quotes and analysis of actual records- and bear in mind that I'm not a dedicated Winchester researcher or anything -she just. liked architecture and was rich enough to have that as her hobby)

(she also apparently paid her construction staff very well, provided them housing and workers' comp, hired from the local community on purpose, etc.)

(I believe the current working theory about the "staircases to nowhere" is that parts of the house were destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and it was safer and/or more economical- yes, even the hyper-rich were concerned about economy back then -to simply wall the entrances to those areas than to rebuild)

(also it's a known fact that she had...ah...more enthusiasm than architectural training and often made mistakes or design choices that even she admitted had been unwise in hindsight)

(here is a very good article about her)

[zippy-elly]

YA GIRL WAS MENTIONED IN THE NEWEST GHOST FILES EPISODE!!!

Thank you for sharing my story, Ghoul Boys! 😭💖

[melanieexox]

DESTINATION FEAR | Winchester Mystery House / Old Historic Harriman Hospital: "You disappeared."