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 ...

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 ...

This year’s fright fest at Winchester Mystery House takes a deep dive into the lore surrounding Sarah Winchester’s San Jose estate, where Festival Fright Nights are set to be held Sept. 26-Nov. 1.

The Winchester Mystery House is a 160-room Queen Anne style Victorian mansion in San Jose. It was once the personal residence of Sarah Winchester, the widow of gun magnate William Winchester and is ...

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 ...

The story is so famous most locals can recite it by heart: An eccentric widow, heir to an American rifle fortune, is tortured by the horrors wrought by the weapon. She becomes convinced only building ...