- [Narrator] Winchester Mystery House
in San Jose, California is one of the most haunted places
in America.
- Winchester Mystery House
is a incredibly unique Victorian mansion
created by Sarah Winchester,
heiress to the Winchester Repeating Arms fortune.
- [Narrator] Sarah Winchester had a series
of unfortunate things happen to her,
including the death of her husband and daughter.
She was a spiritualist and visited a medium
to try and understand why.
- The medium said, well, the gun that won the west,
there's a lot of karma there, so head west
and build a house to appease these spirits.
She started construction in 1884,
which didn't stop till the day she died.
The house is a 160 room Victorian mansion
with no master plan.
There's a lot of strange attributes.
There's 40 staircases, 40 fireplaces, four elevators.
We have a number of staircases
that lead right to the ceiling.
Doors that open up into nothing, or it's just a wall.
- [Narrator] The house is known for its spirits,
who many people believe are the ghosts of people
who worked at the house or even Sarah herself.
- A lot of our guests and employees
have had very strange things happen to them in this house.
Sometimes it's just footsteps or hearing a voice,
a light that flickers,
or sometimes it's an actual full, physical manifestation.
If we haven't solved the mysteries in 93 years,
then I don't know if we ever will.