![]() I feel a sweetness in the house, not a horror. "If it is haunted, I feel it is haunted by something very benign," she told Vanity Fair. It could be that San Jose sun, or it could be the loving way the house has been restored, but I think he's right: The presence in the Winchester Mystery House, spiritual or otherwise, is benign.Īnd star Mirren, who visited the house for filming last year, agrees. "They're taking care of the house, they're looking after it. ![]() ("Doesn't bother me," Tanner said nonchalantly. And he's heard the famous wheelbarrow ghost - a deceased handyman who traverses the cavernous and downright spooky basement - and his footsteps. ![]() But he has heard keys jingling and doors opening and closing. The house became a tourist attraction nine months after Winchester's death in 1922. Tanner has never seen a ghost, he tells us. The Winchester Mystery House is a mansion in San Jose, California, that was once the personal residence of Sarah Winchester, the widow of firearms magnate William Wirt Winchester. The doorways to nowhere, the recurrence of the number 13, the meandering staircases - Sarah was petite and arthritic, meaning she needed squat, shallow-inclined steps, so each staircase takes an insane number of steps to go anywhere - the sense of having no idea where you are at any given moment, is definitely creepy. The overwhelmingly feeling that you get while walking Winchester's numerous corridors and pathways is an unnerving one. How much did she spend on the house? Almost $100 million. How many seances did she have? One a night, every night, between the hours of midnight and two. How much piping in the sprinkler system? 7.5 miles. Number of staff working for Sarah? About 50, 18 house servants, 13 carpenters, 8-10 gardeners. Our guide Tanner was chipper and upbeat, walking us through the house with his insane breadth of knowledge. That's definitely the feeling you get walking through the numerous corridors and walkways of the house. Jason Clarke and Helen Mirren in 'Winchester'.
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