8 Strangest Stories About The Winchester Mansion

As well as the obsessive expansion of the house, Sarah Winchester was said to perform regular rituals to pacify malignant spirits. Every night she would hold seances in a secret room to communicate with the dead and afterwards ring a bell that reverberated throughout the house.

However, little else is known of Sarah WInchester’s daily routine. According to which source you consult, Sarah Winchester met with her foreman every morning to discuss the building plans and travelled the state on occasion to attend weddings. Other accounts of her life describe her as a hermit, who rarely spoke to others and stayed boarded up in secret rooms of the house.