8 Strangest Stories About The Winchester Mansion

1. The Uncovered Bedroom

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Winchester Mystery House

To give you an impression of the labyrinthine structure of the mansion, rooms of the house were still being discovered a couple of years ago. In 2016, a restoration team managed to uncover the attic space that Sarah Winchester had been originally trapped in during the 1906 earthquake. Following her scare, she’d boarded it up very effectively, leaving it preserved in exactly the same layout as in 1906.

The preservation team found plenty of old belongings of Sarah Winchester, from paintings and a sewing machine to a Victorian armchair. It was opened to the public after the discovery, providing a perfectly untouched slice of historical America and just one solved mystery among the many strange stories of the Winchester mansion.

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Jen Scouler is a writer and film critic based in Scotland. Some of her many obsessions include science fiction romance, historical drama and Lord of the Rings.