Sarah Winchester was reportedly driven to build and rebuild her San Jose mansion in a feverish cycle by guilt over her family ...

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 ...

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Sarah Winchester was an heiress to a mass of wealth earned from one of the most violent inventions in history - and the guilt ...

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 ...

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 ...

When the Winchester Mystery House celebrated its 100th anniversary two years ago, Robin Chapman was one of several historians asked to speak to mark the centennial. Intrigued by what Sarah Winchester ...